Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap
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Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap is a 2017 platform game developed by Lizardcube and published by DotEmu for the Nintendo Switch. It is a remake of the 1989 Master System game Wonder Boy III: The Dragon's Trap. Several videos of the game was recorded by The D-Pad as part of their weekend Switch videos series, but the footage was lost. A re-recorded playthrough as the female character (an option which changes the game's name to Wonder Girl: The Dragon's Trap) commenced on May 13, 2017, and concluded on August 13, 2017 after 20 episodes.
Episodes
This LP was re-released on The D-Pad Unpaused on October 4, 2023.
| Episode | Title | Length | Player(s) | Commentators | Release date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Aw, That's Nice of Them" | 15:07 | Lindsay | Rick, Ben | 13 May 2017 |
| Lindsay takes control for the start of the game by working her way through The Last Dungeon and fighting the Meka Dragon, while the group praise the game's art style. After defeating (and being cursed by) the dragon, she finishes the introductory level and begins the game proper. As Rick and Ben try to make sense of the bizarre titles of the games in the Wonder Boy series, Lindsay explores a beach area, but accumulates damage over time and eventually receives a game over. Respawning at the starting town, she buys a set of Mithril gear and finds an extra heart, but further exploration reveals that the beach path is the only way to progress forward. Lindsay makes her way back to the beach, but mistakenly enters a one-way door that returns her to the town. | |||||
| 2 | "Chicken Hands" | 13:19 | Lindsay, Rick | Ben | 13 May 2017 |
| Back at the beach, Lindsay continues to explore both above and below the water and finds some treasure, as Ben reveals his long-running mishearing of a classic AC/DC song. Lindsay eventually reaches a shop selling Goblin Mail, buys it, and obtains a key before deciding to "John out" and hand the control over to Rick. Rick makes his way back across the beach while the group joke about the 'retro' and 'modern' graphical variations on the game's enemies. Arriving back at the town, he uses the key to access a desert area, but decides to head right into a canyon with much more dangerous enemies. He gets a decent way into the area before being overwhelmed and defeated, respawning at the town once again. | |||||
| 3 | "Fire Escaping from My Face" | 15:12 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay | 14 May 2017 |
| Rick returns to the desert and goes left instead, while continuing to compare the 'retro' and 'modern' graphic and music options. At the end of the area he finds another extra heart, and explores a pyramid containing a boss battle with Mummy Dragon. Upon defeating the boss, he is cursed again and becomes a mouse. After clearing out the rest of the pyramid's treasure, he enters another one-way door that returns him to the town. Using the abilities of the mouse form, Rick finds a hidden shop stocked with items that are too expensive to buy, along with a path leading to a previously inaccessible area. He heads through it to find himself in a jungle area, where he immediately buys a Shogun Blade and Shogun Shield from a shop at the entrance. | |||||
| 4 | "Bamboozle of the Lizard" | 16:35 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay | 14 May 2017 |
| Rick stays near the beginning of the jungle, defeating enemies in order to obtain enough money to buy the final Shogun item from the shop, then heads forward through the area until he reaches a tower. Due to the structure of the level, he has to climb the tower on the left side, then drop back down to the bottom and climb it again on the right side in order to reach the door leading to the next boss, Dragon Zombie. The boss turns out to be very straightforward; he makes quick work of it and becomes cursed once more, this time turning into a "fish-person". Rick leaves the tower and uses his newfound ability to swim to get to an area containing an extra heart, a shop that sells potions, and the next one-way door that leads back to the town. | |||||
| 5 | "Horch" | 17:27 | Lindsay | Rick, John, Ben | 20 May 2017 |
| The group return to the game, with John present and Lindsay in control once more. She explores the town area and then the beach area, trying to find the correct path to progress through the game. John leaves after a few minutes, and Lindsay finds nothing new in the beach except for a shop selling a better shield. After Rick comes up with a name for the pig salesman, she buys the shield and returns to the town, but is still unsuccessful in finding a newly accessible area. Eventually, they conclude that the previously too-difficult canyon area is the only remaining unexplored path. Lindsay makes her way through the canyon, crossing a long series of floating platforms over lava, and eventually reaches what appears to be the end of the area, which contains a shop selling Dragon Mail that provides immunity to lava. | |||||
| 6 | "Hishimishi" | 19:05 | Lindsay, Rick | Ben | 22 May 2017 |
| Lindsay uses her new armor to walk through lava and continue forward, soon finding a room that allows her to switch forms at will. Using the mouse form, she obtains an item that allows her to break grey blocks, opening up a huge number of potential paths to explore across the game. She enters a one-way door back to the town before handing the control back to Rick. Rick explores a few new areas in the town before heading the beach area and going underwater, where he finds a shipwreck filled with ghosts. He reaches the end of the area and has a close fight with the boss, Captain Dragon, before being cursed with a new form; a lion. He is returned to the beach area, and decides to grind money for a few minutes in order to buy the Master Shield from the nearby shop. | |||||
