@@cyn1stre flower, sun and rain? reminds me of Hiroshi Okubo's "Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon"... what are you referring to, if you don't mind me asking?
In retrospect, this ending is probably the most hopeful one. A cataclysmic event is halted and humanity is saved, but at the cost of the lives of the characters we've followed for hours. Caim's bloodlust was never quenched, Angelus helped the humans she despised one last time, Leonard suppressed his primal urge long enough to give his life for one final attack, Arioch unfortunately just gave into her madness, and Seere became a hero like he wanted. Humanity lives on.
@@atoaster9940 That should tell you that even when time freezes completely for everyone, it's preferable to any of the other endings where humanity likely dies off or is in a worse state than before. No more pain or strife, but no more anything else.
@@atoaster9940 Time only stopped where the pillar was formed. Looking at the cinematic shot from space, it shows that it covered nearly all of Germany. (Odd because the Imperial Capital, where all endings take place (except E), is located in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula) What's left of humanity outside the pillar will still be plagued by dragons, monsters, and maybe the Red Eye Disease, but it'll still live to see another day. Least till God devises another way to wipe out humanity down the line.
@@OldTrench due to the human civilization collapsing all around the world with the cathedral city being seen as a safe haven, basically all of humanity in resided in Midgard by the events of Drakengard 1, if they got wiped out humanity would be no more in that timeline.
It's really only stated that the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire and Frankish Empire is what lead to the creation of Midgard. (The Cathedral City really only attracted the upper classes of fallen kingdoms i.e. the nobility and clergy) There's just no real info on what happened to the rest of the world outside of Europe. The immense population (even for the time) of the regions of India and China would definitely ensure humanity's survival. Various tribes of all parts of the world would also be a backup, but at that point we'd be near extinct.
Ending D The ending where nobody wins Not the humans, since they're all frozen in time And not the gods either, since they did not annihilate humankind. They are still technically alive.
Suposedly not all humans were frozen, since we can see in the cutscene that only part of the world was affected by Seere's time freeze, but yes a whole continent lost like that is a pretty big casualty.
Except in ending C. No girlfriend. No necro/pedo/whateverotherthingiephilic friends, no greater goal. Just a ravaged world, a swarm of ravenous dragons and a fight as grand as ever.
I like how this song at first is playing only really short melody that is repeating and then reverses it as if time for a moment was going normally and then reversed, and this way staying stopped.
Am I the only one so creeped out by this that can't listen to it? I can't even explain it myself, but something about the song looping over and over really puts me off. But I guess that was the point of the track! God, what a soundtrack.
It makes sense since this music represents how a mere child, full of love and innocence, tried to give the love he received alone from his mother back to everyone by letting them live.
Yeah I agree also those cyclops in the war chapter look like there from that series the decrepit look in their bodies and there arms tied behind their backs i wonder what it would symbolize?
@@time4manmode945 I guess if the cyclops were to symbolize anything, they would symbolize how conflict/war has always driven humanity to create new instruments of death for both offensive and defensive purposes or as a deterrence. Angelus does say in that chapter: "The cyclops are creation of man. Nature does not mold such monsters."
@@time4manmode945 medieval heavy self-propelled artillery lol, if they were medieval mechs, they'd be more terrifying to fight against since their arms wouldn't be tied behind their backs and would be able to grab you mid-air potentially.
I still dont get how seere managed to freeze time in that big ass area? What i jnow is that he made a pact eith a golem and in order to do that he had to give something up: his time, his ability to age. At the end of the D route, golem says he has to break the pact and they do. So when the pact is broken... He got his time back... And then what? Did it go out of control and thats what caused it to be able to freeze time or what? I get why he did it, why he was able to do it, but not why it was this amplified
@@novustalks7525 That's not what defines canon in Drakenier though, it's literally all up to perception and what you think leads to where. There's literally zero confirmation that Ending E or ANY ending for that matter is "canon", it's all based on circumstance leading to different outcomes with all being very real possibilities taking place in different branches, that's been like Drakenier's whole thing since 2004 Also Ending A leads to Drakengard 2??? Wtf
@@novustalks7525 How??? And where the hell is it ever mentioned that DOD2 is non canon lmao, it's literally shown as an official timeline in Drakengard 3, included in the official Drakenier timeline, and it's content/characters are included in just about every piece of official content imaginable (10th Anniversary box, Nowe and Manah included in the male/female protagonist lineup with Furiae/Caim and Kainé/Brother Nier, Shinjuku Roundtable, etc. ) I don't know where you get the notion or what interview you read where it was mentioned as somehow not being canon given it's granted just as much legitimacy as the other games in the series. Also, in a similar vein - there's, AGAIN, nothing stating from anyone that ending e or any particular ending is canon based on the amount of content it has??? Though if you have any good sources on that I'd be interested to see lmao Otherwise there's literally an official timeline included in the 10th Anni box you can search up online in a second and see for reference my guy
I have a strange fixation in crossovering pieces of this universe with a recent Disney show's story. This song right here ? I have yet to imagine a scenario unfortunately. Perhaps the flashback compilation one usually has before their demise. To show how time becomes meaningless for the young man as the sand in his hourglass runs out for him.
