Mia and the Dragon Princess – Review

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After the impressive “Ten Dates” back in February, developers Wales Interactive return with another interactive movie for gamers to choose their own adventures, it’s like those books I had as a kid without the hassle of having to find the right page at the back of the book, to continue the story.

This storyline is based around a story of Marshanda hundreds of years ago, who ended up beside a famous Pirate called Kat the Red, and while the two of them ruled the waves, they were inevitably separated. To keep save, Marshanda head north to the ice regions to avoid capture, accompanied by a special wrist device Kat gave her to help them reunite once the danger had subsided.

Sure enough Kat survived, and head to London where she would wait day and night for her friend to appear, but Marshanda ended up a little stuck on the ice, only to resurface, fit, healthy and wearing a hospital gown hundreds of years later.

Thankfully that trusty wrist device is still working so Marshanda eventually finds her way to a small bar under the Dragon Princess restaurant.

It’s not perfectly delivered, but the long story is the restaurant owner Mt Walsh *played by actor Paul Mcgann – the old guy who was in Dr Who) – Walsh is trying to buy-out the downstairs bar, due to some coincidental links to his ancestors and pirates, and sure enough our protagonist Mia, just so happens to work at that bar, and finds the fleeing Marshanda on the same day Walsh (Mcgann) is trying to enforce his hostile takeover.

As with many Interactive FMV games, there’s plenty of ways the story can play out, with a number of good and bad endings, my first play-through was disappointingly short at about 40 minutes, but future playthroughs, provided far more backstory and