A fighter with more health and aggressive attacks. The classes are probably what you expect. As of this writing there are three classes, each with their own visually unique dragons. Century: Age of Ashes uses a class system. Additionally, your chosen rider has abilities of their own. Fireballs for distant enemies, fire breath for enemies who have decided to ignore social distancing. Both of these attacks work based on their own target locking system. Your dragons have two attacks, homing fireballs and a continuous fire breath attack. Ever used a dragon to drift around a corner? No? You should. The Airbrake and Dash are all you need to pull off some incredibly skillful tricky flying.

However, the controls are responsive enough that you don’t need to. There’s not quick U-turn or rolling to the sides. The dragons have very few maneuvers you can easily input. I had originally intended on trying both mouse and keyboard as well as with my USB controller, but I realized right away that the mouse-based steering for the dragon was far too good to justify using any other control scheme. The dragons you ride are large, powerful, lumbering creatures with an unexpected weight to them that makes controlling them incredibly satisfying.

The central conceit of Century: Age of Ashes is, of course, dragon riders battling it out.

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