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One of the major issues is that the story we as the players were presented with actively contradicts itself. Through Cahcuia it tells us one thing, then shows us another through the MSQ and Side Quests across the zone. If the "people" in the zone are merely facsimiles, AI constructs, then why are we encouraged to engage with or "help" them at all? They shouldn't matter at that point. A lot of the naysayers like to present the scenario of turning off an electronic device, well... let me ask you this: Before you turn off your electronic devices do you first make sure they were happy with the tasks they completed today? Do you try to make sure your electronic devices are comfortable before you shut them down for the evening? Do you lay them down gently on a pillow?
In-game, we were attempting to connect with them and remember them because their own people have had their memories wiped of them. One of the themes of the expansion's story was that someone isn't truly dead until no one remembers them.

Out-of-game, we needed padding for the final zone and lore dumps and this is what they gave us.


The philosophical debate is meaningless because we were told in no uncertain terms that what the Alexandrians were doing was wrong multiple times starting as soon as we met them in Heritage Found.

What the Alexandrians were doing with the Endless is no different from what Edda and Nybeth Obdilord were doing. It has nothing to do with "what is consciousness?", "what is alive?", or anything to do with NieR: Automata and everything to do with people raising the spirits of the dead. The only differences are that the Endless were produced in a factory and have a semblance of free will instead of being souls brought into shambling corpses.

I'd be more willing to take your side if the Endless weren't taken from actual spiritual parts of dead people in order to pursue an endless undeath. If they were life spawned in a digital machine like Tron Legacy, that would be something entirely different but we're talking about actual people who had lives and then died and instead of returning to the natural cycle of death and rebirth that has been a part of the world since before the Ancients, they cast that aside and have the components of their whole aether artificially ripped apart and deposited into a machine to dream a happy "life" for eternity and live off the souls of others.