You can take on the role of either Cynric the Warrior or Aeowyn the Sorceress, and it is your duty to save the world. Sounds pretty standard, but for every fault found in Draconus, there are more than enough strengths to make this game anything but standard. Your quests are many, from collecting parts needed to build a Juggernaut, to sabotaging a floating castle that's been raining terror from on high. The missions alone merit laurels for their creativity, and while the storyline is linear, the depth of each level is good enough to make you forget that fact. Once you've mastered swordplay with the analog joystick, you become an authority to be reckoned with.
Control is crisp and clean.
However, in tight situations, the camera can be your undoing. During heavy combat with a major enemy, the Dreamcast suffers some slowdown, but you might find you can use the lag to your advantage. Another thing you might notice, graphically speaking, is character design. Cynric's not quite as obviously bow-legged as Aeowyn, who begins to look more and more like a goat as the game progresses. Both of them run like they're seated on invisible stools, toes barely reaching the ground as they pull themselves up hillsides and through caverns.