The friendly concerned girl (4) is a racist, elitist bitch that has a large superiority/hero complex who only cares about One and Zero. Not exactly the best stereotype to compare her as, honestly.
If embarrassed peeing moe dragons are your fetish, this is the game for you. If you prefer being eaten alive by gigantic cannibal babies, try out the first Drakengard.
I really hope the best friends make it happen, because no one else will. Please, America Matt Man, use your powers of merchandising to make our dreams come true!
HAHAHAHA, abandon all hope all ye that enter Branch D. That rhythm section is just a big "fuck you" from Access Games (specifically Taro Yoko) to anyone that got that far.
Same, except without the mixed feelings. I'm just polishing off the requests to unlock all the weapons. When I get the last ending I'm toying with the idea of doing the five hour or so grind to max all weapon levels and plat the game.
***** No, in many cases the localizers at least try to lip- synch by altering the mouth movements a little bit, but here they didn't do anything in that regard. Zero isn't constantly angry in the original japanese dub. She just wants to work as efficiently as possible, thus she tells the other guys to shut up or she will kill them. She doesn't sound angry at all when she says that, and she also doesn't mean to really kill them. After having reached Ending A, you can see that there is more to her character than you thought up to that point.
Localizers don't alter mouth movements in games. if that is ever done AT ALL, it's done by the devs. but usually all the localizers do is try to time the dialogue to match the mouth flaps. (which is near impossible to do if the mouth is more realistically animated.
The idea that Pat knows what the Onee-sama laugh is terrifies me to my core while simultaneously giving me boundless wonder at what other anime bullshit he knows that he doesn't want us to know he knows
Nagittchi Really, 'cause goddamn, that sounds like a rollicking good time to me, with Liam face palming and Matt and Woolie just staring at him like he's some kinda freakazoid.
Kakashi Hatake Mainly when he laughs. The rest of the time he sounds just like a child character from something else that I can't quite place. But yea, it's bad.
***** But unlike FF8, Nier is a masterpiece that doesn't need to rely on Triple Triad to be wonderful. Instead it has a super easy-fishing mini-game that idiotic "internet reviewers" can't figure out.
This game is currently sitting as my GOTY. It's combat is jank, it's framerate is garbage, and it's characters are all assholes... and it may be one of the best things I've ever done to myself. The music is beautiful and manic at time, its humor is awkward and forced to the point of being adorable, it's lore is split between reading outside sources (the novella that you can read on the website. I have the Collector's Ed, so I have a hard-copy) and DLC that fill in much needed blank-spaces in characterization, the requirement to getting to the final arc is to replay sections of the game in order to obtain all the weapons in the game, its final boss... exists, and every ending waves its dick in front of the face of anyone expecting a fulfilling, happy ending... ...I love everything about this game and Yoko Taro. I hope he continues to get work. This isn't a game that was meant to be reviewed objectively (because it falls the fuck a PART), but subjectively. Its a series that you need to "get," and that's no easy task nor will normal people be able to do... and that's fine. Yoko Taro stated on Facebook that this game is for weird people, and I'm more than happy to be a weird person. :)
If you go into a Drakengard game and expect ANYTHING other than a Drakengard game, you wasted your money. That being said, I got exactly what I expected and enjoy it.
I feel like I'm gonna wake up in ten minutes and realise I've been halucinating. I'm gonna go stand in the corner for a while... All these squares make a circle...
FUCK YES, WEABOO SHIT. Your best videos are playing weaboo games. That combination of discomfort, astonishment, and bewilderment is the best stuff. May I suggest you tackle Conception 2 for more stellar videos?
NARATO0 I'd give it a 5/10. The story isn't good enough to warrant the sudden increase in difficulty, the pacing is horrid (Oh, you finished a dungeon? Well, we're going to introduce three subplots and solve all of them in the next ten dialogue boxes), and when you reach a certain point you have to make a choice. Do I actually care enough about this paper thin joke plot to keep playing now that the enemies are doing enough damage that I should start grinding? The answer was no. I did not care enough to beat the 5th dungeon.
+Dr. Stein Honestly, in that case this series is for you on characters alone. Drakengard 1 gives you a party of an insane psycho murderer who may or may not be screwing his sister, a blind pedophile man who was suggested to be off jerkin' it while his family was being murdered, an insane elf woman who likes to eat children so they can be inside her again after her family was murdered in front of her... ...and a little boy who is unable to age. If that isn't a fantastic and healthy group of heroes then I don't know what is.
Okay, the first statement you said, I read it in Liquid Snake's voice because of the _Brother_ part. Second, I lost it with _that_ specific line from a song that's pretty much the national theme song of emo teenagers, XD
Not that I'm saying the main character is basically Guts from Berserk but she has one real arm and one eye. Only she has the foresight to shove something stupid into her empty eye socket.
I really hope they do a full Let's Play of this. Lot's of comedy, lot's of odd things, lot's of complaining about graphics. It'd be nice to see everyone's reactions to Zero and her companions.
It would be great, until the final boss. Then it'd just be pure rage and LOTS of cut footage lol. If anything, this game is a damn rollercoaster of emotions and events.
Super glad someone in the Zaibatsu has played and likes Nier. Definitely one of the most memorable games I've played on the last gen consoles - marries the concept of 'the game' and the story in a very interesting way. Love how they integrated extra feels and narrative upon successive replays.
Right?! Dear gods I felt bad to kill the second half boss with the spear (Gretel his name seems to be) because of the THING (You know what I'm talking about, I just don't want to spoil anything) And the very final ending then? That was pretty fucking sweet and you can be certain that no "real" game would have the balls to do something like that. I kinda hope that they would do a full let's play of it, but addmitedly it's a weird game and does require to you finish it several times to ACTUALLY finish it...
The Novella explains like 90% of the story btw. Explains the flower, both the dragons, how the sisters came into being, Zero's childhood, and why she wants to kill her sisters. Would be nice if they put a digital version in the game to read.
Yeah, you can kinda tell by the lines Zero said in the video but most of them are brainwashed or just blindly following them but it explains why they want to end everything.
soulflame99 A translated Grimoire Nier would've been nice to have been included in the western release of NieR as well, but Japan doesn't think we deserve things like that apparently. At least you can find it online.
Yeah, atleast the novella was in the CE but considering only 5000 were made a majority of ppl dont have or even know it exists which leaves SOOOOO many unanswered questions for people playing the game.
