So take the gameplay of Drakengard 1 and bump it up from bad to average, but also take the most interesting part of that game which was the insane story and make it boring, take all of the eccentric characters and make them standard rpg flavor with little to no personality, and you have this game here. It's bland as sand. I don't think the story is bad conceptually, it has a few good ideas, it's just really dull execution wise. When the only part of the game that got any emotional reaction out of me was seeing characters from the previous game show up and finish their own story arcs, that says a lot to me about how little I cared about anything happening in this story. I mean as a game, it's fine enough, it plays well, but as the years go on I have a feeling I'll remember very little about it, while there's no way I could forget its predecessor.

The Yin to Drakengard's Yang. Everything this game does better, it has to do something worse in comparison. Characters actually speak to each other now, rather than talking straight past each other in stilted quips! Unfortunately, the dialogue is boring as shit and grinds the pace to the halt. Combat is now much more focused and easy to control! However, maintaining health is a chore in this game and levels are reused far too often.

Like Drakengard 1, it's a game that struggles to come together until the end, but it reaches there eventually. Unfortunately, I can't really recommend it to anyone who doesn't have the guts to stick with an awkward and poorly designed game till the end, for story's sake.