Diniz Games plays Panzer Dragoon - Part 3 of 4

In my opinion, these are the two best parts of the game.

Episode 4

The music here is even better.

You'll be flying around in narrow corridors, taking out drones and trying not to run into anything. Use your lock-on shots to take out any enemies on the floor when you enter the wider rooms of this place.

This level is like an elevator ride gone nuts. You'll be going through a lot of not-so-spacious corridors, and the dragon also ducks down into other corridors on the way there. It's the chaos from being whipped around that happens here that makes this one of my two favorite levels in the game.

The doors near the end don't open all the way like they should. You'll have to pull some manuevering to get through them.

The boss is a giant drone. Move out of the way when it launches its "arms" at you and use your lock-on shots as it stands there briefly.

Its main weak points are the arms, but there are other places that you can shoot at to cause damage. Use your lock-on shots and you'll find out where they are.

When you take out one of the arms, it shoots a green laser. Move around and away from the laser to keep it from damaging you. It will then move around and stay in a few spots, and you can hit it with the regular shots from there.

After beating this boss, you'll meet up with the Dark Dragon again, and fly out into the sky of a vast forest.

Episode 5

Be sure to look to your left as you're taking on those warships at the beginning. You don't want to take too much damage from all that cannon fire that they let loose on you.

You'll be dealing with a lot of drones and quite a few warships. The one with the six cone-shaped sails on the top that you saw at the beginning of Episode 2 finally shows up here. Shoot at it until it starts smoking (that's when you've destroyed it) and watch out for all the enemy fire that shows up, especially those rings of laser fire that seem to emanate from the ground.

To beat the boss, avoid the attacks of the two warships, then take down the three spinning gears while destroying much of the firepower that it sends at you. When you take down a gear, that's less firepower it can spit out at you. Regular shots make this easier.


You'll then face the ship itself. Shoot at the blue part underneath where all the missiles come out with regular shots. The missiles can be taken out very quickly with regular shots, as well.