The amount of people shitting all over Nier and The Drakengard Series in this comment section is incredibly disappointing. Get better gaming tastes, TBF fanbase.
TheBackwardsLegsMan Eh, not exactly. I mean it kind of is but it's quite a popular game series in Japan, or so I am told. It's always been here in America too and it's here that it's much more niche. But largely because we don't have a lot of variety in our own games that anything weird or out of the norm is treated harshly. Or generally it is. Frankly I dislike that mentality. Nier is a pretty accessible game within the series and also happens to be the best installment as far as I'm concerned. It's so damn good that I easily rank it up there among the best games of this past generation. A lot of the issues you see in D3, such as the game censoring itself, are nowhere to be found in any other game in the series, as Liam promptly points out.
When they were asking about if biblically Michael was a badass the short answer is yes. He was the fastest, he was the wisest, and He was the top dog of Archangels. Archangels are are all bad assets and there are only seven of them, so he is the badass amoung the Badass
You could have put this much simpler. The biblical Michael kicked satans ass. Literally one handed. He's the guy God sent to take care of business when God couldn't be bothered.
randomfox RWBY as a whole is, at best, a mediocre flash series in a bland setting. The actual action scenes in RWBY, however, are fucking balls-to-the-wall white-knuckle fuckfests of choreography that play fast and hard. The action is good, everything else less so.
Declan Greenleaf still not sure if it's supposed to be sequal or prequel. Note: anyone about to read further who hasnt played or finished nier yet, i dont recommend reading ahead. i mean...according to grimmoire nier, a book adding info, after the true end kaine goes off to wander, leaving yonah alone, and in her travels she finds a small child. this child turns out to be nier reborn, the last rebirth, and kaine is compelled to take him under her wing cuz he seems familiar event hugh her memory is gone. that's not what makes me wonder how a sequal could work though...it's the fact the world is basically dead/falling apart after it's all over, and the book says even with that happening an alien race appears before earth saying their god proclaimed they need to be purged...kinda seems like the world of nier is doomed all things considered, so unless it's supposed to be before the aliens appear, or supposed to use the events in the book for its story, or before the events in nier even happened or the world fully collapsed/sunk i dont know. still excited as hell, wanna see how they do this.
well nobody ever said the drakengard universe was a nice one, but that didn't stop the other games from happening after all the BULLSHIT that occurs at every one of 3's endings. Things will be fine. Totally fine. We're not going to all end up catatonic with despair at the end of the game or anything, you know? ...right?
Declan Greenleaf oh we're most definitely gonna fall into despair. drakengard is dark and grungy...nier is depressing and hopeless...that's the theme...now grab your sobbing eye blankets.
Just for the people who will never play the game and were left wondering: There IS a good reason why Zero is doing what she's doing and her sisters are all revealed to be super fucked up in the DLC and novellas. Drakengard 3 serves as a sort of ideological antithesis to Nier (the director's previous game). While Nier was about well-intentioned people who looked like heroes on the outside unknowingly doing some fucked up shit, Drakengard 3 is about a seemeingly evil and selfish antihero actually doing the right thing and fighting for the greater good even if the world misunderstands her actions. Just some food for thought.
Yeah, it was the Danganronpa UDG problem all over again. I usually prefer subs over dubs for anime but in games like this, Dangan, and Persona I like the eng dubs. Liam's Japanese bias was really prominent in this case.
Zero as a name is the most generic anime thing ever. Drakengard is cool and shit, but seriously, lol. _"We need this character to have a cool and edgy-sounding name. I know! Zero!"_
***** I did make that comment just a few minutes in, so I didn't get to see the rest. Even so, I stick by my words and continue to say that it's so generic to have the one numbered Zero to be the badass, lol. Why not have 4 as the badass playable one? Or how about 6? Where's the love for numbers that aren't 0,1,3,and 7, lol
Swagbito Uchiha [spoiler------------------------------------------------] She's called Zero because she's the one all the other intoners were born from, that's why she doesn't have a number on her forehead, she's the only real human and she probably had a normal name before.
They've said before they'd only do episodes and not full LPs for niche/budget games like these that actually need the sales. They want you to buy this if you like it. LOL
Me too, but Nier, Drakenguard are the kinda games that always only just make back their small budgets, you can tell jut by looking at them. lol Now if this were some super popular mega franchise or so old it wasn't in reproduction anymore they might.
CantabileGamingHD That's considerate. And smart. I'm not usually one to want to go out and buy a game - but for this? - I think I'm down for buying this. I like the MC a lot. She doesn't seem evil or good. She's just fighting for her own reasons. And why can't they be selfish ones? (As long as she's not being a total dick to everybody) I hope that at least she has one good reason, among others that might be selfish. And that Dito boy seems like a little shit. But whatever.
So the Cathedral City is Barcelona from another dimension which brought sentient magic wielding demon flowers into the world, song based magic in a mysterious language, and dragons...what you smokin' Yoko?
Oh wow, I just finished watching the second Episode of the Minecraft SM lp, and Pat talks about flooding the aqueducts in the Coliseum in that, too >.> What are the chances that I would watch them back to back lol
Drakengard is such a hyper dark series and really fucking weird that I can't help but love it. And plus this is also such a video game that it quenches that thirst you need for total carnage and combos and shit. Its great. The fact that Zero is voiced by Mitsuru is lulzy since she has SUCH a foul mouth.
I know everyone always asks for this every time you play a new game, but I seriously hope you people do a full LP of this. It could be the next deadly premonition for this channel, this game is just pure fucking insanity.
12:04, Was Liam being sly and referencing the 2nd episode of Cowboy Bebop where the guy keeps saying "Seems that way...". I could just be high, but thats what I heard
I didn't think the ending that lead into Nier was the worst ending in context of the Drakengard world. Caim and Angelus defeated the queen beast and though they were killed too by the military fighter planes, I assume what they did saved their own world (though it fucked over ours). The one where they are eaten by those babies and Seere sacrifices himself and the one in which Furiae is turned and replicated into a shit ton of annoyingly hard monsters were the worst ones in my opinions.
I think any Drakengard ending that wasn't ending A ended with the entire destruction of Caim's world. Ending B had Furiae's clones kill everyone, Ending C had the dragons kill everyone, Ending D had the Watchers and Seere freeze the world in eternal time stop, and Ending E ended up infecting our/Nier's world with the salt virus while still leaving Caim's world at the mercy of the Watchers. Drakengard!
