Drakan The Ancients' Gates Review | PS2 Skyrim? 

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This is my favorite game ever... hands down. cherished this game ever since I was a kid. I still replay it over and over to this day 💕

Good ol’ memories of being horrified of the flesh mage when my dad let my 6 year old self play this.

I grew up playing Drakan, it was (is) one of my favourite games, and last year I discovered Skyrim and realized that this is Drakan but expanded and maybe even better. I wish they would remake Drakan. I miss Arokh.

I’m really surprised they never continued this series. It was really ahead of it’s time, especially for a console title.

Ever since Microsoft bought out Activision-Blizzard a couple days ago, I've been thinking about older games that Sony could revive in order to help keep pace. Drakan is the first thing that came to mind. There is no question that the game's execution technically could have been better, as with the movement and magic system. But the game is very good on a conceptual level - the idea of having a mage cast spells by performing hand gestures that you have to control is a pretty interesting idea. Having the game give you two player avatars that are linked together is pretty novel. The sense I got from Drakan was like a fantasy apocalypse with the Desert Lords using the monstrous races to exterminate humanity, which was a really neat way to frame the story. So yeah I think that Drakan is a game that could easily be remade. Ditch some of the obtuse mechanics like how the characters handle movement, give everything the graphical upgrade, and execute these unique concepts better in a modern way and I think I'd play the hell out of that game.

I remember this game was one of the first games we got when my parents decided they wanted our family to have a ps2. This game was freaking amazing. It was the first "open world" game ever. I remember finding a random cave in the far corner of the world fighting through it for 30 minutes and then finding a chest with a "magic sword" in it. It was so rewarding. It was like crack for my preteen brain

I haven't seen anyone talk about this game in YEARS! Played it when I was a kid, I can hear all the sound effects still! Definitely one of the best early open world games I've ever played. I'd sit for hours running around doing any quest I could get my grubby little hands on. Adrellian Isles and early Northern areas were always my favorite.

I love this game. Id kill for a remake or sequel

I played the demo in my childhood and couldn't remember the name of the game so i tiped "ps2 game dragon rider" and found your video. Great review, the editing is really polished, congrats

Idk why but I never had a problem with the controls as a kid 😅 But if this game ever gets remastered I will die a happy man

This was a really solid video, your humor wasnt cringe yet it didnt ape Sseth too much, overall pog

man this game was a part of my childhood. definitely is a sort of niche game lol. it'd be cool if you tried out the first game, though i hear it's a bit hard to get it working.

This game is awesome I wish it had more attention honestly. I remember playing this with my family as a kid and I know play it every year just to go back and enjoy its awesome world and music!

I can still taste the Mountain Dew Livewire and Doritos. My buddies and I played this for days at a time back when it came out. One of my fondest gaming memories ever, although a little rough to replay these days.

nice, i love this game really. beaten it more than 6 times for sure

You can use the Dpad to cast spells even with the alternate control schemes. Also Im pretty sure this game predates far cry :3 Im old af. Hella entertaining review!

Also best NPC was the “Woooow” guy

Sony should reboot this game for PSVR. Between the hand gestures for magic and dragon riding, I think it could be fun.

“ Tummy-rubbing minigame “ 😂 🤣 💀

I’m loyal to this game, I play it at least once a year even with a barely working controller😂

If you're interested in old PS2 games, check out Blood will tell. It's based off of Tezuka Osamu's Dororo, and is a surprisingly competent hack and slash game about a guy who is made of prosthetics trying to reclaim body parts from 52 different demons.

Loved this game. Not sure there is an enemy more unsettling than the flesh mage.

i have play it and finish it 23 times and still got my copy wich i can play on my fat boy ps3 console ..the best ever ,i dont know any other one that looks like it ..

I lost track of how many times I beat this it's a hidden gem of a game along with Soul Reaver.

This is literally the review I was looking for ❤😂Love it

0:38 there's the cheeky bugger lmao. nice video!

Fwiw, I still have two copies of DRAKAN with mint manuals. One of my favorite games.

Oh boy...oh the difficulty I had with the Inquisitor and his boss level...and the basement with the spiders.

This game from my childhood randomly popped up in my mind and I wanted to hear someone talk about it, thanks man ! I have very fond but fuzzy memories of this game, looking forwars to watching your video :)

I’ve loved this game since I was a kid, I never made it past the snow level though, I can’t remember why, I don’t quite remember being stuck, I think some other game took over.

Man you just brought some memories with this right here. Thanks

I have been trying to remember this game for years, my mom got it for me when I was young and i played it a ton but could never remember it

1:35 WTF? I don't remember Rynn checking for her dragon's drivers license like that! That would be mui bueno if they added that to an HD remake thuogh.

