Drakengard - Chapter 13: Truth (Ending E)
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- All dialogue and cutscenes from Chapter 13 and its verses.
'Caim lives hand in hand with good and evil. We, too, must adapt to this world of chaos.'
the End of the dragon sphere
"A Journey - Bidding the world farewell, Caim and the dragon slip into the light and disappear. Perhaps Seere will tell their tale.
New World - Time and space fall apart, and the fantasy begins.
The Greatest Battle - I. Hear. A. Sound.
Recursion - Good work."
Drakengard belongs to Square Enix. These videos are just for fun.
"Maybe I should play this game to get a better understanding of why this ending happened"
*40 hours later*
"Well that didn't help"
This style of games is a genera that focuses specifically on tragedy so its basically one of those titles where the developers decided to say how can we make it worse with each ending based on because you do this something worse happens. All out tragedy games are just like that
There are few games that fall under this type of genera silent hill boarders on it but is really just a psychological and survival horror game hope this helps
@@christiancroom3386 What's another game that does it? That seems very Berserk.
I've spent like 20-25 hours to play Drakengard until having to collect all weapons for ending E, so just watched it.
Yeah, didn't help that much. But now I can catch some references in Niers!
@@Amonkira1029funny you mention Beserk cuz I was gonna say Dark Souls and Bloodborne
"is this... the land of the gods?..."
TOKYO
Shinjuku
How narcissistic huh?)
Well they did make the game there, so in a technical sense they are this games gods. That’s all there saying
@@TLiebCNV I kind of like how it's a running theme in that universe though. They fall into the Nier universe "is this the land of the gods". In Nier, the boss theme in the Barren Temple is "Gods Bound by Rules" referring to the humans (technically replicants) who are bounded by rules. In Automata "Become as Gods" is chanted by the machines when the cult leader Kierkegaard dies and, like humans who live and die, he became as god (the humans who the machines strived to become and worshipped).
@@Buzzfuzz98 Don't forget, 2B says, "Everything that lives is designed to end. ...I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him."
And then the Automata DLC has the combat director at Platinum Games, and the CEO of Square Enix as optional bosses.
I kinda like how this ends. No music just silence. The heroes saved one world but doomed another by total accident
I wonder what happened at Caim world after this, that oculd mean something bad happened? We know the red eye disease comes from outer gods. A funny thing, I thought Red eye was an indiviual, it turns out is a type of legion and is being covered in the Gacha game Nier reincarnation.
@@alanalb1449 I assume everything went well, without the Queen mother, there are no more Watchers, meaning there is no more Empire and no more need for the Seals
Of course, humans are going to fight each other, but still, I *think* the world recovered
@@alanalb1449they kinda saved that world, only surviving seere and the priest of the cast, and I guess if the empire is still infected somehow there are gonna be less of a problem since manah is dead, the fortress destroyed and their capital on ruins
@@OceleroGamersWhile the Drakengard realm is still alive, it did however ended up dooming humanity of Earth, as these Watchers ended up spreading the White Chlorination Disease that ultimately wiped out Earth humans.
I fucking love that you have these magical heroes defeat the evil and then suddenly get obliterated by fighter jets
*Villains defeat the good
And everyone dies, the end.
And that eventually leads to humanity's extinction, it all comes fill circle
Hi. Can anyone tell me where the Queen Beast's pose is based off of? I once saw in a post that had an album cover with a statue in the ground doing the exact same pose as the Queen Beast and that's where the Drakengard team based her pose on. Thanks in advanced!
@@SeiyaTempest hmm
"Oh there is a dragon in front of me. I'll kill it with my F15, what could be wr-"
THE WEIGHT OF THE WORLD
Thank you bravo-1, very cool
@K.O.G.Fanstarks1610 Good lord, does humor not get through that "big brain" of yours?
Guys don't fight please, or we will become shades.
I wanted to see the hero survived tho :'(
@@weebslack9373 I wouldn’t call him “hero”, more a force of unrelenting vengeance.
imagine being a Cg Animator, and your first job is with square enix. You've been waiting your whole life for an opportunity like this. And then for your first job, your told to help animate a Cg cutscene where a dragon and naked lady fight over japan, and animate a bunch of babies eating a ton of people. And then you see your head directory Yoko Taro. You want to ask him why and for what reason he wants you to animate this. Before you can even approach him, he just gives you a thumbs up, and slides into the bathroom laughing.
hahaha sounds like an amazing first project, honestly! Definitely not boring to work on.
I want to add to the previous reply: "sounds like Yoko Taro". Just you forgot to mention his Emil mask.
Yunlihn Hino
Great joke but...
A) he wears the mask for public appearances out of shyness. I can't imagine him work regularly with the mask on.
