DrunkShogun
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None. Doesn't seem to have any purpose at the moment other than potential dlc or just taro trolling. Think it's the latter for now.
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None. Doesn't seem to have any purpose at the moment other than potential dlc or just taro trolling. Think it's the latter for now.
As other have said, Drakengard 3 is half average half awesome, Drakengard 1 is excellent but its not for everybody, it fits the tone of the game 100%. Drakengard 2...well Kari Wahlgren sung an excellent remix of growing wings/tsukiru
Uh, how is it a redemption arc? What is she redeeming? Her lack of ability to get laid?
clone. We don't actually know where the real emil is, he disappeared a long time ago, his clones don't know where he went.
Its been a very harsh time for real emil. He's been alive almost since the time all of this shit started, since before the time of the hamelin organization. I wanna say maybe 2014? That was just a year after WCS broke out
RubberLuffy
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Emil just has the worst life.
I love him like a son. A beautiful, gay, skeletal son.
I love him like a son. A beautiful, gay, skeletal son.
Yeah, definitely not something you'll hum to yourself. Unless you're indiscriminately murdering half your neighborhood and losing your grip on reality.
i hum thirteenth song occasionally to myself because i've heard it so many times i get PTSD flashbacks. Suddenly I'll.Hear.A.Sound. and start trying to tear my hair out.
Joe Molotov
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Become as gods, or nah?
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
Real Emil is behind one of those apologetic doors
I hope
I hope
RubberLuffy
Banned
I don't think I found a single one of them. How many are there?
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
It got me pretty good when I learned that the cultists weren't really seeking godhood so much as unity in death. Confined to their metal shells, they are eternally separate as individuals, but in death, they can become as one.
Maybe that wasn't oil inside them, but Tang.
Maybe that wasn't oil inside them, but Tang.
Massive Duck. C.M.
Banned
3 in total, one in the desert, forest, and flooded city
RubberLuffy
Banned
And still no idea what they're for? DLC?
CannonFodder52
Member
Could be thematic, people searching for more in life. Probably dlc
Peroroncino
Member
Hmm, that's weird, the Masamune blacksmith told me something about 4 sealed crypts with weapons, I figured he was talking about those.
staticneuron
Member
There are only 3 of the doors with apologetic guy in front of them. Since he mentions the white sword is one of the four, it seems to be implied that the weak and heavy swords (oath and treaty) are the swords he is referring to.
There are a few hidden behind doors and worshiped at shrines but there are no similarities between them actually ,Cruel Blood Oath, Cruel Arrogance and Virtuous Dignity, have a theme I guess.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
Welcome to the light. If you're only now a fan, then you should give the original Nier a whirl. It isn't as polished, but it's just as amazing.
Hypemaster
Member
Yo post memory wiped Pascal selling dead kid parts got me fucked up. That shit dark.
yuuuup
TBH from the reading up I did prior to playing, Drakenguard 1 & 3 sound far more interesting. I already watched an LP and several in depth analysis of Nier, so I'm not really that interested in playing it.
I missed out on this. I played Route C in the worst order.
A2, 9S, 9S, A2.
I feel I missed out on a lot of stuff.
I'm debating on doing it all over again or just joining my friends on Ghost Recon for a bit.
CannonFodder52
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After playing all three of those games for the first time this year, I'd suggest playing any/all of them. But Nier was by far the most powerful. It's the one I'll be thinking about years from now.
Edit: missed that you watched an LP. Check out the Drakengard games, they're cool.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
You're covered, then.
Drakengard is Taro's most distinct and out there game by a wide margin. It makes Automata look sterile by comparison.
It fucked me up pretty good as a teenager, and I didn't even get the final ending.
I was able to convince two of my friends and one of co workers to get Nier Automata at a later date after explaining Nier to them and showing them some combat from Automata.
It's a shame this franchise doesn't have more exposure. Hopefully the reception to Automata and if Platinum returns to work on future titles then they can get it to gain popularity.
