Nintendo247 author writes - Video games based off of movies are usually not very good games, and often times have no correlation to the movie whatsoever. While we have seen this with popular movies such as Spiderman, Transformers, and Iron Man, none of the game tie-ins do the movies any justice. You would think that based off of this trend, that How To Train Your Dragon 2 would fall into that same trap. Although the game is nowhere near being a classic or a masterpiece, How To Train Your Dragon 2 doesn’t fail as a game based off of a movie and does offer a good time to players.
"How to Train Your Dragon 2 from Torus Games, is a movie tie in of the same name. It does not however play out the story of How to Train Your Dragon 2. Instead, it is a decent flying game where you play as one of the main protagonists as you take part in a series of mini games that tries to call itself a game." says Calmdowntom
GameSpace: "Do you like dragons and just adore both How to Train Your Dragon animated films? Then today, especially for the fans of this franchise, we have some good news - How to Train Your Dragon 2: The Video Game, which has been recently released, has got new video."
All that stuff you see in the trailer.. yep, that's the entire game, you on Toothless flying through rings, blasting targets on shore or other variations.
Seriously, this game is nothing like the first one at all.
What's sad is a "How to Train your Dragon" video game could be amazing if it worked as an RPG which blended human, dragon, and flying combat. The movie was absolutely fantastic and could serve as a great prequel to the game itself, similar to how the TV series did. Additionally, the majority of the cast from the movie are modest and did voice work for the TV series, which allowed for it to feel as fun and authentic as the first two movies.
Shame.
Why is this a thing?