About a month ago Lizardcube and DotEmu announced that they’d partnered up with Playdigious to bring their fantastic remake of the Sega Master System classic Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon’s Trap to iOS and Android devices. They also announced that the game would go up for pre-order and that those who did grab the game early would receive a 30% discount off the game’s normal price. This was true of the Android version which has been available for pre-registration on the Google Play Store since that announcement, but for iOS users there was no pre-order and no pre-order discount to be seen. With Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap set to release this Thursday, the developers are cutting it PRETTY CLOSE but today they have indeed made the game available for pre-order on the iOS App Store for $5.99, a 30% discount off the regular price just as promised.
As mentioned Wonder Boy III: The Dragon’s Trap originally launched on the Sega Master System way back in 1989, and being one of the somewhat rare American’s that owned a Master System (the console was phenomenally successful in Europe and Brazil, not so much in the US) this was a game I was absolutely obsessed with when I was a kid. And being so familiar with the original I can really see just what a wonderful job Lizardcube and DotEmu did with their 2017 remake, which is available on consoles and PC. The gameplay remains exactly as it was but the visuals have been completely redone and drawn by h...