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Drakengard 3; aka Drag-on Dragoon 3
Topic Started: Mar 13 2013, 05:32 PM (3,108 Views)
Akito10
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Norman freakin' Jayden

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-12rglp-QXY

Trailer needed Caim showing up drenched in the blood of orphans and confirming himself as final boss.
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Posted ImageNeko
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I really like the music, One's battle theme especially.
I assume it's her theme, anyway.
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Never played the past games so I have no idea what the hell I just watched.

But I liked it.
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Homeless One
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People who are familiar with the past games have no idea either. Just enjoy the ride.
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Almost as good as Lowe ^_^
Still few days before I get my copy, but some people have said it's actually not that close with the original two in term of feel.

And it's hilariously sadistic...
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Homeless One
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And it's hilariously sadistic...

Sounds like Drakengard to me.

No shame in being unable to match the first game's mission where you slaughter children though.
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Homeless One
Dec 21 2013, 11:11 AM
People who are familiar with the past games have no idea either. Just enjoy the ride.
Hah, good for me then. Won't need to play the other ones.

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And it's hilariously sadistic...


I first read that as "Autistic"

semi DyslExia, etc.
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Norman freakin' Jayden

Ovan
Dec 21 2013, 11:23 AM
Homeless One
Dec 21 2013, 11:11 AM
People who are familiar with the past games have no idea either. Just enjoy the ride.
Hah, good for me then. Won't need to play the other ones.
Drakengard 1 is awful gameplay wise, but the plot is a cocaine laced madhouse.

Dunno shit about 2. Read Dark Id's LPs on the LP Archive. Play NIER though, that game was great.
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According to TheDarkId, Drakengard 2 is a more playable game, but the plot is sadly saner and incredibly stupid. I'm actually reading through his LP of the first game again, I forgot how insane some of this stuff is.


Finally, go buy Nier, Zechs. Now. Get all the trophies. It's a beautiful, depressing, wonderful game. Easily one of the best games I've played in the last five years. And it's got one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard in gaming - even used some of the tracks at my wedding. The wife demanded it.

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...and also, you can totally double-plat this game if you want to import and grab the local copy. We Americans got a copy of the originally-360-exclusive-in-Japan version of the game, Nier: Gestalt. This one has our title character as a big, burly dad taking care of his daughter.
The Japanese PS3 version though, known as Nier: Replicant, features a big brother taking care of his little sister. Completely different character model, though his movements are remarkably similar. However, that change of model also results in more changes to the backstory of the characters, from what I've seen.

Either way, though, you'll have a blast. A depressing, horrifying, beautiful blast.
Edited by NewtypeS3, Dec 22 2013, 06:16 AM.
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Dec 22 2013, 06:09 AM
According to TheDarkId, Drakengard 2 is a more playable game, but the plot is sadly saner and incredibly stupid. I'm actually reading through his LP of the first game again, I forgot how insane some of this stuff is.
Characters are boring, too. Typical goody-goody MC instead of batshit serial murderer.
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On the plus side, Mr. Batshit Serial Murderer is now a 'villain' and one of is the most entertaining boss in the game. And yet, he's not evil.

You're just not on his side anymore.

Spoiler: click to toggle
Edited by NewtypeS3, Dec 22 2013, 08:59 AM.
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Hmm.


Anyone know when the OST is out?

EDIT: Never mind, JP Amazon says the 22nd of Jan.
Edited by Ovan, Jan 1 2014, 08:48 PM.
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Listening to more tracks, I'm sort of conflicted on it. Especially the Boss themes. I like how they start out, but then at around halfway in they suddenly have some stupidly annoying electronic noises/gibberish randomly thrown in that ruin them. 2 examples being

2:38 mark


2:28 mark
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Homeless One
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I kind of like the effect, oddly. Drakengard music likes to have this chaotic, weird sound to it.
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Is the music to the older games a similar style or different? Might have to track the OSTs down if they're not dead on the net.
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Homeless One
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Drakengard 1 and 2 don't really have great music. Go get Nier's OST as soon as possible however.
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I DL'd the other year, but before I could fully listen to it my HDD crashed. And by the time I ever thought about getting it again, that DDL site purge happened all over the net and it was impossible to find.

Any links I ever see now are from sites I've never heard of before and I get worried about DLing a virus.
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Also, I'm looking at spoilers for the game; S3, the Dark Id is going to kill himself if he tries to sort through the plot of this game and what it does to the setting, lol.

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AHAHAHAHA. Massive spoilers, but the Route D final boss:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNl3hd_cs00
Edited by Homeless One, Jan 1 2014, 11:47 PM.
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Yeah, while I don't know much about the games, I've been reading A LOT from people who imported 3 that , "The fuck is going on with this shit?" seems to be the general consensus.

Also What.The.Hell.....Did I just watch....
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Homeless One
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It's a fairly insane throwback to a fairly insane moment from the original.
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Trying to find the other Numbers tracks, I found other versions of Two and Four's themes.

I guess it's like Metal Gear Rising, and the odd parts will kick in at specific times. Some of the other versions of Two, Four, etc's themes don't have the earlier mentioned changes.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw189nulxTw


So far as far as their themes go,

Two = Five > Four > One = Three
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Anata
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Almost as good as Lowe ^_^
Imagine how many people Yokotaro have made to ragequit with the final boss in D route

The Final boss in DOD1 cannot compare with this insanity
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Going to have to start Youtubing the footage of the older games, just to get the total amusement if I get 3.

Ironically I had known about "Drag-On Dragoon 3" for months, since there were constant articles on Famitsu and other JP sites I frequent, But i never knew it was the "Drakengard" series until I saw this thread a few weeks ago, since I didn't know it had a name change.

I had heard the name Drakengard years ago, but never actually knew anything about it.
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Almost as good as Lowe ^_^
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https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfrVADIBFXuyUsGNcNpVy1MXLbO1AzoPA

A Gaijin doing LP of DOD1 (though he speak in Japanese)
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But I need it in english to fully understand so that I can be prepared to not understand in 3!

The raspy breathing/talking voice sounds weird to me. It's like Napoleon Dynamite dubbed a lets Play in Japanese. >.>;
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