Yorae Dragon
12-01-2009, 11:28 PM
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I'd imagine this is going to be a very short thread, but I was wondering, has anyone else ever played this game? What were your thoughts on it? I'm always looking for more people to discuss Dragon Seeds with.
For those that don't know Dragon Seeds (See: likely everyone on this forum),let me give you some info about it, in case it might catch your fancy.
It's the future. Not really sure how far into the future. I think the game's intro gives exact dates in a timeline, but I can't recall what they were. It's far enough into the future that cloning is not only legal, but also commonplace (though only certain cloning procedures are allowed). The polar ice caps have melted, and a strange creature was found, perfectly preserved. The creature was successfully cloned. Thus, the first Dragon was born again. From this dragon, and it's clone-brothers, it was discovered that these creatures have remarkable adaptability, and evolve at a rapid pace. Where there was one Dragon, there are now several "families", all vastly difference in appearance.
These Dragons are raised to fight for sport in large coliseums. People who raise Dragons are referred to as Dragonsages. A Dragon that falls in combat dies, so should you lose a match (and didn't save recently), you're out of luck.
You start out as a young, "faceless" Dragonsage, just arriving at the largest capital city left in the world. I say faceless for two reasons. For the first reason, you never see your character. You ARE your character. NPCs speak directly to you, the player. The second reason is that, for a Dragonsage, you've never raised a Dragon before. You're quite ambitious, going straight for the heart of the entertainment with no experience. Bravo.
After a brief intro and tutorial, you're off to the cloning lab to get your first Dragon. Akin to Monster Rancher, Dragons are generated in a special fashion. Instead of reading discs, you first chose a family of Dragons, and then use "keywords" in order to generate a Dragon with stats depending on the keywords you've chosen. After the Dragon is generated, you name it and leave it at the Daycare for 24 hours. Once you take it to the Daycare, you'll be asked to choose two of it's stats to improve upon. Wisdom and Weight are always wise choices.
Now, 24 hours to us is a single day. To a Dragon, one day is equivalent to one year. Once you pick up your dragon the next day, it's time to get it equipped for combat. Off to Nancy's Shop. She's a boisterous woman that sells weapons and shields for Dragons, at a cost. She'll then warn you to stay away from the Junk Man, Isuka, but warnings never stopped a Dragonsage, did they? Head over to Isuka's Junk Shop. He sells many random things at his store, though there won't always be something for sale every time you drop by. He commonly refers to Nancy as a "witch", so there's most likely some kind of feud going on between 'em.
So you've got a dragon. You've got a weapon and a shield. Time to train your little bundle of scales...or feathers...or shells...whatever. Head on over to the Training Facility, and work on your Dragon's power, special, or both. Training is usually hard for people to get used to, as training is nothing like in other games. Training costs money, and at first, you don't have a lot of it. Once you run out of funds, it's time to earn some more. To the arena!
So you're at the arena, and you enter the first division. Each division has five ranks (E-A). Your Dragon is pit in one-on-one battles against other Dragons in a fight to the death. Should you emerge victorious, the prize money is yours. Should your Dragon fall, then it's back to square one with you. Higher ranks contain more prize money, and you enter a NEW division of E-A ranks once you complete the prior set. The divisions run from Baby, to Junior, to Fighter. There is one final division above Fighter, but that is reserved only for Dragonsages that have proven their worth.
After a hard day of killing other Dragons, your Dragon is tired. Time to get back to your apartment and rest up for the remainder of the evening. Every time you rest, your Dragon's weight increases. More weight means a higher max HP, but it also lowers the chance your dragon has to dodge an attack during battle. This is why it's important for the Daycare to work at lowering weight.
Once your Dragon reaches the Fighter division, take a gander over in Pablo's Pub. There are some shady characters there, but nothing too dangerous. Unless you count the unsanctioned battles that take place, overseen by Pablo himself! Here, illegal gambling on fights take place. You can challenge other Dragonsages to illegal battles, betting from 900g up to 9000g on a fight, depending on how much the fight costs to initiate. Keep in mind that, these illegal battles oftentimes contain Dragons far superior to your own, so the risk of losing not only your Dragon, but also your money is quite high, but the payout can be worth it. If you're lucky.
