Quote Originally Posted by Cilia View Post
I'm not a Yoko Taro buff, but...
As I recall none of the endings to Drakengard 3 lead to the first game; that timeline exists as a sort of mish-mash of various endings to 3 that's only fully detailed in a companion manga. It's Yoko Taro though, so timey-wimey shenanigans are plausibly in play.
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This is correct, none of the Drakengard 3 Endings lead into Drakengard 1. However, Accord is in Drakengard 3 and she's running around hopping timelines, and the Watchers are already dimension-hopping nutjobs so why not, maybe Watcher Zero was able jump timelines and dimensions like Accord and ended up in the Nier universe. Or maybe Yoko Taro didn't bother writing a proper story and we got fed garbage. I lean towards the latter.

Also, fun fact, Hansel and Gretel have different lines depending on who dies first. Rather than "Take and take", the final hex is "Give and give". So that's nice I guess.