There are theories that do state this might be the Mother Beast trying to sing one final time, but slowly being stopped as the time freeze disrupts her focus and hability to sing.
The songs of endings B, C and D are my favorites of the ost. Speaking of favorites, after watching "Evangelion", I was afraid of losing my respect for "Drakengard", so I watched the first game again (but only route C and I used my imagination to turn routes B, D and E into a single one). Best decision of my life, because it allowed me to gain a new appreciation for the characters, particularly Caim, that I failed to grasp the first time. Now I understand that while he's a warrior and I'm a scholar, and even though I feel more compassion for children than he does, we might not be so different when it comes to how we feel towards our respective sisters and how we want the forces above us to see us. I love my sisters too, but I don't see them much in my future, just like Caim doesn't see Furiae in his despite finding her adorable. And he wants God to remember him for all eternity as a warrior, just as I want to be remembered as someone who dances sloppily in the chaos while taking mental notes and commenting on everything like some sort of theatre play. My observations leaving everyone in awe due to how orderly chaotic they sound. We will both be remembered by our respective resilience. This game is a masterpiece, the characters are masterpieces (with Caim, Angelus and Seere being relatable to me), and I apologize for saying I prefered "Evangelion" over "Drakengard". I prefer both in equal measure. It's a crime to put either below/above the other.
@@JabamiLain It was said sarcastically, meaning your comment was self-absorbed and verbose, and that this is typical of Evangelion fans (probably because Evangelion is a show full of introspective monologues). I would say whether that's good or bad is contextual, and if you feel like it's good or bad then it probably is. Of course, I say all this as a similarly self-absorbed and verbose Evangelion fan. There's a lot of crossover between the Evangelion and Drakengard fanbase.
@@dogmendogmenah ! Ok. I think it's a good thing. "Evangelion" helped me take a burden off me I wasn't even aware I had. Personally, I prefer to crossover "Drakengard" with "Kingdom Hearts", and Evangelion with Marvel (yes, I'm already writing both, I want to heal Shinji and Asuka, and emotionally and psychologically push the "KH" protagonists to the breaking point, because they're obedient brats I love, but hate to see constantly submissive to grumpy, creepy old men, due to their constant happy going nature keeping them from growing a backbone against said old people).
@@JabamiLain Crossing over Evangellion with Marvel, huh? Funny you say that. Penni Parker from "Into the Spiderverse" and Shinji from "Evangellion" are from the exact same Universe. At least, that's what the "Canon Event" memes lead me to believe.
i think it fits pretty well - this ending is the one where time is frozen, everyone you know is dead, and no one 'wins', right?... I don't think anything OTHER than the same sample over and over again would fit that sorrowful scenario!
@@elwen8525 in that case, I recommend you don't play it - it's less a game and more a piece of art, something you experience and wince in bittersweet uncomfortability every time you remember... but if you've got a free weekend and wanna kill some time, why not experience the special kind of sorrow that only Yoko Taro can create! and 10 pushups, too, you can do it!
@@xyzxyz-ib6fb that's a good point! so many games turn you into a killing machine that can simultaneously juggle babes, brawlers and many tonnes of bodacious... what have you. you can fight everyone, kill everyone and do anything. i like Drakengard's take on "why", why death and destruction have to be so prevalent in video games - what I got out of Drakengard is that it's far easier to destroy and forget than it is to forgive and learn. that's why all the fukced up people of your squad are drowning in blood rather than doing anything remotely close to redeeming themselves!
In memorial of that one comment that called this song "Chill Beats to End Time to." on the former upload
That sounds epic!
