
It’s not until the third stage where your dragon can fly properly, and even then, certain segments of later levels are ground-based. The whole moment is perfect – the music stops, and you seem you be taking a nosedive straight to your death, and maybe think you did something wrong, but it shakily straightens itself out, glides over the vast, empty expanse of the landscape, and provides a safe landing. This leads to one of the games most impressive moments, where the creature charges off a steep cliff and spreads its wings, for the first time. Since Lavi isn’t fully grown at the beginning of the game, he can’t yet fly, and the first couple stages are entirely ground-based. As one might expect out of a video game plot, Lundi’s village is later destroyed by a mysterious airship, so the only option is to exact revenge.

His village has ordered that all dragons be destroyed, but he hides his pet and raises it in secret. Panzer Dragoon II Zwei, released a year after the original, tells the story of a human named Lundi and his dragon Lagi.
