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The "Awakening" is realizing you just wasted $30 on a mobile corpse. Score: 1 / 10 If you ever wondered what happens when a developer panics, strips the casino out of a dying mobile game, and tries to sell the remaining skeletal remains to PC gamers for thirty bucks—welcome to Dragonsword: Awakening. This isn't a video game; it’s a forensic cleanup site of a failed gacha **** Gacha Ghost Town Hound13 proudly announced they "removed the microtransactions." Sounds great on paper, right? In reality, it’s a disaster. Imagine a theme park where they removed all the rides but left the ticket booths, the endless queues, and the overpriced hot dogs. The entire game is built around mobile-game architecture. You are still collecting duplicate heroes. You are still staring at 50 different red exclamation marks on your screen. You are still logging in to claim daily digital garbage. But since there is no loot box to pull, you are forced to unlock everything through a soul-crushing, mind-numbing grind that feels less like playing a game and more like working a second shift at a data entry firm. They kept the chore, but took away the dopamine.Unreal Engine 5? More like Unreal Optimization 0The developers slap the "Unreal Engine 5" logo on the screen like a badge of honor, but the game looks like a upscaled PlayStation 3 title covered in a thick layer of **** Graphics: Textures pop in 5 seconds after you look at them. The open world is a barren wasteland of copy-pasted trees and blurry **** Performance: I am running an RTX 4080, and this game managed to turn my PC into a literal space heater. Frame rates drop to cinematic single digits inside the main city. It stutters every time you swing a sword. Optimization didn't just walk out the window; it never entered the building.Combat and Story: A Masterclass in BoredomThe combat is advertised as a high-octane action-slasher. It’s not. It is a brainless button-masher where enemies stand still and politely wait for you to cycle through your character cooldowns. There is zero weight to the hits, no tactical depth, and the boss fights have the mechanical complexity of a **** for the story? It feels like it was written by an AI that was fed a diet of generic light novels and then suffered a severe system crash. The localization is purely offensive. It is so clearly a raw, unedited machine translation that sentences frequently lose all grammatical structure. It makes Google Translate look like Shakespeare.VerdictDragonsword: Awakening is a cynical, lazy cash-grab. It is an unoptimized mobile port trying to masquerade as a premium PC RPG. Do not buy this. Do not wishlist this. If you accidentally bought it, press Alt+F4 and run to the Steam Refund button before your two hours are up.Pros:The "Exit to Desktop" button works flawlessly.Cons:Everything else.