Michael the Archangel was in fact the badass of the bible. He's the protector angel of heaven and defeated the devil at some point I believe. Or at least lucifer. He is the patron saint on Police Officers, Fireman, and EMT's for that very reason.
This game doesnt look that bad. I mean doesnt look amazing but I have seen WAY worse looking game. It annoys me when Pat complains SO often about FPS and graphics. I do not understand why he is such a stickler about it. Loading Screens are terrible though.
I recall in one of the podcasts that he admits that once you are able to notice these things, you can't ignore them and he wishes he was like us who don't notice or care about FPSs and resolutions.
Kobracondor I dont think its that hard. I have been playing games all my life. Yes I notice and appreciate it when games have good frames and graphics but it wont ruin a game for me like it can for Pat.
Gore6194ever No, like it chugs to 15 FPS during certain sections of the game. I don't care if it runs at 30 FPS by default, but making certain section really difficult because it lags to below 20fps is really unacceptable. Especially since it's not that graphically intensive. The game isn't bad(I think? I have mixed feelings) but the lag is really annoying at parts. You'll feel it when you play it, I assure you.
From the context I've heard it used in my family, "a country mile" is longer because it would take a mile to get there if you went straight ("as the crow flies"), but you can't because of the mountains, so the road if very windy and actually much longer than a mile.
Well, its kinda hard to say. I've nearly beaten the game, and I kinda like her, but I mainly like the character because of how much of an unapologetic bitch she is to most people, and the kinda secretive caring side that comes later. Probably the best answer I could give is that this is a Yoko Taro game, which means that the characters are all manners of screwed up with horrible secrets and pasts and whatnot. So even with the best of intentions, the characters will be horrible, AWFUL people.
Not until the very very end on purpose. The whole point of the game is to make you feel as uncomfortable as possible for the big reveal at the end. That's why Branch A is so silly. I don't know if I agree with the direction Yoko took, but that's what he was going for.
Even though I'm an extremely nice person, all of these evil main characters were still endearing to me, because I had the suspicion that Zero might not have truly been evil, or at least not "dick evil".
So, we are going to see a full playthrough, right? This game looks seriously legit for the two of you to go through after all the slammin' and jammin'. Honestly, I would love to see this thing laid out before my eyes in the full resplendent beauty that only the Best Friends can serve.
They're used to protagonists who are anti-heroes, like GTA or Red Dead Redemption. Even Renegade Shepard from Mass Effect is a hero. Or straight up heroes, like in most other games. They're also not used to sex being a prominent thing. A lot of people get turned off by the mere mention of anything sexual in video games. An MC who is blatantly a murderous, sex loving psychopath with greyed motivations is a breath of much fresher air than a 'normal' character. People keep comparing this to Drakengard 1 but they fail to realize it's almost literally more of the same, if not tamer. Zero is Caim if he were a girl and could talk. The party members in 1 were a cannibalistic elf and a blind pedophile. The party members in this? A sadist, a masochist, a sex crazed maniac and a know-it-all. It still hits a lot of weird points, and there was comedy in Drakengard 1 (though not as prevalent).
But the weird thing is that One even said "Let us sing of the world's end" So why is it so "crazy" for Zero to try and kill her sisters (Especially because it seems like she also has personal reasons)?
FuruyaChihir0 That's probably part of the "good reason why she does what she does" thing that people who have played the game allude to. I really don't get the whole hate people give to the main character here given the fact we see that kind of development in story and character already.
The character design and voice acting in this game are phenomenal. The story seems really interesting and while the gameplay is no DMC or Bayonetta, it looks fun enough to last for the game without getting boring. It feels weird that I'm trying to decide whether to get a PS4 or a PS3.
+SubatomicSeal Not... exactly? Basically she's killing these people because leaving them alive would cause the world to end... and in the other NG+ games that gets more and more apparent, as the actions of people change and get more obvious.
nahnah390 But isn't the reason she's slaughtering all her siblings because she just wants all the power? Also this would be a good time to mention I know nothing about the Drakengard series.
It only seems like that in the first cycle, but each cycle gives you more and more information, and shows off more and more of everyone's personalities. Basically the sisters are all connected to a doomsday... thing, called the flower, and as long as they live, the flower does too. So, she's going to kill everyone but herself, and then get her dragon to kill her, since only dragons and other flowers can safely kill them without unleashing the end of the world.
Spoilers ahead, but she's lying to Mikhail about her motives. All six of the Intoner sisters are connected to the parasitic flower, and are essentially ticking time bombs. Any one of them can and will involuntarily cause the apocalypse if they are left alive. Her plan is to kill all of her sisters, and then herself, thereby saving the world by erasing all traces of the flower. In this world, that specific flower is some sort of ancient evil magic, and dragons are the eternal enemy of that flower. The only way to kill an Intoner is with the power of a dragon, which is why Zero has a dragon with her. Michael (the first dragon) was on board with her plan and that's why he was helping her. Mikhail doesn't know about Zero's plan, and Zero lies to him about her motives because she thinks he will refuse to help her if he knows that he's going to have to kill her in the end.
Okay, in that opening cinematic, which lasts until 3:25, did ANY of the three dozen or so soldiers even attempt to swing their swords at the completely unarmoured skinny white girl in front of them? Anyone at all?
It bugs me super hard that they have an attractive female character in white that gets covered in stupid levels of blood effects, meaning the blood is as noticeable as it ever possibly could be, and then they just have random CG scenes thrown in where the character has no blood on her at all! And then it goes right back to gameplay with the blood clearly back on her!!! I mean, did they not think this crap through?! How did the creators just look at the super inconsistent way that scene plays out and just think "Yeah, that's OK". I mean, what the heck?!? You couldn't have even just programmed in something to reset the blood effects after a cutscene so it's not the most noticable thing ever? Nope? OK then!
what is it with Yoko Taro and hot white-haired chicks
cuz he's got the right idea
Radiance64 white haired girls to the win
*homicidal* white haired girls
but yeah he has good taste
"I just really like girls." - Yoko Taro
Yoko Taro should be hired for a future Devil May Cry game to design a female descendant of the Sparda family!
35:50 The way that her scream transitioned into the music was fucking sick.
