u/Sir_Forteskull

My only true experience with Yoko Taro's works before this was NieR Automata several years back, a game I owe a replay. But for now, let's talk about funny dragon game. This game has a raw, unmatched epic vibe. You can be slaying armies with your weaponry one minute and scorching the battlefield with your dragon the next. It's all undercooked due to most of the shoestring budget being blown on FMVs but eh what can you do? The plot is deceptively simple at first, to where when the story ramps up, you're caught off guard. The characters are all sick freaks but you can never bring yourself to outright reject them. Even when I found out Leonard was a gay pedophile who jerked off to his little brothers, my sympathy towards the death of his brothers and his crippling survivor's guilt changed little, and that realization was profound enough to make me think about how I process fictional characters. I not only struggled my way through Ending A, but struggled even more through Ending B, slightly through Ending C and felt the urge to quit gaming once I did Ending D. And then I went on my Grand weapon romp only to get forced to play a rhythm game, a genre that I cannot handle no matter how well I try to play. I pulled off every dirty trick in the book just to get past it and I am proud to admit that.

After that, I was finished, I had bested Drakengard 1 for the PS2. And my only reward was watching the two characters I spent those hours with get unceremoniously blown out of the skies by the Japanese military. The time I spent hacking and slashing through twenty hundred enemies that'd often ignore my attacks and knock me down anyway, those painful hours of amassing an armory's worth of weapons through trial, error and a guide, the countless deaths expedienced in those janky flight levels for the sake of another ending and all the other blood, sweat and tears I shed getting to this point, all blown away with not even 1% of the effort and skewered for all of Shinjuku to see. And I laughed. I laughed for the first time in those thirty hours. It was funny, but WHY? Was I laughing that I was free from Caim and Angelus? That everything I did was blown out of the sky, therefore accepting the meaningless of it all? Or was it simply a funny ending? I'll never know, I'll never be allowed to know. All I can do is let this game digest and then play Drakengard 3. I already want to crack Zero.

Gaming has been my hobby since I was a child. I can't escape it. I can't stop it. No matter how sick I get of it sometimes, I will always come back, like a weak man who cannot stop bringing his toxic ex back into his life and swearing "we're over it now!" I spent most of Drakengard verbally complaining just to make this and tell you I earnestly enjoyed it. But if I can finish this game 100%, maybe there is some genuine love for the medium, and this game, that compells me to keep going rather than old habits dying hard.

Let Zero sit on my fucking face though or else I'm manifesting another pale entity into this timeline to ensure our descendants all become Replicants.

I giggled with gigglee boyhowdyly as I whimsied down the stairs to my beloved Sclorpus

The Dreaded Level 3 Susie

"The water was shaky today" I re-mark as my fishing pole danced on the water.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2's (2017) Jin can prematurely end his boss battles by starting cutscenes where he beats the party. He later brought this technique into Deltarune (2018) when he accepted the role of the Roaring Knight.

In Drakengard (2003), a character named Arioch can be called upon during your time of need, and you will end up begging Arioch for help a lot. This happened to my buddy Elric.

In Deltarune Chapter 1 (2018), if you name the vessel Nigel, you will run into this event in the Scarlet Forest (now renamed Albert's Forest). I love Undertime Slopper

Mario Kart 64 (1996), while it's a good game, features no traditional turn-based battle system, no demons or any Law & Chaos-infested post-apocalyptic worlds, making it a pretty bad Shin Megami Tensei game.

Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth (2024) shows that bovines exist in this game's universe. This is a clever nod to Final Fantasy 7 being Square Enix's cashcow for almost 3 whole decades.

Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019), despite having the franchise's most ambitious writing to date, is widely known to have a bad plot. This is a reminder that Three Houses is still a Fire Emblem game.

In Persona 4 (2008), the culprit is an unstable wreak of a man capable of kidnapping some of the most notable public figures in the country in a town swarmed by police without a trace, but is caught kidnapping a lone 8 year-old. This is because the writers need to move the plot along.

I was shaking it like crazy

Drakengard has been Drakenbeated and I Gard to admit...

"Oh what a wonderful day!" I say ohwhatawondedfuldayly as I merrily make way down the stairs to greet my dog.

Got big red gap in arm and me patch it up so it hurt less now.

I started Drakengard and I am incredibly disappointed, maybe even disgusted.

I sat in the theatre for the new movie i wanted to watch and halfway through I had to use the bathroom.

Fun Fact: Tsugumi has some very interesting voice clips in Japanese. First is the Ojou-sama laugh, and second, an "Ara~" voice clip. It's quite different from the English localisation... AND I LOVE IT

Is there a reason why Len is so erotic that she gets tons of H-Scenes? Is it her feet?

Once, when I was seven years old, I sat on a banana.

As I descend the rickety stairs of the basement, which creaked with agony under the weight of my feet, I identify a strange shape amidst the coat of blackness, proving darker than dark and more obscene than the wonders of the unknowable.