B) at that point not even the prototype plot for NieR existed, much less the Emil mask. I think he started wearing the mask only recently (his GDC lecture was with a different flat mask, and he did the Drakengard 3 video as a sock puppet...
When you’re told you’re working on a fantasy game and you think it’s like Final Fantasy but...it’s far from it (but still amazing)
Strange but memorable experience
Thanks for defeating the final boss.
Here's a gift for you
it's called a missile. Enjoy!
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I’ve fixed it.
@@emoducky I don't remember ever making this comment.
Thank you, Yoko Taro! Very cool !
A missile?ok here's a better gift "human extinction"
Caim and ángelus: who's laughing now
I don`t understand how Yoko Taro devised this ending one day and said: "Wouldn't be funny if i make a whole game of this ending?"
Good comment, won't like. It's perfect as is.
@@jacobhyde1415 oh its because its at the funny reddit number?
@@noVva555 Yees.
Someone else ruined it. Liked anyway.
To answer your question. He’s an anime fan. Watched evangelion’s ending and said yes put it in a game. 😂 the man confirmed it himself. This was supposed a joke ending for people who wanted to 100% the game. Ended up becoming notorious and spawned nier. He’s a mad genius lmao
Good job Bravo-1, you just doomed your entire species,
They had no way of telling to be honest. It´s not like Angelus looked like a lawful goodie Platinum dragon.
I think the queen beast's death did that? Angelus's death let them figure out and use magic? Honestly if they let Caim and Angelus live the two would probably have murdered everyone anyway :P
Mr. Aptronym The opposite: The arrival of the queen beast brought magic, while the death of her, Caim and Angelus triggered the White Chlorination Syndrome, which caused the Black Scrawl.
These replies make me see why i love this series
Oh my god. I recently finished Nier: Automata (first playthrough, mind you) with never playing anything from this series. Just spent 45 minutes researching on maso, Gestalts, Replicants, WCS, Black Scrawl, Grimoire Noir, etc. MIND BLOWN. Thank you string of random major nerds
To think that this all started with a flower from another world.
a fucking flower
A very badass flower
not it starts with my country getting really fucked up (Iberian Peninsule)
"Thank you for the flowers..."
@@VigilanteAgumon wtf so many references
The Jolly "thank you for playing" after such a serious ending is hysterical
the director watched way to much evangelion
MyLifeToons thank god I'm not the only one that feels like Neir is a secret Evangelion project.
Definitely ;)
BTW this ending's name is called 'the End of Dragon Sphere', which is a cool nod to 'The End of Evangelion' which is funny cause this is the ending that leads to Nier (so, your hunch might be right ;D). Also, Nier: Automata once again references the infamous film in ending E (oh hey!), where it's called 'the End of Yorha'. It's really weird that no one else has noticed this cool shout out.
Every Japanese people watched way too much Evangelion.
just because it says "the end of something" doesn't make it an evangelion reference, dummy
Do you know how frightening it would be if this actually happened? Like, imagine waking up one day and you hear a loud bang. Shortly after that you hear loud bells ringing and see a giant bald naked lady and a dragon duking it out in the middle of the city.
You should watch Cloverfield...
Naked bald lady and a dragon playing simon
And after a white ash falls down and you then hear voices in your head from a god from a different world telling yout o become their slave or perished
There is a audioplay of the effects that ending e brings
That would definitely be scary but imagine watching everyone you know and love becoming pillars of salt and blowing away like dust in the wind or worse, they could become mindless killing machines for a god from another world for all eternity.
It's incredible they made a whole new saga out of such a troll ending. This is like if they made an spin off based on Dog ending in SH2
night1952
A spinoff to the dog ending? xD Now THAT'S something I wanna see! Hahaha
Too bad that Silent Hill though is fucking dead, because of Konami.
night1952 what's your profile picture? It looks really familiar but I just can't put my finger on it
DempseyTheBoss Emil from nier
Actually I imagined Silent Hill going for a sci-fi twist by following the ufo endings in a parallel timeline branch. Imagine rather than Alessa, the Order, demons, flauros, instead it's ufos, genetic experimentation, simulated town, psychological test, aliens and stuff
I wonder what type of town Silent Hill would be if Konami ended up there like one of their protagonists.
2spoopy4me
Perhaps the greatest "Fuck You" ending of all time.
so who is the dragon and the guy ridding it????
Caim and Angelus, the protagonists (notice I don't use the word "heroes").
and they died in the end?? or survive
Died, leading straight to the events of NiER (magical element introduced into a non-magical world = incurable disease and shit).
Very much dead. Games in the Drakengard/NiER series NEVER end well for the PCs.
This whole sequence is so fucking creepy! The Queen Beast is rendered in that early 2000's CG that makes everything fall right into the uncanny valley, and the bells, the fucking song, it's haunting, jesus
2020: "Wow, this is the worst year ever!"