"Beats To End Time to". Wow.
This ending is such a bummer. That final shot of the earth frozen in time feels so distant and hopeless. I love it.
I think only Europe got frozen the rest of the world is fine and probably in the future they sent scientist to do research on that froze zone
Ahh, a fellow flower sun and rain enjoyer. Are we like all orbiting around the same weird games trying to fill the void in our lives or something ?
@@cyn1stre flower, sun and rain? reminds me of Hiroshi Okubo's "Flowers, Birds, Wind and Moon"... what are you referring to, if you don't mind me asking?
@@cyn1stre hey, doesn't sound bad, i'll have to check it out!
The world is saved, except for anyone that was alive on the capital because its now frozen on time
The Wild Dreams of a (D)eluded Child.
In retrospect, this ending is probably the most hopeful one. A cataclysmic event is halted and humanity is saved, but at the cost of the lives of the characters we've followed for hours. Caim's bloodlust was never quenched, Angelus helped the humans she despised one last time, Leonard suppressed his primal urge long enough to give his life for one final attack, Arioch unfortunately just gave into her madness, and Seere became a hero like he wanted.
Humanity lives on.
But wait, didn't time stop? Like completely?
@@atoaster9940 That should tell you that even when time freezes completely for everyone, it's preferable to any of the other endings where humanity likely dies off or is in a worse state than before. No more pain or strife, but no more anything else.
@@atoaster9940 Time only stopped where the pillar was formed.
Looking at the cinematic shot from space, it shows that it covered nearly all of Germany.
(Odd because the Imperial Capital, where all endings take place (except E), is located in the middle of the Iberian Peninsula)
What's left of humanity outside the pillar will still be plagued by dragons, monsters, and maybe the Red Eye Disease, but it'll still live to see another day.
Least till God devises another way to wipe out humanity down the line.
@@OldTrench due to the human civilization collapsing all around the world with the cathedral city being seen as a safe haven, basically all of humanity in resided in Midgard by the events of Drakengard 1, if they got wiped out humanity would be no more in that timeline.
It's really only stated that the collapse of the Eastern Roman Empire and Frankish Empire is what lead to the creation of Midgard. (The Cathedral City really only attracted the upper classes of fallen kingdoms i.e. the nobility and clergy)
There's just no real info on what happened to the rest of the world outside of Europe.
The immense population (even for the time) of the regions of India and China would definitely ensure humanity's survival.
Various tribes of all parts of the world would also be a backup, but at that point we'd be near extinct.
Ending D
The ending where nobody wins
Not the humans, since they're all frozen in time
And not the gods either, since they did not annihilate humankind.
They are still technically alive.
And the moral of the story is, my children, nobody wins in Drakengard
Alive, but unmovable. Sounds like when you have no mouth and yet you have to scream.
Suposedly not all humans were frozen, since we can see in the cutscene that only part of the world was affected by Seere's time freeze, but yes a whole continent lost like that is a pretty big casualty.
@@raulfernandez57 i got the reference
@@Vitor20XX a great game and short story
This music is... It really is what they did. Time is broken.
trueeeee loop and u can feel the broken time
...the ending that left me with no words.
The Hero is within you, too…
sorry to ask but
what the heck is your name
*the nightmare known as this hellish world is over. you can close your eyes now.*
speak not the watchers
draw not the watchers
write not the watchers
sculpt not the watchers
sing not the watchers
call not the watchers' name
時が壊れたように鐘が鳴ってるが、子守歌やベッドメリーを連想させる曲にも聞こえる。
永遠に穏やかに眠れと聞こえる気がする。
Caim will never be happy.
Well, in Ending A he lost his friend and sister, but at least he is alive.
Wasn't Caim happy just having his chance to kill?
Except in ending C.
No girlfriend. No necro/pedo/whateverotherthingiephilic friends, no greater goal.
Just a ravaged world, a swarm of ravenous dragons and a fight as grand as ever.
he's literally me
Well, Nier Automata disagrees with the Dragoon Lance's weapon story...
the e peace and despair I feel when I hear this music is oddly pleasant
We will most likely never get a DoDHD and part of me is thankful for that.
Yes
It desperately needs a remake
I guarantee you they would fuck it up somehow. Remakes and remasters rarely go well.
