@mento said:
@hunterob: For what it's worth, I concur with Crembaw. The first Drakengard, which is the only one I've played, is absolutely not the sort of game you want to invest a lot of time into, but its story is still absolutely fascinating to follow. A decent LP like TheDarkId's would be preferable with that in mind, unless you're adamant that watching/reading someone else play a game detracts too much from the overall experience. Drakengard's later endings are even more riveting to watch and require even more grinding and awful game design to suffer through, so either way you'll probably break eventually and head to YouTube or something.
I've yet to play Drakengard 2 or 3 however. Given 2 is usually considered worse than 1, I've been reluctant to seek it out. I'd still like to try 3 though, because that was made post-Nier and would have to have seen some gameplay improvements in that interim (or at the very least be just as wild).
I can recommend Drakengard 3, it's definitely the most memorable game I played in 2014, and probably a while to come... Gameplay is serviceable at best though, so don't expect too much (the framerate is actually worse than Nier...).
I've just recently finished Nier for the first time in anticipation of whatever it was they announced at E3 this year. I had a blast playing that too, but I have a weird thing where I love games that make me feel like shit... They're both excellent games trapped in bad games, or something? Maybe that's what makes them so good? Music in both was fantastic, so much so that I ended up with the soundtracks (mainly to soothe the PTSD the last boss in Drakengard 3 gave me).
Also looking into playing Drakengard 1 now, as screw continuity. As you mentioned, most people seem to skip Drakengard 2 as it isn't Yoko Taro enough?
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