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3''Drake of the 99 Dragons'' is a third-person shooter for Platform/{{Xbox}} and PC, developed by the Swedish studio Idol FX and published by Majesco Entertainment in 2003. It stars an undead assassin named Drake, the last surviving member of the Dragon clan, on his quest to restore the Dragons' honor by eliminating the rival clan that killed them all and stole an ancient treasure of theirs.
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5In 2018, the game managed to see a re-release on Platform/{{Steam}}.
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7!!''Drake of the 99 Dragons'' contains examples of the following tropes:
8* NinetiesAntiHero: Drake is an undead assassin with a black leather coat, a pale corpse-like skin color, uses an infinite number of guns, always beats up and kills his enemies, has a [[YourSoulIsMine soul absorbing power]], and he speaks primarily in corny [[BadassBoast Badass Boasts]] with a raspy, low-pitched voice.
9* AGodAmI: On realizing he's undead, Drake yells, "Am I... INVINCIBLE?!?" and jumps out a window to test it. [[EpicFail He promptly dies]].
10* AllThereInTheManual: The prequel comic says the name of the setting is "Neo Macau", confirming it does take place in a futuristic China.
11* AntiFrustrationFeatures: The final level allows you to respawn with the press of a button instead of being sent to the Guardians.
12* BadassBoast: Drake attempts this as part of his introduction.
13-->'''Drake''': (''flipping two handguns around'') Those who know my name whisper it in fear. Most people I meet, I only meet once. I am Drake, the Assassin. To me, life is all about ''death''.
14* BigBad: [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Tang]], CEO of Tang Industries, is the one behind the massacre of Drake's clan who aims to free the [[GreaterScopeVillain Spirit King Supreme]] and TakeOverTheWorld.
15* BlankWhiteEyes: Drake has these to make his undead-ness more apparent, though his character model still has them even before he dies.
16* BulletTime: One of Drake's powers is the ability slow down time. Unfortunately, it slows him down too, making it completely useless in combat.
17* CelShading: Only really visible on Drake's trenchcoat.
18* TheComputerIsALyingBastard: The game claims that you can only damage the final boss while time is frozen, which is completely untrue.
19* CutsceneIncompetence: Not counting the death that starts the plot, Drake is killed in cutscenes ''five times'' over the course of the game. He actually dies so much that he ''drains the guardians's power'' due to having to bring him back, forcing them to shunt him into one of his previous corpses.
20* DoubleJump: One of Drake's standard abilities.
21* DownTheDrain: Drake sneaks into Tang's headquarters through the sewers.
22* FakeDifficulty: The game is ''very'' hard, but most of it is due to poor design decisions and the game being barely functional than anything intentional.
23* GameBreakingBug: The soul manipulation abilities don't work. You can die jumping off a building the game ''forces'' you to jump off. Drake can get stuck up to his waist in the ground at random. And so on, and so forth.
24* GameOverMan: The guardians, who mock you every time you die.
25* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Tang's goal with the Soul Portal Artifact is to use the souls of the dead to power an army of cyborgs to TakeOverTheWorld, which is the most characterization he gets in the game.
26* GunsAkimbo: Drake can wield two different guns in each hand. But then again he can't just reload his guns because of this, so he instead ''throws them away'' and pulls out a pair of ''new'' ones out of nowhere whenever he runs out of bullets in his old pair.
27* GunTwirling: Done obsessively by Drake in cutscenes, often while spouting off hefty amounts of [[MrExposition exposition]].
28* HeroicBloodshed: The use of GunsAkimbo and emphasis on mobility in combat was clearly meant to invoke this.
29* IdiotHero: Drake. Almost every death in-story is a result of Drake's stupidity and recklessness.
30* InformedAbility: According to the game, Drake is the world's greatest assassin--yet his assassination methods seem to consist of charging in with GunsAkimbo before spraying bullets all over the room and [[ThrowAwayGuns dropping pistols instead of reloading them]], meaning he's leaving behind a pretty hefty trail of evidence. He also canonically dies enough times to fully drain the power of the Guardians, five of which happen in cutscenes and are almost all creditable to him personally.
31* JustifiedExtraLives: The Guardians revive Drake every time he dies.
32* LanternJawOfJustice: Drake's got a pretty hefty jawbone.
33* LargeHam: Drake hams up every cutscene he’s in.
34* LastOfHisKind: Drake is the last "living" member of the Dragon clan.
35* LeftHanging: The comic tie in depicted a large subplot about a crime lord named Tim Chung that never made it into the game.
36* LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading: Dying results in 2 loading screens, one taking you to a respawn timer where the guardians insult Drake, and another to take you back.
37* MacGuffin: The Soul Portal Artifact, which Drake spends the entire game trying to get back from Tang and his minions.
38* PowerTattoos: Drake's chest tattoo of the Undying Dragon, given to him by his master, is why he can come back to life. It must be fed souls on a regular basis to hold Drake to this world.
39* ResurrectiveImmortality: Drake gains the ability to come back from death after receiving the Undying Dragon tattoo. He assumes it means he’s completely invincible at first and [[TooDumbToLive finds out that he’s wrong the hard way]].
40* ShoutOut: Drake's tattoo of the Undying Dragon is a ShoutOut to ComicBook/IronFist, who has a PowerTattoo of a dragon named Shou Lou the Undying on his chest.
41* TakeOverTheWorld: What [[BigBad Tang]] seems to be trying to accomplish.
42* TheyKilledKennyAgain: Drake dies in-story a grand total of ''seven times''.
43* ThrowAwayGuns: Drake doesn't carry magazines but an infinite number of loaded guns. Instead of reloading, he drops his empty gun and pulls out another one. [[FridgeLogic The potential consequences of throwing away fingerprinted guns are never addressed]].
44* TotallyRadical: In one cutscene, Drake uses the phrase "out of this world" unironically.
45* TooDumbToLive: At one point, Drake dives out of a window at the top floor of a skyscraper for no real reason, apparently to test his powers and see if he truly has become invincible. He [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome promptly falls to his death]].
46* TimeStandsStill: One of Drake’s powers.
47* WalkingShirtlessScene: Drake is shirtless in the tutorial.
48* WallRun: Drake gains the ability to do this toward the beginning of the game.
49* WouldHitAGirl: Drake has no problem with killing female enemies, and against one of the bosses (One of the BigBad's henchwomen), even goes as far as to [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown continue beating her up even after he's already taken her down]].

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