“And that’s when fate pointed her finger at a simple farm boy named Eragon.”

Stormfront Studios’ Eragon is a pedestrian adaptation of a weak film based on a pretty decent children’s fantasy book. That’s a lot of watering down, but the root of all that—Christopher Paolini’s Eragon, which was written while its author was yet a teenager and openly steals from Lord of the Rings and Star Wars—happened to be one of those formative experiences for yours truly. And thus as a wee lad I eagerly relished the opportunity to sling flaming arrows into the faces of Urgals and participate in dragonback dogfights, no matter how rudimentary and incomplete the entire experience seemed.

Sometime, possibly when a little critter of my own is old enough and interested enough, I’ll return to the textual wilds of Alagaësia—(wait, hold up, google tells me that Paolini has written an upcoming fifth book in the series after a twelve year hiatus; maybe I won’t wait for baby to grow up)—but for now I’m content to romp through this low-grade fantasy button-masher. It’s not a great game by any measure, but a decent enough movie tie-in and a treat for young fans of the source material. Like The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (also developed by Stormfront) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Eragon is greatly enhanced by playing with a couch co-op buddy.