10 CRIMINALLY Overlooked PS3 Games
9. Dragon's Crown
You would think discourse would guarantee a game would be better remembered, but sometimes the discourse can eclipse the game that helped get it going in the first place if the issue at hand is large enough. Such was the unfortunate case of Dragon's Crown.
Dragon's Crown, while a huge success for developer Vanillaware, got caught up in the long overdue discussion of the treatment and depiction of women in video games.
Its depiction of the Sorceress in particular drew ire for how blatantly sexualized the character was. Combine that with the inexorable march of time, and you get a game that people might vaguely know about because of some controversy they remember from years back - but not much on the game itself.
As a game, Dragon's Crown is great fun, combining hack n' slash with multiplayer and RPG elements. The art style is gorgeous, brilliantly mixing 2D images with 2.5D environments. If you've got some cash to spare and some friends together for some swords and sorcery fun, you can do a lot worse than Dragon's Crown.