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Your main cast is less than virtuous: Caim is a mute bloodthirsty nutcase, Inuart goes completely nuts and evil, Furiae isn't entirely innocent, and the list just goes on and on. One of the most striking things about the game is how so many Video Game Tropes are turned completely on their head. Drakengard does not shy away from the surreal, the macabre, and the downright depressing.

Watching how the characters react to this and observing their hopeless and doomed plight is strangely interesting morbid curiosity drives one to finish the game's five endings. By its end, Drakengard has gone beyond the standard unspoken agreement between author and audience and thrown us into the stuff of nightmares. The game gets progressively weirder and more surreal as events go on, and the interactions between characters gradually become more nuanced and complex from the straight-up swords and sorcery formula. As Caim journeys on, he learns about the Cult of the Watchers which has taken hold over the Empire and their evil machinations for the Goddess. Each seal that is destroyed makes the burden on the Goddess that much more unbearable. The game starts off simply enough, with Caim and any party members he's managed to find running from one location to the next, trying to prevent the Empire from destroying one of the three land-based seals. As a consequence, Verdelet can hear the telepathy that goes between pact-partners, but he gave up his hair. He would normally have gained the allegiance of the dragon as Caim has from his pact, but he can't call upon his pact-partner.

Verdelet the hierarch also made a pact with a dragon, but that was long before the events of the game and the dragon has since been petrified.

Seere gave up his "time", meaning that he will never age beyond his six year old body. Golem provides the ultimate protection for the boy's life and can destroy The Legions of Hell with ease.

Seere the young boy has a pact with Golem, a stone giant.

She is quite insane she's developed a certain fondness for the other, other white meat as a consequence. She can control water and fire to a certain degree (she can be seen walking on water in one cutscene, or being undamaged by a house burning down in another) and can summon the spirits to her aid.

Arioch the elf mother has a pact with Undine and Salamander, the water and fire spirits, respectively.

He is a pedophile in the original Japanese version international releases mostly edited this part of his character out. With it, he has access to the fairy's powerful magic.

Leonard the forester has a pact with a fairy.

All of the other members of Caim's party have a pact, and a certain price they have paid for it: However, if either of the pact partners dies, so will the other, and it seems the pain one feels is transferred to the other as well. In forging the pact, Caim can control the dragon during flight and has access to the dragon's vast strength, but gives up his voice in exchange (although he's still capable of conversing with the dragon through telepathy). He proposes that in order to save them both, the two should form a pact. Caim is mortally wounded in the first stage as he runs towards Furiae's castle in the midst of a battle, and discovers a chained and wounded dragon in the courtyard. One of the major concepts in Drakengard is that of a pact, or of two beings of different races binding their souls into one. Caim is joined initially on his quest by Inuart, his best friend and Furiae's betrothed before she became the Goddess, and four other characters, the circumstances of each being varied and always tragic.

Also known as "the Goddess", Furiae is part of four seals that protect the world from an unknown danger-she is a living seal, and her death would herald chaos in the world. It takes place in a Heroic/ Low Fantasy medieval setting, and it follows Anti-Hero Caim on a mission to destroy an evil empire (aptly named "the Empire") while also protecting his sister Furiae.

The gameplay switches between Hack and Slash and Flight Sim, so one could think of it as a mixture of Dynasty Warriors and a sandbox version of Panzer Dragoon. It's notable for its combination of a multilayered, surreal plot and excellent atmosphere, with rather weak, repetitive gameplay. The dragon plummets from the tower of red thunder, and where it falls no one has seen.ĭrakengard is the first game in Cavia's Drakengard series, released in 2003 on the PlayStation 2. Mighty generals hesitate beneath a crimson sky.Īs the tears of a goddess flow, four lost temples forebode the coming of the Queen. The Watchers drink and raise high the basin of fire. The unsuppressed soul lets flow oceans of blood.