+Strelok Kosugi That happens with all the sisters. It's really dope.
Dev Now I really wanna play this. Or at least watch an LP of it.
...and 2 years later they actually played NieR
You will always live in Yoshikage Kira's shadow no matter what you do, Your struggle is futile
And 3 years later, the world has changed forever.
Do not speak of it. For me, the grief is still too soon to bear.
7:27 Your enemies are five anime girl stereotypes: Expressionless serious girl, hyperactive cutesy girl, quiet creepy girl, friendly concerned girl and busty seductive girl.
I ain't even mad...
And let's not forget our main character Lightning Up To Eleven.
And the girl that hates them all.
godwavenexus 7 months later... still not mad...
The friendly concerned girl (4) is a racist, elitist bitch that has a large superiority/hero complex who only cares about One and Zero.
Not exactly the best stereotype to compare her as, honestly.
Liam: "This is the most, vanity project I've ever seen someone make"
>Cut to Liam on the verge of tears at the end of his automata playthrough
If embarrassed peeing moe dragons are your fetish, this is the game for you.
If you prefer being eaten alive by gigantic cannibal babies, try out the first Drakengard.
I want, "In case of monster disaster, break ocean" on a t-shirt, with a big old picture of Godzilla superimposed on it lol.
I really hope the best friends make it happen, because no one else will.
Please, America Matt Man, use your powers of merchandising to make our dreams come true!
Man, if the Drakengard games had been made by Platinum... imagine how awesome they would be.
Well, they are making the new spin-off Nier Automata
FKz01 What spin-off?
@@tovi3280 Nier Automata it's like nier but a lot better
The Glitchy Dragoon But it’s not a spin-off. It’s literally connected to the Drakengard story, both of them are
Also I’ve played Automata lol
Tovi Heyyy “ACkShualLY”
You thought it was you who killed Five, but it was I, Dito!!!
Lol, Dito?
jeremy johnson
The kid in the game.
It works so perfectly XD
DIO's Scary Monster and THE WORLD I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE 0_o
this should have been a full play through, it would've been interesting
a full playthrough where Pat bitches about the framerate and not understanding anything. Sounds lovely.
You thought Zero would be the one to kill Five, but it was I, Dito!
In spite of all the jank, I kinda want to play this now
+tycho042 same
"Liam what is this weeaboo shit?" is the best way to start any video with liam.
"Zero's Bizarre Adventure"
Nope, not enough posing.
"You thought that you had killed her, but it was me Dito!"
"Kono Dito da!"
The director of these games is a mad genius. I would love to give him a blank check to make whatever he wants
Yup. Yup. Totally Drakengard. In the process of unlocking the last ending and I'm still having mixed feelings about the game.
HAHAHAHA, abandon all hope all ye that enter Branch D. That rhythm section is just a big "fuck you" from Access Games (specifically Taro Yoko) to anyone that got that far.
The Rain Transformed And it wasn't the first time he put a bullshit rhythm game in a Drakengard...
Same, except without the mixed feelings. I'm just polishing off the requests to unlock all the weapons. When I get the last ending I'm toying with the idea of doing the five hour or so grind to max all weapon levels and plat the game.
damnit Liam. You should have put it in English. Pat would have lost his shit.
Yeah, so much better in english.
dat mikhail japanese voice.@_@
RaptorNX01
The english dub isn't good. Zero's voice sounds constantly angry in the english dub, and the lip- synching is pretty much non- existent.
Vivi Orunitia Bad lip syncing is every localization. And guess what, Zero is an angry characters.
*****
No, in many cases the localizers at least try to lip- synch by altering the mouth movements a little bit, but here they didn't do anything in that regard. Zero isn't constantly angry in the original japanese dub. She just wants to work as efficiently as possible, thus she tells the other guys to shut up or she will kill them. She doesn't sound angry at all when she says that, and she also doesn't mean to really kill them.
After having reached Ending A, you can see that there is more to her character than you thought up to that point.
Localizers don't alter mouth movements in games. if that is ever done AT ALL, it's done by the devs. but usually all the localizers do is try to time the dialogue to match the mouth flaps. (which is near impossible to do if the mouth is more realistically animated.
The idea that Pat knows what the Onee-sama laugh is terrifies me to my core while simultaneously giving me boundless wonder at what other anime bullshit he knows that he doesn't want us to know he knows
He's friends with Woolie and Liam, even if he's never watched that type of anime he'd still hear it from them
The idea of Pat doing the pose and going "OOOOOOOOOHOHOHOHOHO" terrifies me even more.
Nagittchi Really, 'cause goddamn, that sounds like a rollicking good time to me, with Liam face palming and Matt and Woolie just staring at him like he's some kinda freakazoid.
Nagittchi I'd pay good money to see that.
And he watched some moeblob stuff a while ago for some reason.
That's not a Big Sister laugh, that's a Noble Lady laugh.
As in, Bitch Noble Lady.
Edit: I didn't notice Jang O's comment, sorry.
This game seems like it wouldn't make sense even if I understood what was going on.
that fucking dragons voice (mikhail) my god!
Yeah, it hurts, but I think that's the point. Children are evil, even dragon children.
Tim the Wizard shit, but do we need to suffer too?
Trust me, the english voice is much worse. He sounds like Phil and Lil from the Rugrats.
Really? Oh God!
Kakashi Hatake Mainly when he laughs. The rest of the time he sounds just like a child character from something else that I can't quite place. But yea, it's bad.
52:22 Cut to Raiden going "Shit! Not again..."
And that regeneration is pretty fucking nuts... I love it.
I thought Pat was gonna say "There will be blood, shed" at 52:39
fernanj003
_"...AND IT WILL COME,_
_LIKE A FLOOD OF PAIN,_
_POURING DOWN ON ME!_
_AND IT WILL NOT LET UP UNTIL THE END IS HERE..."_
I wonder how many husks of her former bodies she's left around in that year
ColeVecsion That... That is a pretty creepy thought...
Last Phantom a creepier thought is what the fucked up characters in the universe do with them
Pat and Liam should play Neir, I'd watch the fuck out of that!
Only if they go for every single ending. That may (who am I kidding, would) require some editing on their part to make it easier for viewers to watch.
If they full LPd it that would be the hypest!
But there's no Triple Triad in that game.
LP RUINED!
