Comment on Drakengard 3 - It's Trash, I Love It

• Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ending E of the first Drakengard leads to Nier Gestalt/Replicant. I don’t think any of the other ones are directly related (though ending A of Drakengard 3 technically leads to the first game, so there’s that connection). There’s also a side character from D3 that’s briefly mentioned in Nier Automata and shows up in one of the stage plays, I believe.

  As for trying out the series… It’s rough. Both gameplay and technical aspects can be a bit tedious to go through compared to its sister series. At the same time, story wise Drakengard games go wilder and weirder than what you’ll see in either Nier (in a good way).

  It’s definitely a series worth experiencing, just not necessarily by forcing yourself to play through them. Don’t feel bad about switching to an LP if things get too rough.

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  • steeznson@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think as a kid I just bought it because ‘dragons’ lol. I wonder what my reaction would have been to the meta weirdness.

    Made it through MGS2 around the same time and that was a formative experience. Totally mindblowing.

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    • Essence_of_Meh@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s as good reason as any though you’d probably had quite a bit of a whiplash with later parts of the game as a kid.

      Drakengard’s weirdness has more to do with the world and concepts of its universe rather than any meta commentary. Still cool, just in a different way than MGS2.

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