Mia and the Dragon Princess Review

Mia and the Dragon Princess is a new FMV game. This genre of games may remind you of known titles like Immortality, but Mia and the Dragon Princess is embarrassingly far from that piece of art. The game has a low quality in every respect. Here, the rules of game-making are not followed properly, nor are the rules of filmmaking. We will explain to you why this game is neither a good game nor an interesting short film.

The only gameplay elements in this game are limited choices between two options that change the plot of the story. Of course, this change in the narrative of the game leads to different endings. The details of your choices and the sequences you have seen are also shown to you in a story tree. Other than this, there is nothing to consider this title as a game. Not being gamy is not necessarily bad, and watching an interactive movie can be interesting. But if Mia and the Dragon Princess is even considered a movie, it is painful to watch. Right now there are a lot of free and exceptionally entertaining indie movies on YouTube that you can enjoy watching. But this game charges you to deliver something like a half-baked short film. It’s equivalent to a college movie project, which, of course, doesn’t get a passing grade.

First, let’s talk about the acting, which is comical. The acting is so bad and artificial as if the artists are doing it intentionally. Especially since they always have exaggerated reactions and funny faces while dying. Let’s not forget that the causes of these deaths are usually illogical and not necessary. Mia’s character has been performed well in several sequences and the mysterious girl actress has at least been able to appear well in performing martial arts. But apart from those, no actor, even the famous ones, has been able to do their job well. The supernumerary actors who usually don’t talk and only get beaten are much more tolerable than those who play an important role in the story.

The cinematography here is fine. The director and the cameraman have managed to choose the right positions and angles for the camera in the closed, narrow, and dark locations of the scenes. Still, the overall directing is flawed. Some events and sub-plots like two ex-couples who came for a date have no reason to exist. The game is full of the same small stories and irrelevant dialogues, which are apparently put in it to make the game longer. Note some of these things have their use if you play the game to see all its sequences and ending but what about the people who don’t want to play the game all over again?

A worse case is the editing, which seems to try to separate a series of related events with wrong cuts to confuse the audience! What’s worse is that many times a sequence is cut and we enter another sequence without an introduction, in which a lot of things have happened and we are not even given a proper explanation about them. For example, in a sequence, Mia has nothing to fight by, in the next one she has a pistol to shoot.

The story of this game is in general confusing. That is, we have a fascinating animated introduction that suddenly takes us from a historical and mythical setting to modern London and leaves us with a lot of questions without the right answers. Always before we can understand what is going on, we are thrown into a completely irrelevant scene or location with a sudden cut. The music and sound effects of this game, like the story and its editing, are full of sudden and illogical cuts and ups and downs that ruin the feeling and mood of the scenes.

We recommend Mia and the Dragon Princess only to those who want to know what a really bad FMV is like. Here everything such as directing, acting, editing, and even special effects are ugly and unbearable.

The review code was provided by the publisher