Honestly so many great games' greatness is undermined just because the creator is a pervert. In that regard Drakengard 1 is beyond the topic of "it didn't age well", I prefer that low quality rubbish that has higher sense of art over today's pornographic games because they have sexual elements that shouldn't have existed because it ruins the game itself because the game is not primitive simple shit but they put "pervert fan service BS" into games therefore ruining the quality of the games.
For example despite how much I like Nier 1, the creator's bedroom joke and pervert fantasies were not welcome. It literally shit into serious deep aspect of the story when a woman whose in her underwears tags alone with you. The game developers has to comprehend the fact that your art will be ignorent by people who love deep stuff when you make the game have primitive BS, and then if you wanna use primitive BS to sell the game then the primitive people you attract won't care about your deep story. So play Nier 1 for sexual BS, you won't even play new game plus and even if you had you wouldn't care. And then when you wanna enjoy a deep story the moment the woman in her underwear tags alone you will think "oh another BS pervert game" and stop playing the game. That's why it's hard to even recommend Nier 1 to people. On the other hand all we can do is "play Drakengard and experience its some endings and then if you care better play Nier 1 because despite how BS the game it will be worth playing its new game plus".
In that regard Drakengard 1 is an okay game and it will always be okay while the moment Nier 1 was released it was not an okay game requiring a decent remake that removed low level Japanese player fan service BS lol.
Since Nier Automata BS and why creator's pervertism unleashed lol I honesly ignored other Drakengard games, kinda same as Hideo Kojima at this point. Both these men love to add their sexual fetishes into their games making me cringe playing them lol.
Things relating to human sexuality do not degrade a works significance by any means, after all, many great renaissance works involved literal nudes and the church went around breaking all the penises off the statues and replacing them with leaves. though it will say it can sour one's view point on them depending on how it is perceived.
Johnathan Ross's Japanarama covers quite a bit of this stuff , it was shown during the early 2000's and another series a few years later, it shows just just how open Japan is in that way. Is great viewing if you're curious about aspects of Japanese culture that aren't really spoken about much. It should be available somewhere on the internet.
People are typically quite open about their fetishes, perversions etc. in the Japan, The "culture" in Japan around things pertaining to human sexuality sensuality etc., "health services", soaplands etc., It's also a lot like Amsterdam in parts of Japanese cities but without the weed.
Hideo Kojima and Yoko Taro putting this stuff in their work and anyone finding it off-putting is a type of culture shock. So basically, there's just generally a lot more of this kind of thing in Japanese media on average. Sexuality or sex appeal being utilised in some way.
Sexuality makes a lot of money in general, though It goes without saying that 2b's behind going viral had no small part in the games sales. Yoko Taro is a lot more famous now as a result of a rendering of a woman's ass. It what we got with 2b's ass is what is legendary about nier automata. he's since done nothing big in terms of projects though. ironic as it's the most money he's ever made.
With all this in mind, I absolutely loved Drakengard 3, easily the funniest game I ever played as I have a similar sense of humour for the most part. That all said, I understand why someone would find it extremely off-putting.
I've argued with someone on personality database before as "imagine giving up on Nier because Kaine says slurs and swear words", that actually caused said person to give it a try again :D, basically Kaine would be just as off-putting to some, tolerance is probably the best way to put it and that can affect someone's enjoyment of something to a large degree.
I am a drakengard 3 apologist! Sue me
