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Drakengard
| "Hard" gameplay wise.
| Yeah it's really bad. Certainly a memorable experience though.
Do your best. I believe in you!
| AFAIK they were pretty short on cash. Though as I understand some of the gameplay jank was intentional - sort of a 'Spec Ops The Line' thing. You can see a lot of Cavia's, and later Yoko Taro's, hate for completionists bleed into the gameplay. Level up all your weapons for an ending that kicks you in the dick. Open these chests at literally the corners of the earth. Roll this dice 1000 times to catch a certain fish. Buy your achievements, so they are meaningless. Drakengard!
| >>236366 oh god, not again. Do i have to level up all weapons to the max level to get the true ending?
I've already had enough of collecting weapons in Nier.
| Do yourself favour and... either learn to love how much you hate it, or just watch the rest on YouTube.
I think it's great narrative-wise? But mostly unplayable really
| >>236686 The Dark Id did a Let's Play of every game in the series. It's a screenshot LP though so I dunno.
Definitely DEFINITELY watch ending E. It is a treat. But if you just watch the cutscenes by themselves things could get confusing with no context.
| >>237120 Yeah DarkID is a pretty good one because he has all the cutscenes and stuff, but you don't have to sit through hours of the thrilling gameplay in between if you just want the story. The guy's a real completionist too.
I'd still recommend playing it yourself over anything else, but it's one of those games where there's really not much shame to just dropping it and getting the good bits elsewhere.
| Let us know how you like the story!
| I feel like we're here to summon Clemps
| >>236665 You only need to collect the weapons. But there are like fifty weapons in total, across story and expedition missions. Honestly, play through the game with a weapon guide.
Also, Drakengard is the first game to be developed by Cavia, first game to be fully directed by Yoko Taro, and was like the sixth game published by square enix. So it's pretty rough around the edges, not to mention a small budget.
I think it makes up for its gameplay with its charm and ambitiousness.
| >>238348 Yoko Taro has lots of love for his creations. A love that crushes like a mace, you might say.
| Huh, after reading this thread, I feel lucky. I cane from Nier: Automata to play Drakengard 1 and 2 just to see the root of the game.
Good thing I'm nit a completionist and only played it for the story lol
| The arial dragon fight is fun after you get used to it. But overall, the fight felt like playing dynasty warrior in a mud. Combo gets old after a while, and felt like I'm just cheesing the fight.
| >>238518 start playing Nier Gestalt, it's a really good game but the gameplay is as repetitive as it can get.
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| >>238520 yeah i don't mind the fights on the dragon, but the segments where you use Caim are just plain boring.
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| >>238694 thanks for the suggestion! I am planning to eventually get to the original Nier. Idk if there're 2 games or 1, I heard there's Nier Replicant or something.
But, I'll do that after I beat Drakengard 3. Which is buried in my evergrowing backlog. Plus I am currently occupied by Suikoden III.
| >>238774
Replicant and Gestalt are the same thing but with small differences (like Nier is a dad in one and a brother in the other). In any case, only Gestalt is in English.
Also Drakengard 3 is great. Still repetitive, but great.
| >>238774 yeah replicant and gestalt are the same, except for the main character. Replicant is also jap only and extremely hard to find, so no reason to go after that one.
Even though i heard the soundtrack is a liiiitle bit better than gestalt.
Gestalt's soundtrack is still amazing.
| >>239070 >>239279 alright, thank you for clearing that up, gurls! I was afraid to look it up because of spoilers.
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| I started playing the first Drakengard after finishing Nier Gestalt.
And holy shit how is the gameplay so bad?
I'm also not the type of guy who's picky about graphics, i don't really care about it that much, but this game looks bad even for it being a PS2 game.
Why so?
Were the devs short on money or what?
I'll keep playing it for the story, but it's hella hard to go further.