How to train your dragon: Umamusume edition

That's by far the best way for me to describe this rollercoaster of a game. But what is Drapline? A game about forging a bone with your dragon child? Saving the world?

No.

It's that Coo is such a hopeless glutton that a missclick made her eat an entire neighbouring village. And that's the essence of the game.

While I won't go too much into the story to prevent spoilers, and also given that we only have a part of it, but despite the sometimes awkward translation and typos here and there, the English version is more than usable, especially for a Japanese early access game. As for the gameplay, anyone familiar with the loop of Uma will definitely feel right at home. A random set of NPCs will be available at every game turn, where you can then pick and choose what path you want your gluttonous child to go down.

But as with all Early access games, the edges may require some polishing, such as random events being quite limited in terms of number, making the randomness of them disappear quite quickly. Having played on the Steam Deck, I fully expected many bugs, but it ran great out of the box with minimal issues, except for a few graphical glitches over my three runs.

So do I recommend the game? Yes, by quite a lot in fact, the product in it's current stats easily can give your 20-40h of gameplay and given the developers hard work, whether it'd be with the adorable pixel art style or quite intricate battle system due to the sheer amount of skills possible, I can only expect this game to improve as time goes on.

Also, you can eat people, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Coo...

She's just baby ):

Okay serious review:

This game is a fascinating mix between Princess Maker and a roguelite. I really grew to care for our little celestial dragon over the year and really liked how the plot handles the roguelite element. I haven't done many runs yet, so I'll have to see if the game keeps me hooked. But honestly, the characters are pretty charming (even the ones that don't really get a lot of attention from my runs). The combat is smooth and it's just a good time. Some of the english translation could use some work, but it's not something that bothered me while playing.

in the very first combat sequence, the game acknowledges when you read and choose the buff skill over the attack skill which is pretty awesome

uma but jrpg turned based combat, this game does require replaying to 100% but if youve played uma or morimens i would recommend this game even for one playthrough - its definitely worth on sale