Earlier, I had mentioned that one day equates to one year for a Dragon. And Dragons do not live forever. After a certain amount of time, your dragon simply becomes too old to fight. Take your seasoned veteran over to the Memory Forest. It's here where you say farewell to your beloved partner, setting it free and allowing it to live out the last of it's days in peace.
But, that doesn't necessarily HAVE to happen. There are a few things you can do to help prolong your Dragon's life. At the Cloning Center, there's also a Bio Bank. The Bio Bank holds your dragon in a state of stasis, free of charge. So your dragon can be getting on in years, but as long as you put it in stasis early enough, you can always get it out for one last fight if you really need it.
I had mentioned earlier that Dragons have a massive ability to adapt and evolve. Throughout your Dragon's life, it will cocoon itself several times as it ages, emerging larger and more powerful than it was before. Each form is associated with a division in the arena, meaning each dragon will go through it's life-cycle as a Baby, then enter it's Junior life phase, followed by it's Fighter (Adult). From it's Adult form, one of three things can happen. It will cocoon and become Old, meaning nothing really happens. It could transform into a Mutant, gaining stat boosts, but it still has it's mortality to worry about.
The final thing that could happen, and save your dragon from retirement of old age, is that it could evolve into a Super Dragon. These rare dragons look VASTLY different than their Old and Mutant forms. Along with a major boost in stats, a Super Dragon is immortal. Though it can still die in battle, it will simply stop aging, meaning as long as you continue winning, your Dragon can survive forever. The chances that your dragon will evolve into a Super is based off of it's Wisdom. The maximum Wisdom stat is 50. If your dragon as 50, that means that there's a 25% chance to become a Mutant, a 25% chance to become a Super, or a 50% chance to turn into and Old Dragon.
That's the game in a nutshell. Sounds nice on paper, and the music in it is great. The downside of the game is, though the music is good, it's sometimes poor quality, and the game is incredibly "small". The entire game takes place in a single city, and there are only a few NPCs.
I'd imagine this is going to be a very short thread, but I was wondering, has anyone else ever played this game? What were your thoughts on it? I'm always looking for more people to discuss Dragon Seeds with.
For those that don't know Dragon Seeds (See: likely everyone on this forum),let me give you some info about it, in case it might catch your fancy.
It's the future. Not really sure how far into the future. I think the game's intro gives exact dates in a timeline, but I can't recall what they were. It's far enough into the future that cloning is not only legal, but also commonplace (though only certain cloning procedures are allowed). The polar ice caps have melted, and a strange creature was found, perfectly preserved. The creature was successfully cloned. Thus, the first Dragon was born again. From this dragon, and it's clone-brothers, it was discovered that these creatures have remarkable adaptability, and evolve at a rapid pace. Where there was one Dragon, there are now several "families", all vastly difference in appearance.
These Dragons are raised to fight for sport in large coliseums. People who raise Dragons are referred to as Dragonsages. A Dragon that falls in combat dies, so should you lose a match (and didn't save recently), you're out of luck.
You start out as a young, "faceless" Dragonsage, just arriving at the largest capital city left in the world. I say faceless for two reasons. For the first reason, you never see your character. You ARE your character. NPCs speak directly to you, the player. The second reason is that, for a Dragonsage, you've never raised a Dragon before. You're quite ambitious, going straight for the heart of the entertainment with no experience. Bravo.
After a brief intro and tutorial, you're off to the cloning lab to get your first Dragon. Akin to Monster Rancher, Dragons are generated in a special fashion. Instead of reading discs, you first chose a family of Dragons, and then use "keywords" in order to generate a Dragon with stats depending on the keywords you've chosen. After the Dragon is generated, you name it and leave it at the Daycare for 24 hours. Once you take it to the Daycare, you'll be asked to choose two of it's stats to improve upon. Wisdom and Weight are always wise choices.
