The final note is released at 9:37 and should be hit as Mikhail starts his second sentence at 9:44. Drakengard 3 ・ ドラッグオンドラグーン3 Branch D ・ D分岐 The Final Song ・ 最後の歌 English ・ 英語
I can only imagine the planning meeting for this: "Hey, people liked the final boss of Drakengard 1, right?" "Uhh, no sir, it's universally joked about" "Right, so let's do it again! Five times!"
"Also, let's make it a hundred times worse, instead of just having to match output, we'll require exact timing, and get this...WE WON'T LET THEM SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING!"
Mr. Taro was angry when he discovered that the original fight against The Beast Queen could be cheesed by constantly pausing the game, so you could tell which notes were coming your way. To avoid the same situation, he ordered his programmers to implement the crazy camera angles, and the diabolical black-screen notes, so, that no one could cheese out this similar fight.
3:07 well this isnt so bad 4:52 this is what people were complaining about? really? 6:02 ok thats a little fucked up 6:52 wow thats not necessary 7:21 wow THATS not necessary 8:25 WOW thats not necessary 9:05 wait, its over? 9:44 ... thats goddamn diabolical.
youraftermyrobotbee I know right!? XD especially that last part, it fucking blindsided me at the last second because I thought it was finally over and then I had to do the whole damn thing all over again.
I pussied out and gave up on that fucking boss fight. I'm sorry but holy fuck I hate rhythm games because of how much I suck at them, after dying and reloading and then having to wait for the fight to start half a dozen times I was like "Screw this shit." Aside from that boss the game was great though. Glad I didn't keep trying until I got to that part with the surprise fuck-you though, that would have sent me off the deep-end.
Accord: "I cannot shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, that Zero is still alive. And that...someday, she and I will see each other again." Drakengard 4 confirmed. (Camera-kun intensifies)
I remember playing Drakengard. I also remember the final boss. The Rhythm. The Bells. Christ the bells. Circling in a loop around a giant white grotesque statue of a woman while trying to keep in tune. The hours I endured, the three remotes I destroyed. and the feeling of relief after victory. And then I see a similar giant statue appear as this fight begins. And I see the same rhythm circles that haunted be years back. And soon I realize... FUCKINGGODNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Very Fast Actually in the Drakengard series, specifically in the first Drakengard, the giant white statues are literally referred to as "grotesque" or "grotesqueries" in racial terms. When I refer to the statue as grotesque, I mean to do so echoing the official term used to coin the boss that you are fighting.
Very Fast It's pretty fucking grotesque if you think about it. Several enormous, half bodies of women floating in the sky, skin taut, connected to this flower shape, completely white eyes.
+Princess Lucina The point of the camera is make u think it's reliable at first, so then u fail. ITS A TRAP. It's actually easier doing it with your eyes closed and just trusting your ears
The final boss is suposed to be played with closed eyes, the entire game tells you hints about power with songs, and in the end you must trust in your inner senses and tempo. This game is awesome, too bad that many people dont understand a breaking rules like this.
Literally fuck that answer Fernando that's a cop out defense. That niche bullshit is bullshit and it's a bad final boss and gimmick.and it's a good game sullied by a shit gimmick dude. Period.
When Mikhail starts talking and when they show the pigeons, it's just so sad. I know Zero wasn't the greatest friend ever but it still sad for Mikhail and the disciples
It's very unfair for Mikhail. He's so innocent and pure, that he deserved so much more. But well, that part of the "magic" of the stories of Yoko Taro, endings that left a hollow and never happy.
I laughed my ass off when I realized that Taro Yoko made the final boss for this game another ridiculous rhythm game. Only he knows how kick his players in the nuts like that.
skLaFarebear LOL! that's funny because in DoD 1 you didnt have the camera zoom all the way out/in, or just have the camera look at the sky, or have the screen go black. Yoko Taro just hates everyone that isnt japanese.
@@StarrySkykes Within the Drakenguard / Nier universe, anything using Angelic Script is typically associated with the Watchers. Which are eldritch horror-like beings from outside our reality whose only desire is the complete eradication of humanity. In this case the 'Flower' that was bloomed inside Zero's eye was of the Watcher's design. If allowed to fully bloom and complete it's song without Mikhail here countering it, it would 'sing' the end of the world into being.
Zero: once there flower is in bloom you have to destroy it The dragon: ok so fly around them while the cameraman has a seizure and block their attack like I'm in a rhythm game. Ok
"You've grown strong, Mikhail" "Zero... Zero, you big dummy!" Hey remember how Zero says in like the first mission that she'll stop calling Mikhail "dummy" once he's worthy of that name? Yeah they reversed it... this part slays me every time.
So let me get this straight... this is a boss that involves an 8 minute long rhythm game that's devoid of visual cues? I already feel an aneurysm coming on...
I am both cracking up with masochistic joy and also burning with hatred that they did this for a final boss. God. Dammit. ...still that's a GORGEOUS final boss theme.
Sepiroth was not even that hard compared to mysterious figure with fucking terra. Also the final boss in little town hero makes me want to smash my head into rusty nail because i have terrible rng luck.
