As a prequel players don’t need to have experienced the other Drakengard games, or Nier, but existing fans will appreciate the subtle links between the games that have been woven into the narrative.īut at first none of all of the above is clear. But I will say that anyone who has played Nier knows Yoko-san’s capacity to build shocking revelations into his end-game, and players really need to work through everything that the game has to offer in order to understand it all. In fact, I’d argue that the entire narrative is an allegory to John Bunyan’s classic novel The Pilgrim’s Progress as with the Pilgrim, players follow a path that takes them through a sequence of themed “tests”, with an ultimate truth being the goal.Īs to the truths that players will arrive at from playing this game, I don’t want to ruin the experience by making them explicit. Michael, Gabriel and Raphael… as you can probably tell this is a game that is loaded with Christian symbolism and imagery. Two, the second most powerful sister, has access to an angel called Raphael. Two, Three, Four and Five don’t have dragons, but instead control either a demon or angelic spirit that they can summon to battle. Gabriel is another dragon under the control of One, the most powerful sister. The final set of important protagonists and antagonists are the dragons and spiritual beings that each of the sisters have access to in order to enhance their powers. Each of these sisters are accompanied by a disciple, and each of those disciples have their own personality quirks that mark them out as anything but heroes one is a masochist, and another represents extreme arrogance masquerading as confidence. Five, for instance, is a nymphomaniac that represents lust, while Four is a virgin that symbolises innocence. Mikhail is the reincarnation of Michael, an immensely powerful beast that was killed in a brief introductory scene while protecting Zero from another dragon.Įach of Zero’s sisters, lacking names, instead personify character traits. It’s a prequel to the world of Drakengard and Nier, and sees players in control of an anti-hero, Zero, who has embarked on a quest to slaughter her sisters (none of which have names, but are rather numbered from one through five), with her pet dragon, Mikhail. But Taro found himself a partnership with Access Games, and, with Square Enix back on board as publisher, Drakengard 3 has been created, and I couldn’t be happier.Īt first, Drakengard 3 looks like it’s going to be such a straightforward narrative. He seems to delight in confounding expectations and delivering games that are thematically unique and remorselessly intense.ĭrakengard 3 is a game that never should have happened, after the developers of the first two games in the series, and Nier, were wrapped up. Yoko Taro, the mind behind the Drakengard series (and, of course, Nier, which is all but a Drakengard game), is one of the industry’s true mavericks.
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