Am I the only one disappointed with nier ending? (spoilers)

[TheMightyMollusk]

I give it a solid "meh."

[AstreaTrinity]

i personally wouldve preferred a small crossover with just weapons / glamour items / music

i was kind of holding onto hope for something out of the blue considering the messages felt like we were going a Drakengard ending B route then we completely dropped what was wrong with glagg and the epilogue happens and answers nothing but gave like 3 - 5 more questions

[StormyFae]

Honestly im disappointed a non ff in the game when it woulda been a great chance to use ff9 last zone for one.. Plus i really think robot nonsense is some of most dumbass game play in things.. I extremely hate machines in a fantasy game setting keep that shit in dumb sci-fi

[Irisdina_Wiloh]

Yep I was pretty disappointed too. I barely paid attention to the story because it was less than riveting and honestly I think the final reward being an orchestrion roll is a bit of a slap in the face. I'm sure I wasn't the only one thinking we might get something like a pod mount or some other glamour items as the final reward. I hope we don't get a cross over like this again, the 24 man raid series is too important to be treated like how it was this time.

[Alleo]

I too was disappointed, but for the whole story. They could have easily turned it into an event like Garo and nothing of substance would have been lost. Heck I might have enjoyed it a bit more if I knew that it would have not taken the whole 24 man raid slot for a whole expansion...

I am not really planning on playing any of the Nier games but honestly after that story display I am even less interested in them.

Its even more sad since I doubt that they will visit the first shard again for future stories...so instead of getting a raid that gave us deeper lore for the First we got a purely fanservice raid to advertise another game.

[TaleraRistain]

Nope, my expectation floor was pretty low and they managed to go even lower. That was just pathetic.

[Rollout]

This entire raid series was just so poorly done. Zero explanation as to the motivation of the enemies or our allies outside of the dwarves. The fact that the raid series was called YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse, yet had several references to Drakengard and original NieR, is just bad storytelling, because it's referencing things that some people might not know about, given most people had likely only played Automata and neither of it's previous entries.

All in all, it just felt like a bad fanfiction... "...and then, a portal to another world opened, and 2B and 9S came through! And they decided to save the dwarves from the evil 2B clone!"

And then the finale ends with 2B and 9S having to leave, with 2B leaving a "heartfelt" message for us... while I could think was "I'm sorry, who the fuck were you again?" As if we had any connection to them on a personal level.


At least with Return to Ivalice, it worked the lore of Tactics and XII into the world of FFXIV. YoRHa just dumped some Automata characters into our world through an unexplained portal and expected us to believe everything about it. There's zero explanation as to how the factory or the puppet's bunker ended up in the First. They're just there, for the sole sake of "Look! Look! It's something from Nier: Automata!"

[Iscah]

All in all, it just felt like a bad fanfiction... "...and then, a portal to another world opened, and 2B and 9S came through! And they decided to save the dwarves from the evil 2B clone!"

And then the finale ends with 2B and 9S having to leave, with 2B leaving a "heartfelt" message for us... while I could think was "I'm sorry, who the [heck] were you again?" As if we had any connection to them on a personal level.

That is prettymuch my thoughts on it too, with a side of "you should already know who these characters are, so we don't need to make any effort to show you anything of their personalities or make you care about them".

[BaconBits]

The whole thing was honestly a slap in the face to Nier and FFXIV fans alike. DrakeNier fans got a bunch of fanservice thrown at them haphazardly with no rhyme or reason along with a plot that might as well have been written on a paper napkin while FFXIV fans were deprived of a cohesive Alliance Raid storyline for the First while also having to deal with a bunch of characters they don't know or care about, and being bombarded with references they don't understand because they didn't play any of Yoko Taro's games.

That the epilogue for the Dwarven village took 6 weeks to complete and the only thing you get for even bothering to do them is an orchestrion roll is just salt in the wounds.

[Jennah]

Better question: is there anyone NOT disappointed in the ending?