Drakengard 3, PS3, Review Article for Front Towards Gamer by Contributor
Drakengard 3, PS3, Review Article for Front Towards Gamer by contributor Casey DeFreitas. Considering the disbandment of developer Cavia, I never expected another installment of the Drakengard series, the hack-and-slash, aerial combat hybrid I fell in love with when I was a middle-schooler. But here we are, ten years later with Drakengard 3, a prequel set 1,000 years before the first. I loved Drakengard for its dark, gritty themes and cast of delightfully disturbed characters, catapulting it far and away from any other stories JRPG’s were telling at the time. To be fair, Drakengard 3 retains all of this, but it’s blurred by layers of crude bathroom humor and sexual innuendos. If Drakengard explored themes of immorality, Drakengard 3 explores themes of sexuality, albeit in a much brasher manner. Admittedly, this put me off that the creators would turn a serious franchise that examined the pitfalls of humanity into an even more blood-soaked absurdity now basted with dragon excrement. But after a few hours of resisting the abrasive humor, it grew on me, and I found myself smiling at the raunchy dialogue instead of recoiling from it. I just had to stop expecting the tone of the original and accept Drakengard 3 for what it was, which should be decidedly less tedious for a player who didn’t experience the first. Luckily, you don’t need any knowledge of the first two to understand the plot of the third. In Drakengard 3 you play as Zero, the eldest of six songstress sisters, known as Intoners.
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