Lair King Trophy in Dragon's Lair

  • Lair King

     

    Get the highest possible score (427,469).

    How to unlock Lair King

    This trophy requires you to play Arcade mode on Easy. The key is getting the absolute most points from the game so this includes ensuring that certain extended scenes are played fully and accurately. It's a good idea to save your game right before each falling platform sequences so that if it's not an extended scene you can reload your game and keep going. Arcade mode on Easy provides bonus points in certain animation scenes that are otherwise unavailable in Home Easy mode.

    • You MUST play on Arcade Easy mode with five lives. Hard mode is missing a single point-awarding scene (the first whirlpool), and Home mode does not award you the 49-point starting bonus for the first scene. Three lives is not enough to get max points. This is actually true to the original arcade, and I am extremely surprised at the accuracy in this version.
    • On the falling elevator scenes, you must jump on the LAST POSSIBLE bridge to get maximum points. Keep in mind that two of the four scenes have NINE possible jumping locations (bridges). (Three of the four scenes start you facing left, and one of those continues after the first three bridges. The scene that starts you facing right ALWAYS has nine bridges.)
    • When you get to Singe's Lair, play your first four lives missing the last possible input, which is the Sword button after pressing up to dodge Singe's tail. On your last life, complete the game, and you should have the max score if you did everything right.

    The idea is to make sure you're not inadvertently missing the extended scenes (9 exit sections instead of 3). These will happen randomly so it's important to save your game before each platform scene so you can either reload your game if it's NOT an extended scene or do the platform sequence hopping off ONLY at the very last (9th) section for maximum points. This is done for each of the 4 platform scenes.

    Lastly, here's a link to a nice detailed Dragon's Lair Scoring Chart so you can tell how each scene/sequence awards points:

    A special "Thank You" to the following contributors of this trophy information: Dark_Adonis, Mingy Jongo, Stargaze and MutableNando. Also, credit goes to the Dragon's Lair Project website for maintaining a robust community dedicated to vintage laser disc gaming.

    And be sure and check out the awesome video walkthrough below kindly recorded and provided by Danji over at Gigaboots.com. Thanks a ton for this contribution!

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