Quote Originally Posted by Kozh View Post
But anyway, idk what you guys even want. Nier collab is written by Ishikawa, the Word of God, basically. While it contains some pf emet’s perspective (which, yes, is bias), the rest are historical depiction that don’t contradict any info from shb. One other thing to remember, the souls are particularly important for the Ancients. Would it be far fetched to you to consider that when emet said the sundered are “malformed creatures”, it’s not only due to their physical appearance but also because of the souls?
Perhaps you could phrase those ideas as a theory suggestion rather than an accusation? I don't think I've seen anyone in all this time propose that it might be to do with how Emet perceives the souls rather than the bodies of the sundered, and it actually seems quite plausible to help resolve the difference.

As far as I've seen, discussions of the NieR story seem to revolve around "look, he really said they were really malformed creatures in this isolated story written by Ishikawa, even though the part of FFXIV also written by Ishikawa described it differently".

It's Emet's word against Emet's, Ishikawa's word against Ishikawa's, in a part of the story that the game repeatedly shies away from examining in enough detail to verify which version is true.