/vr/ - Retro Games

>>10799708
Not when it came out but I played it before Nier. I didn't get past Ending D though. Looking online around the time it got mediocre to even good reviews, with IGN almost giving it an 8. I thought it was okay gameplay wise and liked the atmosphere a lot. Here's a couple of articles from that time period:
https://gamecritics.com/mike-bracken/drakengard-review/
https://www.ign.com/games/drakengard
https://www.rpgfan.com/review/drakengard/

You'd be hard pressed to find anyone saying it was an awful game like now because back then no one was playing it because of Nier or Taro and could just enjoy it for what it was. Nier kind of ruined discussion about the game with many playing it just for those reasons and magnifying the tedium of it, assuming they even played it and aren't parroting what others say.

Also small personal gripe. The people complaining about the localization toning down the incest and Leonard are always full of it. It's the same in JP. And in English if you didn't realize there was incest connotations with Furiae you would have to be retarded as every character tries to tell Caim about it. Leonard has nothing overt in the JP version either and the context for his pedophile thoughts are only in side novel which didn't get localized with the game. The religious naming localizations are the only thing that actually got messed with but I can understand why back then.