@@I.HEAR.A.SOUND. nier replicant went well
@@novustalks7525 that's one of the rare ones.
currently edging to this
you go king
eeeeeeeewwww
I like how this song at first is playing only really short melody that is repeating and then reverses it as if time for a moment was going normally and then reversed, and this way staying stopped.
weirdly, this ost is the one that makes me feel sorts of uncanny and uncomfy
Its like the bells are tolling for all time.
3:10,I like the soft hum, with the bells in a higher frequency. Wish we had more of that.
Am I the only one so creeped out by this that can't listen to it?
I can't even explain it myself, but something about the song looping over and over really puts me off. But I guess that was the point of the track! God, what a soundtrack.
best song on the soundtrack
you cannot change my mind
I will stay with my opinion, the track is like Vespertine by Björk meets Silent Hill OST by Akria Yamaoka.
Why is this so accurate!?
If this truly is the Queen Beast trying to sing one final time, I can only imagine how she must feel. Trapped, struggling to remain conscious...
What a fantastic song. Perfectly slow and fitting for the complete loss of time the world has.
I hear freddy fazbear at my door! 😳
they were really insisting on this crashing ps2 audio cutting style of music weren't they
this is definitely was made on purpose
*I*
*HEAR*
*A*
*SOUND*
The beautiful song of all time...
《UPON THY BELLY SHALT THY GO》
such a haunting theme
so still and lonely
For some reason it reminds me of baby music...
It makes sense since this music represents how a mere child, full of love and innocence, tried to give the love he received alone from his mother back to everyone by letting them live.
This is insanely disturbing
Lullaby for a madman
Silent Hill vibes
Yeah I agree also those cyclops in the war chapter look like there from that series the decrepit look in their bodies and there arms tied behind their backs i wonder what it would symbolize?
@@time4manmode945 I guess if the cyclops were to symbolize anything, they would symbolize how conflict/war has always driven humanity to create new instruments of death for both offensive and defensive purposes or as a deterrence.
Angelus does say in that chapter: "The cyclops are creation of man. Nature does not mold such monsters."
@@OldTrench ohhh so they are like medieval mecha?😅
@@time4manmode945 medieval heavy self-propelled artillery lol, if they were medieval mechs, they'd be more terrifying to fight against since their arms wouldn't be tied behind their backs and would be able to grab you mid-air potentially.
It really is.
I still dont get how seere managed to freeze time in that big ass area? What i jnow is that he made a pact eith a golem and in order to do that he had to give something up: his time, his ability to age. At the end of the D route, golem says he has to break the pact and they do. So when the pact is broken... He got his time back... And then what? Did it go out of control and thats what caused it to be able to freeze time or what? I get why he did it, why he was able to do it, but not why it was this amplified
Now it probably has something to do with him having Intoner ancestry, but yh I don’t think there was any reason for it when Drakengard 1 released
This should have been the canon ending
It is???? All the endings are canon, it's just which ones you pick and choose.
For me, this IS the canon ending.
@@ashlanders687 it's not. None of these endings lead anywhere. Only E has it's story continued
@@novustalks7525 That's not what defines canon in Drakenier though, it's literally all up to perception and what you think leads to where. There's literally zero confirmation that Ending E or ANY ending for that matter is "canon", it's all based on circumstance leading to different outcomes with all being very real possibilities taking place in different branches, that's been like Drakenier's whole thing since 2004
Also Ending A leads to Drakengard 2??? Wtf
@@ashlanders687 drakengard 2 is officially recognised as non canon.
And since the story continues after ending E yes that makes it canon
@@novustalks7525 How??? And where the hell is it ever mentioned that DOD2 is non canon lmao, it's literally shown as an official timeline in Drakengard 3, included in the official Drakenier timeline, and it's content/characters are included in just about every piece of official content imaginable (10th Anniversary box, Nowe and Manah included in the male/female protagonist lineup with Furiae/Caim and Kainé/Brother Nier, Shinjuku Roundtable, etc. ) I don't know where you get the notion or what interview you read where it was mentioned as somehow not being canon given it's granted just as much legitimacy as the other games in the series.
Also, in a similar vein - there's, AGAIN, nothing stating from anyone that ending e or any particular ending is canon based on the amount of content it has??? Though if you have any good sources on that I'd be interested to see lmao
Otherwise there's literally an official timeline included in the 10th Anni box you can search up online in a second and see for reference my guy
manos has been hospitalized
I have a strange fixation in crossovering pieces of this universe with a recent Disney show's story. This song right here ? I have yet to imagine a scenario unfortunately. Perhaps the flashback compilation one usually has before their demise. To show how time becomes meaningless for the young man as the sand in his hourglass runs out for him.
