WoW: Dragonflight is a promising fresh start, which is a rare thing for a 20-year-old videogame to get.
You could say that, yes.It is strange to play a version of World of Warcraft that obeys the laws of physics. My dragon swoops downwards through the snowy peaks of the Azure Span; slowly building up momentum until Azeroth itself seems to fade from my periphery. I pull the reins up, the wyrm obeys, and suddenly we're soaring over the Isles at speeds once unheard of in this ancient MMO.
Where the Shadowlands were choked with austere grays and alien blues, the Dragon Isles are pure technicolor excess. A tropical, untamed intensity permeates the land; it's pockmarked by splashes of molten lava, ripe swathes of greenery, and luminescent tundras. Blizzard is clearly aiming to recapture the childlike Tolkein-ish sublimity of a blank map and buried treasure—dragons and all of their hoards—rather than, say, the high-concept crucible of heaven and hell.
Dragonflight's other modernizations are much more grounded. Blizzard, at long last, has returned a traditional talent tree to WoW, doing away with the uber-simplified three-pronged scheme introduced back in Mists of Pandaria. It feels really good to level up and slot a point into a matrix, like an open diffusion of ideas between Classic and retail, which I hope continues in the future.
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