Drakengard 3 | A Complete History and Retrospective 

Hey Dad, how did you feel about Drakengard 3?🐲

When Mikhail said he could still hear the people he's killed screaming in his sleep, in that childlike voice. I legit got chills.

You've made us all quite proud with this one, son.

Keichi Okabe needs to be mentioned more. The music for NieR & NieR Automata are always praised, but his name rarely mentioned. Anyway, his work on Drakengard 3 is up there with the NeiR franchise.

Drakengard 3 is easily one of my TOP10 favorite games of all time,i love this game,Zero and Mikhail.

With regards to the final song, if you have a decent sense of rhythm, you should be able to do it with you eyes closed, apart from the final troll note. It's probably easier to do it that way, so the visuals don't act as a distraction (although they are very pretty). I've enjoyed this retrospective series, but I'm disappointed you haven't talked about the weapon stories. Not only are they fun, but most of them fit into the general theme of "people that resort to violence come to bad endings" that permeate the series.

A thing that is worth noting is the differences in the dub of Zero's character as well. In the english, her anger and irritated exterior is is focused in the voice direction. The japanese dub on the other hand has far less energy and emotion. Like someone saying murderous stuff in a smooth and unmoved tone. Based on how you point out that zero basically had her being divided into the five sisters, it makes a lot of sense. Why they did this is hard to say, both versions have merit, but I could imagine the idea was to make her resemble kaine from nier: replicant. I don't know if you know this already or find this worth using for the full series video.

It never fails to amaze just how much creativity and heart there is in these games (Nier included). I really can't wait to see what modern games will gain this type or cult status later on.

for that final 'boss' i had to pull up a youtube video of someone else doing it with on screen guide of when to press the buttons and sync it up exactly with my game and watch the youtube video rather than my tv when pressing the button, it was so crazy thats the only way i got it done lol

50:05 I think you wanted to say that Zero's becoming LESS human by the day

i am so glad you went over these games, thank you for your hard work and deduction son!

Aye posting a retrospective of my favorite out of the draken guard series on my birthday of all days!! Thanks for the wonderful surprise gift son! 😂🎉, but in all seriousness another wonderful video!

I feel like you missed crucial part of this story, of who zero was before she died, and how her life looked, its crucial part to understand why she acted way she had.

I never even knew these games existed until your videos! They've been really fun to watch. I am foaming at the mouth for the Nier:Automana video though! Cannot wait to see what you have to say about it as it's my favorite game of all time ❤

This one is my favourite in the series. Something about the style, the story, the music and *especially* the characters is really something that i find myself always coming back to.

For what it’s worth I only beat the last fight with the aid of a RU-vid video. Such an aggravating fight but worth every frustrating second! Also at one point in the video when talking about the flower and her losing feeling in her arm you accidentally said more human instead of less human, but otherwise another absolute banger of a video son, keep up the great work!

I was waiting for this, thanks! 👌👌

I remember playing a demo of this at a Best Buy when I was a kid. I thought it looked familiar, but at 1:14:14 it became plain as day.

I've been looking forward to watching this. I am SO ready!

LMAO! YOU GAVE UP IN THE FIGHT! YOU CUSSING IN THE BACKGROUND HAD ME IN STICHES DUDE! Honestly, the fact that you admitted that makes me love this channel even more!

Loved your drakengard retrospectives, eagerly waiting for nier next!

Loving your content, Son! You seem to cover franchises that ive always enjoyed, be it Legacy of Kain or the origins of Nier with this Drakengard series of vids (I treasured Nier back on the PS3). Thank you 🙏

Dude, love your work. ❤

You are amazing its good to see someone besides clemps talk about these games

Nier and Drakengard have such unique soundtracks they just stand out so much among the crowd.

Thank you for appreciating Drakengard 3 and for this whole video! It is one of my favorite games of all time and a good game, actuallyTM

Been a little behind on your videos lately. Managed to catch up this weekend so parts 1 and 2 are fresh. Just as your Yakuza videos, which was the first one I ever watched, this was a game I never played, Although I don't think I would have enjoyed these games at the time, I have really enjoyed this review. Keep up the great work.

Its so weird that this is the same series thats connected to nier

It's hard to understate how important the Ending theme songs are for each route, from Drakengard 1 all the way through here in 3. Ending C pulling out Growing Wings/ Exhausted just to hammer home how royally SCREWED the world is after its events hits like a truck, just like it did back in Drakengard 1 Ending B. And for how hard the Final Boss rhythm game was to overcome, as many hours as I lost... it was worth it. This Silence Is Mine is powerful, and a reward well, well earned.

