Drakengard 3 shares a lot with Yaiba as there are a lot of immature jokes filled with potty humor. Nier also had a good dose of humor, but there it was done in a much more elegant way, adding charm to the whole title. The game poses some deep questions like why is it ok to kill hundreds of people within a game, but then doesn’t give any kind of rational answer making it no different than the thoughtless killing found in other games. Zero just wants to kill her sisters in order to save the world, why does she then murder hundreds of innocent guards in the process? Even the psychopathic child murderer Caim was a more relatable guy.ĭespite its darker tones Drakengard 3 still tries to add some humor to the mix, but this again doesn’t fit at all that well with the tone of the title. This title took all the dark elements that made Drakengard popular and added some more, but this time it just doesn’t stick as well. For any kind of deeper backstory it’s best to go and read up on the novella, which had a lot more effort put into it than the actual in-game story. Almost all the characters you meet lack any kind of depth, keeping their single dimensional portrayal until the end of the game. Along the way Zero will claim not only her sisters’ life, their disciple boyfriends in order to use for her sexual pleasure. Like Kaine from Nier she is a potty mouth woman who loves fighting, but where Kaine feels much deeper never murdering without a cause, Zero sees no value in anyone’s life including her own. The cast of characters is unlikeable and even by the end Zero remains a person who you can’t feel sorry for. Despite this intriguing set-up, the pay-off at the end is way too small and opens up too many plot holes to be satisfying. Out for revenge with her new baby dragon Mikhail, she goes out hunting her sisters one by one, starting with her sister Five. Fast forward one year and Zero has recovered, gaining a mechanical arm and sprouting a mysterious flower from her eye. She is defeated and her dragon is killed in the process. The game opens with Zero rushing off to murder her sisters in order to stop the end of the world. You play as Zero, who along with her six sisters is an Intoner, a powerful god-like being who can use the power of songs. Drakengard 3 serves as a prequel to the first Drakengard game.

Drakengard 3 voice cast