---
title: "Drakengard — Belly Score 8.5 | Belly Score"
url: https://bellyscore.com/game/drakengard
description: "Drakengard gets a Belly Score of 8.5/10. BELLY APPROVED"
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# Drakengard

Belly Score

8.5

Community Score

Platform

PlayStation 2: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/playstation-2,
Mobile: https://bellyscore.com/best/platform/mobile

Genre

Action RPG: https://bellyscore.com/best/genre/action-rpg

Released

Sep 11, 2003: https://bellyscore.com/best/year/2003

Developer

Cavia Inc.

Publisher

Square Enix

About

Drakengard is a fever dream of an action-RPG that refuses to play nice. You play as a mute, vengeance-fueled knight bound by a blood pact to a cynical red dragon, carving through armies in a world that feels perpetually on the brink of collapse. It is a bizarre, often clunky experience that oscillates between ground-based hack-and-slash combat and frantic aerial dragon battles. While the gameplay can be repetitive and the camera fights you as much as the enemies do, the game’s true draw is its unapologetically dark, weird, and nihilistic narrative that stands in stark contrast to the polished epics of its time.

The Belly's Verdict

BELLY APPROVED

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## Prediction Results

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Vibe Tags

Dark: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/dark
Bleak: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/bleak
Weird: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/weird
Atmospheric: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/atmospheric
Chaotic: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/chaotic
Unsettling: https://bellyscore.com/best/vibe/unsettling

Themes

Dark Fantasy: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/dark-fantasy
Dark / Grim: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/dark-grim
Mythology: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/mythology
Psychological: https://bellyscore.com/best/theme/psychological

Original Belly Score Video

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