"Dragonia" is an "AnimePlay" DVD from Hirameki. As they advise, this 
can be played on a PC, but you may be better off with a DVD player 
(including game consoles like PS2 or Xbox) instead. The chief benefit 
of playing this on a PC is being able to use a mouse to enter the 
password codes that are this product's version of a saved game, 
instead of putting them in by DVD remote. I have difficulty in calling 
Dragonia a game, due to the few choices given to a player; it's a 
rather sparse choose-your-adventure with continuity issues and lacking 
in the graphics that should have made this worthy of a DVD. More review 
at the end of this text file.

The "Lovely Anime Girls" disc that's packaged with "Dragonia" is 
about 100 images that are packaged as both individual pictures 
(thumbnail display) and a slideshow. They're all also in one (some in 
two) of 10 Windows screen saver programs, which you have to find by 
navigating the disc folders yourself. There are also 16 .BMP files 
suitable for Windows desktop background images; probably not work-safe 
though. None of these are explicitly H, but few of the girls look old 
enough to have their panties on display. This one isn't a game, and 
there's no information on where the images came from, but there are 
several images for some of the girls so it's quite possible these are 
from other bishoujo games.


SPOILER WARNING!
(skip down to "SPOILERS COMPLETED" if you like)


Dragonia Walkthrough:
Sit through events that make no sense at first, until you get to the 
New Game / Continue menu. I'm going to skip most descriptions of what 
happens, just to avoid too many spoilers and keep this file 
short. Choose Continue to be able to enter a password, which will jump 
to a preset point in the story.
Your first password is XLAGSSIBC. It happens just before the first 
choice in the game, regarding Jamka. The second choice "Accept 
Jamka's request" will get you what actually sounds like a good result, 
but ends the game quite prematurely. So, if you want to see the rest 
of the material on the disc, pick the first choice "Decline Jamka's 
request".
When Ryu talks to Bectel is the next choice. If you take the top 
choice, you don't (officially) receive the item that you would get 
for the bottom choice. For the bottom one, "sword of a phantom was 
got" (sic). But the sword item will appear when you need it in a 
battle regardless, so that choice doesn't really matter, I guess. With 
the top choice, you can spot the "music box" graphic in the background 
that Fiana will show Ryu later. Either way, you get some background 
information and the second password eventually appears:
RQDJSZVBA.
While in the town, you have several choices to make. Most of them 
don't actually matter (starting to see a pattern?), except for the 
chance to trigger one ending. To get the most background information 
from Tran, I think you can choose the top choice, then top again, and 
you'll still get to the quiz. Don't worry about missing the quiz, all 
that it does is provide an opportunity to see another ending if you 
answer any one of the four questions wrong. The correct answers for 
the quiz are: Trachista (top), Noal (top), Princess Fiana (bottom), 
The Millenial Festival (bottom). Get any wrong, and there's an ending 
where Ryu ends up eventually owning Morgan and Company, but this is 
again considered a bad ending.
OK, so you either aced the quiz or skipped it entirely. No matter, 
you get to the next password of LMBOPNAYU. Now comes the terrifically 
important and not-so-random coin flip choice. All that "Heads" (top) 
gets you is avoiding a choice in battle later. For "Tails" (bottom), 
you will have to make a choice of using your item (the game is 
actually nice at this point and flashes a picture of the sword to 
remind you, although having "Use the Phantom Sword" would have avoided 
that) before fighting, or not. Note that you get this choice even if 
you didn't receive the sword from Bectel. OK... But if you "Don't use 
the item", Ryu dies, which is a bad ending.
Well, assuming you got past that part, eventually you end up at 
another password: CXETIHWFE. Then wander a maze of twisty little 
passages, all alike. Pick "Right" or "Left" up to 5 times to end up 
either in a dead end (the game will back you up so you must choose 
the other direction), out in the woods (this is another bad ending 
apparently; the world appears to end in fire, not ice, but Ryu looks 
more buff due to 10 years of putting up with Fiana), or at the hidden 
dragon temple. I got to the "outside" by choosing Left, Left, Right 
(Left is to dead end), Left, Left. To the temple is Left, Left, Right, 
Left, Right. I don't know what happens for the other choices, besides 
that one dead end that I mentioned; there are probably other dead 
ends. According to MitchellTF on the Hirameki BBS, Right Left Right 
gets you to the temple fast.
Anyway, the next choice is in the temple. Pick the top one ("Force 
Tran") for no immediate difference, but Tran will show up at Rapan's 
place later. Otherwise, pick the bottom one ("Go ahead") and Tran 
won't be seen again until the final battle. It doesn't seem to matter.
Either way, wait to get your only peek of a naked girl in this whole 
"game". Too bad you don't actually see anything. From seeing similar 
situations in too many other bishoujo games or OVA's, especially 
hentai ones, you might expect things to go a certain way, and they 
just don't. Definitely bishoujo without the hentai.
There's another choice involving the purple guy, so either "Talk to 
Rapan" (top) or "Talk to Jamka" (bottom). Pick Rapan, and Ryu decides 
to become a doctor but Tran dies; bad ending in that case. So pick 
Jamka to keep this story on track.
Eventually, there's another password: TEGJPVYQS. And right after that, 
"Ring of Fire was got" (sic). No explanation, because Grandpa doesn't 
appear anymore, but it sounds important. Wait for it, and you'll get 
to the final choices of your travels: "Fight" (top) or "Run" 
(bottom). If you choose "Fight", there's an additional choice to use 
the Ring of Fire or not. Here's how they generate the last 3 endings:
Fight & Use Ring of Fire = Ryu wins
Fight & Don't use the item = Ryu loses
Run = Orbs leave, everybody (except Hadele?) laughs
All three of these endings have a "To Be Continued", but the middle 
one seems to be a bad one. And this one, after a neat retro TV scene, 
makes you stare at a black screen and listen to bad rock for over a 
minute. Then it shows you a credits scroll just like the other two 
endings from this final battle.
And your reward for finishing? The same "New Game/Continue" screen.