I particularly liked the bit in 3 I saw where the Intoner's song transitions into the boss theme. I love stuff like that.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
My personal opinion is that D3 was amazing and one of my favorite gaming experiences, but its development was a complete trainwreck, and many fans of Taro's other games have hate D3.
If you can get into it, though, it is a hell of a ride.
SomethingWitty
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Currently going through hell to format a USB drive so I safely get Ending E.
Really tempted to just screw over my 33 hr save file. I love you Taro and how you used the save mechanic in the narrative but goddamn this is a pain in the ass.
Really tempted to just screw over my 33 hr save file. I love you Taro and how you used the save mechanic in the narrative but goddamn this is a pain in the ass.
CannonFodder52
Member
I really like a lot of stuff that game did and was trying to do. But I feel like the writing was more hit and miss for me than Taro's other games. Especially the humor, which is definitely subjective.
Drakengard 3 spoilers
Maybe if I was really in tune with japenese pop idol culture, it would have impacted me more.
KO Traveling Hobo
Member
I enjoyed most of the humor that wasn't just [Decadus masochism joke #1-999], but it's easy to see why others wouldn't, and the whole thing feels unbelievably rushed, to the point of being disjointed.
Ultimately, I think Okabe does a lot of the heavylifting. The home base / loading screen theme and campfire theme are overflowing with atmosphere. Just sitting in the barebones, bottom of the barrel home base interface makes me shiver.
I suppose it's fitting for a game where music is so central to the world and characters.
Just use cloud saves.
Johan Liebert
Member
Finished A-E. Man this game got me harder than Ending D in Nier.
So what happens to Pascal if you just leave him without wiping his memories/killing him?
So what happens to Pascal if you just leave him without wiping his memories/killing him?
i've heard from others that he still sells the parts, just insane
cant verify this as i chose to delete memories
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Nightshift answered. I guess he tries to commit suicide himself
NightShift
Member
He disappears after that scene.
Glass Rebel
Member
Become as gods.
Man. You think you're doing him a favour by sparing his life and then you go back to find that. At least he doesn't know, I guess.
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Yeah it's pretty brutal. I was super tired and I was like.... I just can't do either of those things (kill or wipe) then as you walk out Pascal says something like "How could you?!?" But it's already too late the door closes behind you and you feel like a horrible person
2b had been killing 9s and wiping his memory for 3 years if he found out too much about yorha.
oh thanks, i missed that part. I knew that 9S was "too smart" and eventually would find out the truth, but didn't get the part of B2 killing him over and over.
Son Of Sparda
Member
I wanna platinum this game, but they freaking deleted my save files again man lol
Now play through the game again with this new info.
Is it just me who loves that A2 is the one who is basically throwing all this at 9S? She would know better than anyone what 2B wanted and what she thought, but 9S was too far gone to even realize that she was essentially 2B at that point.
I just can't get over that...your introduced to A2 as this cold hearted deserter, but...through 2B's interference, she just begins to thaw so much faster
I just can't get over that...your introduced to A2 as this cold hearted deserter, but...through 2B's interference, she just begins to thaw so much faster
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
Check for cloud saves if you want to. There's nothing wrong with that if that's what you feel like doing
Marmaladefire
Member
Pascal fucks me up more than almost anything in the game. 2B being a decoy protag wasfucked but I didn't really feel as bad as I should have until the reveal. then I felt super bad to her, and I could relate to her a lot more tbh. Pascal though..God I just didn't want to do it, but I figured if I just walked out he would either kill himself reconnect to the network, so I wiped him but. Ugh
guybrushfreeman
Unconfirmed Member
There's also a side quest earlier in the game where you investigate a murder only to discover the person who asked you to investigate was an E type unit that wiped its memory after having killed so many of their friends. This introduces the idea of the E units much earlier if you come across it
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