![]() In my mind, Drakengard 3's best fights are the Dynasty Warrior moments when I'm wading through a couple dozen soldiers, none of them able to even touch me as I cut them to shreds. ![]() I don't want to oversell it or anything, not the least because it's hampered by one very janky camera, but it does a fairly good job of making the action feel interesting and impactful. It goes on like this for eight chapters and change and to be honest, the only things keeping me from completely losing my mind aside from the ability to skip cutscenes was the semi-decent battle system. Their repartee consists of petty insults, innuendo, and tittering urine and sex jokes, most of it there to break up the moments when Zero is stabbing people. Each of the sisters have paper thin personalities and rely on a single dominant trait to animate their personalities, generally a variant on "sex-crazed." That goes double for Zero, who is characterized in large part by her apparent love of killing and her aggressive bitchiness toward her companion dragon Mikhail, who follows her like a lost puppy. Putting aside the tone, the characterization is about par for the course for a magical girl anime. At one point, the dragon Mikhail makes a wistful comment about all the good times he's had with the protagonist Zero, and all I could think of was the trail of skulls that they had left in their wake. But all of this is presented against a backdrop of ultra-violence as soldiers gets chopped in half and scream for their mothers. A lot of the time, it's presented as sort of a light-hearted adventure, with Saturday morning cartoon-like dialogue and an aggressive amount of bathroom humor. The blood also tends to clash with the tone in a way that's off-putting. When it's just kind of smeared around, as it is in Drakengard 3, it's just nauseating. Think of any of Kill Bill's best scenes, or even a Fatality in Mortal Kombat. My issue with it is that I've always thought blood should be reserved to heighten the impact of a big moment. It's kind of gross, though I don't see that as the main problem. One of Drakengard 3's key features is blood splatter on the main character as a mission progresses, she becomes steadily more covered in it until she's practically red from head-to-toe (though not in cutscenes). Drakengard 3 positively revels in the stuff, splattering characters whenever a convenient moment presents itself. Sailor Scouts in a world gone mad.Īnd I'm not exaggerating when I say "buckets of blood," either. Imagine a Sailor Scout suffering a psychotic break and killing her sisters one by one amid buckets of blood, and you've pretty much got the gist of Drakengard 3, absent some rather random multiverse elements. At the outset, it plays a bit like an anime-inspired ripoff of Kill Bill Vol. ![]() It gasps for breath for a while, wheezes, then just collapses under the weight of it all.ĭeveloped by refugees from Cavia (Nier, Bullet Witch), Drakengard 3 is an action RPG that functions as a prequel of sorts to 2002's Drakengard. ($0.Drakengard 3 is what happens when a perfectly good action RPG gets crushed by questionable taste, a poorly optimized graphics engine, and awful writing. PlayStation Themes: A Wave 3 pre-order bonus for Drakengard 3, these PSN themes prominently feature Zero, Mikhail and the four Disciples (Cent, Octa, Decadus and Dito) on players’ PlayStation 3 dashboards.One’s Prologue: A Collector’s Edition exclusive as part of the Sisters’ Prologue Bundle, One’s Prologue is now available for individual purchase.Experimental Weapon #7: Cosmetic headwear for Mikhail modeled after Emil from NIER.Kainé’s Garb: Modeled after Kainé from NIER, this costume doubles the window for triggering a parry.Nier’s Garb: Modeled after NIER Replicant, the Japanese-Exclusive version of NIER®, this costume boosts damage by five percent.Beautiful Child: Originally included in the Collector’s Edition as a pre-order bonus, this is a cosmetic headwear for Mikhail in the shape of a Giant Baby head.Caim’s Garb: A previous Collector’s Edition exclusive, this DLC – from the original Drakengard – halves the player’s stamina use when performing heavy attacks.Zero’s Garb Variety Pack: A retailer exclusive pre-order item, this DLC contains three alternate costume color schemes for Zero.Available through the PlayStation Store, this latest drop of content includes many of the items previously available only through pre-order or Collector’s Edition means. The final batch of downloadable content for Drakengard 3 is set to release today, allowing players to “complete their inventories” with a variety of premium items up for purchase.
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