Ever watch “How to Train Your Dragon” from movie theaters? Even if you haven’t, it’s an awesome movie that deserves the praise that it got. Created as well as brought to you by Ludia Inc, Dragons: Rise of Berk has risen out of the ashes and is available for both iOS and Android devices. Get ready to play with the numerous dragons and become the best dragon tamer there has ever been.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, the goal of the whole game is to construct and create an optimal town that satisfy the people around you as well as the creatures that you will be obtaining, the dragons of course! Your status of your town is monitored through the happiness of your villagers. If they are unhappy, villagers will express their unhappiness through emoticons and dragons will do the same in order to express their unhappiness, if they are. It is your job as the town leader to do your best in order to satisfy and consolidate the bond between man and beast, or in this case, villager and dragon.
To start bringing in the dragons, players must learn to train and raise up some dragons from their egg form in order to train them into being obedient dragons. A little bit unethical, but the baseline of Rise of Berk is that your dragon, Toothless, will bring back a couple of dragon eggs for the villagers to train into full grown dragons. Toothless is the dragon that is trained throughout the movie by the main character, so if you want to know how the original dragon was first trained, you can just watch the first movie of How to Train Your Dragon is learn how. Anyways, when your dragon, Toothless, brings back whatever he caught, or the dragon eggs that he has found, you are given the option to either let go of the dragon egg and return it back to its mother or begin to hatch the egg. When you determine that you want to hatch the egg yourself, you can go ahead and begin making some room in order for the egg to hatch in its natural habitat, and then make sure that you are loading up enough food to feed it when it hatches.
After the egg hatches and you want to start raising the dragon, you can begin by sending it to an Academy where it will get trained to the point where the dragon can start earning fish for you or getting the dragon to retrieve some much needed wood for the village. It’s like raising a child so that they can do the dishes! By selectively hatching the best dragons that will have the best efficiency when gathering resources, your town will be able to grow and prosper throughout the time that you play the game and also be able to see your eggs hatch into full grown beasts.
To start off, Dragons: Rise of Berk will guide you through a tutorial that will grant a couple of resources that you will need desperately throughout the game. The game’s main currency, runes, are also given to you throughout the tutorial. Runes are used in order to get the initial dragon eggs that you want. Essentially, when you use some runes, you get to go on a journey in order to find more dragon eggs. Runes can also be used like gems in Clash of Clans. They can help hurry up the process of the hatching dragon egg, making it hatch earlier than it should, or it can be used in order to quicken the building speed of whatever building that you may be constructing at the time. With the approximately 30 runes that you begin with that the game gives you, a large portion of the runes that you will spend will be in the beginning when you first feel the rush of the game.
Just like in Clash of Clans or some other construction game where you create your own village and try to build it up more, you have to maintain the resources in your camp in order to sustain the village and continue progressing. In order to get the village going, in Dragons: Rise of Berk, you must use fish in order to entice the villagers to get working and use wood in order to build a couple of key structures that you may need for the future. You gain those resources by constructing some other buildings that will help you gather the resource. How do you get the resources to do that? You obtain a couple of resources in the beginning that you can use in order to begin building resources and start stacking up the resources for use later. Resources from the resource generators are gained about every second, but only need to be collected about once or twice a day. After constructing something, there is a delay before you are actually able to use the building. This delay is kind of a cooldown timer where you aren’t able to use the building because you are constructing the building. As you upgrade further, the cooldown becomes longer and can even get to the point where you have to wait days before it will actually finish building. Similar to that, when your own dragon, Toothless goes out for a hunt, he won’t be back immediately with an egg, but rather will be back in about an hour. The producers of this game either want you to spend a couple bucks to speed up the process or simply want the game to feel more life like.
In Dragons: Rise of Berk, how many dragons are there you may ask? Well, there are 18 different types of dragons that you can slowly gather from Toothless and be able to use. Getting and training dragons is a slow process and collecting all 18 species is a very hard task. Expected of this type of free game where it wants you to spend some money before you leave. While there are points in Dragons: Rise of Berk, that you may find interesting and adventurous, it is overall, a passive game that you may play once in a while in order to keep up with the dragons and adore them over time, but is simply an overall passive game.
