Blue Dragon - Awakened Shadow
Blue Dragon - Awakened Shadow is a Nintendo DS role-playing game released in 2009. It centers on shooting and weapon use, combat encounters, and area exploration and arranges its main commands and information around the handheld's dual screens, touch input, and physical buttons.
- AI score · out of 10
- 6.9 / 10
About this game
Awakened Shadow is designed to take full advantage of the Nintendo DS capabilities allowing players to engage in impressive boss battles with up to two friends and earn and trade items via the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in multiplayer mode. Players will be able to attack enemies faster than ever before with upgraded weapons and powerful Shadows, which can be switched for tactical advantages. Players will roam a 3D open world environment across several unique “cube” worlds as they take on formidable Otherworld bosses, complete multiple challenges, and recruit over a dozen characters in their own custom adventure. In this Nintendo DS release, shooting and weapon use, combat encounters, and area exploration form the main playable structure. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign. The dual screens, stylus, and buttons divide commands from status information where the design calls for it. Characters, world building, interface design, and music carry the atmosphere, while dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, or language dependence can slow portable play. This description applies to the Nintendo DS edition and does not import modes, presentation upgrades, or convenience features from home-console versions, mobile adaptations, later ports, or remakes.
Collected in series
Blue Dragon is a fantasy RPG series where magical shadows fight alongside their human companions, with character designs by Akira Toriyama. Its games take that idea in different directions, from turn-based adventuring to squad commands and direct action.
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基本成立 Nintendo DS role-playing experience
Blue Dragon - Awakened Shadow centers on shooting and weapon use, combat encounters, and area exploration. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, giving the Nintendo DS release recognizable goals and a coherent portable rhythm. Characters, world building, interface design, and music carry the atmosphere. Its value comes from how the main rules work with the handheld interface, while variety and room for mastery determine the longer-term appeal. Dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, or language dependence can slow portable play, which is the principal limitation on original hardware. GameNavo scores this concrete release across four independently judged dimensions and does not use press aggregates, user ratings, source length, media count, title recognition, or features from another platform.
Strengths
- shooting and weapon use, and combat encounters provide a readable mechanical foundation.
- Progress is divided into understandable stages, tasks, matches, or chapters.
- Presentation and interface feedback support the main rules.
Weaknesses
- Dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, or language dependence can slow portable play.
- Original language, multiplayer hardware, or touch conditions may affect present-day use.
Who it is for: Players who enjoy role-playing games, accept Nintendo DS-era interface conventions, and want to assess the original handheld release on its own terms.
Play notes: This review covers the Nintendo DS release without emulator save states, speed-up, or later-port features and does not represent a complete playthrough.
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| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign. The 6.7 score weighs variety, repetition, difficulty progression, recovery after failure, and replay value rather than nominal length or source volume. | Reviewed | 6.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The core loop is assessed through shooting and weapon use, combat encounters, and area exploration, including rule depth, control feedback, and room for mastery. The 7.1 score applies to this DS release and excludes title recognition and external ratings. | Reviewed | 7.1 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Characters, world building, interface design, and music carry the atmosphere. The 7.3 score judges art, sound, interface, dual-screen use, and touch presentation against Nintendo DS-era conditions. | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, or language dependence can slow portable play. The 6.3 score covers original-hardware response, information clarity, saving, language, and accessory requirements without emulator conveniences. | Reviewed | 6.3 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Tri-Crescendo
- Publisher
- D3 Publisher
- Release date
- 2009
- Platforms
- Nintendo DS
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Tags
- Level ProgressionShootingStory-drivenTop-downPlayer versus PlayerExplorationLong-term ProgressionReal-time CombatMain Story 20–50 Hours2D GraphicsSolo-friendlyFantasy
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Co-opSingle player
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- Nintendo DSWorldwide2009
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