Unpopular (probably) opinion about the Nier raids...

[TheMightyMollusk]

Story-wise, it felt like a buildup to a payoff that never happened. The Copied Factory built up a mystery with 2P and 9S and just where it all came from; Puppet's Bunker gave it a sharp twist; and then the Tower just.......grabbed a whole pile of plot elements from the entire Drakkengard/Nier universe, tossed them in a blender, and tried to pretend it worked out somehow. The weekly epilogues with the dwarves felt less like a meaningful part of the story and more like a dying wheeze.

Gameplay-wise, I liked the first two raids, but the Tower is not only a visually boring pile of white and gray blocks, it's actually painful to look at after a while. Even after they modified some of the visuals, it still gives me a headache.

[EorzeaWanderer]

and then the Tower just.......grabbed a whole pile of plot elements from the entire Drakkengard/Nier universe, tossed them in a blender, and tried to pretend it worked out somehow. The weekly epilogues with the dwarves felt less like a meaningful part of the story and more like a dying wheeze.

You have very colorfully described what I was thinking, I agree completely!

[StriderShinryu]

Story-wise, it felt like a buildup to a payoff that never happened. The Copied Factory built up a mystery with 2P and 9S and just where it all came from

Yeah. Honestly, I would have actually liked it if the entire Nier collab would have just been Copied Factory and ended there. Let you fight 9S and then find the room with all of the 2B bodies in explore mode but leave it there. Leave it this weird, unsettling mystery with no real conclusion or explanation. I don't know how exactly they would have done it with the other 24 mains being completely unrelated to the first (and not even connected to Nier at all) but it would have been more effective.