***** But unlike FF8, Nier is a masterpiece that doesn't need to rely on Triple Triad to be wonderful. Instead it has a super easy-fishing mini-game that idiotic "internet reviewers" can't figure out.
NaotaInka They're just mad cause they're SHIT AT CARDS!
This game is currently sitting as my GOTY. It's combat is jank, it's framerate is garbage, and it's characters are all assholes... and it may be one of the best things I've ever done to myself.
The music is beautiful and manic at time, its humor is awkward and forced to the point of being adorable, it's lore is split between reading outside sources (the novella that you can read on the website. I have the Collector's Ed, so I have a hard-copy) and DLC that fill in much needed blank-spaces in characterization, the requirement to getting to the final arc is to replay sections of the game in order to obtain all the weapons in the game, its final boss... exists, and every ending waves its dick in front of the face of anyone expecting a fulfilling, happy ending...
...I love everything about this game and Yoko Taro. I hope he continues to get work. This isn't a game that was meant to be reviewed objectively (because it falls the fuck a PART), but subjectively. Its a series that you need to "get," and that's no easy task nor will normal people be able to do... and that's fine. Yoko Taro stated on Facebook that this game is for weird people, and I'm more than happy to be a weird person. :)
49:19 Holy shit Pat, calling the kettle black.
It's fiiiiiiine.
calling the redhead a ginger
"If you're gonna call a dragon for backup, have him do dragon shit."
Zero, you thought you killed Five, but it was I, Dito!
If you go into a Drakengard game and expect ANYTHING other than a Drakengard game, you wasted your money.
That being said, I got exactly what I expected and enjoy it.
I feel like I'm gonna wake up in ten minutes and realise I've been halucinating. I'm gonna go stand in the corner for a while... All these squares make a circle...
+Mason Hatcher i need you to tell me i can leave the lets play if i want too
tyler stager
Mr. Stager, you can leave the let's play anytime you....
+Mason Hatcher BITCH DONT TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!.....
tyler stager
The last time you did this, I found five corpses... you laughed when I said five...
+Mason Hatcher hahahahahahaha
FUCK YES, WEABOO SHIT. Your best videos are playing weaboo games. That combination of discomfort, astonishment, and bewilderment is the best stuff. May I suggest you tackle Conception 2 for more stellar videos?
Liam said it's shit, everyone laughed and said "We told you so!" And they're right, it's not great.
Nekufan1000000 I wouldn't really say it was to bad I would give it like 7 out of 10 mostly because of the gameplay and the story is okay
NARATO0 I'd give it a 5/10. The story isn't good enough to warrant the sudden increase in difficulty, the pacing is horrid (Oh, you finished a dungeon? Well, we're going to introduce three subplots and solve all of them in the next ten dialogue boxes), and when you reach a certain point you have to make a choice. Do I actually care enough about this paper thin joke plot to keep playing now that the enemies are doing enough damage that I should start grinding? The answer was no. I did not care enough to beat the 5th dungeon.
I know nothing of this game other than what I saw in this video, but I'm a fan of Dito. I like characters that aren't quite all there upstairs.
that's because Dito and Three's disciple are the best
That's literally this entire game.
+Dr. Stein Honestly, in that case this series is for you on characters alone. Drakengard 1 gives you a party of an insane psycho murderer who may or may not be screwing his sister, a blind pedophile man who was suggested to be off jerkin' it while his family was being murdered, an insane elf woman who likes to eat children so they can be inside her again after her family was murdered in front of her...
...and a little boy who is unable to age. If that isn't a fantastic and healthy group of heroes then I don't know what is.
Oh fucking hell yes. I just got back from my shift at Wendy's, I'm tired, and you guys playing this masterpiece of a game is _exactly_ what I needed.
Oh no, I can't talk to you anymore, for my soul is owned by your rival, Hardee's!
_Walks away dramatically towards the wind, wiping away tears_
Swagbito Uchiha May our paths cross again, _Brother._
CRAWLING IN MY SKIN
Okay, the first statement you said, I read it in Liquid Snake's voice because of the _Brother_ part.
Second, I lost it with _that_ specific line from a song that's pretty much the national theme song of emo teenagers, XD
Swagbito Uchiha [in old snakes voice] LIQUID!!!!!!!
Not that I'm saying the main character is basically Guts from Berserk but she has one real arm and one eye.
Only she has the foresight to shove something stupid into her empty eye socket.
She didn't put the flower there.
I want to see Guts shove a big dumb flower into his eye now.
He'll wear it while battling the rape horse.
Now, you talk about rape horse but rape horse is probably totally in this game as one of the Intoner's boyfriends.
crazyinsane500 ... and I think I know which one.
"Liam, what is this weeaboo shit."
PERFECT START TO THE NEXT FIFTY THREE MINUTES AND FORTY SEVEN SECONDS OF MY LIFE.
I really hope they do a full Let's Play of this. Lot's of comedy, lot's of odd things, lot's of complaining about graphics. It'd be nice to see everyone's reactions to Zero and her companions.
It would be great, until the final boss. Then it'd just be pure rage and LOTS of cut footage lol. If anything, this game is a damn rollercoaster of emotions and events.
skLaFarebear To be honest, I want them to do it pretty much exclusively for the final boss. It would be hilarious.
Super glad someone in the Zaibatsu has played and likes Nier. Definitely one of the most memorable games I've played on the last gen consoles - marries the concept of 'the game' and the story in a very interesting way. Love how they integrated extra feels and narrative upon successive replays.
Right?!
Dear gods I felt bad to kill the second half boss with the spear (Gretel his name seems to be) because of the THING (You know what I'm talking about, I just don't want to spoil anything)
And the very final ending then? That was pretty fucking sweet and you can be certain that no "real" game would have the balls to do something like that.
I kinda hope that they would do a full let's play of it, but addmitedly it's a weird game and does require to you finish it several times to ACTUALLY finish it...
The Novella explains like 90% of the story btw. Explains the flower, both the dragons, how the sisters came into being, Zero's childhood, and why she wants to kill her sisters. Would be nice if they put a digital version in the game to read.
Or if they told it through the game.
Yeah, you can kinda tell by the lines Zero said in the video but most of them are brainwashed or just blindly following them but it explains why they want to end everything.
soulflame99 A translated Grimoire Nier would've been nice to have been included in the western release of NieR as well, but Japan doesn't think we deserve things like that apparently. At least you can find it online.
