Drakengard 3 PS3 exclusive

[Lady Lilith]

http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/03/13/drakengard-3-announced-as-playstation-3-exclusive/

 

 

The latest exclusive announcement for the still soaring PlayStation 3 is a game that nobody ever believed would get made. Drakengard 3, or Drag-On Dragoon 3 as it’s known in Japan, has just been announced in the latest issue of Famitsu, and it will reunite many members of Cavia, the dissolved studio responsible for the first two games.

Shuttered and disbanded in 2010, Cavia created the first two Drakengard games back during the PlayStation 2 days. The cult-classics were made with an awkward blend of jumping between battling hundreds of enemy units on the ground and jumping into a dragon saddle and roasting them from the air.

The formula didn’t prove as popular as Square Enix would have liked, but the games have survived in the minds of fans around the world for their off-the-wall storylines and gratifying levels of depth.

While not officially reforming, Square Enix has gotten many old members of Cavia back together, including the director of the first Drakengard, Taro Yoko, to work on the game. The last game the team completed before closing was a low key action RPG called Nier that released back in 2010.

Somebody must have forgotten to tell Sony and Square Enix that the current generation of consoles was supposed to start being phased out. If the number of exclusives rolling out for the PlayStation 3 this year continue to up, then it would be safe to assume that Sony’s ready to see this ten year console cycle through to the end or maybe even try to win it all.

 

Holy crap, I never thought there'd be a third game.  I never played the PS2 games, but maybe I should now, especially since I'm really enjoying Nier.

[DK_Scuba]

I loved the original 2. Can't wait! =D

[NightWing127]

did you just say the "Drakengard"?

I played the 1st one and man, it was awesome . One of the best games PS2 has to offer it really reminds me of Nier <- not this game again

Edited March 15, 2013 by NightWing127

[Mr_MovieMan29]

Hopefully they come out with the 1st as a PS2 classic on PSN (I don't know if it already is or not) I would love to buy it and see if I like this series.

[NightWing127]

Hope for a disc version of it it's a must game to buy

Edited March 15, 2013 by NightWing127

[Lady Lilith]

http://www.vg247.com/2013/10/09/drakengard-3-to-release-exclusively-on-ps3-in-2014/

 

 

Square Enix today announced that its action (RPG) Drakengard 3 will be coming to the Americas exclusively for the PlayStation 3 in 2014.
 

The prequel to the original Drakengard, Drakengard 3 transports players to a medieval world where six goddess sisters known as “Intoners” have brought peace to the earth with their power to manipulate magic through song.

However, the eldest sister, Zero, attempts to murder her younger sisters with the help of her dragon companion, Mikhail.

Players will take part in areal battles to unravel the mystery of Zero and learn her true intentions.

Drakengard 3 will be available for $49.99 in North America next year in stores and digitally through PSN. It will be a digital-only title in Europe.

Screens and a trailer are below.

 

 

 

 

Like Miku, Europe gets screwed on a retail release.  I don't get it, since we're usually the ones stuck with downloads (Quest for Booty, Ken's Rage 2, DW 7 Empires, Orochi 3) Not complaining though.  At least since it's a prequel, it won't matter that I don't currently plan to play the second game.  I've heard the first is better.

Edited October 10, 2013 by Sonic

[damon8r351]

The girl with a lotus blossom in her eye, the dragon with a child-like voice, that's a little creepy. I'm officially intrigued.

[Lady Lilith]

http://kotaku.com/one-of-the-weirdest-jrpgs-well-see-next-year-1444021527

 

 

 

 

Note: Today on Random Encounters, we’ve got a very special treat for you: a guest column by Kotaku bossman Stephen “JRPG Lover” Totilo. Be nice! —Jason. Thanks, Jason... can I start my column now? —Stephen. P

Some of us like video games that we might call "insane." We mean this in the best of possible ways. Video games can be weird—fever-dream weird, something's-not-quite-right-with-the-people-who-made-it weird—and when we see one, we want to play it.P

Enter: Drakengard 3, which on the surface is just another action-RPG, a game full of hack-and-slash action mixed with sequences that allow you to ride a dragon and kill armies of enemy warriors.P

Been there, played that.P

But sometimes... sometimes the ordinary-looking action we can play goes hand-in-hand with a bit of madness that makes a potentially indistinct game a must-play.1P

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Re-enter: Drakengard 3, which stars a woman named Zero who runs through her world with an odd boyish-looking guy named Dito. Dito "likes to watch others die," according to series producer Takamasa Shiba. Our heroine can also go through her adventure with one of three companions who are.... ready?..."a conservative 40-year-old man... masochist who likes to be slashed".... "an old man [who is] full of sexual energy"... and "a typical Square Enix RPG character, very handsome, very good-looking, [but] everything he says is wrong." Wikipedia informs me that, according to a translation of a Japanese article about this game, they are there "to accompany Zero to satisfy her sexual wants."3P

This game, you see, is from the makers of Nier, the wonderfully insane action-RPG whose best supporting character was a wise-cracking, flying book.4P