After you start the game and are getting into the flow of the game, the game slows down the building times and slows down the process at which everything operates, making the game more boring over time and making the game into the game that Clash of Clans is right now. It’s more passive and with only a couple of battles that you have to fight occasionally. What’s worse is that Dragons: Rise of Berk, doesn’t have a battling system where you get to challenge a couple of opponents to keep up the excitement of the game, but rather doesn’t have any kind of battle system and is more of a boring game of Clash of Clans where you can only construct some buildings and collect all of troops that you can build.
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In Dragons: Rise of Berk, you want to get started on the right foot if you want to be successful in this game that you have chosen and be the most effective in earning resources much quicker than normal. First of all, you should level up your only dragon by using the fish that you have to feed him. After he gets stronger from the fish, he can go out on his first journey to find his first dragon egg. The most important dragons to get that are most effective for resource collecting are Whispering Death or Scauldron. Both of these dragons will do the tasks the most efficiently.
The more dragons that you have means the faster that your town will grow. Dragons are your main resource for gathering resources, so make sure that you have a sufficient number of dragons in order to maintain a healthy resource pool.
To get more dragons, you have to unlock more missions that will ultimately grant you some extra runes that you can use to send out Toothless more often. To get more missions, you have to start rebuilding a couple of character’s houses who will then give you a couple of missions for you to do, for which they will reward you after you have completed those missions.
On the occasion, there will be separate missions that require different materials to complete. For example, you might find that one of your missions is to feed a villager or something like that. Make sure you are keeping a good balance of your exhaustion of resources so that you don’t have an uneven amount of resources which would throw you off a bit.
Whenever Toothless comes back from a journey, he brings back three items, but you can only bring back one of the items out of the three. If you are interested in making life a bit easier for yourself, I recommend that you buy, using real money, the extra 2 bags that will let you keep all of the items that he brings back.
Lastly, one of the most important aspects of the game, is rune control. What I mean by that, is that when you have a certain number of runes, you can send Toothless out on a journey. Every time he goes out on a journey, he will use up a certain number of runes. By keeping a stable amount of runes in your inventory, you will be able to keep on sending out Toothless and receive more items over time. One way to gain more runes will be to remove the surrounding areas. That means removing shrub or rocks. Despite the resource cost, it is worth it because you receive a decent amount of runes by doing so.
Dragons: Rise of Berk is nothing new, definitely. It’s just another game with a little bit of covering over it. The cover is just a couple of dragons and the characters from a good movie. Just because it was a good movie, doesn’t make for a good game. In fact, most games that are based off of movies are generally poorly made and just rely on the player’s loyalty to the movies in order to profit off of the game. It’s a sad creation out of an excellent movie. Along with all of that, Dragons: Rise of Berk is also a slow moving game. After the initial tutorial and boost of materials that you receive throughout the tutorial, you have a lot of resource buildings to create and then a lot of time on your hands. It can take several months to get to the point where you have to slowly build up until you are happy with your town. This can take such a long time without any aid of real money coming into the game, and even after you get to the point where you are using real money, you have to spend a lot in order to make some good progress.
Although, there is some amount of hype around the Battle Mode where I’m assuming that you will be able to attack other dragons or be able to duel with your dragon. However, that would mean that you have to train your dragon into a battle dragon, which means implementing a whole new statline. This is probably a long time away and I somehow doubt that the producers will actually get to the point where they are motivated enough to make this actually come true. Even though a couple of people might enjoy this kind of concept, it does not make it any better with the movie implemented into it.
With Cartoon bubbles as chat to communicate with the other people in town, you are solely restricted to talking to your friends, bots in the game, by reading what they are saying, rather than an animation. This could definitely have been made better and made it feel like it actually came after the movie. That would definitely make the game feel more interesting and would make the game more of an adventure rather than a simple building game.
