![]() When Zero returns, there is a miniature version of the flower growing out of her right eye. Zero is reborn through the power of a mysterious flower with regenerative capabilities. But things don’t go Zero’s way, and she and Michael both end up failing and dying. After dealing with this obstacle, it’s on to the family showdown. She and her dragon, the mighty Michael, spend the prologue chapter flying through Cathedral City laying waste to their enemy’s defenses, after which they encounter an even larger dragon named Gabriel. Given that Zero wants to kill her sisters, it’s convenient that they’re gathered for her to get them all in one fell swoop. One is disciplined, Two is innocent, Three is deranged, Four is chaste and Five is lustful. Likewise, each of her sisters possess specific character traits in the extreme. This lady is one of the most foulmouthed protagonists I’ve ever had the perverse pleasure of controlling in a video game, and she’s bloodthirsty to boot. She’s brash, impatient and highly temperamental from the very beginning. You play as Zero in the main campaign and, for reasons that are gradually revealed with each chapter, you’d like nothing so much as to terminate your siblings with extreme prejudice. Like its antihero protagonist, it just doesn’t have time for your hang-ups.ĭrakengard 3 is the story of six sisters named Zero, One, Two, Three, Four and Five. But don’t expect Drakengard 3 to coddle you or provide much in the way of positive reinforcement. Suffering builds character, or so it’s been said, and everything about the world of Drakengard 3 is in such dystopian decline that, after a few hours, you see how charming it all is in its unapologetic, demented glory. But what the game lacked in technical prowess it more than makes up for in a narrative so twisted, so off-the-wall, so weird and deliciously dysfunctional that its initially-off putting characters and nebulous plot grew on me. Surprisingly, the hapless dragon pulled it off well enough to be voted most popular in the game by Japanese fans.īetween completing the multiple storyline branches and all of the DLC, I spent over 30 hours in Drakengard 3’s shattered cities and haunted forests and found the gameplay to be unpolished. Both the story of Zero and the gameplay are metaphors for human excess ironic when you consider that the human characters act inhumanely and the dragon Mikhail shoulders the burden of being the only member of the cast players can relate to. I’ve seen a lot of games that pushed the envelope, but never one that was quite so brazen and subtle at the same time. Having been an avid gamer since the arcade boom of the late 70s, that’s not an insignificant claim. Drakengard 3 is one of the most courageous video games I’ve ever played.
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