ueko
ever since this game released I have never seen destruction physics as good as this again
Played this because everyone on the game forum I used to post in praised it to hell and back for being a hidden gem. I found it to be mostly alright.
It looks nice, the timed attacks mechanic is cool and the plot is solid, but it doesn't really do anything outstanding.
Maybe for hardcore jrpg fans this might be pretty good comfort food (not every game has to reinvent the wheel), but for someone like me who isn't all that much into rpgs in general this is pretty much the poster child for "generic PS1 rpg" to me.
It looks nice, the timed attacks mechanic is cool and the plot is solid, but it doesn't really do anything outstanding.
Maybe for hardcore jrpg fans this might be pretty good comfort food (not every game has to reinvent the wheel), but for someone like me who isn't all that much into rpgs in general this is pretty much the poster child for "generic PS1 rpg" to me.
2014
don't let the murder mystery plot trick you, this is ultimately a story about a redditor learning to become human
move away persona, this is the actual best friend simulator
2011
press F to hide inside a pile of corpses
2020
the game is fine, but aesthetically is the most soulless thing I have seen in a while
2009
Its kind of funny how this rips off both Max Payne and Stranglehold which is also kind of a Max Payne ripoff on its own right, and it actually makes it kinda work? mowing all these generic dudes while doing backflips and running on walls feels surprisingly good, and the grindhouse aesthetic at the very least makes it stand out
2008
very fun arcade shooter that probably only me and 3 other people remember
2016
The best part of this game is hanging with the boys™ the worst part is when square enix makes you watch a CGI movie, an anime and play mobile game to make sense of the setting and plot
2010
I remember impressing my high school lit teacher with the Divine Comedy knowledge I acquired from this game
my sexual awakening was going to the brothel and paying for the dominatrix
its fine, just please don't take it as an indictment of visual novels in general because that wasn't the point
2016
pretty fun when you're just starting and playing with low level players then it gets kind of dull once you get into high level play
1998
Resident Evil 2 is peak videogames
2003
As you can already see by almost every other review here Drakengard is a borderline unplayable mess that's mostly praised because of how bold and utterly weird it is, however call me a simpleton but as interesting as what its setting to do may be its hard to excuse a gameplay this awful.
Drakengard's gameplay might be midly entertaining for like 10 minutes, then it gets just plain tedious, and to get every ending you have to go through the absolute slog of unlocking every weapon (which ends up amounting to most of the game time).
I do think that its interesting to have a game where the protagonist is a murderhobo, every ally you get is a terrible human being and the gameplay seems to drive the point that all you're engaging in is mindless violence that goes nowhere and just ends up making things worse, but I'm not sure it was worth at the end.
In any case the jooke's on me, because all Drakengard left me is the nerd clout of saying that I beat it and that I never want to touch it again.
Drakengard's gameplay might be midly entertaining for like 10 minutes, then it gets just plain tedious, and to get every ending you have to go through the absolute slog of unlocking every weapon (which ends up amounting to most of the game time).
I do think that its interesting to have a game where the protagonist is a murderhobo, every ally you get is a terrible human being and the gameplay seems to drive the point that all you're engaging in is mindless violence that goes nowhere and just ends up making things worse, but I'm not sure it was worth at the end.
In any case the jooke's on me, because all Drakengard left me is the nerd clout of saying that I beat it and that I never want to touch it again.