Yeah, atleast the novella was in the CE but considering only 5000 were made a majority of ppl dont have or even know it exists which leaves SOOOOO many unanswered questions for people playing the game.
Never thought I'd see Sora kicking the shit out of a corpse while holding a proper sword.
Pleasant surprise.
The amount of people shitting all over Nier and The Drakengard Series in this comment section is incredibly disappointing. Get better gaming tastes, TBF fanbase.
TheBackwardsLegsMan Eh, not exactly. I mean it kind of is but it's quite a popular game series in Japan, or so I am told. It's always been here in America too and it's here that it's much more niche. But largely because we don't have a lot of variety in our own games that anything weird or out of the norm is treated harshly. Or generally it is. Frankly I dislike that mentality.
Nier is a pretty accessible game within the series and also happens to be the best installment as far as I'm concerned. It's so damn good that I easily rank it up there among the best games of this past generation. A lot of the issues you see in D3, such as the game censoring itself, are nowhere to be found in any other game in the series, as Liam promptly points out.
Man, i want a game where you play as one of those poor troopers and where the main objective is just to survive while the demi-gods duke it out
When they were asking about if biblically Michael was a badass the short answer is yes. He was the fastest, he was the wisest, and He was the top dog of Archangels. Archangels are are all bad assets and there are only seven of them, so he is the badass amoung the Badass
Stupid auto correct, not bad assets, I mean Badass.
You could have put this much simpler. The biblical Michael kicked satans ass. Literally one handed. He's the guy God sent to take care of business when God couldn't be bothered.
That intro CG got me so hyped for the RWBY character action game we'll never get
Mainly because the series is just a high school anime under the guise of an action anime. The most we'll get is a shoujo
searchoverload8 ONce I started seein school uniforms I was wondering what that show was about...feel no need to watch it.
also I'm pretty sure RWBY sucks?
So... get better taste =/
randomfox RWBY as a whole is, at best, a mediocre flash series in a bland setting. The actual action scenes in RWBY, however, are fucking balls-to-the-wall white-knuckle fuckfests of choreography that play fast and hard. The action is good, everything else less so.
Hold out hope, no matter how delusional it is...
19:47 Is Liam the mastermind behind Zaibatsu curtains?!
We should make bets about which girl is Liam's favorite, whom he should reveal in the next podcast.
I'm guessing Two.
Two is my favorite!
Two is the best in terms of character design, but holy shit does she get dragged through the ringer. Like, more so than any of the other sisters.
CrankyConstruct Cent was the best companion to have, at least.
I'd say Four: she has the most moe-moe imouto potential.
Misaka Mikoto I'm partial towards Five myself, but I might be a little biased because I think her weapon is the coolest.
NIER 2 ANNOUNCED. THEY NEED TO DO A NIER 1 LP.
Declan Greenleaf seriously, i need a Nier 1 best friends LP in my life- all aboard the sad train!
Declan Greenleaf still not sure if it's supposed to be sequal or prequel.
Note: anyone about to read further who hasnt played or finished nier yet, i dont recommend reading ahead.
i mean...according to grimmoire nier, a book adding info, after the true end kaine goes off to wander, leaving yonah alone, and in her travels she finds a small child. this child turns out to be nier reborn, the last rebirth, and kaine is compelled to take him under her wing cuz he seems familiar event hugh her memory is gone.
that's not what makes me wonder how a sequal could work though...it's the fact the world is basically dead/falling apart after it's all over, and the book says even with that happening an alien race appears before earth saying their god proclaimed they need to be purged...kinda seems like the world of nier is doomed all things considered, so unless it's supposed to be before the aliens appear, or supposed to use the events in the book for its story, or before the events in nier even happened or the world fully collapsed/sunk i dont know.
still excited as hell, wanna see how they do this.
well nobody ever said the drakengard universe was a nice one, but that didn't stop the other games from happening after all the BULLSHIT that occurs at every one of 3's endings.
Things will be fine. Totally fine. We're not going to all end up catatonic with despair at the end of the game or anything, you know?
...right?
Declan Greenleaf oh we're most definitely gonna fall into despair.
drakengard is dark and grungy...nier is depressing and hopeless...that's the theme...now grab your sobbing eye blankets.
+Nakumare they just did
Just for the people who will never play the game and were left wondering: There IS a good reason why Zero is doing what she's doing and her sisters are all revealed to be super fucked up in the DLC and novellas.
Drakengard 3 serves as a sort of ideological antithesis to Nier (the director's previous game). While Nier was about well-intentioned people who looked like heroes on the outside unknowingly doing some fucked up shit, Drakengard 3 is about a seemeingly evil and selfish antihero actually doing the right thing and fighting for the greater good even if the world misunderstands her actions. Just some food for thought.
The english dub for this game actually sounds good from the playthrough I watched. I think Liam's just being a weeb.
Yeah, it was the Danganronpa UDG problem all over again. I usually prefer subs over dubs for anime but in games like this, Dangan, and Persona I like the eng dubs. Liam's Japanese bias was really prominent in this case.
"Oh that's now a flower, that's like a flower THING!"
Keen observation, Pat.
"Big placenta world"?
You have NO idea...
This comment section is a disaster.. What did I expect from youtube.
Oh, shit.. Now I'm a part of it.
Zero as a name is the most generic anime thing ever. Drakengard is cool and shit, but seriously, lol.
_"We need this character to have a cool and edgy-sounding name. I know! Zero!"_
Well her sisters are named One through Five, so...
*****
I did make that comment just a few minutes in, so I didn't get to see the rest. Even so, I stick by my words and continue to say that it's so generic to have the one numbered Zero to be the badass, lol. Why not have 4 as the badass playable one? Or how about 6? Where's the love for numbers that aren't 0,1,3,and 7, lol
Swagbito Uchiha [spoiler------------------------------------------------]
She's called Zero because she's the one all the other intoners were born from, that's why she doesn't have a number on her forehead, she's the only real human and she probably had a normal name before.
*****
Great, she's got kids. Wonder if -Dio- Dito knows this as he's trying to get with her, haha
Swagbito Uchiha They weren't "born from her" in the traditional sense.
Full LP??? Im game.