If you want to make this game a bigger challenge than it already is, and rather than an easy walk in the park, you have to try and not purchase anything extra that the game offers. If you do, it makes the game kinda pointless and makes the difficulty of the game go to zero. With using real money, the game will probably get boring even though you made a whole bunch of progress on your town and maybe you even have all of the types of dragons that are possible. Then there’s the other choice of earning all of the dragons by working for it day in and day out for quite a few months before getting bored of the game. If you want to get the most out of the game as you can, then try and play it without spending any money on it to make it easier. Another reason that using real money to complete the game is not worth it is because you can find runes by doing quests that the game tells you to do, you can remove the surrounding area such as rocks for free runes like Clash of Clans, or you can try and use social media to earn a couple of runes occasionally. All in all, spending money on a game that is simply a copy of another game isn’t worth the money and worst of all, there’s really no competition to face off against.
I would recommend this game to anyone around their teenage years who really loves the game enough to play it. Anybody younger would probably get bored from playing the game after two days because of the amount of time that it takes to get the dragons and the amount of time that it takes for it to be worth it. Compared to other games, Rise of Berk does not offer anything new to the aspect of building a town. If there was something like an egg hatcher by breeding two different dragons together, that could make for some interesting combinations and get more people interested in the game. Another idea is to get a kind of first player approach to the game where you get to ride the dragons that you train and get to fight off against other dragons or have some kind of mini game to add to the building of a town. If they added anything like that, it would make the game 10x better than what it is right now. Right now, it feels like the producers are taking advantage of a successful movie by trying to turn it into a game where people will purchase the runes. The only way you’re gonna get through this game as well as not have to spend any money on it, is to have some patience when you play the game. The only thing that will get you to spend money, is the urge to get more dragons.
Artwork: I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 7/10 because the artwork is taken from the movie which makes it pretty good considering the movie was animated. So if we just take out the fact that it was taken from a movie, the artwork is really nice and a really nice feature to the game that would make someone continue playing because of the artwork of all the types of dragons. Each type of dragon has something unique about it and makes for collecting them, a lot more enticing than it might seem at first. It’s almost like collecting a bunch of shiny rocks. You collect them because you enjoy how they look, and it’s the same with this game in terms of wanting to collect them all before you stop playing the game.
Music and SFX: I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 8/10. If we also discount that some of the music is from the movie itself, then it deserves some high ratings for having some really good music, especially in the introduction page to the game. The SFX is like so normal it hurts. If you see anything that you do in Clash of Clans and listen to the sounds of what happens in clash of clans, then you can be well sure that a similar sound is happening in the Dragons: Rise of Berk. Pretty much all games have the same kind of SFX so nothing is particularly different or unique for this specific game when it comes to sound effects, but the music is pretty darn good.
Story and Originality: I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 6/10. Collecting all the types of dragons and trying to create a bond between the villagers and the dragons is not really a story at all. The story of trying to make both parties happy is a really stupid one. If anything, they should have made the story been along the lines of trying to collect every single type of dragon. There’s really no point in having the goal to be the connection between the two parties. There isn’t really anything original about this game. It’s just another cover-up of another game, but with a movie plastered all over it.
General Gameplay: I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 3/10. I didn’t like the gameplay of Dragons: Rise of Berk. It is mainly because I don’t like to play any game that involves building and wait times, but even Clash of Clans has that sort of mini game where you get to challenge other people and challenge their towns to see how good their structure is. That is really why the game got so popular in the first place. Along with making your own town the best it can be against attacks, you got to attack other people and create strategies based off of that. Getting back to Dragons: Rise of Berk, it is a really slow game that really needs some off game in order for it to improve or go anywhere it terms of popularity. It could also use some social networking strategies in order to compare yourself to your friends to at least make some sort of competition that you can face off against.
Addictiveness: I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 5/10. It is average in terms of the addictiveness. Like many other games, it is completely dependent on the player himself. If they like this kind of game, then they might get into it. Other than that, I don’t really find this game too exciting fr players because it is really slow and doesn’t offer anything other than the fact that it was based off of a movie to make things interesting.
Overall Rating: Overall, I would rate Dragons: Rise of Berk a 5/10 because the graphics and the artwork of the game is up to par, but the actual gameplay is really boring and lacking in a lot of areas.