Drakengard 3 is bizarre because it is 80% hot anime trash fun times and then randomly shifts gears to be something almost cool and compelling, and that 20% is often when One is on-screen. When combined, they bring each other down, but here, sectioned off into her own little pocket dimension, One and her story get to flaunt their own kind of appeal.

One's Prologue is what I had kind of expected and would have liked all the other DLC's to be - short stories that expand upon teases of characters and scenarios breezed past in the main game. One's Prologue also shows how that was kind of impossible for any character besides One and Zero, because sisters Two through Five existed as character designs for boss fights and nothing more. One even has two interesting characters to bring with her - her constructed brother, and a dragon!

But even done well, and with nothing interesting to complain about as for the other DLC's, there still isn't a ton here to justify its existence. Maybe these would have been cool to have worked into the base game somewhere, unconstrained by the 4 level length of these DLC episodes - we only needed one or two to learn everything interesting there is to learn.

If the story or lore mattered in this game at all, then this would be the one worth a YouTube watching.

Reviewed on Feb 10, 2024


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