Dragon Blazers
I get it! It's kind of like Dragon Blazers!
And if we're nice to you, we can win through mercy?Noelle, Chapter 2
Dragon Blazers (JP: ドラゴンブレイダー Dragon Blader)[note 1] is a video game series in Deltarune. It is based on the Lord of the Hammer book series[1] and, in turn, on the prophecy.[2] Noelle, Susie, Berdly, and Rudy have played at least some of the games in the series, and the Old Man has referenced it. There are at least three games in the series.[3]
The series features a presumably-recurring character known as "the Dragon", who may also be its namesake.[4]
Dragon Blazers is a game for home consoles.[5] It is presumably a turn-based role-playing game, as the mechanics of encounters remind Noelle of it.[6]
Dragon Blazers has an "ice area" which contains a maze that requires a certain party member to navigate. This area can be reached without that party member, which results in the maze being nearly impossible to navigate correctly, leaving the game softlocked. The game's manual makes note of this and claims that it is intentional, justifying it as "one of the bad guy's magic spells".[5] The game also contains pushable blocks.[7]
The soundtrack of Dragon Blazers contains a track titled GLACEIR.[5]
Dragon Blazers 2[note 2] is a game released on unspecified platforms.
Dragon Blazers 2 has party members who have individual stats, one of whom is the protagonist's sister. At one point, she becomes cursed, which causes her stats to become significantly worse.[8] In the Japanese translation of Deltarune, she is referred to as 姉貴 (aneki), which specifically denotes an older sister.
Dragon Blazers 2 has "underground levels", which have music that loops repeatedly. It also has an "Evil Route". Susie and Noelle have both played Dragon Blazers 2. Noelle played it with Rudy, and also played the Evil Route in secret from her parents.[9] Susie stole a copy from the "lost in found[sic]" and discovered the Evil Route by accident without having played another route. This is the only game in the Dragon Blazers series that Susie has played.[10]
Dragon Blazers III[note 3] is a game for handheld consoles.
Dragon Blazers III has party members with magic abilities. Said abilities include the "Fireshock"[11] and "Iceshock"[12] damaging spells, as well as an unnamed source of healing magic.[13] It contains an area known as the Ice Palace,[14] which has a boss called the Silver Drake.[12] The mage party member who can cast Fireshock is absent for the fight against Silver Drake.[11]
Dragon Blazers III also has a type of item called Blaze Potions, which is assumed to deal fire-element damage to enemies. However, either Silver Drake reflects fire-element attacks or the potion's actual effect is to grant reflection of fire-element attacks, causing them to be ineffective in the fight.[15]
In Chapter 1, Noelle and Rudy talk about Dragon Blazers III, and she agrees to bring it to his hospital room to play alongside him the next day. In Chapter 2 she does so, and her gameplay and conversation are different depending on if the Chapter 2 Weird Route has been completed.
- The series's title may be a reference to the 1992 video game Soul Blazer (JP: ソウルブレイダー Soul Blader), as Dragon Blazers is localized into Japanese as Dragon Blader.
- In the Japanese translation, Berdly sometimes shortens Dragon Blader (JP: ドラゴン ブレイダー Doragon Bureidā) into ドラブレ (Dorabure).[16] This is likely a reference to Dragon Quest (JP: ドラゴンクエスト Doragon Kuesuto), which is often similarly shortened as ドラクエ (Dorakue) in Japanese.
- At one point, the official Dragon Blazers website hosted a link maze, directly paralleling the link maze during the Spamton Sweepstakes.[17] Noelle updated her blog post live during the Sweepstakes as more links were revealed.
- There is a Dragon Blazers barf bag, which Berdly owns.[18]
- The concept of the manual excusing a softlock as the work of the game's antagonist is a reference to a practice by some retro game developers in which they would acknowledge similar bugs that could not be fixed in manuals and guides - with two famous examples of this being a Sonic the Hedgehog 3 guidebook which mentions "Dr. Robotnik's diabolical traps" (in reference to rare instances in which Sonic is able to run fast enough to clip inside walls), as well as Final Fantasy IV's "8² Curse of Extinction" (a door hierarchy glitch that can softlock the game), called such in an issue of the developer's newsletter.
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... Lord of the Hammer, huh. Hell if I'm reading that.
— Susie, Chapter 4
... though, wait a sec.
