Drakengard

Drakengard

Strengths: Nice graphics, two types of gameplay, good action, good story

Weakness: Horrible music, stupid enemy AI, bit repetitive

Drakengard has two types of gameplay, on foot hack-and-slash and on dragonback. The on foot hack-and-slash is close to the games like Dynasty Warriors and Kingdom Under Fire, where there's a single solider against armies of enemies. Longer combos start to generate power-ups and more weapons, as working through the missions on foot. The dragon helps out in the hack-and-slash missions, though isn't...

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drakengard

Strengths: great hack n' slash action

Weakness: can get repetitive

Drakengard is one of the many hack and slash games available for the Play Station 2. This game is basically a combination of panzer dragoon and the Dynasty warrior series, because it combines the aerial combat where you're riding atop on your Dragon , along with the hand-to-hand weapons combat when you are on foot. The story is basically that you are a one-man army who decides to fight against...

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Drakengard

Strengths: Different ways to fight, upgradeable weapons, several endings

Weakness: Sound, very VERY repetitive gameplay

If you were ever looking for a game that only needed one button to play it, this is as close as it gets. The point of the game? Annihilate everything! If you see something, start pushing "X" like there's no tomorrow. But seriously, the purpose of the game is to kill everything in your path. You get some variation which helps a little. The first form of variation is your choices of weapons and...

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Worth a Buy

Strengths: Fun

Weakness: Short

Drakengard is a fun Hack N' Slash style game, if a little short. The graphics aren't amazing but they aren't THAT bad. The game gets repetitive after a while, but for $8 I say what the heck, buy it!

Dynasty Warriors Meets Panzer Dragoon

Strengths: Good combination of gameplay elements, different endings, 50+ weapons,

Weakness: Can be rather repetitive, bad AI

Drakengard is an interesting idea for a game as it's 2 parts Dynasty Warriors with 1 part Panzer Dragoon. Most of the game will be spent fighting bad guys in which you will be basically killing everyone in your path in order to advance though levels. In Drakengard you power up as you go though the game as you can level up along with your weapons & dragon that also level up. It makes it rather...

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Death from above, boredom from below

Strengths: Awesome air battles

Weakness: Bland ground battles

Drakengard attempted something very bold--to combine the high flying adventure of games like Crimson Skies or Draken: The Ancients' Gate with the ground battles of Dynasty Warriors. The final product ended being a very unique mix. The aerial battles are awesome, full of explosions, tons of cool monsters, awesome air raides (riding a giant, fire breathing dragon and then terrorizing ground troops...

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Drakengard

Strengths: Aerial and ground missions, weapon levelling.

Weakness: Incoherent way of telling an otherwise good story

This game is a series of air missions and ground missions. In the ground missions, you run around with a weapon and take out hoards of enemies a la dynasty warriors. The sky missions are reminiscient of panzer dragoon but not on rails. The best part of the game is collecting all the weapons and levelling them up. Great game overall.

Drakengard

Strengths: 3 gameplay styles, nice graphics and cut scenes

Weakness: gameplay can get repetitive despite various styles, low replayability

This was a good effort in the action arena for Square, but it falls short. The gameplay gets old after a while and isn't implemented all that great. The graphics and cutscenes are pretty impressive (no suprise there) but the title is just lacking something. Once you've played this, there is no reason to go back to it. This game can be found fairly cheap though so maybe you'll find more redeeming...

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Drakengard

Strengths: Easy controls, fighting on dragonback is cool!

Weakness: Combat is too simple at times, the environments are very flat.

This game does a fairly good job of combining 3rd person fighting on the ground with dragon flying action. The controls are easy to pick up, but they are also too simple as combat is really about button mashing and requires very little skill. The game does provide lots of well detailed enemies and Kain's charage attack is pretty cool. but the backgrounds are too plain and the enemy AI is not very...

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