#Drakengard 3 review series#

The combat is a mostly brainless affair, with two attack buttons that can be used in combinations to mix up your fighting. The majority of Drakengard 3 is spent on foot, slicing people into pieces with a variety of weapons. Of more concern is the camera that all too often struggles to frame the action and a targeting system which can be unreliable, locking on to more distant enemies rather than those that are standing right in front of you. The popup and slowdown is an annoyance but only occasionally has an impact on the playability of the game. At least the enemies can be sliced apart in amusing ways, and Zero becoming increasingly drenched in blood throughout a stage is a rare nice little visual effect. There’s popup, an unsteady framerate, glitches that see your companions running against walls and just a general ugliness that means the game is neither nice nor interesting to look at. The game is an embarrassment on a technical level for a 2014 release, not really a surprise considering that Access Games, the developer behind the ugly but very fascinating Deadly Premonition was involved. The dialogue is often funny and well written and acted, and adds so much colour over the course of the game, though the obsession with sex will grate for some. The rest of Zero’s companions are memorable and made up of the twisted Dito, the sex obsessed Octa, Cent who likes to make up things, and Decadus who is turned on by anything involving pain, including getting sand in his eyes. The relationship between the two is a constant source of amusement throughout. Mikhail is the opposite, a young dragon that doesn’t like all the bloodshed and often admonishes Zero for her love of violence. Zero isn’t a likable character at all, she’s incredibly violent, profane and very nasty to all her comrades but is also funny and interesting enough to not be essentially a female Kratos. The story is centred around Zero, a foul mouthed goddess with a flower growing from one of her eyes who, alongside her dragon Mikhail, is on a journey to slay her five sisters. The latest entry in the series, Drakengard 3 has all these elements, as well as some that we could really all do without.

It has always been a combination of Dynasty Warriors like hack and slash and Panzer Dragoon like flying, an interesting union that is made all the more so with a bizarre storyline added into the mix.

#Drakengard 3 review series#

The Drakengard series was created by Yoko Taro, the man behind the flawed but memorable Nier.