After playing the first three titles I decided to give the OVA a watch since itd be nice to complement my playthrough with some sweet 90s OVA action and while I didnt really expect much from the OVA I didnt come out feeling as hurt as the ratings seem to give off. The OVA loosely followed the story of the first game with an added love interest and some more scenes with the empire. As someone who knows the story of the Panzer Dragoon games I wasnt confused by what was happening but I know others would be. I cant really fault the OVA for this because the game itself doesnt really explain its story either so who knows what the production team was using for reference when they were making this. To summarize the main character Kyle along with his blind love interest Alita and his friend who dies mere minutes into it so who even cares who he was are hunting a small animal before being attacked by a large dragon. The large dragon then fuses with Alita in the confusion kills Kyles friend and flies away. Kyle eventually comes across a Dragon and chases after the other Dragon to save Alita. After meeting with the empire having an incredibly small conflict with his own dragon where he felt he didnt need him and someone from the empire trying to warn Kyle about a mysterious tower along with attempting to kill him Kyle and his dragon team up again and to reach the Tower and stop whatever the other dragon is attempting to do. After arriving at the Tower they find the other dragon about to enter it and begin to fight. Kyle tells his dragon to stop attacking for fear of hurting Alita but he doesnt listen eventually ending with both crashing into the bottom of the Tower with Kyles dragon biting the neck of the other Dragon while Alita is knocked out. Kyle rushes atop the other Dragon pulls Alita out of him and gets knocked off the dragon with Alita in his arms. Alita who is still linked to the Dragon seems like she is dead and Kyle cries a single tear over the fact which cures her from her link and saves her. Relieved Kyle tells her to rest while he and his Dragon team up to take out the other Dragon. After a pretty lackluster fight the other Dragon is dead and theyve saved the day. Oh and the Dragon can talk telepathically to Kyle and is called Blau. It all ends with Kyle and Blau going back to save Alita before the Tower is destroyed and while Kyle runs to Alita Blau uses his magic dragon powers to lift Kyle and Alita to safety in a big magic bubble while sacrificing himself in the process. Kyle wakes up washed up on a beach next to Alita who now has her vision back for no apparent reason. For a series that has a surprisingly rich lore none of it is really explored in the OVA. It leads me to believe that the OVA mustve been made for some kind of compliment to the two games already out in Japan with nothing else being used as reference. Its a bit disappointing to see since there was a lot they couldve explored here the background of the Tower why the two dragons even exist in this world the reason Alita was fused with the other Dragon the reason Kyle can telepathically talk to his Dragon who the Empire are and what they want with the tower etc. It just feels like something that shouldve had around 3040 more minutes to its runtime to explain most if not all of the above and add more scenes of fighting. When the final fight scene is around 30 seconds long it just feels like everything building up to it if there even was a build up feels worthless. It just leaves too many unanswered questions as well as not even STARTING to answer the questions in the anime itself. At least in the original game you were sort of told it was your destiny to stop the other Dragon this doesnt even try. As for the other aspects of the OVA. It looks like your average 90s anime so take that as you will the music is mostly taken from the first game which has good music anyhow so its nice to see it for a game that has some beautiful environments we dont really see that many of them in fact only one location really makes it into the OVA not counting the intro. The characters have no real development but for a 30 minute OVA I can let that pass. Its nice to see some environments animated like it was and have small explanation as to why the main character can control the dragon but thats about all the praise I can really give it. Overall its something you watch if youre a fan of Panzer Dragoon and thats about it. It doesnt really serve any other purpose. Its not a good alternative to playing the game and it barely counts as a supplement to it either. Its just disappointing since it couldve been much better than what we got but what we got wasnt terrible just a subpar adaption of a good game. 5/10