2021:
Aw shi-
well..
The cure for covid is project gestalt
I just saw A red dragon falls from the sky wonder what would happen hmmm
2021 was definitely better than 2020 lol. Still sucked shit but not as bad.
Came here to understand Nier Automata's world more... Um...
Understand... in the same sentence than NieR and Drakengard? Don't make me laught
Nothing to understand here folks
Welcome to Taroverse xD
Yeah welcome to Drakengard-NieR, we got confusing, dumbfounding and batshit indecipherable. Take your pick
All you need to understand is E to E, Tower to Tower
The deeper you get to it, the easier you understand actually
Just another day in Tokyo.
If I was working in one of those buildings I would just leave, and screw off anyone who tried to make me stay.
there is something *supremely* unnerving about the entire tone surrounding this bossfight. the way all the color is drained out, the perfectly still and statue-esque form of the queen beast and the way she's posed, the music, the way the camera very slowly spins around the scene. especially the fact that this is contrasted with the tone of the rest of the game which is nothing even remotely like this. honestly it's a feeling no other game has ever given me.
Drakengard pretty much pulled a Cloverfield before Cloverfield.
The whole Kaiju genre created by Godzilla were supposed to be horror films showing nature's revenge against humanity but in Drakengard it's God's revenge.
The mere fact that one day your daily life can be destroyed by such an incomprehensibly alien event is what is truly frightening...
Angra Mainyu Nier automata
It is very creepy. I feel like Taro always had nier in mind in some form when he made this. He wanted this to feel like the end of something, but we wouldn't know what until replicant and automata
@@vihurah9554 And even then we didn't really realize what was happening until we had all the moving pieces together.
Yeah this pretty scary imagine walking in cities like Tokyo New York London Paris etc and that shit just pops out of the sky
I just had an epiphany, though I've played through and have seen this ending multiple times... When Angelus asked "Is this the land of the gods?", she was correct in the sense that they had arrived in real world Japan. Drakengard was developed in Japan, making the development team their "gods" respectively.
Yes, I was going to make the same comment.
Y'know in a way it is, it also totally isn't. This is the world that Nier is set in which just so happens to be exact same as the "land of the gods" but deviates from this point onwards. It's pretty meta
Jon The Pretty OK Guy It is indeed quite meta... The events that lead up to Nier revolve around the introduction of white chlorination syndrome, which is the singularity that split the timeline.
Nier is also pretty self-aware in how it turns common video game tropes on their heads... so there's another layer of meta-ness for you.
considering how angelus got one shotted by a weak heli, it truly is the land of the gods.
You just set in motion human extinction.
_Thank you for playing!_
yeeei :3
Welp see ya all in your new replicants/androids bodies
Yeah... At least, HIS world is in ruin but saved. Not everybody died, there is hope...
But for earth... see you in Nier.
Well the people in Nier eventually throw WCS back to Drakengard.
@@aguywhodoesntexist the people in NieR are all dead, Automata's ending E confirmed this.
@@someboiwhogivesadamn That was after, in the Nier backstory people manage to throw all the WCS back to the Drakengard world before the game proper.
@@aguywhodoesntexist seriously? Tf did I not know about this?
This game is related to NIER?
"But the blood of the heroes who saved the world paints the tower red." I hate little things like that, you get the whole "nothing matter" feel, what a terrible, indifferent place.
That's the point. I always feel regretful when a hero or character I love dies, but you can't really feel upset when that character's death is justified or at least had a point. Caim died and humanity was doomed, but they killed the queen beast. And humans later meet their demise for all that happened. I think it's a fascinating point of view. A cynical one that makes you love and care for a world but also gives you the sense that nothing really means anything. Something like that happens in Xenoblade Chronicles, where shulk and the homs are confronted with the fact that their god was just a petty piece of shit. The plot literally guides you through the idea of fate and you fighting against it to make your own. It talks of someone DENYING god, forging an entire new world with no gods. Instead of feeling hopeless or abandoned, they find relief in a world with no god. You have no idea if they'll get an afterlife or a way to cope with their existence, but they feel good because they don't care, just like you end up caring about caim but realizing he doesn't matter in the end
@@stsleazy One thing that passes over a lot of people is that the Xeno-series is heavily inspired by Gnosticism, an old branch of Christianity that states that the God we know is an impostor who put all of Humanity in an abusive Stockholm situation and to free yourself from this reality to find the true God that is actually good.
This even relates to the Drakennier series in that the Grotesqueries were actually called Angels in the JP dub and lore books showed that God hated humanity and was willing to destroy them at all cost. So when the the Giant Angel was defeated, her holy dust spread around and forced people to accept "God" or die. 2B's opening quote sets the tone for the whole game. "Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to kill him.?"