| 7 | "The Suave Goose" | 23:36 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Ashley | 28 May 2017 |
| Rick returns to the underwater area in the beach to investigate a well he'd missed earlier; it leads to a door containing an extra heart. He goes back to town and uses the lion's abilities to break some blocks underneath him and drop into a new area. A hidden shop there sells a Muramasa Blade, which he buys. Dropping down a further pit leads Rick to the underground; he heads to the left and explores the area, finding another shop along the way, this one selling a Tasmanian Sword. Although it is weaker than the Muramasa Blade, he buys it because of its claimed "special" attribute, though none of the group can figure out what exactly that is. Continuing through the cave leads him to The Daimyo Temple, an area filled with ninja enemies. After some googling, Ben finds out the purpose of the Tasmanian Sword - it allows the player to switch forms at will. Rick reaches the end of the temple and defeats Daimyo Dragon, whose curse unlocks a hawk form. | |||||
| 8 | "The Mushrooms Look Like Whales" | 15:07 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Ashley | 29 May 2017 |
| Rick uses the flying ability of the hawk form to explore several new areas in the town, first finding an extra heart, and then a mysterious, seemingly useless room floating in the sky to the left of the tower. Convinced that he missed something in the jungle, he returns to look for it but finds nothing new. The desert area is similarly empty of new paths, so Rick heads back to the underground to look for secrets. He succeeds in finding a door that he did not enter earlier, but it only contains a Magical Blade - a sword that turns intangible star tiles into blocks that can be climbed on, and seemingly made useless by the existence of the hawk form. Rick flies to the top of the room, but the door there only returns him to the town, to the confusion of the group. | |||||
| 9 | "You Bought Lunch" | 19:37 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Ashley | 3 June 2017 |
| Rick returns to the floating room, convinced that there is a secret there. He ultimately finds it by turning the center star into a block and then destroying it, opening a door to a new area. He proceeds through some of this area, but it proves to be very difficult, and he is ultimately overwhelmed and killed. He heads back there again for a second attempt, and succeeds in getting further into the dungeon, but soon reaches a dark area filled with enemies, and is defeated once more. Back at the town, he buys the expensive Heavenly Shield from the shop to the right, then heads back to the sky to attempt the hidden area a third time. | |||||
| 10 | "Which One Is Come-On Man?" | 16:08 | Rick | John, Ben, Lindsay, Ashley | 4 June 2017 |
| After buying a cure from the nurse at the beginning of the area, Rick heads back through the dungeon, reaching the dark area that he died in previously. While there, he picks up a potion, then continues forward through several previously unexplored areas until he reaches the end of the dungeon. The boss of the area, Vampire Dragon, proves to be difficult, and Rick is killed, then revived by the potion. He defeats the boss, who drops a cross. One by one, Rick's forms are taken from him until he is a human again, and the group realize they have accidentally beaten the game, leaving several areas unexplored. They watch the closing cutscene and the credits, planning to continue with the postgame. | |||||
| 11 | "The Lion Drugs Are Really Good" | 15:39 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Dave | 10 June 2017 |
| Rick re-enters the completed game, where it is now possible to transform into all forms, including the human. He returns to The Old Castle, finding a shop selling a very expensive Legendary Shield outside. Inside the dungeon, he obtains Legendary Armor by defeating an ogre, and the Legendary Sword in a chest in the old boss room. He leaves the area and heads back to the entrance to the underground, convinced that he had missed something there, but it turns out to only be an alternate path for the mouse form that leads nowhere new. With nothing else left to explore, Rick enters a newly-accessible door in town which leads to the Unknown, the game's bonus dungeon. He is low on health when entering, however, and dies to the first obstacle. | |||||
| 12 | "Welcome to the Unknown" | 22:53 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Dave | 11 June 2017 |
| Rick takes another attempt at the Unknown, in which he is limited to only the human form; all other transformations are disabled. He gets through a small chunk of the area before being killed by a ninja. On his next attempt, he dies in the same spot, but finally succeeds in the game's post-death roulette minigame, giving him a free potion. Finally, he succeeds on reaching the end of the area after figuring out some difficult puzzles, and finds a mysterious stone. Believing this stone to be the charm required to buy a mystery item from a certain shop, Rick leaves the Unknown and heads there, only to find that the shop still refuses to sell him the item. After Rick explores several different areas to no avail, Dave decides to look up the solution, and learns that there is a hidden charm stone dungeon for each of the six forms, and that all of them need to be completed. | |||||
| 13 | "Back to Hell" | 13:42 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Dave | 17 June 2017 |
| Rick searches through the early areas of the game to try and locate the Unknown dungeon for the lizard form, thinking that the entrance would be on the beach. He finds nothing there, however, and continues looking, eventually finding it hidden underwater in the desert. Rick takes a lot of damage at the beginning of the dungeon, but is able to make his way through to the end and get the charm stone. He has barely any health on his way back out, and after Ben asks "Is it not just better to die?", he is defeated by an enemy in the first room. Upon respawning at the town, Rick decides to head back to the previously-unexplored underwater area in the desert, heading to the left side of it this time, and finding a room full of treasure at the end. | |||||