Ive never played this series but this video, amazingly done, makes me want to. So thank you for that, that's a new like and sub well earned. Also as a side note, on the fact that we are conditionned to kill in games : it is funny because it seems to me Taro explored what would become a decade later the core experience of the Last of Us 2. They really amped the empathy for enemies you kill up but I find it amazing Taro had already a good idea a decade ago of how to do it given the npcs seem to be speaking lines of dialog about begging for mercy and such. In the Last of Us part 2, they went as far as giving every npcs names they use to call each other when one is missing, and they display every human behavior when threatened to be killed : scared, bargaining, deceiftul (telling you they wish for mercy then hitting you as soon as you start walking away...) I love it when creators use others ideas and push the boundaries a bit further.

Last fight: are you winning, Son?

Took me about 8 hours to finally finish The Final Song. I had to find a timing guide on RU-vid, sync it perfectly with the gameplay on PS3 and finally managed to do it. Never again but that sure was exceptional

Absolutely love your reprospectives, son. Thank you so much.

aside from the frame rates, the gameplay was really fun. thanks for this son!

1:14:18 we getting out of cathedral city with this one 🔥

Damn I recently just picked this up for my ps3 and now I see this video

that last note in the true ending is so troll

Loved the video! I'm glad someone has come along and sung the praises of Drakengard 3 (my favorite across both series besides Automata). The final boss was so difficult, had that BS note at the end, fuck that, 10/10 fight would do again. In case you didn't know, the performance issues can actually be fixed on emulator, if you Google something along the lines of "RPCS3 Drakengard 3 configuration", you'll be told exactly what settings to change to reduce the jank, I did it and had literally Zero (heh) performance issues.

For anyone interested in playing Drakengard 3, he speaks about emulation at the beginning. His frame issues and other visual issues were likely largely caused by shaders compiling (without knowing the specs of his PC). Basically the game has to process what it wants to show you as it's going and there's no way to "share" pre-compiled shaders. Once the bulk of shaders and whatnot are compiled the game will run at 60 frames per second with a patch (or even 120 frames, apparently) given your PC is powerful enough. Note: by powerful I mean a gaming PC with a CPU from the past 6~ years. My CPU is 8 years old and I can easily play the game at a consistent 55-60 frames. This is in contrast to the native PS3 game, where on the console you'll typically see 20 frames at best with the framerate dropping to lows as bad as 13 in intense combat. If you're willing to put in a bare minimum amount of work in obtaining and configuring the emulator RPCS3 your experience of the game will massively benefit.

My surprise to see Drakengard 3 video from you! Hands down, amazing job you did on this one. :)

Oh wow, I can't wait to see how son explains the story in this one... proud of you son.

Thank you so much for covering DOD3. Zero is my favourite, and what a coincidence; NieR:Reincarnation has its Gala Event, and with one Mama Medal you can choose your one favourite: and one of these characters is also Zero! So happy to see that Square still cares about her, and hope that we get a remake as well. Although I hope that this time the setting will be more serious in tone, as the original is… sometimes just too 4th wall breaky? And I feel like it doesn’t take itself seriously at times ;u;

37:42 "I am Melania, Blade of Miquella!"

I just finsished this game not long ago. That final boss is insane I tried so many times over like 5 days and then said fuck it I'm going to use a timing guide, even then it took me a couple days. Anyone that can do that without a timing guide has my respect, theres no way I could lol.

Do the disciples help? It's been a while, but I seem to recall them not actually doing any damage even if it looked liked they were attacking. Although that may have been a bug.

Happy SonDay!! Thanks for giving us another amazing vid. Also how uncomfortable did you feel upon realising the guys were all birds

Zero's localization went a bit too far from her Japanese one. The lolcalizers accidentally created female Donte from that cursed DMC reboot due to misinterpreting her disrespectful/cold attitude.

God blessed us with another one of your videos.

That's my boy. Get em tiger

Hmm yoko taro has always fascinated me as a person and i think his line of thinking on games is slowly spreading we did get outer wilds after all a game were you don't kill anything

1:21:27 Now son, you know we didn’t raise you to use that kind of language!

What a rollercoaster this game is, it does what the second game wanted to do and did it way better. Mikhail is the conscious that Zero has lost thanks to a world that isn't worth saving. I love that each of the girls that were spawned from Zero are the real main characters of this story, as the writing does such a great job into delving into each one, and in doing so we understand who Zero is as well. And we can see that each of the 5 girls are cursed in their own way by the flower. The arrangement of the disciples is also interesting, as you wonder if everyone was paired with the wrong girl. Although it seems that 2 and Cents were a strong pairing out of the four, as we could see in the DLC that they were in love with each other. The biggest tragedy of the story is that it is a tragedy. The happy ending that we want to see isn't the cannon ending to the prequel, in fact it's the first ending in the game. Which leads to Drakengard 1. Zero's story is one that isn't going to lead to happiness, it was always aiming towards gloom. Is Zero the Villain? Or is she the Hero? Or is she another tragic victim? As a Yoko Taro story she winds up being all of them, and done so in such a way that makes you wonder if the world was better for it, and as we seen in the first game the answer is no. Yoko Taro does a wonderful job saying you did a good job, but then it got worse. Zero's story is a tragedy, as no matter what she does it will not lead to a happy end. A life led by suffering from cruelty that led to a never ending spiral.