Isn't that... what Dragon Blazers was based on? - ↑
Did you ever hear that old tale?
— Hammer of Justice, Chapter 4
Yes, the old tale, based upon the prophecy...
Lord of the Hammer. - ↑
Rudy: Anyhow, how's Dragon Blazers III? Beat it yet?
— Rudy and Noelle, Chapter 1
Noelle: Nah, I'm still at the Ice Palace. I've been kind of...
Noelle ... kind of waiting to finish it with you, Dad. - ↑
Susie: ... anyway, which Dragon Blazers character am I?
— Susie and the Old Man, Chapter 4
Old Man: Gahahaha, right!
You are... the Dragon.
Susie: Heheh. That's what I was hoping. - 1 2 3 https://deltarune.com/icepalace_glaceir/
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Narrator: You and Virovirokun explained how battles work to Noelle.
— Interaction in Chapter 2
Noelle: I get it! It's kind of like Dragon Blazers! - ↑
Kris... isn't this room strange, though?
— Noelle, Chapter 2
Those blocks look like something from Dragon Blazers...
Maybe if you push them in the mice's way...? - ↑
It's like when your sister gets cursed in Dragon Blazers 2.
— Susie, Chapter 2
Even if her stats suck, she's still your party member. - ↑
Noelle: Oh my gosh, same. I played 2 with my Dad, but like...
— Noelle and Susie, Chapter 4
Noelle: There was like... this Evil Route my parents didn't know about?
Noelle: I always played it in secret so they wouldn't take it away.
Susie: Dude, I think I did that by accident.
Noelle: Fahaha! You did the Evil Route by ACCIDENT?
Susie: Yeah, I like... I didn't know you could be... nice?
Susie: So I was just killing everything and getting, like, pissed.
Susie: Why the hell is everyone mad?
Susie: Pretty sure I'd... do it the good way, now, though.
Susie: Maybe.
Noelle: Gosh, I'd love to see you play it for real.
Susie: Well, uh, if you got another copy...
Susie: Just leave it in the lost in found I guess.
Noelle: Faha, maybe I will! - ↑
Noelle: You know what REALLY made me afraid of basements?
— Susie and Noelle, Chapter 4
Noelle: Like... the underground levels from Dragon Blazers.
Noelle: The music just repeats over and over again.
Susie: Hell yeah. That was weird.
Noelle: You played it?
Susie: Yeah, uhh, only 2. As a kid.
Susie: Got it from the lost in found.
Susie: Even though it wasn't mine. Hahaha.
Noelle: Susie! Haha.
Susie: I played it secret-style so I wouldn't get in trouble. - 1 2
Noelle: ... So, um, how about just telling me what to do?
— Rudy and Noelle, Chapter 2
Rudy: Haha, sure! How about trying Fireshock?
Noelle: I'd love to, dad, but the mage left the party. - 1 2
Rudy: Silver Drake, huh? That's a new one.
— Rudy and Noelle, Weird Route, Chapter 2
Rudy: Alright, what's the plan, honey?
Noelle: Hmm... maybe we could try...
Noelle: Iceshock?
Rudy: Ice on the Ice Palace boss? - ↑
Hahaha! Whoops - hey, you gotta heal!
— Rudy and Noelle, Chapter 2
I wish I knew healing magic in real life. - ↑
Rudy: Anyhow, how's Dragon Blazers III?
— Rudy and Noelle, Chapter 1
Rudy: Beat it yet?
Noelle: Nah, I'm still at the Ice Palace.
Noelle: I've been kind of...
Noelle: ... kind of waiting to finish it with you, Dad. - ↑
Rudy: Oh yeah. How about one of your 99 Blaze Potions?
— Rudy and Noelle, Chapter 2
Noelle: Umm, I'm saving those?
Rudy: For what? Your birthday? C'mon, live a little!
Noelle: OK, dad! This one's for you! Hiyah!
Noelle: ...
Noelle: It... reflects fire attacks. - ↑
スージィ… キミは… ドラブレ２のガチプレイヤー だったのか…！
— Berdly, Chapter 2 Japanese localization - ↑ https://deltarune.com/code/
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Susie, hurting Noelle just to stop me from going with her...
— Berdly, Chapter 4
She's...
She's gone yandere for me.
Oh, heavens to yikes! Where's my Dragon Blazers barf bag!?