You learn how she ended up the way she is Drakengard 3 is rough, to say the least. At the very least, it's flawed in interesting ways, and it will surely find a niche audience that is prepared to defend it to the hilt.Yup, even a game like Drakengard 3 has sad moments interspersed among its crude humor and violence. And yet at the same time, it's weirdly fascinating for all its faults, this is a game that tries something different - several things, in fact - and comes close to pulling them off. It's baggy, inconsistent, repetitive, scrappy, tonally iffy and beset by a litany of technical failings. Combat is pretty straightforward, with Zero able to hack up enemies using four different types of weapons which can be used to perform combos and swapped around at any time.Drakengard 3 is a mess. Drakengard 3вЂs battle system is another aspect of the game that has some solid components, but still doesnвЂ™t feel quite complete.

Assisted by a juvenile (and oddly incontinent) dragon named Mikhail, she tackles them in reverse numerical order, cutting a bloody swathe through each deity's armies. That's chiefly down to our protagonist Zero, who is on a single-minded quest to kill her five magical sisters, ostensibly to steal their powers and become the world's only remaining goddess. The murderous ZeroвЂ™s tale of sororicide is far more complex than it appears on the surface, although it takes serious commitment to see through to its conclusion, thanks to maddeningly.

Display languageEnglish Reference currencyUSD. 'I don't hate you,' she tells one sister, 'I just want to kill you.'Log in or create account to post your own reviews. Soldiers cry out in terror and her sisters beg for forgiveness, but Zero slices them apart without pause.

It's cut from a similar cloth to the latter, with its square-square-square-triangle combos, adding the weapon-switching of the former and a dash-evade that allows you to quickly dodge incoming attacks or get behind enemies that like to block frontal assaults. You can bring two disciples along: a choice between sexual peccadilloes and whose incidental dialogue is the least irritating.On the face of it, Drakengard 3 is an action-RPG, but it plays more like a cross between DmC and Dynasty Warriors with a lightweight levelling system. At times I was reminded of Jordan Belfort, the Wolf of Wall Street: this isn't someone who you would ever identify with, but there's something magnetic about their horribleness. It helps that her bluntness is often genuinely funny, and Yoko gives her some truly savage put-downs. Zero may be irredeemably horrible, but at least she's consistent. Dozens of games have us controlling sociopaths who think nothing of gunning down or slicing up hordes of opponents that lie between them and their goal, but then they expect us to empathise with these so-called heroes.

As with Nier, the game isn't done when the credits roll. It's clear Yoko and company have been working on a shoestring budget, but I'm not sure that excuses how poorly it performs. It's even worse when you clamber aboard Mikhail for airborne encounters, which play out like a very poor man's Panzer Dragoon, the camera jerking and lurching all the while it's like watching a Paul Greengrass film after a heavy night out. It makes Dynasty Warriors look like Crysis, and I'm almost surprised Epic didn't ask for the Unreal Engine 3 ident to be removed from the game's intro out of embarrassment.

Each of the goddesses has a male companion, whom Zero recruits after killing them. It's never as playful nor as creative as Nier, but that same vein of irreverence runs throughout.I'm less convinced by the game's sexual dynamics. The boss fights are inventive, and the story pulls off several neat tricks, with surprise reveals, unexpected surrenders and a handful of laugh-out-loud moments.

Drakengard 3 isn't a very good game, then, but it's an interesting kind of failure, and as such is impossible to completely dismiss. Few games are quite so frank about sex, but the dialogue is often sniggeringly juvenile.What do you expect from a developer who conducts promotional interviews as a sock puppet and admits to making 'weird games for weird people'? I sense Yoko might be better off freed from the shackles of Square Enix, yet at the same time there's something wonderfully subversive about a major publisher releasing a game this wilfully strange, particularly in a market this risk-averse.

Drakengard 3 Review