I love this game. this game is the first association with youth ] I also know another cool game similar to the dragon - "Pirates the legend of the black cat." this game is a little simpler than a drakan, but there is a completely different atmosphere. pirates, ships, I like it. the author of this video, please answer me so that I can be calm))

I loved the game on the ps2 beat it multiple times

"So that's it? Everyone i've ever known is gone? Nice!"

This game NEEDS TO BE REMADE

I adore the two drakan games, still play them to this day. ^_^ I know this video is old but still thank you for covering it

Did everybody find the ice lands that weren't on the map? This game was so far ahead of its time and usually no one has every heard of it. For me it had to be in my top 3 favorite PS2 games.

I absolutely loved this game and think about it so often

Awesome, thanks for the review of this gem!

"but it wont break the game like a car in cyber punk" damn

Just found this one today browsing an emulator site, and I'm kinda about it. It's an open world RPG where you play a hexblade warlock and ride a dragon, it's pretty much one of my childhood dream games and I'm hella bummed I missed it.

Loved this game on ps2

There’s a variety of melee mixups when you use the d pad.

I played a beta for this and to this date i still want to play it.

Your review is not the first to say that the magic casting system is hard, yet I mastered it pretty quickly myself.... Magic is OP in this game. By the way, an early spell -- Fear -- makes most humanoid creatures crouch in place and cower in fear while you wail away on them undisturbed.

One of the reasons that I have just bought a ps2. This is a brilliant game. I have also bought Shadowhearts and Black Kat.

Stumbled upon this video looking for old Drakan content and your video was fantastic, great editing. In terms of old niche games, consider Herdy Gerdy for the PS2? It's a herding/puzzle game from the same era and has a really cute art style and a long playtime with crazy good music

Can you review Pirates: the Legend of Black Cat?

Absolutely awesome game. Revisit it every few years - endless fun.

Another PS2 hidden gem is Culdcept

I recently just purchased it at my games store. It was $27 and I had to get. I used to play this game for hours on the jampack 2001 winter collection. It was one of my favorite demo games. This is a great game.

This is was my game that i told everyone in school about and no one knew it

There was a game called Drakan: The Ancients' Gates. It was totally awesome! I thought it had excellent graphics. There is a young female human named Rynn, and a dragon named Arokh. When the game starts Rynn and Arokh has just returned home to her Village. There is smoke everywhere. The entire Village has been destroyed by fire. It looks like everyone is dead. The dragon Arokh shows up after scouting around. Arokh says he hears and feels a calling. The words he hasn't heard in over 600 years. It is the Grand Summons of the Order. That he must answer it. Arokh wants Rynn to go with him. She says she can't. Not yet. She has to stay behind and bury her friends, but after 2 days she will leave to join him. An evil race of three-faced beings known as the Desert Lords has begun rallying the monsters from around the world, and have begun enslaving humans. - Around the world, there exist four gateways that lead to the world where the dragon mother, Mala-Shae, and her brood have been slumbering since the Dark Wars. Only a Dragon of the Elder Breed can open the gates, and this is why Rynn and Arokh (more specifically, Arokh) are needed to open these gates, so that the humans can once again bond with dragons and fight back against the Desert Lords. Along the way, the two of them must go on various side quests to accomplish goals leading them to the ultimate goal. Arokh doesn't just breathe fire. He has a ice breath and other powers as well. I would set Arokh for fire breathing, and park him right in front of a cave, facing it. I would dismount Arokh and go inside the cave and stir up the bad guys to get them to chase me and I would run right straight out of the mouth of the cave where Arokh was setting. Arokh would destroy all of them with his fire breath. This was a hell of a lot of fun!

Love this game just played it last night gonna play it again

arrow in cômbat give special attack tho. You got to do patterns and then new attacks are avvailable. For exemple left right left then attack is a new one right left right down down ect ect

I really don't get how every, I mean EVERY comment I've read so far about this game in youtube videos or forums is overwelming, and at the same time this game is so unknown! this is the only game for which I've never read a bad comment and still not known to many, and also no remastered has been done. I really hope someone does it.

Absolutely amazing game. Currently replaying it on my laptop using a ps2 emulator.

I remember playing the crap out of a demo for this game. Never found a full copy tho.

I loved this game as a child. Great video

This was one of my favorite games growing up. Did you know you can use different attacks that knock enemies down? on the dpad, hit up up, left left, right right, down down, or down up. right before attack, to vary your attack

I bought this when it was new. I saw the pictures on the case and read the description. I like that type of stuff, so I bought it. I took it home and tried it out. Only played for about 15 minutes. I did the tutorial bit and fought the first 3 guys on the pass. The controls were bad. What a piece of crap. I wasted money on it........Then about 3 months later, I figured, "What the heck, I'll give 'er another chance." Wow, was I glad that I did. I played through this game about 7 times. Each time I would find new stuff. And it isn't just knowing where everything is either. Did you know that a chicken randomly pops up in a certain towns weapon shop and that it's one of the most powerful weapons in the game. When you use it, it squawks and such when you attack with it. It looks like you have your hand up its rear when using it...... It's kinda funny that I had to beat it a few times before I really got the hang of the controls. Once I did, it got even more fun. The first couple of times through, I would rely mostly on distance fighting with bows and magic. Later on I would head in for close combat. There were many gems about this game that even are nice today. Like dead bodies never disappeared, unless of course you used that one obliterate spell with the dragon. This game did not get the recognition that it should have. It was a masterpiece for its time. I wish that there were more games like this today. Maybe there are, they're just hidden in the sea of sh!t that the gaming industry has become.

i remember playing this game years ago when it first came out!!!

