After playing drakengard 1 and 3 and getting ending a and b and mostly being frustrated and bored I dont think I want to continue that much. I have a lot of disjointed thoughts on these games but in short I'm at a point where generally I think yoko taro is kind of a hack. I will say wholeheartedly more games need to just straight up have novels in them like no visuals just words and a black screen maybe some music, I actually really liked those parts way more than I think this game should allow but books are generally my favorite medium so probably biased when the boring gameplay is interrupted with words. Makes me wonder if I'll actually like drankengard 3 when I read story side in 300 years when my japanese is functional or it gets a full translation.

Does something crazy and unlike drakengard 1, which has neither characters nor story, this one has a vague semblance of characters and a story. For real though, most people who hate the gameplay even concede "the story and characters are good" but I don't know? It's all boring? Plot threads kind of just show up and end without a second in the oven. Zero's novella is really good, probably the best moment in drakenier that isn't music, but she is straight up a different fucking character in the game so it doesn't matter because why would anything. Music and character designs were good, that was nice. I probably wouldn't have actually gotten through it except for the fact that seeing zero get covered in blood as you fight looks really good.