Now, 24 hours to us is a single day. To a Dragon, one day is equivalent to one year. Once you pick up your dragon the next day, it's time to get it equipped for combat. Off to Nancy's Shop. She's a boisterous woman that sells weapons and shields for Dragons, at a cost. She'll then warn you to stay away from the Junk Man, Isuka, but warnings never stopped a Dragonsage, did they? Head over to Isuka's Junk Shop. He sells many random things at his store, though there won't always be something for sale every time you drop by. He commonly refers to Nancy as a "witch", so there's most likely some kind of feud going on between 'em.
So you've got a dragon. You've got a weapon and a shield. Time to train your little bundle of scales...or feathers...or shells...whatever. Head on over to the Training Facility, and work on your Dragon's power, special, or both. Training is usually hard for people to get used to, as training is nothing like in other games. Training costs money, and at first, you don't have a lot of it. Once you run out of funds, it's time to earn some more. To the arena!
So you're at the arena, and you enter the first division. Each division has five ranks (E-A). Your Dragon is pit in one-on-one battles against other Dragons in a fight to the death. Should you emerge victorious, the prize money is yours. Should your Dragon fall, then it's back to square one with you. Higher ranks contain more prize money, and you enter a NEW division of E-A ranks once you complete the prior set. The divisions run from Baby, to Junior, to Fighter. There is one final division above Fighter, but that is reserved only for Dragonsages that have proven their worth.
After a hard day of killing other Dragons, your Dragon is tired. Time to get back to your apartment and rest up for the remainder of the evening. Every time you rest, your Dragon's weight increases. More weight means a higher max HP, but it also lowers the chance your dragon has to dodge an attack during battle. This is why it's important for the Daycare to work at lowering weight.
Once your Dragon reaches the Fighter division, take a gander over in Pablo's Pub. There are some shady characters there, but nothing too dangerous. Unless you count the unsanctioned battles that take place, overseen by Pablo himself! Here, illegal gambling on fights take place. You can challenge other Dragonsages to illegal battles, betting from 900g up to 9000g on a fight, depending on how much the fight costs to initiate. Keep in mind that, these illegal battles oftentimes contain Dragons far superior to your own, so the risk of losing not only your Dragon, but also your money is quite high, but the payout can be worth it. If you're lucky.
Earlier, I had mentioned that one day equates to one year for a Dragon. And Dragons do not live forever. After a certain amount of time, your dragon simply becomes too old to fight. Take your seasoned veteran over to the Memory Forest. It's here where you say farewell to your beloved partner, setting it free and allowing it to live out the last of it's days in peace.
But, that doesn't necessarily HAVE to happen. There are a few things you can do to help prolong your Dragon's life. At the Cloning Center, there's also a Bio Bank. The Bio Bank holds your dragon in a state of stasis, free of charge. So your dragon can be getting on in years, but as long as you put it in stasis early enough, you can always get it out for one last fight if you really need it.
I had mentioned earlier that Dragons have a massive ability to adapt and evolve. Throughout your Dragon's life, it will cocoon itself several times as it ages, emerging larger and more powerful than it was before. Each form is associated with a division in the arena, meaning each dragon will go through it's life-cycle as a Baby, then enter it's Junior life phase, followed by it's Fighter (Adult). From it's Adult form, one of three things can happen. It will cocoon and become Old, meaning nothing really happens. It could transform into a Mutant, gaining stat boosts, but it still has it's mortality to worry about.
The final thing that could happen, and save your dragon from retirement of old age, is that it could evolve into a Super Dragon. These rare dragons look VASTLY different than their Old and Mutant forms. Along with a major boost in stats, a Super Dragon is immortal. Though it can still die in battle, it will simply stop aging, meaning as long as you continue winning, your Dragon can survive forever. The chances that your dragon will evolve into a Super is based off of it's Wisdom. The maximum Wisdom stat is 50. If your dragon as 50, that means that there's a 25% chance to become a Mutant, a 25% chance to become a Super, or a 50% chance to turn into and Old Dragon.
That's the game in a nutshell. Sounds nice on paper, and the music in it is great. The downside of the game is, though the music is good, it's sometimes poor quality, and the game is incredibly "small". The entire game takes place in a single city, and there are only a few NPCs.