Things seem to be going well as Zero successfully made it into the city by cutting down the loyal soldiers of the Intoners, but things quickly go sideways when One’s dragon Gabriel puts an end to the assassination attempts, gravely wounding both Zero and Michael. Zero and her dragon Michael have invaded Cathedral City on a mission to kill all the Intoners. The game begins in what seems like it should be the climax. As the other five Intoners are worshiped as gods in their respective territories, Zero isn’t exactly well liked as her mission is to destroy herself, the flower and the five Intoners. The player controls Zero, an Intoner who attempted suicide but was saved from death in order to be an instrument of mankind’s destruction.

The Intoners are named One, Two, Three, Four and Five, and their powers come from an evil magical flower. In the world of Drakengard 3 peace was achieved through five Intoners, who are women that are able to use magic powers through song and defeated warlords long ago. Playing the original NieR rekindled my interest in Drakengard, so when Drakengard 3 was released in 2014, it was something that was immediately wanted.ĭrakengard 3 is an action RPG and a prequel to the original Drakengard, set 100 years prior to the events of that game. Sadly, during its PlayStation 2 release Drakengard was a game I would look at in local game stores and considered because the title reminded me of the SNES game Drakkhen, but regrettably never actually purchased it. Going further back in, NieR is actually a spin off of another franchise Yoko Taro worked on called Drakengard. NieR Automata is the sequel to NieR, which was played by approximately six people prior to the release of its sequel and based on its Metacritic numbers did not receive the same reception. NieR Automata seemingly came out of nowhere to nearly-universal critical acclaim, countless awards and accolades with sales numbering in the millions. We even have a beige computer with a floppy disk drive. All the classic systems are down there collecting dust, so in an effort to improve the cleanliness of our work space, we dust off these old consoles every so often and put an old game through its paces, just to make sure everything stays in working order. The basement at the Hardcore Gamer office has a section known as the Crust Room, with an old grey couch and a big old CRT TV. Member the games you used to play? We member.

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