In the end both Xeno and Drakenier share similar themes and conclusions, for good reason too, they were inspired by the same source...
@@stsleazy I feel the opposite. Rather, everything we do matters and has consequences. It's just that we take for granted that the consequences will be beneficial to us.
@@AngraMainiiu I've always felt an odd unspoken connection between Drakengard/nier and Xeno, this helps clear it up
What the fuck is this game
a game where everything that can go wrong goes wrong
A fever dream gone wild
Why skip the credits? The most gut-wrenching part of this ending is at the very end of the credits when you see (spoilers) Angelus impaled atop the tower.
I included it in another video.
Well I don't know if the spacing lines up, it does explain the "dragon's blood painting the tower red" bit
I've played through Automata, then Drakengard 1, now playing Replicant. I could swear that at the end of prologue, the tower is shown on the middle of the screen, suggesting that this is the tower the dragon was impaled on.
Love it.
To be honest this is kinda of a more realistic ending because if something like this happened in real life knowing humanity instead of investigating the guy that litteraly saved the enitre city even if it was temporary they would killed him first no question asked
leopard star rip Caim
He literally come from nowhere, a beast destroyed part of the city and no info they had on hand. What do you think we would do in their shoes?
No one was present/saw at time Caim "saved" the city, the Bravo Team just found Caim overflying Tokyo and neutralized him believing was a terrorist attack.
@@yahirnegrin6521 Man you are Brain dead
yeah it's just a sad, cruel reality
"no one was present"
MY MAN THEYRE LITERALLY IN THE MIDDLE OF TOKYO CITY
Oh hey it's almost the start of NieR.
Thats the point A_A
Just give it some time, then a little girl will read a book while her protector is outside with his pipe.
[ S n o w i n S u m m e r S t a r t s P l a y i n g i n t h e B a c k g r o u n d]
@@mothified1676 called Grimoire Nier
"Look at my memory. A red dragon falls from the heavens... Ah, that memory has been lost. A shame. It was a favorite of mine..."
Only now do I understand the meaning behind that memory.
AHHHHHH i completely forgot about that. Wow...I love how there's all these connections to these games. It's awesome.
HeiR The only problem is that Angelus isn't red in ending E. ;)
LyteTec Then I think it might have been a developers' mistake, because in the last three endings Angelus is always in her chaos form. Even though we know for sure that it can't be anyone else other than her, it wouldn't make sense otherwise.
You're right. Could be a mistake or she somehow lost her chaos form/devolved before the military found her, either by acquiring her goal (-> Doesn't need this form anymore?) or due to the missiles launched at her, bc we saw parts of her skin "vanishing". Dunno, just fantasizing^^
Where is this from? Is it from that text adventure part from the original NieR?
In the JP version, the fighter is called "Scarface" instead of "Bravo 1".
"Scarface" has the same name as the main character of Ace Combat.
This is because the development staff of Ace Combat 1 and 2 are involved.
That is amazing lmao, That's pretty cool!
"Look at my memory.
A red dragon falls from the heavens...
Ah, that memory has been lost. A shame. It was a favorite of mine."
*Player witnesses the deaths of the two main characters and the event that will directly lead to the end of the human race*
Drakengard: "Thank you for playing!"
We still didn't know that way back before xd
I know nothing about Drakengard, nor Nier, but this ending is so...mysterious.
It's so dark and eerie and artistic, It felt so meaningful to me without even knowing what's going on.
I cannot explain it well, but I just love it.
Here is my attempt at a one sentence description of Nier/Drakengard's underpinning ... Destruction of the Destroyer is equivalent to destruction of the Soul . Take that with you if you decide to explore that mystery you felt
Nier replicant is out today, you would not regret playing it, I think!
Everything we do has meaning...horrible, painful meaning that unleashes into the world a sea of events we can never fully appreciate or witness.
Yeah......this was meant as a joke ending originally......and then somehow 9/11 inspires Yoko Taro to turn this joke ending into an entire game
@@lcolson91 If it really is a joke ending, I can't really see what's so funny about it. It's one of the most unique endings I've seen.
Just realized that small thing falling before angelus was caim.... I always assumed he would've gotten blown to pieces but the fact that you see him falling makes this worse
One poetic thing I have noticed is that Caim began the game dying from being literally backstabbed & now it ends with him dead from being backstabbed....
@K.O.G.Fanstarks1610 Well, the Queen Beast was the one giving those options. It's assumed tho that Caim took the pact tho if that's what you meant. If he did, I'd say he became red eye.
@K.O.G.Fanstarks1610 I just saw the cutscene where he says that. I never played Drakengard. That was yea... oo but its in his personality to take the pact.
@@AngraMainiiuironically
And everyone died.
*THE END*
Except not really cause sad androids are still around.
