Analysis of Mia and the Dragon Princess, a low-key cinematic adventure

Mia and the Dragon Princess gives us this very particular style of video game as are the interactive cinematic adventures.

Historically undervalued

The Adventures cinematographic They started in the 1980s on game consoles and other interactive media. At present, it is a scarce resource in the world of video games, although it continues to appear from time to time. Even Netflix has dared with this world of cinema interactive with some movies. One based on his hit saga black mirror or with a spin off of another mythical series like Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.

Interactive to some degree

As we said, this style of video game It’s quite simple in concept, but very complicated to apply successfully. It’s a film, in which we will have to take different the decisions among the alternatives presented to the protagonists. It usually takes many hours of footage to erect a plot with enough variations to confuse the viewer/player.

weak argument

Mia and the Dragon Princess is therefore a game of this type. It’s a interactive movie

which recounts the adventures of Tight, a waitress in a British restaurant and the dragon princess who by a twist of fate (unfrozen from a block of glacial ice) finds herself in the middle of a modern and chaotic London where everything is strange. Mia by fate (or by our choice) will become the protector of the princess dragon and will try to understand why it is in our time and what its purpose is.

some options

With that plot of down, we come across an interactive adventure whose plot seems attractive at first glance, but after a quick and action-packed start it withers away. unlike a gamewhere the gameplay A bad argument can mitigate, when we are faced with an interactive cinematic adventure, the obvious lack of playability due to the style we are facing, must be supported by an argument that hooks and dazzles the user. And in Mia and the Dragon Princess, that doesn’t happen. His argument, as we have said, soft after a start hectic. The inclusion of many characters, as is the case, No represents the “more is better”. Many of them are not explored and the emotional and emotional thread is not achieved by not connecting with the characters. When a protagonist dies because of our choices, we have no emotion because we failed to make that connection with them.

Lots of fights, little shisha

Also, to Mia and the dragon princess, the fight scenes and fights are very well executed, but they are clearly shod. We suppose that in order to try to give dynamism to a film which sins above all that, to have a few highs and lows very pronounced in the rhythm, which, for me in particular, throws me off course all the time.

Shines in some ways

However, Mia and the Dragon Princess have a few virtues. Actors with general lines, even if they are not famous, do not clash. This is not a movie, but I’ve seen worse TV movies on some television channels on a Sunday afternoon. There interpretation, except for some specific, it is level. The execution at the technical level is not Oscar’s but it conforms to it perfectly. At the sound level we are not facing a bad product, far from it.

Deciding is our maxim

In reference to gameplayLike any interactive film, the options are limited, we spend more time contemplating than deciding what to do. Are elections They are usually not too decisive a priori, which I confirmed some time later, when I saw the existing possibilities. And this thanks to a choice tree that reveals to us the type of choices we make and those we have left behind. However, these are not as varied or extensive as you might expect and we are faced with only two possible outcomes. Something in my opinion very limited.

CONCLUSION

Mia and the dragon princess It’s the typical mid-sized interactive adventure that won’t disappoint fans of the genre. We are by no means faced with a sublime film, but it far exceeds the level technician and interpretative despite the fact that it loosens the plot. However, if you are not a fan of these types of titles, you are not facing a game that will drag you down or catch you. With a more cohesive storyline, Mia and the Dragon Princess could have so little made a place for themselves in this world. printer and recognized interactive adventures.