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Dragon Wars was reviewed in 1989 in Dragon #152 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column.
Scorpia gave the game a positive review in Computer Gaming World in 1989, noting improvements over the Bard's Tale series, saying that "tighter design, attention to detail, balanced combat, and a carefully constructed plotline all combine to produce a CRPG well worth playing".
In 1993 she wrote that the game was "a good choice when you want something a bit more than a standard slicer/dicer".
This game was originally produced as Bard's Tale IV, but because of rights to the title, Bard's Tale could not be used.
On the other hand, it was not released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Family Computer outside Japan:
In the "Cross Review" feature of the magazine Famitsu,the game scored a total of 22 out of 40. In the "Game Report Card" reader poll run by Family Computer Magazine,it scored 15.7 out of 30, as shown below.
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