I'm going to use this opportunity to give my whole thoughts on Drakengard 3's DLC.
The long and short of it is: fuck off. Seriously! Over 75% of the content in these packs are directly recycled from the main game, almost no new mechanics or enemies are introduced, and they all usually are done in under an hour. At 7 bucks per, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I would not recommend anyone buy these, even real Drakengard and Nier freaks. The only redeeming quality of these packs is the fact that Yoko finally learned what an arc is instead of just having bad things happen all the time and characters just going :0 before resuming their discussions of whatever topic the game devotes far too much time towards (sex, this time around). While none of the information revealed here is in any way essential, every DLC's story except 4 and 5's are generally of good quality. Not great, though, we still have a long ways to go before I consider any of these games to have 'great writing'.
The long and short of it is: fuck off. Seriously! Over 75% of the content in these packs are directly recycled from the main game, almost no new mechanics or enemies are introduced, and they all usually are done in under an hour. At 7 bucks per, this is absolutely unacceptable, and I would not recommend anyone buy these, even real Drakengard and Nier freaks. The only redeeming quality of these packs is the fact that Yoko finally learned what an arc is instead of just having bad things happen all the time and characters just going :0 before resuming their discussions of whatever topic the game devotes far too much time towards (sex, this time around). While none of the information revealed here is in any way essential, every DLC's story except 4 and 5's are generally of good quality. Not great, though, we still have a long ways to go before I consider any of these games to have 'great writing'.
[reviewing this after finishing the game (branch D) but also before reviewing the entirety of drakengard 3 but I will post this after finishing all the reviews damn this is a stupid remark]
zero is a character that I won't actually talk about in this iteration because honestly she's the fucking protagonist of the game what do I need to say about her in an add on
plus being the character you play for the whole game the gameplay is basically the same no nuance no nothing its just zero with her sword you can't even change the weapons because this is not actually the zero from the main campaign so yeah
and thats why this review will be super short
specifically this is the dlc of how zero befriended michael the greatest dragon of them all
michael is very interesting mainly because I had no chance to get to know him because of the fact that he has 3 lines in the main game and then dies and gets reincarnated into mikhail who has no memories of his former self so yeah thats it
he is a big bad dragon and his personality is stellar and in line with the "millennial dragon who knows it all does it all etc etc" kinda reminds me of the dragon from drakengard 1 WAIT I JUST OPENED THE WIKI AND T HE DRGAON FROM DRAKENGARD 1 IS A FEMALE ?????? WHAT THE FUCK NO YOUTE LYING TO ME THATS NOT A FEMALE DRAGON VOICR OH MY GOOOOD
honestly what the fuck is my problem i thought mikhail was female too im going crazy
ok anyway michael is hot
the levels you go through are kinda standard apart from a dragon level that is so fucking long like why is that so long
anyway michael and zero form a great couple im so sorry he dies I miss you big hot dragon I really do . I like mikhail more tho so there's that
so these are the DLC
and her little portrait is cute
zero is a character that I won't actually talk about in this iteration because honestly she's the fucking protagonist of the game what do I need to say about her in an add on
plus being the character you play for the whole game the gameplay is basically the same no nuance no nothing its just zero with her sword you can't even change the weapons because this is not actually the zero from the main campaign so yeah
and thats why this review will be super short
specifically this is the dlc of how zero befriended michael the greatest dragon of them all
michael is very interesting mainly because I had no chance to get to know him because of the fact that he has 3 lines in the main game and then dies and gets reincarnated into mikhail who has no memories of his former self so yeah thats it
he is a big bad dragon and his personality is stellar and in line with the "millennial dragon who knows it all does it all etc etc" kinda reminds me of the dragon from drakengard 1 WAIT I JUST OPENED THE WIKI AND T HE DRGAON FROM DRAKENGARD 1 IS A FEMALE ?????? WHAT THE FUCK NO YOUTE LYING TO ME THATS NOT A FEMALE DRAGON VOICR OH MY GOOOOD
honestly what the fuck is my problem i thought mikhail was female too im going crazy
ok anyway michael is hot
the levels you go through are kinda standard apart from a dragon level that is so fucking long like why is that so long
anyway michael and zero form a great couple im so sorry he dies I miss you big hot dragon I really do . I like mikhail more tho so there's that
so these are the DLC
and her little portrait is cute
To close, I'd like to say that you should always take game recommendations from people because hey, you might learn something new or interesting or newly become an expert on a game to tell people if they should play said game or not. Because you might get some guy who tells you to play some amazing shit like Dishonored and love it. Again, thank you Trotsky for the amazing game recommendations and fuck you Ringo for having me but this game on my backlog for almost 2 years. Plus, if you thought this review was a schizo rant or a bad joke, it wasn't. (Part 6 of a Full Review)
Do NOT play this before branch C! Play the rest after branch A but keep this to the end because it spoils ending C's reveal. Aside from that, we have some really cool stuff here, Michael screentime alone carries it to top 3 prologue status and the boss was legit probably the best in the whole game (along with branch B's), but to balance it out in true DOD fashion, we also have some awful levels here, thus I feel conflicted about my score a little.
It was very interesting to see how Zero and Michael first met and that last fight against Michael was insanely cool and I loved parrying him.
This review contains spoilers
Mikhail: ''Are you proud of me, Zero? Did I do well?''
''Or would you yell at me like always?''
''Ze...ro... I'll...see you...soon.'' T_T
''Or would you yell at me like always?''
''Ze...ro... I'll...see you...soon.'' T_T