IGN: Dragon’s Lair Review

IGN: Dragon's Lair revolves entirely on quick-time events (QTEs). If you're unfamiliar with the term, a "quick-time event" is a mode of play that keeps gamers wrapped up in the action by showing on-screen button prompts instead of giving gamers full control. Franchises like God of War and Shenmue popularized the notion of quick-time events as supplements to core gameplay, while more recent games like Heavy Rain rely entirely on quick-time events. Dragon's Lair relied entirely on the QTE, too, though it did so a full twenty-seven years before Heavy Rain was released.