Crossover events and breaking immersion

[Lersayil]

And I'm saying that makes no sense to use as a basis for whether something is objectively (or as near to that as possible) lacking in some aspect or not. People do judge parts 1 and 2 of a trilogy, and not just after the trilogy is complete. All the more so if that trilogy is added to a franchise that has no habit of great twists or open-ended openings.

So your issue is that... its a different type of story telling that in your subjective opinion doesn't fit the game, because its not episodic enough? I disagree, but I won't argue with that, since its a valid oppinion to have. I don't mind at all if we only get answers in our third raid, since I view it as a single story given out in parts, not singular episodes of a trilogy.

But there's a difference between a foreshadowed (albeit dimension-hopping) weapon crash landing somewhere and hiding a city in a hill some tenth its size. Consider it even just a matter of scale (just as one is left to wonder how all those warrior Xaela tribes can be so close to each other) or thematic lead-in (as ShB reiterates and compounds between ambiguity to conviction, but only vaguely touches over to what we see in NieR, simply because none of those connections were made obvious despite that it'd have cost nothing to make them so, only a bit more time and intelligent writing). They're simple areas which can be done well, or any degree of less well. There's no compromise to the Yoko Taro special style/ingredient/what-have-you.

Sorry, but you are kind of rambling so I don't quite understand your point. All previous alliance raids were very self contained stories, with barely any foreshadowing, and (as far as I remember) only one validated in MSQ later.

We currently have no explanation or timetable about the Nier raid, when and how the factory came to be on the First, or how its connected to the Nier world. But both worlds have a history of weird dimension traveling shenanigans, so unless we get absolutely no explanation later, its fine for now.

Also, I was personally thinking of Gilgamesh, not Omega, since it wasnt confirmed (as far as I know) that he's the same Omega as its past iterations.