Patrick go be stupid somewhere else
Literally the entire Nier Franchise
"Thank you for playing"
At least caim world is fine, on ruins but no more babies and monstersv
I've been thinking a lot about this ending and Yoko Taro's narritive and diction.
I've heard on many regards this ending is a "joke ending" and not meant to be taken seriously. I mean, I don't blame people for thinking so. "Thank you for Playing" at the end and "Unidentified Target Neutralised" in such a cocky tone.
Although, this ending's meaning seems almost obvious. Maybe others have seen it this way too, who knows.
To start, the dragon's name is Angeles, which right out sounds similar to "Angel" symbolic of a holy being of God. Now, while the "Mother Beast" does not have a name, the realm that occurs before this ending is hellish, satanic, the music and atmosphere are disturbing and dreadful. To put it plainly, when Angeles and Caim are consumed by the flash of light and enter the modern world, it feels reminiscent of the Biblical judgement day when Heaven and Hell shall before all mortal eyes to witness.
Angeles and Caim are victorious, and the Mother Beast dies before them. Heaven has saved all humanity from Hell making it's way onto earth. Though when all seems bright, a simple fighter jet shoots down and kills Angeles with Caim falling into the unknown.
How I interpet, despite Heaven defeating Hell, Yoko Toro continues to mock human's destructive nature in rejecting, and in this case, destroying anything they don't understand.
That powerful, painful long moments of silence as Angeles falls from the sky and the deteriorating of the Mother Beast feels grim...Humans have rejected Heaven even in their most dire moment of need, that humans aren't worth surviving. The White Chlorination Syndrome that occurs after feels like the ensuing end of humans, their punishment for turning their back on their saviour.
To Chlorinate is to lose every trace of water, and water throughout time is symbolic of life. Symbolic as the most sacred and holy thing that inhabits all. WCS entirely disintigrates a person's being. If water is symbolic as God, just as humans turned their back on God, so too does He turn their back on them.
I'm not saying Yoko Taro believes humans don't deserve life, but for the time period Drakengard came out the 9/11 terror attacks weren't far off from...
it's not a joke ending, it's probably the true one
Ironically the true name of the Watchers and the Queen Beast, were *Angels*
LfunkeyA Well Drakengard has it's own sequel (that loosely follows ending A) but this ending in particular is the one that leads to NieR
It's neat that you made a 9/11 comparison, as the game that follows from this ending, NieR, was inspired by 9/11
Sirmat It was inspired by the War on Terror, so it would be more accurate to say that this boss was inspired by 9/11 itself.
Hmmm...someone's been watching too much Evangelion.
This ending is literally called The [E]nd of the Dragonsphere.
i was gonna say the same thing , this is so Eva
Don't be surprised
Yoko Taro himself od a fan
Yoko Taro has straight up admitted as such. In fact, many things in Automata were straight up jacked from other books, films, TV shows, and even other games. You know the plains region in Automata that connects most of the other regions and works as sort of a hub region? Well, that's Hyrule Field. He straight up jacked the entire map layout of Ocarina of time and copied it and put it into his game.He even timed how long it takes Link to run across Hyrule field and made it so the trek in Automata takes the exact same amount of time. He has absolutely no reservations about telling everyone about how unoriginal he is. Weirdly enough, it still makes him pretty damn unique. It makes sense with his design philosophy too. During a GDC conference, he made a little visual aid to help would be developers to make weird games like he does. The picture said "Not Important: The Game", "The important thing: "!" Making the player feel something is the only thing he really cares about. All the other stuff is just a vehicle to bring out that emotion.
that shot of the queen beast falling on the city is haunting wow
RIP Caim.
RIP Anghel.
RIP Shinjuku, Tokyo.
RIP humanity.
Rip Androids
Glory to mankind
Rip a lot of dwarves
What the fucking fuck.
So with the defeat of the Queen Grotesquerie, This was how the world of Nier was set into motion?
Also first playing this in Middle school. I was glad I actually got a good ending... Until Angelus & Caim blew up.
That is correct! hahaha "good" endings are a miracle in these games.
It's actually a happy ending according to Yoko Taro's logic.
Yes the 'snow' you see at the beginning of NieR is actually the ash of the queen beast or white chlorination syndrome as its known in game.
Brandon Lopez
When you break the characters down to their core elements and remove the plot would you usually want a guy like Caim to have a happy ending?
AND THAT'S HOW NIER HAPPENED EVERYONE :D
_'Caim lives hand and hand with good and evil.'_
A sentence that describes Caim perfectly. I certainly don't condone his more horrific actions, but when you look at the character as a whole, from the blur of trauma that was his backstory to the genuine care he has for those close to him, such as Furiae and Angelus, I can't help but see the kingdomless prince as a rather human and tragic figure; one that would go on to revel in carnage and do some truly dickish things, but would nonetheless have moments scattered throughout that show traces of goodness.
