Drakengard 2

Drakengard 2
Also known as: Drag-On Dragoon 2: Fūin no kurenai, Haitoku no kuro (JP) Developer: cavia Publishers: Square Enix (JP), Ubisoft (US/EU) Platform: PlayStation 2 Released in JP: June 16, 2005 Released in US: February 14, 2006 Released in EU: March 2, 2006 Released in AU: March 9, 2006 This game has unused enemies. This game has unused graphics. This game has unused models. This game has unused cinematics. This game has unused music. This game has unused sounds. This game has regional differences.

Drakengard 2, also known as Drag-On Dragoon 2: love red, ambivalence black (or "Drag-On Dragoon 2: Sealed Red, Immoral Black" depending on who you ask), is the direct sequel to the original Drakengard. You take control of Nowe, a new recruit of the Knights of the Seals who must protect the seals that keep the world safe with his blue dragon, Legna. However, this soon changes when he finds out the truth about Oror's death and meets the antagonist of the previous title, Manah. Despite not being directed by Yoko Taro, the game was still written by the series writer Sawako Natori and thus retains many dark story elements from the first Drakengard.

To do: Cover the demo discs. There's a promotional disc that has a lot of interesting early footage.

Unused Models

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A leftover enemy from Drakengard 1 exists in the files.

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Another Drakengard 1 enemy leftover.

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A unused skybox model.

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While her weapon is in the game as a unlockable, Arioch never appears in the story.

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While he is mentioned in the story, Verdelet never makes an actual appearance. His model is in a laying-down pose, reused from the previous game.

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A model of a very simple black triangle.

Unused Textures

Manah

The texture for Manah's back has unused wireframes.

There's a white texture with a large kanji symbol.

Hanch

Hanch's model has an early face texture with kanji text.

There's also another white texture with random symbols.

Goblin

The goblin mages have a face texture that's normally never seen in-game due to always being covered up with a mask.

Demon Manah

The demon that takes the form of young Manah and watches Nowe from the background in Manah's mind has a very creepy smile that's never seen in-game.

Unused Sky

A bright sky texture that's never seen in-game, although it does appear in some FMVS.

Early Chapter 4 Sky Area

Legna model for his first form has a texture that shows a early version of chapter 4 of the sky section.

New Breed Nowe Save Icon

Nowe has a unused save icon featuring his New Breed form, which isn't normally seen as it's impossible to save the game once Nowe unlocks the form and using the costume orb doesn't show this icon.

Trial Version Leftovers

Leftovers from the trial version which shows the player how to play the game and that the game is coming out soon.

Unused Weapons

There are four unused weapons that can be only accessed via Action Replay/GameShark cheats. They're completely usable once hacked into the game and can even be leveled up.

Writheheart

A short gray sword for Nowe to equip, taken from the original Drakengard. The weapon story reads as follows:

Once, there lived a girl, fair and pure. Born into a life of poverty, she was sent to work as a maid in the home of a noble family. There, she was treated like an animal. After months of hard labor and abuse, her mind and body began to fail her.

The only one who treated the girl with any kindness was her lord's youngest son. He comforted her, and soon they began an illicit affair. The doting girl lived for the short midnight meetings, alone with her lover.

Late one evening, she made her way to the meeting place at the usual time and found her love waiting for her. But he was not alone. With him were all of his brothers and sisters. Smiling like demons, they encircled her and forced her to the ground. She lost consciousness when she caught sight of the cruel grin on her lover's face...

The next morning, the girl limped back to the mansion. In her hands she held a beautiful sword. When she caught sight of her lover, she lunged for him without a word, and pierced his and her own heart. Steeped in their life blood, the fatal weapon took up the scorned girl's bitter hatred and had been cursed ever since. 

Sealaxe: Calamitous Rhythm

This axe is actually unlockable in the final game... but only for Urick and not Nowe. It seems that at some point in development, Nowe would've be able to use Urick's weapons after he permanently leaves the party. The weapon story reads as follows:

A master blacksmith, embittered by the god's maltreatment of the world, vowed to forge a weapon with which to destroy them.

The power of the seal negates the power of the gods, and the seal derives its power from the goddess... So the blacksmith sealed the power of the goddess into his creation.

She was a legendary goddess who held the seeds within her body and saved mankind from ruin.

Sealed inside was time, the conqueror of space and all dimensions.

Widow's Death

Another weapon taken from the original Drakengard, only usable for Eris. The weapon story reads as follows:

Neustria's King Chilperich I ended the long confrontation with Astracia by agreeing to the marriage of his second son, Alfonstein, to Fonpadel, the third daughter of Sigibert I, king of Austracia.

All was peaceful between Neustria and Austracia until Sigibert I's heir Almabar, missing since his tour of the Western Gothic land of Aunatras, returned to claim the throne.

Almabar killed his mother, Brunhilda, then confronted King Chilperich's widow, Fredegunde, who had planned to assassinate him, and claimed that Fonpadel and Alsonstein's marriage was illegitimate. He then declared war against Fredegunde's eldest son, King Clotair II of Neustria.

The battle began in the northern Austracian land of Vyomar. Almabar led his Austracian army to victory over the Neustrians. Fredegunde was captured at the castle, and executed by the same axe used to behead Brunhilde.

Poisontongue

Another weapon taken from the original Drakengard, only usable for Urick. The weapon story reads as follows:

Long ago there was a vast kingdom surrounded with water and enclosed by mighty walls. Blessed with the gift of water, the people lived a life of happiness. An altar to the water goddess stood at the center of the kingdom. On it laid an axe, which radiated a calm blue light. Legends told that the goddess used the axe to slay the demon king of drought.

Beyond its walls, other nations schemed to steal the prosperous kingdom's wealth. Under the command of their king, the citizens fought bravely, but the peace-loving people of the water kingdom were no match for the invaders. Soon, their mighty walls lay in ruins and the war was on their doorstep.

When the flames of war reached the water goddess's altar, the axe came to life. Floating above its resting place, its blade gave off a blinding flash of light. The next moment, a tidal wave washed over the invading armies and continued past the kingdom's borders, drowning the land of the enemy.

Having served its purpose, the axe lost its luster and the waters subsided. Now, the ancient weapon looked as drained and lifeless as the desert.

Unused FMVs

Early Japanese Opening

Early	Final

A early opening of the Japanese version exists in the files. It doesn't have the glitchy sound effect when young Manah speaks, and it uses an early version of the track "Symphonic Poem Forbidden Prelude".

Drakengard Trailer

A Japanese trailer for the original Drakengard. It doesn't have any audio at all. Likely used as a placeholder.

Dummy Data

A simple dummy data video. It exists in every version of the game except for the Japanese version.

Unused Audio

Note: Despite not having an option to change the voice language, all of the Japanese dialogue still exists in the files for all regions (in D_VOICE.BIN). This is the reason why every non-Japanese version of the game has a larger data size than the Japanese version, with the U.S version in particular being a whopping 4.07 GB. For brevity, this article will only cover the actual unused lines from the game.

Drag-on Dragoon 2

Most major characters have an unused voice line where they say the Japanese title of the game. It's likely that this was meant to be used for when the title screen appears after the Square Enix and Cavia logos.

Lalalala!

Young Manah singing for when the Cavia logo appears.

_MASTE~1

There's a empty folder named _MASTE~1 that only exists in the Japanese version. It's unknown what kind of files it originally had.

Regional Differences

• As they were unable to use the vocal track Hitori (also known as Alone) due to copyright issues, the non-Japanese versions use a calmer and sadder version of Growing Wings in its place (for major events and the final boss of every route).