They've said before they'd only do episodes and not full LPs for niche/budget games like these that actually need the sales. They want you to buy this if you like it. LOL
QAQ but i want to hear pats confused voice more QAQ
Me too, but Nier, Drakenguard are the kinda games that always only just make back their small budgets, you can tell jut by looking at them. lol Now if this were some super popular mega franchise or so old it wasn't in reproduction anymore they might.
oh well... i guess i can wait 5 years or so and then remind them to play it.
CantabileGamingHD
That's considerate. And smart.
I'm not usually one to want to go out and buy a game - but for this? - I think I'm down for buying this. I like the MC a lot. She doesn't seem evil or good. She's just fighting for her own reasons. And why can't they be selfish ones? (As long as she's not being a total dick to everybody) I hope that at least she has one good reason, among others that might be selfish.
And that Dito boy seems like a little shit. But whatever.
...i miss liam...
what happened to him I'm new
Ignis He quit the channel to deal with really bad anxiety I believe.
+Thal really that's terrible it must suck to have anxiety
I don't, fucker's disrespect for english voice actors bothers me so much.
+DizzyTiger He defended good ones, like in Nier, he just doesn't like shitty ones, like the majority of American VAs
So the Cathedral City is Barcelona from another dimension which brought sentient magic wielding demon flowers into the world, song based magic in a mysterious language, and dragons...what you smokin' Yoko?
I lost it at 38:31 when the censor came in.
Oh wow, I just finished watching the second Episode of the Minecraft SM lp, and Pat talks about flooding the aqueducts in the Coliseum in that, too >.> What are the chances that I would watch them back to back lol
I watched dumpster fire part 2 first and ended up here a week later. I was totally wondering why it sounded familiar.
You thought you would get to kill Five, but it was me Dito!
So close, so close to mentioning Rule of Rose.
holy shit best first line. Ten seconds in and i'm laughing.
I've never had a problem with the loading screens or any lag while playing the game, but I had a CD copy.
"Eat your hamburger, Apollo."
I get it. Awkward Justice.
"In Dengeki Online's Intoner panties poll, a majority of fans voted black panties for Zero."
Fucking goddamnit, Japan.
the fact that they censored it TWICE within a two minute period just BAFFLES me!!!
I think it was a joke, not actual censoring.
teh fact that they'd "censor" it is shocking for me XD
Gedeon Ilic if you're trying to imply that I spelled "censor" wrong I didn't, I have spellcheck on my computer
Nah men, its just that their censor, was meek at best.
Watch out guys, he's got spellcheck.
This game has a built in Pat and Liam dynamic. A violent grouch arguing with an enthusiastic baby.
Drakengard is such a hyper dark series and really fucking weird that I can't help but love it.
And plus this is also such a video game that it quenches that thirst you need for total carnage and combos and shit. Its great.
The fact that Zero is voiced by Mitsuru is lulzy since she has SUCH a foul mouth.
"In case of monster disaster break Ocean." I think that is the best line and course of advice I have heard in a long time.
These games are THICK but if you persevere then you may PIERCE THE VEIL!
You guys should seriously do a full playthrough omg.
Oh here Liam agrees that tackle is the sickest shit, but when Matt says it during the nuzlock, then it's a problem.
Liam hates Matt confirmed.
I know everyone always asks for this every time you play a new game, but I seriously hope you people do a full LP of this. It could be the next deadly premonition for this channel, this game is just pure fucking insanity.
Coincidentally this was made by the same studio who did Deadly P. Different directors though.
Oh good golly, Two. I may have to play the game again now. Thanks Vita.
12:04, Was Liam being sly and referencing the 2nd episode of Cowboy Bebop where the guy keeps saying "Seems that way...". I could just be high, but thats what I heard
I didn't think the ending that lead into Nier was the worst ending in context of the Drakengard world. Caim and Angelus defeated the queen beast and though they were killed too by the military fighter planes, I assume what they did saved their own world (though it fucked over ours). The one where they are eaten by those babies and Seere sacrifices himself and the one in which Furiae is turned and replicated into a shit ton of annoyingly hard monsters were the worst ones in my opinions.
I think any Drakengard ending that wasn't ending A ended with the entire destruction of Caim's world. Ending B had Furiae's clones kill everyone, Ending C had the dragons kill everyone, Ending D had the Watchers and Seere freeze the world in eternal time stop, and Ending E ended up infecting our/Nier's world with the salt virus while still leaving Caim's world at the mercy of the Watchers. Drakengard!
Michael the Archangel was in fact the badass of the bible. He's the protector angel of heaven and defeated the devil at some point I believe. Or at least lucifer. He is the patron saint on Police Officers, Fireman, and EMT's for that very reason.
This game doesnt look that bad. I mean doesnt look amazing but I have seen WAY worse looking game.
It annoys me when Pat complains SO often about FPS and graphics. I do not understand why he is such a stickler about it.
Loading Screens are terrible though.
I recall in one of the podcasts that he admits that once you are able to notice these things, you can't ignore them and he wishes he was like us who don't notice or care about FPSs and resolutions.
Well the FPS for this game IS actually really bad. During certain battles the FPS fucking dies, and the graphics aren't good enough to explain why.
Kobracondor I dont think its that hard. I have been playing games all my life. Yes I notice and appreciate it when games have good frames and graphics but it wont ruin a game for me like it can for Pat.
Tim the Wizard it still looks fun to play. If it has that should the rest really matter that much.
Gore6194ever No, like it chugs to 15 FPS during certain sections of the game. I don't care if it runs at 30 FPS by default, but making certain section really difficult because it lags to below 20fps is really unacceptable. Especially since it's not that graphically intensive. The game isn't bad(I think? I have mixed feelings) but the lag is really annoying at parts. You'll feel it when you play it, I assure you.
Wow. A game I actually want to watch you guys play for the first time in a long time.
When I saw DemolitionD's review of this, the last person I thought I'd see playing it was Pat. And here we are. God damnit Liam
That ambient noise/music Pat was talking about reminds me a bit of some of the background ambiance from Deus Ex: HR.
Should of called this "Pat bitches over frame rate while playing Drakengard 3".
From the context I've heard it used in my family, "a country mile" is longer because it would take a mile to get there if you went straight ("as the crow flies"), but you can't because of the mountains, so the road if very windy and actually much longer than a mile.
Pretty sure the opening narrator was the same guy who voiced Slayer (RIP ;~;).