It's honestly sad knowing that the corpses of Caim, Angelus, and the grotesquerie queen would go on to become the foundations for the centuries of tragedies that would take place in the NieR world...
I can't really recall Caim doing anything "truly dickish", besides massacring some child soldiers that actually were a legitimate threat and turned on those that had spared them the moment they had their backs. The worst Caim had ever done was kick an elf that was begging for help in a moment of frustration and then kick Verdelet later, and boy if he had the benefit of hindsight, he should have killed that old racist coward on the spot and would have saved the world a lot of trouble in the long run. Sure, Caim revels in carnage against his enemies, but you have to bear in mind that his enemies are mind-wiped, enslaved puppets of an empire that is ruled by a cosmic horror. Only overwhelming, uncompromising violence could stand against such a thing. His violence and anger were completely justified and his capacity for love shows that he wasn't a mindless psychopath either.
@@daredl807 Caim is also a ball of hatred seeking revenge, the problem is not that he kills enemies but he is taking pleasure doing it and he unecessary violent.
The issue with Caim is that he’s fundamentally broken. The guy has no life outside of killing, and is only tolerated by the Union because they need his strength and his opponents are literally brainwashed fodder. If/when the war ends, Caim would be seen as a dangerous animal at best, since they no longer have a convenient source of bodies for him to kill.
Angelus does hint in some
Missions that Caim isn’t even trying to accomplish an objective, just satisfy his killing desires. It’s all he’s left with…
Except for Angelus. With her, Caim does see himself able to love,’
At least this battle doesn't have the weird camera angles unlike the final battle for route D in Drakengard 3
For a joke ending, it's still pretty grim.
i dont doubt YT really did plan this hence the monochromatic dark tone
And this was just the beginning...
That alone tells you so much lol. That a joke ending is this fucking dark especially when you play nier and realize the consequences of this ending
THIS IS THE CANON ENDING.
Does this actually seek like a joke because I don't think so
I like how you can see fireballs hitting the Queen-Beast before Angelus engages her. She tried blasting it and realized that wasn’t going to work, so she settled for the song battle.
They made this fight into a boss mechanic in FFXIV...
They also added the chimes to the song too
a shame there wasnt much, neither mechanics nor music
Something interesting I've noticed is that the Queen Beast seems to really not want to be in Tokyo during the fight.
All of its expressions seem to be shocked or pained as its "skin" starts peeling off, and it constantly makes an upward reaching pose, as if it's trying to get back to the portal that brought it here.
Yeah maybe Caim and Angelus aren't so much damaging it, but merely keeping it there until it dies?
In a world before Nier I can only imagine how confused people were by this
I imagine now in a world with Automata people are even more confused by this.
@kevindasilva3790 as someone who's playing nier automata rn and looked this up to see how we got here in nier you are correct what the fuck did I just watch this feels like the ending of monty python and the holy grail
Drakengard is so messed up, but I love it. xD
this is like the most surreal and most unsettling game ending i’ve ever seen
Drakengard did an Isekai before it was cool
It’s the cheerful “thank you for playing” at the end that really twists the knife on this ending.
The fact that this also leads up to the events of NiER and NiER Automata makes it even worse!
anyone else here after finishing the final Nier raid in FFXIV?
Exactly what I came here for, glad i'm not alone
At least the rhythm sequence there wasn't so difficult, lmao. I expected a boss based only on this.
@@SilentAbyss1996 i feel like it was this, or the hacking mini game. they went with the hacking minigame
This made more sense than the raid
I think that there's definitely some correlation between the Intoners in full bloom and the Queen Beast done on purpose. Their battle, death, and appearance is even the same.
I always thought the jets were a reference to Ace Combat, which is what Drakengard was originally inspired from.
Well this is a depressing end, honestly I'd call all of the game's endings depressing
All of Drakengard and Nier is depressing.
Tbh, Drakengard 3 and Automata had not too bad considering what could've been. Zero gets what she wanted in the end and the androids get a shot at happiness without their obligation to fight a pointless war and having to die over and over again.
God this was a nightmare back in the day but this thing is fairly easy when compared to the final boss of Drakengard 3
Easy! haha man, that last sequence is insane. I haven't played Drakengard 3 though so, if that boss is harder... damn lol
Game Archive drakengard 3's boss was intentionally trying to mess you up in the rythm fight.
song starts and everything is simple, just hit one button as the circle comes near the dragon, simple enough right?
then the song splits in to segments with a different rythm per segment that shows up, but it is still rather doable.
AND THEN segment 3 begins where not only is the rythm slightly different which means you can mess up by just being off by the rythm changing, THE CAMERA STARTS MOVING AROUND and zooming in, mean you can't rely on your eyes to see the circles before they reach the dragon you're flying, still okay as long as you can keep an ear out on the rythm.