I love this game!

I remember seeing this on those old ps2 demos when I was like 4, I miss those days, games were so bad but so new and exciting that we didn't care, every game seemed like it was a thousand times bigger and better than they really were and perhaps they were great for their time but knowing what I know now sometimes I just want to go back.

I loved this game!! My copy got destroyed and I am so bummed about it.

I miss this game so much!!

Imagine if they made a dragon riding game in 2023. It'd be insane.

You should try turok evolution

Hmm..never had problems with the controls back then..but then again .didnt have problems working an intellivision controller as a kid Either. Perhaps we should look at retro games not having bad controls, everyone just got used to modern controls and it makes it harder to go back. Loved playing thru this game, unfortunately couldnt finish it. Got stuck on a dragon fight if i remember. This game could get hard

This was my favourite game as a kid

I remember being so disappointed this game was PS2 only after playing the PC version. I loved order of the flame as a kid.

I loved this game back in the day

You got to love the Scottish trolls Also it is a good game

Drakan is bad ass

I just got back on it it’s fun olak ! Also I like the controls

My favourite game of all time

i actually have this game for the ps2 and its pretty fun once you get used to the clunky controls. the controls are really bad, but i mean the game is almost 20 years old so i can look past it.

Its great for a ps2 game, they really have good sized maps fitting in with using the dragon and lots of dragn combat

LMFAO you're fucking hilarious

This is one of the hardest games I've ever played.

Needs a remake

I haven’t play it in years although I seen on a demo disc how beat bone grinder

Best game I’ve nearly ever played

very rarely a chicken will cluck when you enter any shop in the game. scroll allllll the way to end of the shop when you hear that cluck and you'll find one of the best weapons in the game and its a chicken. you can beat your enemies down with a chicken you hold by its feet. I played this game a couple dozen times and only got it twice, and you can't come back for it you must buy it then.

how can i get this emulated to my pc? used to play this on my ps2 back in the day but brother took it with him when he moved so i haven’t seen or been able to play it in years. someone please help 🙏🏼

That is not how the controls were when i had it as a kid, i dunno wtf was wrong with your copy.

Will you review the first game?

Loved it lots, at the time.

This is still to date the best Dragon riding adventure game out there. there's a couple more games where you fly on a dragon or have dragoon and ground combat but none of them allow you to go on a proper Western RPG style Jank venture where you slowly nudge around edges of boxes to figure out where the hitboxes to snipe enemies with a bow while they spin around their axis confused or destroy the difficulty with fear slow time and invisibility or get to hard to reach places on the dragon and bait enemies into flying in a straight line towards you so you can barrage them with slow projectiles. Small correction on melee combat: you can use the d-pad to insert commands before you execute attacks, like: up down attack, down down attack, left left/right tight attack and they will allow you to execute more powerful attacks with high stagger chance adding for much needed variety in combat. For anyone wanting to play this be weary that max level is only 12 and there's no way to reselect distributed skillpoints. While on that I absolutely recommend going with a magic build since Melee, doesn't actually increase damage you do just lets you equip higher level weapons and the ultimate melee weapon (which you get from the blacksmith for bringing him all elemental weapons) only requires lv 1 skill in melee. Archery is decent since the ultimate bow DOES require maxed archery and that weapon has guided arrows however magic still outclasses archery quite hard. In any scenario get magic to lv 4 at least cause that unlocks heal spell and lets you learn the second level of fireball which is a huge upgrade over base level and can easily ruin most enemies. it's very important for the last dungeon as it's full of golems which take forever to kill and can instadib you if they get close.

I will enjoy the game to spite everyone.

you are very strict, it was one of the best games of the time.

6:44 damn, they got Obama in this game

ds2 bad controls? you didn't play ds1

I just started emulating on a new pc and came across this game and tried it out. I had fun with the brief time I spent with it, but I could see it getting old quick.

Wait, how can you play it on pc ?

hey,, thumbs up for the hot red head and the butt smacking action! However, don't put the word 'thicc' besides a GUYS butt!!! Ever! What the heck man, are we going for 50/50 here? The women aren't playing fair, so why should we? Props to the developers though, they really know how to sell a video game, she needs some more midriff and some affectionate npc interaction capability, but this is the kind of game that I would buy now that I'm older and women are even more attractive than they used to be.

i am so mad