This sounds like a Minecraft CD
Really disturbing
Brother?
@@lowkeystarlord9545 this is getting out of hand, now there are two of them!
RIBBIT
What if this song was just the Chaos Song but really slow? Lol
There are theories that do state this might be the Mother Beast trying to sing one final time, but slowly being stopped as the time freeze disrupts her focus and hability to sing.
Discord Accord. Record. Discourse in harmony songs
The songs of endings B, C and D are my favorites of the ost.
Speaking of favorites, after watching "Evangelion", I was afraid of losing my respect for "Drakengard", so I watched the first game again (but only route C and I used my imagination to turn routes B, D and E into a single one).
Best decision of my life, because it allowed me to gain a new appreciation for the characters, particularly Caim, that I failed to grasp the first time.
Now I understand that while he's a warrior and I'm a scholar, and even though I feel more compassion for children than he does, we might not be so different when it comes to how we feel towards our respective sisters and how we want the forces above us to see us.
I love my sisters too, but I don't see them much in my future, just like Caim doesn't see Furiae in his despite finding her adorable. And he wants God to remember him for all eternity as a warrior, just as I want to be remembered as someone who dances sloppily in the chaos while taking mental notes and commenting on everything like some sort of theatre play. My observations leaving everyone in awe due to how orderly chaotic they sound. We will both be remembered by our respective resilience.
This game is a masterpiece, the characters are masterpieces (with Caim, Angelus and Seere being relatable to me), and I apologize for saying I prefered "Evangelion" over "Drakengard". I prefer both in equal measure. It's a crime to put either below/above the other.
Least self-absorbed and verbose Evangelion fan
@@dogmendogmenis that a good thing ?
@@JabamiLain It was said sarcastically, meaning your comment was self-absorbed and verbose, and that this is typical of Evangelion fans (probably because Evangelion is a show full of introspective monologues). I would say whether that's good or bad is contextual, and if you feel like it's good or bad then it probably is.
Of course, I say all this as a similarly self-absorbed and verbose Evangelion fan. There's a lot of crossover between the Evangelion and Drakengard fanbase.
@@dogmendogmenah ! Ok. I think it's a good thing. "Evangelion" helped me take a burden off me I wasn't even aware I had.
Personally, I prefer to crossover "Drakengard" with "Kingdom Hearts", and Evangelion with Marvel (yes, I'm already writing both, I want to heal Shinji and Asuka, and emotionally and psychologically push the "KH" protagonists to the breaking point, because they're obedient brats I love, but hate to see constantly submissive to grumpy, creepy old men, due to their constant happy going nature keeping them from growing a backbone against said old people).
@@JabamiLain Crossing over Evangellion with Marvel, huh? Funny you say that. Penni Parker from "Into the Spiderverse" and Shinji from "Evangellion" are from the exact same Universe. At least, that's what the "Canon Event" memes lead me to believe.
fnaf?
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed the similarities.
I wish the song had more variation. It’s just the same sample over and over then leading to a less fitting sample
i think it fits pretty well - this ending is the one where time is frozen, everyone you know is dead, and no one 'wins', right?... I don't think anything OTHER than the same sample over and over again would fit that sorrowful scenario!
@@we-must-live I wouldn’t know I never played drakengard
@@elwen8525 in that case, I recommend you don't play it - it's less a game and more a piece of art, something you experience and wince in bittersweet uncomfortability every time you remember... but if you've got a free weekend and wanna kill some time, why not experience the special kind of sorrow that only Yoko Taro can create!
and 10 pushups, too, you can do it!
@@xyzxyz-ib6fb that's a good point! so many games turn you into a killing machine that can simultaneously juggle babes, brawlers and many tonnes of bodacious... what have you. you can fight everyone, kill everyone and do anything.
i like Drakengard's take on "why", why death and destruction have to be so prevalent in video games - what I got out of Drakengard is that it's far easier to destroy and forget than it is to forgive and learn.
that's why all the fukced up people of your squad are drowning in blood rather than doing anything remotely close to redeeming themselves!
@@we-must-live hahahaha, i love your choice of diction. godspeed fellow fan
This song is fucking mid chimes xD