And then segment 5 begins which is 3 but worse cause now the camera is just all over the place and you basicly have to play it by ear.
finally, as one last screw you, the final segment starts off fast but progressively gets slower as the segment continues, until finally, the screen slowly fades to black, the song is beginning to stop, dialogue rolls in as you think the song is over, and then, DING, you hear the sound of one more note but can't see it and the rythm is so ungodly slow that you don't know when to hit the button and the dialogue is rolling on top of the last note too SO THE FINAL NOTE IS JUST A RANDOM SHOT IN THE DARK AND IF YOU MISS IT YOU GOTTA START BACK AT THE BEGINNING.
Did i mention the entire boss segment is about 6 minutes in length? yeah, can't forget about that.
overall i found the entire experience rather enjoyable and gave me a new experience of insanity and masochism
+darkrobo damn
You have to find your inner Decadus to finish D3's last boss :D
*T W O F U C K I N G N O T E S*
And thus a legendary series from an alternate timeline was born.
Bro its canon event
😩
@@mmdagus3973 *insert Miguel walking from portal and plays his theme*
Ironically the Accords are trying to do the exact opposite...
What even is this game?
The game that is set before Nier. That is all I know.
From what I've seen of this game series, from the absurd unfairness of some of the boss battles (in Drakengard 3, you basically have to do this fight, except it's less forgiving and the camera shuts off at one point) to the brutal, bleak story lore, to this abrupt ending, it was created by people with a deep, deep contempt for their players and really humanity in general, and a desire to inflict suffering on them in any way possible. This is a game to troll the world.
Kopitio Bozynski Only ending E is set before Nier. Drakengard 2 and 3 are out as well, if you didn't know.
A game about everyone in the planet including the gods being genocidal, cannibalistic, or a pedophile
Also only ending A and E lead to another game. B,C,and D are dead ends where everyone is objectively dead.
Heart Connected I wouldnt say that, the story is good, the game... not so much
Man this ending is so fucking creepy
Maybe it's just because I know how it plays into Nier but I can't possibly picture this as a joke ending because it's just so fucked
Now you know how 9/11 felt!
I like how the queen beast tried to sneak one defiant ring at the end
I cheated on this boss and paused the game so I could press the buttons ahead of time.
That sounds even more difficult somehow, rather than easier lol
And then a similar giant woman appeared in nier reincarnation
I have to believe yoko taro had already somewhat concieved of the first nier at this time, the shots of the queen beast maso particles raining on the city are so foreboding in retrospect. Also "the blood of the dragon paints the tower red"
If any good can be pulled from this ending, it's that humanity at least survived in ONE world
the humanity survived in one world (❎)
the humanity survived in one world, until the release date of Drakengard 4 (✅)
@@stanjones7511 we can only hope
@@bakubread9308 lol. New update: the humanity can only survive until the release of Nier Replicant Ver. 1.22474487139...
I wonder when nier:reincarnation fits in the timeliness when it releases?
0:39 To understand this is that Angelus says: To defeat the Queen Beast, we need to defeat him on his own homeworld. So they travel to a different dimension where they thought they ended up on his homeworld (being our world). Thats why Angelus said :"Is this...the land of the gods?"
Yes, the Queen Beast's homeworld is Earth.
A - Queen Beast lands on Earth.
B- Queen Beast spreads WCS using her body particles.
C- Celebrant Androids send body particles to Drakengard world.
D-body particles form Queen Beast in Drakengard world.
It's a cycle.
@@pendekarlautbiru oh so that explains cathedral city
After reading Kingdom of Night.. I gotta say, they did arrived to the land of the gods.
Apparently, the characters know these songs. To get this ending, you need to collect all the weapons and complete all the additional tasks, probably in the weapons they find hidden words and songs left by the singers. Perhaps even Zero left them to us to save humanity from God himself.
Unironically caim failed..
There's a part of me that finds it funny that Yoko Taro wrote a follow up story to this 7 YEARS LATER WHAT WAS HE COOKING
“This is bravo 1….there’s not going to be any repercussions from this right”
“Negative bravo 1 your clear for RTB”
Love how yoko taro went "let's create one of the best game franchises ever from le funny evangelion ending"
Technically speaking, if the missiles killed a dragon, the jets could have easilly just destroyed the queen-beast
Yeah.
To be fair, it seems that Caim and Angel/Angelus were undergoing some form of calcification, likely due to the effects of White Chlorination Syndrome. This is probably why they broke off so easily after being shot, just as the Queen Beast did. This might also solidify the theory that Caim did indeed become a Red Eye, a special type of Legion in the Nier series, and was possibly the first one.
