You’ll also frequently have to fend off waves of human enemies while fighting huge monsters that charge around like mini-bosses, unseen in previous games. Where blocking and countering was emphasised in Drakengard 2, in 3 you have so many better tools for dealing with annoying ranged mobs and shields that I honestly can’t recall whether blocking is even a thing (I checked it is). With an extremely quick dodge, rapid attacks, improved jumping and aerial attacks, an air dash, and more streamlined weapon switching, Drakengard 3 encourages breakneck hit-and-run gameplay rather than the rhythmic, methodical slashing of Drakengard 1 or 2. Mikhail’s gameplay doesn’t really bear any closer scrutiny it’s much simpler than the aerial dogfights of Drakengard 1 or 2, doesn’t feel great, and despite some tough bosses, doesn’t get any more interesting as the game progresses.Ĭombat on the ground is a big departure from the previous two games: though mired by poor performance, lacking the depth of the combo and orbs system outlined in my previous gameplay-focused articles, and generally pretty ordinary for its time, Drakengard 3 benefits from an increase in pace and player manoeuvrability. He’s also used for several rail shooter style sections reminiscent of Panzer Dragoon, which were not present in previous Drakengard games, and in a final boss not dissimilar to Drakengard 1’s. Primarily, you’ll mount and control Mikhail when taking on Drakengard 3’s more monstrous bosses, where he controls more like a flying character in a third-person action game than the flying mounts of previous games.
This time around we’ve dropped the ability to summon the dragon, Mikhail, in ground missions in exchange for narrower, more structured missions which sometimes let you call him in for autonomous strafing runs at predefined locations. Gameplay, BrieflyĪs with its predecessors, Drakengard 3’s gameplay is mostly broken up between third-person action on foot, and some variety of combat from atop your dragon companion. I’m just gonna give a brief description of what’s changed for this entry before I cut and run. I was going to roll the mechanical talk into the main narrative article this time because the combat warrants less examination than the previous games, but in the end this information did nothing for the rest of the narrative discussion, so it’s been broken off into its own minor article here.įor the previous games, especially the first, I went into some detail about the particular systems I thought were important, and the unique flow of gameplay they, perhaps unwittingly, encourage.
DRAKENGARD 3 MIKHAIL HUMAN SERIES
This is the last article in my series exploring the NieR/Drakengard series, and the absolute final one before I break to go and play NieR itself.
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