Herĭownloadable quest unlocks a string of her memories, and they’re all hatefulĭiatribes spewed in the split second before her death. Or perhaps Four is more pathetic than a mere joke. And there's no redemptive fantasy fulfillment in her story, in contrast to the whole “moe” fixture that persistently paints women characters as just flawed enough to be rescued by some heroic male avatar. She could be a pure sadist, masking her many little envies andĬriticisms under a prissy rectitude just so she can feel better than her So the viewer may decide just what completesįour. In one of the side quest's cutesy storybook interludes, Gabriella gazes within Four’s heart and sees a gaping hole with only a frigid breeze to fill it. Voices (as though Four is massacring The Littl’ Bits).Īnd Four? She laughs with all the racist glee of a Blackwater mercenary or an Astride the dragon, Four chases down and incinerates aįleet of shakily defended elf pirates, who wail and plead for clemency in absurdly high-pitched The bloodshed as necessary for One’s noble future, but she can’t pretend in Of the killing she carries out, and her tone nauseates Gabriella. Her butchering enemy soldiers on her elder sister One’s orders, with DecadusĪnd the dragon Gabriella tagging along. That’d be dirty and bad and a dead giveaway of her darker impulses.Īll of this comes out in the playable Drakengard 3 bonusĬhapters, each of which focuses on a different Intoner. Violence is Four’s sole release, but she couldn’t inflictĪny on Decadus. Means for punishment-even in her refusal to indulge it. Ruled by his fetish, he sees Four entirely as a She gets no help from her Disciple, a polite Sediments of repression, all covered by her conscientious veneer andįeigned moral superiority. Particular), Four is a creature of bitterness, obliterated self-esteem, and thick Simultaneouslyįretting over and jealously loathing her sisters (the lustful Five in Thoughtless cruelties of Three and Five and the orderly lives of One and Two. House clean…and then explodes into a room-wrecking fury and seethes with hateĪmong the Intoners, Four seems caught between the Worries about her sibling Intoners, mends their clothes, tries to keep a borrowed Traveling with her sisters (minus Zero), Four The short stories available on the Drakengard 3 website introduce FourĪs a teetering stack of neuroses. She’s a piteous sacrifice, hiding in poorly concocted innocence and a mess of happy, Zero-centered memories that aren’tįor a look into Four’s true depths, one must venture beyond Paradoxes, Four reappears as a lunatic, driven mad by the ominous floral entity Later, as the game’s timeline unravels into chaos and Sister that she’s even willing to fall for a blatant and deadly ruse. Highly she thinks of the murderous Intoner. Upon confronting Zero, Four again begs her to stop and proclaims how If Four’s evil, we don’t see it in the prime stretch of Drakengardģ. Route to a mountain fortress, Zero tells her companions that Four is an uptight Later in the game,įour is the second victim in Zero’s conveniently numbered murder spree. Pleads for her sister to reconsider such violent rebellion. Four seems the most reluctant to fight during an initial free-for-all with Zero, Four Three is spookily distracted, and Five is hedonistic to no end. One is the rational leader, Two is cheerful, We meet them when ZeroĪttacks their city stronghold. She’s not who you might think.įour is the least threatening among Zero’s numerically named sisters, all of whomĭecided to rule the world and rather rudely didn't invite Zero. Of the game’s more interesting characters. I’ve talked at lengthĪbout just what Drakengard 3 did to me, and it’s time for an addendum about one With a mixture of vicious abandon and blasé cruelty. Portrait of Zero, a goddess-like Intoner who goes around a twisted medieval Europe and murders her deified sisters It’s a lot of things, but it’s most clearly a It’s a very strange game,Ībusive and self-mocking and technically graceless.
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