Since middle school I’ve wanted to construct an RPG that that relentlessly makes fun of RPG tropes and messes with player expectation while doing so, and the vast majority of the overt gags in the game (that is, not the banter) is dead on exactly what I would have done in my hypothetical RPG: The Game. In between the game finding all manner of new and unique euphemisms for ‘trouser snake’ (including actually using the phrase trouser snake, which made me laugh far more than it had any right to), it also happens to appeal directly to my sense of humor. (The other half of the dialogue is Cam Clarke pleasure moaning. It serious-es up eventually (mostly (kind of)), but I really did not think that you would literally be going through the game, stealing boyfriends, and then having half the dialogue in the level be either sexual innuendo or the main party being sociopathically blasé about relentless slaughter.
I don’t know exactly what I was expecting because of it, but I do know I was not expecting one thing. That’s a lot of possibility in the middle. After all, he basically said that there are two things not to expect: super serious grimdark darkness, and beautiful tragedy. I’d be buying and playing Drakengard 3 no matter what, really I just needed to shove aside all preconception about its thematic content and assume that the main thing I was expecting - batshit insanity - would be the only guarantee.
I mulled over what that could possibly mean for a bit, and then decided not to worry about it. It was when Yoko Taro said “If you’re expecting Drakengard or NIER, you’re going to be disappointed”. Other than knowing the very fundamental premise (you’re a bloodstained goddess who runs around killing other goddesses and stealing their boyfriends), there is exactly one game-related thing that I was aware of.
I went into Drakengard 3 knowing very little, and enforced a personal moratorium on spoilers until I had a chance to play the game myself. Nicer things and probable spoilers under the cut. Because for all the flaws that Drakengard 3 has - and, again, it is riddled with them - I am having a blast. I went in expecting a deeply flawed gameplay experience to bind together progressively more ridiculous events and interesting characters and well-written dialogue and honestly, for me, actually playing the game is just an excuse. If I had gone in expecting a good hack-and-slash, I’d probably be disappointed.īut I didn’t go in expecting a good hack-and-slash. The most pervasive issue I have is actually with the camera, too if it would just pull back a little further so I can see the terrain better, I would be so much happier. There is unnecessary cash grinding to gather all the weapons, although it’s a sight easier than Drakengard’s need to level them all up fully to unlock the final ending. The weapon system is fine on paper, and tries to add in some variety, but I still find myself swapping between two weapons at best (the Final Knell, as a spear, and the Hymir’s Finger Iron Will Broken Iron, because why would you not use that sword?) and mostly ignoring bracers and chakrams at this point. The side missions are even more redundant, and while the early ones felt reasonably balanced the later ones are plainly designed specifically to raise your blood pressure. The maingame doesn’t have much difficulty to it once you get the weapons and their combos down, and when it does have difficulty it’s usually for bad design decisions rather than legitimate challenge (a particular Verse feels like it’s missing a vital checkpoint, and it, unfortunately, is one of my least favorite level types). The actual gameplay is serviceable but highly repetitive, even accounting for the combo system the boss fights are disappointingly simple (and coming off of NIER’s excellent spectacle fights, it kind of stings), and the partner AI is all kinds of stupid and very close to useless. My opinion, in brief: Drakengard 3 is a deeply flawed game.
Although unless Ending D either makes me weep like a baby while it deletes my save file or trolls me so hard I weep like a baby and delete my own save file, I’m doubting my opinion is going to change. I am in the process of playing Drakengard 3 the only thing left for me (out of the maingame stuff, that is) is clearing the final boss and getting Ending D, so I can’t speak with absolute authority about the game as a whole.
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