A video game based on the television series was created for the Sega Saturn and PlayStation consoles. In a twist on the legend of King Arthur, the player controls Flicker, who lives in Camelhot castle and is in love with Princess Flame, but is not eligible to ask for her hand in marriage because he is not a knight. However, the King has announced a dragon tournament, where the winner will not only win the princess but also become the new king. As a young Flicker, the player must collect various objects and interact with an eccentric cast of dragon and human characters in order to solve puzzles. The player's overall quest is to become a dragon knight to compete in the grand tournament and win the heart of Princess Flame. However, the player discovers an evil human plot to take over the kingdom by kidnapping the princess. As is the case with many other graphic adventure games, the player can never die in the game or reach a point in the game where a puzzle cannot be solved. The humour in the game is heavily influenced by the British comedy of Monty Python (the game starring former Monty Python actor Terry Jones) and thus includes plenty of mild sexual innuendos, and other shenanigans. While the video game leaves open the possibility for a sequel, no sequel for the game was planned.
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You’re this young plucky dragon inventor, Flicker (lotta fire puns, go figure) and you have to become a knight, win a tournament, foil the bad guy, save the princess (in more or less that order). When i say LucasArtsy, i mean: mainly a comedy game, can’t fail or die, fully voiced and lavishly animated. The humor is very british (the TV show was co-created by Terry Jones, so figures) though I didn't find it’s writing to be quite at the caliber of the best LucasArts games, the humor is more cute than funny most of the time (though there are a few very good gags). Mostly this game has a ton of charm thanks to the pixel art, lots of custom animations+locales and the stellar voice-work. This is a who’s who of 90s voice actors, the cast is really insane (Kath Soucie, Jim Cummings, Cheech Marin, Rob Paulsen, Jeff Bennett, Gregg Berger, Jess Harnell, Roger Rose, Michael Bell, Charlie Adler, Terry Jones, Harry Shearer, B.J. Ward, Brian George).
The game is fairly short and simple (which is a plus in my book), but I used a guide anyway if i got stuck because I wasn't playing for the puzzles. There’s a few mini-games that can be bypassed easily with save-states. One mild annoyance is the fact that any scene transition has an associated load time. Takes just 3-4 seconds but it kinda kills the pace because it happens whenever there’s a background change, not just when going from room to room. And in cutscenes there’s a ~one second black screen between any cuts. Not a big deal, but something that would’ve not been a problem in a PC version.
My only gripe is that I wish there was a bit more dialogue and interaction with all the characters, and that the writing was a little sharper. You can finish this game in a couple of hours, especially if using a guide here and there. Don’t mind the short length at all, but it feels kind of like a waste to create all of this art and animation and have most dialogue interactions be a quick back and forth, or at most 2 or 3 dialogue options.
Still very much worth checking just for the overall production quality and I'm surprised it seems to be almost totally forgotten. Lack of a PC port is probably the main reason.