Drakengard

Yoko Taro's deliberately unpleasant multi-ending experiment, and NieR's direct ancestor.

Released 2003 Developer Cavia Publisher Square Enix Platform PlayStation 2 Genre Action RPG Era Broadband & the console shooter

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Drakengard inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Hit Points ~~1980~~In-Engine Cutscene ~~1984~~Branching Dialogue Trees ~~1985~~

Directly influenced

NieR ~~2010~~

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