One of the few games that made me physically cringe at some of the "hornier" moments, but also kept me oddly interested all the way through with some genuinely great ideas.
My original thoughts upon release was “Yes, we’re finally returning to the roots of the Taroverse.” Then we are given a game that feels like the majority of it is a comedy special. Maybe that was Taros vision all long, who knows. Overall, slightly disappointed, but the better combat, music and additional lore saves it for me. Highly recommend reading the Drag-On Dragoon Utahime Five manga along with playing this game. Gives the characters a little more depth not found in the game or DLC.
The main character comes off as vulgar, violent, mean-spirited, selfish, and just generally unlikeable right off the bat. And I remember many people just bouncing off the game for that reason. When you find out why she's doing what's she doing it's so unbelievably tragic. I've never had such a complete 180 in how I feel about a main protagonist. She's one of my favorites.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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 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.
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.
Crucial yes, but part of the side content rather than in the game proper. I think this video wanted to focus on what we learn from the game and its DLC, not from the audio dramas, novellas, and manga. I hope he touches on these in future content, but for now this is what a typical player would know from playing Drakengard 3.
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!
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 ❤
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.
Zero wanted to die, but was being kept alive by a flower. That's already a horrible tragedy, being unable to end your miserable existence. Then she gets the burden of responsibility of hunting the intoners and raising a dragon to end her, just to earn that silence. Her happy ending is her blissful death. She actually smiles at Mikhail before transforming, because she's actually proud of him, and because she will finally get peace 😭
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!
Zero wanted to die, but was being kept alive by a flower. That's already a horrible tragedy, being unable to end your miserable existence. Then she gets the burden of responsibility of hunting the intoners and raising a dragon to end her, just to earn that silence. Her happy ending is her blissful death. She actually smiles at Mikhail before transforming, because she's actually proud of him, and because she will finally get peace 😭 It feels so good to see so many people saying they yave up on the final song and used a guide, because i actually did it without cheating, even though im disabled and it took me 39 hours.
It took me 39 hours to beat the final song, and it was brilliant. The song and dance and design of the intoners and flower are beautiful. Git gud. I beat it three consecutive times.
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.
@@YourFavoriteSon1 Out of place tonally just like the video you did on Josh. Many levels of creepy scam real life trolling of a special needs alcoholic with the mind of a 13 year old and you’re still delusional and think you did a good job on it. Fake friendly to his face and belittling and rude behind his back like a scared coward. Interjecting useless clips of your own face for ego/vanity every other minute. Plugging merch in the middle of it to grift money off him and only paying him with a bottle of booze. Glad you’re going back to your video game scam gimmick.
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
I did it without and it took me 39 hours. Felt way more satisfying than any "dark souls" boss. I think went on to do it again 2 more times successfully consecutively. It used to be something I would look forward to on the way home. I was so excited to get in and play the final song!
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.
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.
So there is a Manga that explains the events leading up to this game. I would highly recommend picking it up to understand the relationships between the main cast
"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.
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
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.
the boss osts in this game are so goddamn good it's insane from a drakengard 3 boss ost playlist i found, it was ordered with 1's first theme descending into 5's second theme, which made me think 5 was the like last boss or something since i had no idea about the game lmao i was considering playing it but for one i was too interested in the story to wait until i finally could get my hands on it by playing it on my ps3, and watching this video, i am very, very happy i did not have to play through that final boss what a truly amazing game
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.
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
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
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.
But that's not true. The end of the Zero DLC shows she actually had a lot of fun with Mikhail. There's a lot of off camera stuff happening in the story, so you can imagine the banter they got up to. Mikhail and Michael were reason enough to make her life worth it, and she did enable the existence of the sentiment machines and androids of the future, as well as the lives of NieR, Kaine, and Emil,which wouldn't exist if the Black Flower destroyed the world. And all the branches are equally real, so branch D ending really did happen in another universe. Yana wrote in her diary that Accord visited her, and Accord has witnessed all branches endings! R.I.P. Zero & Mikhail ❤
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;
The combat is a lot better than you gave credit. The weapon switching mid combo allows for rrally long aerial combos like devil may cry or Bayonetta, and you can do launchers by pressing jump after light hits, and jump cancel out of spears slow attacks
You forgot to mention 3’s whole elf racism which contrasts this heroine ideal she tries to portray and maybe gives a flaw to Zero too has a human in a world that never seemed to have great race relations
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 🙏
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.
I want 2 things, a remaster of the game and a continuation with all 6 sisters and their disciples, if palpatine can somehow return, this should be a piece of cake. Sometimes you have to give in and bring back characters people liked the game, instead of leaving it dead because lore, just make up some lore.
Doubt i will ever have money to buy the IP but when I do, I'll do just what I wrote down lol, i fear people won't be caring about these human things anymore at that point that far in the future.
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.
You know, I'll sometimes go down to read the dialogue while you're narrating and somehow, it's never not shocking. The complete unhinged insanity of Drakengard 3 is a serious contrast to the methodical breakdown of the game.
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!