Yup, his accent is pretty recognisable. RIP Ieyasa Kayumi
Oh my God, this video is 53 minutes long. I'm going to cry.
Bless you, Pat and Liam. Bless your beautiful scrub souls.
"liam what is this weeaboo shit" best opening ever
But it took a couple of years until Clemps graced us with his presence.
Does Zero at any point become a likable protagonist? I mean I'll probably never get this game, but I'm just curious.
Yes but it pretty much requires to beat the game in all endings.
Well, its kinda hard to say. I've nearly beaten the game, and I kinda like her, but I mainly like the character because of how much of an unapologetic bitch she is to most people, and the kinda secretive caring side that comes later. Probably the best answer I could give is that this is a Yoko Taro game, which means that the characters are all manners of screwed up with horrible secrets and pasts and whatnot. So even with the best of intentions, the characters will be horrible, AWFUL people.
Ursun Alebeard Gotcha. Also, for a non-anime reference, sorta like Breaking Bad.
Not until the very very end on purpose. The whole point of the game is to make you feel as uncomfortable as possible for the big reveal at the end. That's why Branch A is so silly. I don't know if I agree with the direction Yoko took, but that's what he was going for.
I mean don't get me wrong, she seems interesting. It's just that, man is she a bitch.
*sees what they're playing*
GODDAMMIT VITA!.....I mean Liam.
Even though I'm an extremely nice person, all of these evil main characters were still endearing to me, because I had the suspicion that Zero might not have truly been evil, or at least not "dick evil".
And you're right.
So, we are going to see a full playthrough, right? This game looks seriously legit for the two of you to go through after all the slammin' and jammin'. Honestly, I would love to see this thing laid out before my eyes in the full resplendent beauty that only the Best Friends can serve.
Drakengard's gameplay isn't very good, but my GOD that story is great.
is it weird that the noise she makes when she does her intoner thing at around 6:15 reminds me of the banshee noises from mass effect 3?
I don't really get why so many people in the comments are in such a stink about playing a MC who is morally grey or straight up evil.
They're used to protagonists who are anti-heroes, like GTA or Red Dead Redemption. Even Renegade Shepard from Mass Effect is a hero. Or straight up heroes, like in most other games. They're also not used to sex being a prominent thing. A lot of people get turned off by the mere mention of anything sexual in video games.
An MC who is blatantly a murderous, sex loving psychopath with greyed motivations is a breath of much fresher air than a 'normal' character.
People keep comparing this to Drakengard 1 but they fail to realize it's almost literally more of the same, if not tamer. Zero is Caim if he were a girl and could talk. The party members in 1 were a cannibalistic elf and a blind pedophile. The party members in this? A sadist, a masochist, a sex crazed maniac and a know-it-all. It still hits a lot of weird points, and there was comedy in Drakengard 1 (though not as prevalent).
But the weird thing is that One even said "Let us sing of the world's end" So why is it so "crazy" for Zero to try and kill her sisters (Especially because it seems like she also has personal reasons)?
FuruyaChihir0
That's probably part of the "good reason why she does what she does" thing that people who have played the game allude to. I really don't get the whole hate people give to the main character here given the fact we see that kind of development in story and character already.
Nah, fuck it, murder ALL the babies!
LordMoku BURN ALL THE BABIIIIIIIEEEEESSSS!!!!!
The character design and voice acting in this game are phenomenal. The story seems really interesting and while the gameplay is no DMC or Bayonetta, it looks fun enough to last for the game without getting boring. It feels weird that I'm trying to decide whether to get a PS4 or a PS3.
Okay so does this game ever acknowledge the fact that in any other game Zero would be the villain?
+SubatomicSeal Not... exactly? Basically she's killing these people because leaving them alive would cause the world to end... and in the other NG+ games that gets more and more apparent, as the actions of people change and get more obvious.
nahnah390 But isn't the reason she's slaughtering all her siblings because she just wants all the power? Also this would be a good time to mention I know nothing about the Drakengard series.
It only seems like that in the first cycle, but each cycle gives you more and more information, and shows off more and more of everyone's personalities. Basically the sisters are all connected to a doomsday... thing, called the flower, and as long as they live, the flower does too. So, she's going to kill everyone but herself, and then get her dragon to kill her, since only dragons and other flowers can safely kill them without unleashing the end of the world.
Spoilers ahead, but she's lying to Mikhail about her motives. All six of the Intoner sisters are connected to the parasitic flower, and are essentially ticking time bombs. Any one of them can and will involuntarily cause the apocalypse if they are left alive.
Her plan is to kill all of her sisters, and then herself, thereby saving the world by erasing all traces of the flower. In this world, that specific flower is some sort of ancient evil magic, and dragons are the eternal enemy of that flower. The only way to kill an Intoner is with the power of a dragon, which is why Zero has a dragon with her. Michael (the first dragon) was on board with her plan and that's why he was helping her. Mikhail doesn't know about Zero's plan, and Zero lies to him about her motives because she thinks he will refuse to help her if he knows that he's going to have to kill her in the end.
Dev 잘생기다 Ohhhhhh my god thank you so much! Like I'm not being sarcastic or anything, that cleared up everything for me!
Okay, in that opening cinematic, which lasts until 3:25, did ANY of the three dozen or so soldiers even attempt to swing their swords at the completely unarmoured skinny white girl in front of them? Anyone at all?
so this game is like RWBY and Final Fantasy had a baby whose master was Dynasty warriors?
+A Random Guy Not even close.
Benny Trinh
that's what i got from it
The noise Pat talks about at about 34:30 sounds like the RE2 Main Hall music.
Damn, that is one edgy Mary Sue.
Giving the beach monster a backstory. That right there, that's just another reason I love you guys XP
I have this game, and so far I enjoy it
27:00 the gigas isn't touching the ground. It's floating. For some reason, this endears this game even more to me.
It bugs me super hard that they have an attractive female character in white that gets covered in stupid levels of blood effects, meaning the blood is as noticeable as it ever possibly could be, and then they just have random CG scenes thrown in where the character has no blood on her at all! And then it goes right back to gameplay with the blood clearly back on her!!! I mean, did they not think this crap through?! How did the creators just look at the super inconsistent way that scene plays out and just think "Yeah, that's OK". I mean, what the heck?!? You couldn't have even just programmed in something to reset the blood effects after a cutscene so it's not the most noticable thing ever? Nope? OK then!