wetrix

james pond 2

"6-2"

pain

Xenogears disc 2 and NG 6-2 are big brain hours

Just wanted to say i started Drakengard 1 a while ago because I saw it in your favs + NieR and i gotta say the game has been pretty fucking good and unlike a lot of what I played before, there’s this sickness permeating every part of it and i love it, not one of the “its gameplay is intentionally bad” people just for clarification, I actually find the gameplay to be quite well made and the animations are great though i do agree with it being oddly mind numbing.

glad you're enjoying it! drakengard mechanically is more or less an inferior musou, but the direction brings it up several notches. i think it's fun for a casual playthrough, but bear in mind that you'll need to collect all of the weapons to play the final mission and see ending E, and the weapon hunting is truly sadistic and time consuming

i'd suggest doing it (and i've got a pretty good text guide i can send you for it) but feel free to just download a complete save file after ending D if you don't want to go through that headache

that said if you think you'd enjoy this gameplay even if it wasn't as visceral and gritty, then check out samurai warriors 2. it's more arcade-y than drakengard but infinitely more polished and rewarding

lastly, check out ace combat 3 (jp version patched) if you enjoy the flying stages. it's similarly weighty and designed by a lot of the same staff. also a fantastic game in its own right

Appreciate the recs and I’ll make sure to check em out! As for the endings I’m unsure, I doubt I have the energy for that kind of stuff, even when it comes to NieR I only ever did 2 endings (though I want to do them all sometime) I’ll make sure to try and get to Ending E on Drakengard since what little I heard about it greatly intrigues me and i’d like to see what the fuss is about.

link for the spongebob files ?

google "spongebob supersponge hidden files"

don't Google that shit I did it once a few years ago and The Old Ones have been chasing me ever since

Finished the game and looked up the requirements, yeah I’m not grind 65 weapons lmao. I’ll do the endings before E and call it a day.

grinding*

yeah do be sure to at least get a save file for the endgame though if you can. a video doesn't fully do it justice

fyi though ending A is not considered "finishing the game" at all. there's plenty more stages to do for the B, C, and D endings

Yeah I just finished D and I’m Devastated (get it), not due to Drakengard’s rather disturbing content but due to the fact that, as a video game, it’s considered an outlier to it’s contemporaries, It’s not JUST the amount of sensitive subjects it brings up or how it deals with them but that it’s not ashamed of being a video game and wears it on it’s sleeve without care, take for example the multitude of alternatives endings, it directly tells you they exist and how much you got left, and the way it uses that exclusive to games aspect to enhance it’s rich narrative, the more you struggle and try to make things better the more you end up making them worse and worse and worse, and even without that just the prospect of alternative endings itself is cool as shit, no fucking movie or tv show (which modern games can’t stop dickriding) can pull something like that off.

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