14 DAY TRIAL // Square Enix has released a new video developer diary for the upcoming third installment in the Drakengard series, showing a sock puppet voiced by the role-playing game's Creative Director Taro Yoko discussing the beauty of violence.
Although violence in video games is a hotly debated topic all around the world, especially by those who have never played anything and would like others to be made like them by using the coercion of law, as violence is an indelible part of our heritage as species, it is also an important component of our entertainment venues.
In short, the video discusses how to tell a story using violence as a means of progression without getting the actual meaning of the game lost in all the bloody action.
As such, Taro Yoko reveals that the Drakengard series' most fundamental gameplay element, the perpetual defeat of hordes upon hordes of incoming enemies, has a lot of depth behind it, that may not be apparent at first.
The creative director discusses the reasoning behind all the seemingly gratuitous violence in the upcoming Drakengard 3 by drawing a parallel to the series’ spin-off title, Nier, and revealing his approach to combat.
Drakengard 3 has just come out on Sony's PlayStation 3 home entertainment system, worldwide.
