[6.0 - 6.4 Spoilers] An interesting video detailing Venat's polarizing reception

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Just as a note; things depicted in the NieR Re[in]carnation crossover event are canon, whether or not posters want to acknowledge it. The sundered were clearly shown to have lost not only their sense of self, but even basic skills like communication. Notably, the Unsundered - or Ascians, as they would later come to be called - could not communicate with the first of the sundered in any shape, way, or form. Given the ancients (and anyone with an Echo, I might add) could communicate with anything that has a soul, this gives us a fairly good idea as to the state the Sundering actually left people in. They had nothing.