The blood also tends to clash with the tone in a way that's off-putting. When it's just kind of smeared around, as it is in Drakengard 3, it's just nauseating. Think of any of Kill Bill's best scenes, or even a Fatality in Mortal Kombat. My issue with it is that I've always thought blood should be reserved to heighten the impact of a big moment. It's kind of gross, though I don't see that as the main problem. One of Drakengard 3's key features is blood splatter on the main character as a mission progresses, she becomes steadily more covered in it until she's practically red from head-to-toe (though not in cutscenes). Drakengard 3 positively revels in the stuff, splattering characters whenever a convenient moment presents itself. Sailor Scouts in a world gone mad.Īnd I'm not exaggerating when I say "buckets of blood," either.
Imagine a Sailor Scout suffering a psychotic break and killing her sisters one by one amid buckets of blood, and you've pretty much got the gist of Drakengard 3, absent some rather random multiverse elements. At the outset, it plays a bit like an anime-inspired ripoff of Kill Bill Vol. It gasps for breath for a while, wheezes, then just collapses under the weight of it all.ĭeveloped by refugees from Cavia (Nier, Bullet Witch), Drakengard 3 is an action RPG that functions as a prequel of sorts to 2002's Drakengard. Drakengard 3 is what happens when a perfectly good action RPG gets crushed by questionable taste, a poorly optimized graphics engine, and awful writing.
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