Edit: Another point supporting the "Caim is The First Red Eye Theory" is that in the Grimoire NieR book, it's stated that only Angel/Angelus's body was recovered, with no trace of Caim's remains.
Important note that, frankly, it's unlikely the pilots could have done that. The Queen Beast was defeated when her Song was countered, Angelus and Caim are just flesh, and they were likely the first to undergo WCS.
Drakenguard end -> Nier Replicant begin
Gonna tell my kids this was Friday Night Funkin
When it cuts to modern day japan, I could see this situation becoming an anolog horror series.
I mean it's just 9/11 but yeah...
Soo Nier is basically a crossover between Drakengard and Real Life?
Yeah that means were all dead in Yoko Taro brain
This single fight would set in motion events that no one would ever be able to predict
Yoko Taro: "hey remember this joke ending?"
Square Enix: "Yes?"
Yoko Taro: "I'm gonna make a brand new game series that's a sequel to this ending"
Square Enix: "There's no way it can be any goo-"
Yoko Taro: *makes Nier Replicant, Nier Gestalt and Nier Automata*
Square Enix: "Now that's what I'm talking about!"
Nier replicant and gestalt failed and the only reason automata released was because the dragon quest director said he'd quit the company if yoko couldn't get automata.
So no, you're wrong
So what was the reasoning for the real world being in black and white?
Cause it looked cool, that's it
@@theanonymousme6015it's just...strange.
@@Kira22558 it's ascetic
Crazy to think that technically.. Nier came from one good joke
Dragon: i have defeated the giant humanoid monster and saved you all, you're welcome
Humans: *blows up dragon* thanks
"Is this the land of the gods?"
"Tokyo"
This makes me laugh way too hard
Bravo-1?, I know that voice...
It´s Thunderhead from ace combat 5, right?
As if you needed more reason to hate Thunderhead
Yep, that was Kirk Thorton as Bravo-1.
Schnee 1, as well. The Eternal Second Lieutenant strikes again.
Imagine being a normal citizen living in Tokyo and seeing this shit
Aww they cut out the part where you see them on Tokyo tower
I did, but it's included in another video!
Years ago I remember reading an interview - I think was in Famitsu - with Yoko Taro where he mentioned that this ending was a direct reference to 9/11. I also remember feeling really weird and a little freaked out when I first read that. It was like the first time the magnitude of it all clicked with me, and I saw 9/11 in a way that wasn't just a tragic accident. I've thought a lot about how to describe this in words, but i've never really figured out how. It was like there was a kind of an unsettling sweetness to the way I felt - and I think, oddly enough, Drakengard helped me realize that emotion... whatever it was.
Like I said, it was really weird and its the only time I can remember ever feeling that kind of a way.
I'll never get over that last little fuck you note that can ruin your run because you put your controller down in celebration
It's literally what caim deserve it 😂
"Thank you for playing" more like "Thank you for setting human extinction in motion"
Drakengard 1: Let's all just do 2 button combinations for this
Drakengard 3: I'm gonna end this player's entire career
Well, at least that ending in Drakengard 3 makes it so the rest of the shit doesn't happen, so that's a good thing right?
@@john22590 LOL
@@john22590 It's heavily implied the Queen Beast is Zero after The Final Song.
And now it begins to snow in the summer
Bullet nah that’s ashes I mean salt XD
The Mourning Mother... Shall sing it's song. To bring about the [E]nd of the dragon sphere...
Is that the boss'es japanese name ? I thought it would be Holy Mother.
@@JabamiLainno, it's the name of another watcher that made its appearance in Nier Reincarnation.
I'd totally dig a remake of Drakengard at this point.
A weird and kinda stupid ending that surely won't bring any consequence, and absolutely didn't inspire a whole series of games with beautiful stories, characters, aesthetics and music.
to think, this 7 minute gag ending is the direct cause for all of the tragedy that happened in the nier series
Nice job humanity you played yourself. As usual
Anyone here because of the new ffxiv nier raid??? 😭😭 I can only take so many references at once yoko taro
Thanks Yoko Taro, you've made this part a mechanic in FFXIV
I guess collecting all the weapons was worth it but who the fuck designed the puzzles for some of them? Wow I had so much fun standing around the level for 30 minutes for a chest to appear.
THIS is what Nier is based off of?? What the hell???
Welcome to a world without song
What ever happened to the world of drakengard after this ending? We know Nier was a result of Caim and Angelus's actions in this world, but what about their original world?
Wolf Raiser The Witch of Time without the queen of the watchers there Im assuming everything should have gone back to normal, well as normal as it can be seeing as how everything has gone to shit now in their world.
it was for nothing since they sent back the disease to the drakengard world, not only killing humanity in this world but in drakengard world too
@K.O.G.Fanstarks1610 thats how they cleaned the disease, by sending it back to the world of drakengard, they dont just "erase it"