Thread: Revelations from Patch 5.5 (Part 1)

The Nier raid series was always a blatant advertisement for a completely unrelated game and therefore was always BS. Some of y'all are just figuring this out now. lol

Originally Posted by Katie_Kitty

The Nier raid series was always a blatant advertisement for a completely unrelated game and therefore was always BS. Some of y'all are just figuring this out now. lol

I had said this awhile ago but was met with a lot of rage from nier/yoko taro fans

Originally Posted by Cilia

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.

The ultimate read I get is that the Machines (and 2B / 9S) didn't literally crash on Norvrandt; rather the Seed of (Resurrection / Destruction) somehow made its way there and recreated them, who then set about building the Factory and replica Bunker as per their directives. That would be why the Factory and Bunker are still around while the Tower is not; as the Tower was a direct creation of the Seed, it disappeared when Her Inflorescence was defeated, but as secondary products of its influence the Factory and Bunker are still around.

Anyway, those with eagle eyes will notice that the first two bosses (Knave of Hearts and Hansel and Gretel) also feature dialogue in hex. It's incomplete, so you have to transliterate it and fill in the gaps like a Wheel of Fortune puzzle, but I went through the trouble of translating it... regrettably it offers no real insight, being just more faux-philosophical dialogue as per Yoko Taro's idiom.

Knave of Hearts
Aggro: In distant memory
Roar (1st cast): Once we
Defeat: Were one

Hansel & Gretel
Aggro (Gretel): People
Aggro (Hansel): Need people
Defeat (1/2): Still you
Defeat (2/2): Take and take

... but yes, if they said you don't need to have played any of Yoko Taro's previous works to understand this they'd be lying. But it's Yoko Taro, so I dunno what you were expecting.

ten characters

Yoshi p said it himself, along with yoko taro. Granted both lie a lot but still. At this point it really does just feel like an advertisement and i see why they usually leave collabs to mini events because otherwise we get this mess A story that doesn’t fit into 14 at all.

I really liked Nier, though I crave more so here's hoping as its not quite over just yet.
Though if I had to rate the Alliance raid stories, given Nier's isn't finished, I'd put them:
1. Crystal Tower
2. YoRhA
3. Mhach
4. Ivalice

I'm curious where the weeklies might go, I'm not expecting all the answers or any, just more from this story line as it intrigues me and I actually like the Dwarfs.

Originally Posted by Vyrerus

Aren't the striking and scouting sets from Copied Factory a FFXIV rendition of 9S's outfit when worn by guys? I know the black's a little off, but coulda sworn that set was in the game already.

It’s a rendition but not the exact thing, but regarding that argument, the female copied factory set is 2b’s outfit. They still gave a 2b coffer despite that, so there’s really no reason they shouldn’t have given us a 9s outfit as well.(not to mention the 9s ones are of course, role locked as well.)

On the one hand I get the idea of 'they gave us 2B's feminine outfit they should give us 9S for balance.'

But on the other hand I can't help but also think it sounds like 'it wasn't enough we got one bonus glamour coffer beyond what alliance raids normally give us, we demand a second one.'