What you see when you look at the gameplay of Drakengard is Zero getting her white clothes bloody as the player switches melee weapons and dices up enemies. As the blood spills, a meter fills up. When it's all-red, the player can invoke an "Intoner mode" which slows enemies and speeds our protagonist's attacks up. It's nothing you haven't seen before.P

Or, in some sequences, what you'll see from the gameplay is a game that lets your characters climb on the back of a dragon and either stomp through armies or take to the air and burn them down.P

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What you see when you read the text bubbles that pop up during gameplay, however, is a bit different. As the player hacks and slashes, there are our lead character and her young companion talking about kinks and "nympho freaks," declaring that "I don't like the macho look" or informing enemies that "I will obsess over killing you." The dragon who hangs out with them is a kid dragon named Mikhail—high-pitched voice and all that—and he doesn't understand some of the sex-talk between the other characters. That's part of the joke.P

Drakengard 3 doesn't look like the kind of game that's going to be a big hit. It's not a Final Fantasy or a Dragon Quest. Shiba introduced it to me as a game that Square made to cater to their most hardcore fans in a moment in gaming when so many gamers and so much of Square are getting involved in playing and making mobile games. This is a PS3-only adventure, not exactly a graphic stunner, but it is for sure the kind of oddball game that can make it so much fun to be a gamer. This doesn't seem like the kind of game that's made to make big money; all the better.P

While the first couple of Drakengard games starred men, this one not stars a woman and has women in major supporting roles, too. "The plot of the game, the theme, is that [Zero] is out there trying to kill her five sisters," Shiba said. That's kind of dark, I suggested. She's the youngest, he pointed out. "She has a very strong will to kill. It's not like revenge or anything like that, it's just clearly trying to kill them."P

He continued: "Why is she trying to kill her five sisters?" I think he was anticipating that I'd ask that, though I hadn't. That's not something we can discuss right now," he replied anyway.P

"The fact that a female is trying to kill other females is also atypical," he added, pressing hard that this game was going to feel different from the norm.P

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I'm sure that some people will look atDrakengard 3, which is slated for a 2014 release in America, and just dismiss it as another hack-and-slash action RPG with some dragon gameplay. Others may see some sort of twisted, M-rated long-form sex joke starring a young-looking woman who is surrounded by horny men and... hmmm....maybe that's what this is. Yes, it's strange. Potentially awesome, too, if it's as knowingly weird as the very self-aware bizarro Nier.P

Some of us like insane games. If you're in that crowd, this game's for you.P

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BONUS GUEST-RANDOM ENCOUNTERS SEQUENCE:P

JRPG Expert Stephen Totilo: "Maybe a very fundamental question, but at the beginning of this, Shiba-san said this was a JRPG. What makes this a JRPG? If it was, I don't know, an alien coming down from outer space and I looked at Final Fantasy X's remake, Final Fantasy: Lightning Returns and Drakengard 3, I don't know if I'd see them all as the same thing. Yet they are all JRPGs. What makes this a JRPG?"P

Shiba: "I thinks that it's the rhythm of the game and also the characters."P

JRPGEST: "Can you elaborate on that? Does a JRPG have to be made by Japanese people? Is that one prerequisite?"P

Shiba: "Not necessarily."P

JRPGEST: "I think we know what a first-person shooter is. There's no dispute on that. But so many games can be JRPGs, and you've worked on so many of them. I'm curious how you define what is and what is not a JRPG."P

Shiba: "The story moves along on a linear [path]. Skyrim, for example, is an RPG, but not a JRPG. But The Witcher is a little more toward JRPG. For both good and bad, JRPG is very unique in that it has a very typical hero and the story is kind of expected. There's kind of a formula there. So on that note, Drakengard 3, on the structure, is a JRPG, as we mentioned, it features an anti-hero, so what's inside of the hero and the world is not typical JRPG."P

JRPGEST: "It's sort of a rebellious JRPG."P

Shiba: "Yes. That's exactly right."P

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EXTRA BONUS BOSS BATTLE:P

JRPGEST: "It doesn't escape me that you have a female protagonist and Final Fantasy does now, too. What's going on at Square?"P

Shiba: "[Drakengard 1, Nier and Drakengard 3 lead designer] Taro Yoko, every time he makes a game, he wants to go against what users expect. He thinks it makes it more interesting. People would have expected to see a good-looking male hero, but he wanted to specifically go against their expectation and have a female protagonist."P

 

 

 

Oh dear.  

[skinner49]

Moar?

[yellowwindow7]

i never played the ps2 ones too, but i heard it's one of the coolest ps2 games, i only saw the ending of drakengard 2 on youtube kinda sad though, so i am ready to get this game... i just hope that there won't be a fishing part or growing plant part in it, i played NIER and just saw what cavia is capable off when it comes to making peoples so frustrated   

[TheEstilingue]

Drakengard 2 was the first game I played on my PS2, great game, many hours playing it.

 

I really want to see the next one

[Artemisthemp]

Now they just need to announce Disc version with Dual Audio for EU