| 14 | "Perjurer Per Juror" | 14:17 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay, Dave | 18 June 2017 |
| Lindsay reads out a joke about male and female hygiene product commercials as Rick searches the pyramid for any secrets. Finding nothing, he heads back to town and goes left, into the jungle. The group get into a discussion about perjury, culminating in a series of increasingly complicated tongue-twisters. Rick looks through every area of the jungle and its dungeon but still finds no entrances to the Unknown. At the end of the dungeon, he is surprised to learn Zombie Dragon has respawned, and defeats the boss again. He once again goes back to town, planning to search the canyon and the underground areas next. | |||||
| 15 | "The Hunt for the Remaining Secret Things" | 17:02 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay | 29 July 2017 |
| Returning to the game after a long time away, Rick heads to the canyon in search of more Unknown dungeons. Upon reaching the end of the area, he flies up using the hawk form and discovers the Unknown area for that form. He makes his way through the entire area, grabs the charm stone at the end, and heads back out. Next, he searches the desert, finding a secret area accessed via a treasure room. It contains eight chests, each containing a different kind of item, and all of which respawn. The same area contains a shortcut to the end of the pyramid, and a respawned Mummy Dragon. Rick defeats the boss, leaves the pyramid, and heads towards the exit of the desert. | |||||
| 16 | "Not Really Contributing to the Team" | 18:06 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay | 30 July 2017 |
| After finding nothing else new in the desert, Rick heads to the shop near town that sells the Legendary Shield and buys it with his newfound money. He then looks through the Old Castle for hidden areas, but finds nothing except a chest containing loads of money in place of the boss fight. Next, he searches the shipwreck and the beach, but still has no luck. As Rick begins to run out of ideas of where the remaining Unknown areas could be, Lindsay looks it up and discovers the lion one is indeed on the beach. Rick heads back there, looks for hidden doors, and accidentally discovers the entrance to the fish form's Unkonown area. He makes his way to the end and picks up the charm stone. | |||||
| 17 | "Easily Identifiable" | 17:00 | Rick | Ben, Lindsay | 5 August 2017 |
| Rick continues to conduct an extremely thorough search of the underwater areas in the beach based on Lindsay's directions. He checks everywhere he can for a hidden door, and begins trying to break blocks as well after Lindsay tells him that they are involved in finding the secret area. She also hints that the secret area is located near "two octopuses", but Rick is still unable to find it. Eventually, Ben looks up the location himself and finds that it is visible in retro graphics mode but almost completely covered by the foreground scenery in modern graphics. Rick heads through and enters the Unknown dungeon for the lion form - he gets to the end and picks up the charm stone, then takes a shortcut to quickly exit the area. | |||||
| 18 | "Returns on the Burns" | 14:58 | Rick | John, Ben, Lindsay | 6 August 2017 |
| Rick explores the jungle and its dungeon for the entrance to the Unknown for the mouse form. He finds nothing there, so he heads to the end of the area and refights Zombie Dragon in order to exit. John, Ben and Lindsay discuss Game of Thrones and Twin Peaks, leading to a debate over the meaning of the word "percolate". Rick goes to the underground to look for secrets, exploring the entrance of the area thoroughly to try and find a hidden door or entrance, but is just as unsuccessful as he was in the jungle. He heads to the left into the main part of the underground area to continue his search. | |||||
| 19 | "We're Going Underground" | 12:21 | Rick | John, Ben, Lindsay | 12 August 2017 |
| Ben looks up the location of the final Unknown area and confirms that it is both located in the underground and "bullshit", but does not reveal the specific location. Rick looks carefully through the area to try and find it but is unsuccessful. Ben gives another hint - the entrance involves using the mouse form and walking through invisible walls. Rick searches the area again with this in mind, and Ben attempts to help out with a game of hot and cold that ends up confusing Rick more than helping him. Eventually, Rick stumbles upon the entrance - an area that he had noticed before, but bypassed because it looked normal in retro graphics mode. | |||||
| 20 | "Yellow Is the Toughest of the Colors" | 10:36 | Rick | John, Ben, Lindsay | 13 August 2017 |
| Rick enters the final Unknown dungeon, finding it to be a short but difficult area full of precise jumps that will send him back to the start if failed. He makes his way to the end of it, grabs the final charm stone, then exits. Later, Rick has returned to town and accidentally enters a secret door that serves as a shortcut to Captain Dragon. He defeats him and returns to the beach while Ben looks up the location of the shop that requires charm stones. While he does this, Rick enters the shop at the top of the tower and realizes that it sells crystal gear - the remaining items that he had not purchased. He briefly considers gathering some money to buy them, but decides against it. Eventually Ben directs Rick to the charm stone shop, only for him to realize that it only requires five of the six charm stones, and he had already bought the Gallic Sword from the shop beforehand without realizing it was the reward. Rick again considers buying the crystal gear to 100% the game, but the rest of the group advise against it. | |||||