 Welcome to the Official PPM Slime of the Season.
Have you ever played a game so thoroughly rotten, so outright disgusting, and so downright despicable that you'd rather flush it down the toilet than plug it into your gaming console? Our team has dedicated this section of the mag exclusively for those nastiest of nasties. To them, we award our dishonorable Slime of the Season. There is no higher glory for electronic scum than being showcased as a Slime Award recipient.
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THE SUMMER '97 SLIME AWARD GOES TO......!
 
Dragonheart: Fire & Steel on SONY PLAYSTATION
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DragonHeart is a stark lesson in how far a publisher can fall. Acclaim's tie-in for the Sean Connery spectacle showcases terrible design choices, sloppy execution, poor planning, and generally what we expect out of cash-grab license deals like this one. This title plays like a side-scroller from a bygone era, complete with blocky, digitized sprites absent of any originality. Clumsily flail at your foes, horrendous-looking dragons and humans, while wrestling with a control scheme so unpleasant it teeters on being completely unplayable. Player movement feels like wading through molasses with delayed input reactions and no sense of rhythm whatsoever nor any reason to continue playing.
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| Altered Beast, is that you? |
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Might be a dragon... or Thailog. |
The game admittedly shows a touch of uniqueness in its backgrounds and somewhat tolerable soundtrack, but all else is totally uninspired, rushed, and unfinished. Tedious, tedious, tedious. Upon learning Acclaim has deliberately held off on sending out review copies until launch, it's no wonder. Not an unwise move, in all honesty. DragonHeart's greatest sin is its lack of soul, feeling like a product stapled together to meet a deadline as opposed to a genuine heartfelt project. Those searching for a medieval fantasy adventure are best off leaving this quest unfinished.
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