Keep in mind that this game also has five different endings, many of which could only have been reasonably achieved either through acquiring a madman’s level of soul-crushing obsession with every monotonous side-mission and hidden weapon in the game or through GameFAQs walkthroughs. These intrepid companions consisting of a boy who’s permanently stuck as a child after making a pact with a golem, a hot elf lady who eats children to compensate for the loss of her uterus, old man Verdelet who got the less severe consequence to his pact with the Ifrit not appearing in this game by merely having a bald head covered in tattoos and spouting exposition the entire time, and a blind pedophile. As soon as this happens, you immediately are thrusted into a dark and unusual plot about the typical evil Empire breaking the other seals, some dingus bard named Inuart being too creepy towards the main character’s sister to the point of trading his ability to sing for a pact with a bigger, blacker dragon to mask his personal insecurities, as well as a small kooky cast of other people who’ve made similar pacts that Yoko Taro probably thought would’ve been funny to see as a party of characters in an action RPG. It gets to the point in which Caim has to make a pact with some random red dragon voiced by the protagonist of Disgaea 1 all while they both pull out their weird amoeba things meant to represent them fusing their souls together as one would when making a pact with a powerful dragon, rendering Caim a silent protagonist as a result of their Faustian bargain in exchange for an implicitly romantic yet originally parasitic relationship. Then, one of those zombified soldiers slashes Caim in the back during a pre-rendered cutscene, delivering pain so severe it takes our hero 45 minutes worth of tutorialized gameplay to even realized that somebody swung a sword right across his fucking back.
In Drakengard, you mostly play as Caim, a whiny bloodthirsty anime pretty boy with a big sword who’s in the middle of fighting an army of red-eyed zombified imperial knights terrorizing a castle under the jurisdiction of the Union who are safeguarding Caim’s sister Furiae, who happens to both serve as the de-facto Goddess in name only as well as one of four seals keeping the mysterious Watchers from entering the world of Midgard. Plot - Going Down the Rabbit Hole that is the Plot of Drakengard It might take a while though, because hoo Nellie does this game have a crazy as heck plot! -Ahem!. You might also be asking: why? Well, let’s just start with explaining the plot of this crazy fever dream of a game and I’ll tell you why. Keep in mind the fact that Drakengard’s North American release was published in the same year as Half-Life 2, Metal Gear Solid 3, Halo 2, God of War, Spider-Man 2 for PlayStation 2, World of Warcraft, Jak 3, Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door, and arguably the best Ratchet & Clank game and you’ll see exactly what caused Drakengard to attain a cult following despite modest yet underwhelming sales and predominantly mixed reviews at the time. What follows is a story of an ambitious project pushed out under tight budgetary restraints and reshaped to compete with what was at the time an emerging trend in popular action games.
Today I’ll be talking about the first Drakengard game, truly the Evangelion of video games in terms of the fact that all discussions revolving around eccentric video game director Yoko Taro will inevitably lead to even remotely mentioning the Drag-On Dragoon series, as it is known as in Japan. How do ya do fellow gamers? It’s-a me, Doctor M., recently upgraded to the status of uncle-hood, and finally getting around to talking about a game I personally haven’t played yet (but I did play enough of Drakengard III, both the NieR games and watched enough let’s play and lore retrospective videos on this topic to be considered thoroughly aware of this game’s legacy). Reader's discretion is advised.ĭrakengard review | Ace Combat but with Dragons, Dynasty Warriors, and Depression | Classic™ Yoko Taro™ Shenanigans™ Warning: The following game being reviewed features dark and taboo subject matter not appropriate for general audience members under the age of 18.
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