When you reach the first 5 of the endings, an "END" screen is shown. 
On the last 3 endings, there is (eventually for #6) a credits crawl. 
Either way, eventually you just go back to the main menu with the 
New/Continue choice. No omake (bonus) for finishing AFAIK.
Known endings:
1. Accept Jamka's request -> make lots of money in Jerard (bad)
2. (fail quiz) -> eventually own Morgan and Company (bad)
3. "Don't use the item" in snow -> Ryu dies (bad)
4. (miss Water Temple) -> 10 years after (bad)
5. Talk to Rapan -> Dr. Ryu, Tran dies (bad)
6. (final battle) Run -> orbs ascend (good)
7. (final battle) Fight (then) Use Ring of Fire -> Ryu wins (good)
8. (final battle) Fight (then) Don't use the item -> Ryu loses (bad)
Note that the last three all show "To Be Continued", but for the 
middle one of those there's a long stretch (after a neat retro TV 
scene) of black screen and annoying music before the credit scroll.

MitchellTF posted a draft walkthrough on the Hirameki BBS, which was 
helpful to me in finding a quick route to the temple and one of the 
bad endings. An expanded version may show up on GameFAQs site 
someday.

Mari-chan posted on the Hirameki BBS that an additional password is
GOODJAPZK, which occurs while resting in Kabal just before acquiring 
the Ring of Fire. And that her directions to the temple were Left, 
Right, Right, Left, Right. MitchellTF confirms the GOODJAPZK, but 
it looks like there may be 2 more endings...


SPOILERS COMPLETED
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Review:
Animation is noticeably lacking in mouth and body movements; the only 
motion is via background flipping, zooms, pans and flame/lightning/rain 
effects. While the character drawings are reasonably good, there are 
very few for each character and they are too obviously re-used. And 
nearly all the backgrounds, although obviously hand-drawn, look 
unfinished. I got the feeling that a crew of anime artists were called 
in to give this a professional look, and got taken off the job too 
soon.
Voice is only in Japanese, but subtitles are in English. Quite a few 
typos and grammar mistakes in the subtitles, but I've seen much worse 
before. The King is one of the most annoying characters (and voices) 
ever. Some continuity problems (Gyhald=Jerard, Roi/Roy) and Engrish 
("Ring of Fire was got") that should have been caught by a final 
proofreader.
Except for one shot of Princess Fiana bathing that doesn't really show 
anything, and her strange travelling outfit, there's nothing adult in 
this product and no romance between any of the characters.
Replay value only in the sense of trying to get all the endings. Very 
limited character interaction and practically no growth in the 
relationships of any of them as the story progresses.
It feels short and looks unfinished even for a DVD; this would have 
been acceptable only as an outline for a PC title that aspired to be 
anything more than a short fantasy adventure. There's an annoying 
delay when the choices are shown as an image, and then either a 
password screen is shown or the choices finally become "live" with a 
movable cursor.
I bought it to support Hirameki and own one of everything, but I'm 
disappointed that this was the first of their titles that I finally 
found the time to play. I got through 4 endings in one night, and 
returned for a second session only to look for other endings (I 
stopped at a total of 8).
Lovely Anime Girls helps to take away the disappointment that I felt 
after Dragonia, but I'm hoping this is not the best that Hirameki can 
do.

If you have anything to add to this file, let me know.

Peter Karsanow - bishoujo.helper[AT}sbcglobal{DOT)net
http://www.geocities.com/hentaihelper/p_hgames.htm