"Five, the slutty one" 😂😂 I hope they remake this game and no not a remaster I was not a fan of the janky gameplay on PS3---the character designs look good and the music too, gameplay needs a bit of an overhaul in my opinion, Square can easily hire Platinum Games or Toy Logic to do it.

Keichi Okabe is amazing.

yoko taro and trediousness goes hand in hand

I really wanna play this since my ps3 broke and ps4 just released hoping we get a HD remaster

Спасибо тебе большое за эту серию видео, наконец-то смог ознакомится с сюжетом этой серии игр.

We're at a point where this game runs better on the steam deck than on the ps3.

I'd quite like to see the entire interview with the incredible director talking to... * checks notes * ...the crafsman?

44:21 Haberkorn?!

great review! thnxs Nier next?

The concept of the dragon’s last wish were pretty much missing in the later branches

this game deserves a remaster/remake

"best game in the drakengard lineup" the bar wasn't that high my guy 😂😂😂

Mikhail = best good boi

the ''f'' part was the best :D

Im very proud of you son

Youve never been my favorite son. Youre OUR favorite son.

You could play the Dangeon Siege series next, it could be fun.

I'm hoping this game gets remade for the newer gaming platforms, I've really wanted to play it but don't own a PS3 and a copy of the game.

I had the same exact experience; I lost patience with the final sequence and have never finished the game. It’s one I’d love to finish one day.

10:00 You HAD to play it on the emulator anyway. The framerate was so bad on the PS3 the game just never ran smoothly. It was really bad, but the Emulator fixed it, so good choise in the end XD

Well you're probably a fair bit smarter then I am. I relate a lot to being alone and neglected, that was most of my life until I was like 14. I was socially inept, and I was put in a special class in elementary school. Not sure what it was for, and it was only a few times. But yeah, growing up stunk but adulthood isn't much better

0:02 paused *BETTER NOT BE CHANGING THE SUBJECT BOY*

Let's go son!

I still like the story and branches of 1 more lol. Both 1 and 3 need remakes, but I worry about what content could be cut due to modern trends

Everybody gangster until the final boss. 😂

for the final battle, I basically had to look up a button timing video for this fight on youtube like this (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-m9IHeSP71gI.html). Then proceed to sync up the video's audio to my television so that I could time my button inputs while strictly watching the youtube video the entire time. I dare say it's the first and last time I'll ever play a video game that makes me have to completely ignore the game itself to focus solely on a separate monitor in order to beat the final battle (or any battle for that matter).

Will you be reviewing Nier Gestalt or the Replicant remake?

The dragongard series is super interesting

The best Drakengard game, and I think it’s the best game in the entire series even including NieR

LETS GO! MY BELOVED BAD GAME!

"Trust me, we'll get there"... cant wait for Nier and Automata!

God this game is such a weird, horny trip

So i played drakengard 3 but i still doesnt undestand why does zero kill her sisters, if someone could explain, especially for four its just so sad she just wanted to have her sister live again..

Good work son also TMDWU TOOOBZ

Yoko talking about a game without violence makes me wonder what he thinks of undertale.

jeeeezuz i've never laughed so hard at a video game before XD 45:00 minute mark

Bethesda and EA: Oh, so you want to feel bad about playing games? Everyone: No Bathesda, wrong lesson!!!

Hm nr 1 looks familiar, where have I seen her before lol

I don't understand something. Why are there so many modern buildings in the last fight against the flower?

Yo, it's my favorite son

I will forever be mad that they used Kainé's theme, and not Kuroi Uta, for the final boss in the FFXIV/Nier crossover raids. Thematically, visually, it would've been a perfect fit.

One day when you look back on this day, remember this is your fault son. Now, I’m going out for a pack of cigarettes and a gallon of milk.

The dreaded rythm game

0:36

Idk what this game is but i like you so guess I'm about to find out

Drakengard 3 is my fav in the series and I really like it... but I do think dragon combat was a bit disappointing, and the juvenile sex humor was just too much for me throughout a lot of the game. I enjoy a lot of scenes. But there was a lot of eyerolling too. I love the fourth wall breaking though!

The game: Sad. The DLC: Sad 2: Sad Harder

2nd title i owned for ps3, grew up playing this shit. I wish more people knew about it, but this series is fucking niche.