Unpopular opinion but i think these camera angles are intentional, replaying Drakengard 3 recently and i've noticed there's a pattern on each intoner. Zero's Part 3:07 - It has no camera issues, she being kind of a warm up session ; Five's Part 4:38 - The camera tends to zoom out further than usual ; Four's Part 5:08 - It's mostly normal other than the camera being in weird angles at times ; Three's Part 5:57 - The camera would zoom up close to Three's face ; Two's Part 6:42 - The camera would zoom up close to Mikhail's face ; One's Part 7:15 - Really, the camera would just go ape shit crazy, panning everywhere ; When all the intoners starts dancing together, u can see that all 6 of the intoner's pattern would occur subsequently. 7:50 - 7:58 (no camera issues) [Zero's] 7:58 - 8:09 (camera zooming out) [Five's] 8:09 - 8:19 (weird camera angles) [Four's] 8:19 - 8:29 (camera zooming in on Zero's face) [Three's] 8:29 - 8:40 (camera zooming in on Mikhail's face) [Two's] 8:40 - 8:50 (Camera going ape shit) [One's] Thought it was a cool small little detail and wonder if it was intentionally when making it, nonetheless this boss is a piece of shit.
Who is Accord anyway? She says she is an android from an era long gone. Yet, there exists many of her, and she seems to be able to remember and travel to different time periods, timelines, and dimensions.
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 Cathedral City in Drakengard's timeline may well be a piece of another world. It did appear overnight and threw medieval Europe into chaos. I like to think that there's yet another band of people who tried to save their own world from The Flower and ended up yeeting the place The Flower was residing at to another dimension (Drakengard's), and these people are long forgotten, just like Zero, her sisters and the disciples were by the time Drakengard 1 happens. Just like the people in Drakengard 1 were when they ended up on our Earth. Just like Nier and his daughter were by the time of Nier Automata. Accord may very well be a piece of that world that was brought along with the Cathedral.
@@XXXKaruXXX I mean, Grimoir Nier explains that to get rid of the Legion, Androids had a ritual to send the maso particules to "another world" which seems to imply that they can, at the very least, open a small dimensional door.
@@XXXKaruXXX Accord was created in the Kingdom of Night (along with the "Dragon" weapons) between the time of Nier and Automata (both happen in the Kingdom of Day). This has been confirmed by Taro.
There is videos in YT that adds visual crues to beat the boss, and reduce the difficulty greatly. But yes, it's annoying that a boss with so beautiful music and coreography is so troll at the same time
@@gatts1989 The video doesn't work, because the game framerate is inconsistent and so the timing constantly change between console. It can only be used if you emulate with no frameloss.
When it goes back to singing Kuroi Uta, I just wanna cry. I really thought this Drakengard was just going to be a sexy, bloody rampage, but it turned out to have its heartwrenching moments. ...Still not as ridiculously dark as the first, of course xD Thanks for uploading!
I was actually feeling really really good about myself cause i defeated this boss! it was really easy the feeling after you do the last rhythm pattern, but then i woke up...
Supposedly the reason why the last boss is a rhythm game is becuz there is no longer a reason to kill anymore. No more blood needs to be shed becuz all who need to die to save the world have already been killed.
I'm well versed in music production and composition, but how the hell are you supposed to keep track of that note released during the ritardando? What?
+PsychGoth Y, and the worst part about it is that it seems to come just before the beat, which you have no way of knowing. 1 2 3 4 Counting 16th-notes: 1234 1234 123[4] 1234 As you can see on the beat within brackets, just one 16th before the 4th beat, which you have no way of knowing. You can hear the bells/glockenspiel play 1,2,3,4, but the note you're supposed to hit seems to come just before beat 4.
Analyzing this song, the progression is like this: Most notes in the beginning are in a 1/4 scale, but as the songs progress, they jump to 1/16. Zero's part is 120 BPM, Five's 130 BPM, Four's 145 BPM, Three's 155 BPM, Two's 165 BPM, One's 175 BPM, all dancing is 127 BPM, then in the ritardando, each section reduces app 15 BPM, and the last one is on the 12th note in a 1/16th scale at 50 BPM. So yeah, tricky xD
Yes, this is the same VA that voiced Edelgard Von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. With this, you just know how in character she was even back then.
Saw this fight mentioned in a top 15 video, so I decided to look it up. Didnt think it'd be that hard TILL I SAW THE FUCKING CAMERA MAN DANCE AROUND LIKE IT WAS PROM NIGHT AND THE HOTTET GIRL JUST ASKED HIM TO DANCE. JESUS CHRIST
I can't think of another full credit sequence in any medium where the entire cast and crew, every contributor in every unit, is listed alphabetically. What class, to acknowledge a work as an all-hands effort.
I will be one to admit that I haven't played Drakengard 3, but I did EVERYTHING possible in Drakengard 1, and I at least appreciate that this pays homage to the boss fight in Ending E of Drakengard 1, that leads into the story of Nier Gestalt and Nier Replicant.
thing is because of this game the ycan do at least 1 more following this ending path really where many years later of events of drag on dragoon 2 happen they return back n the flowers even stronger and you are a new person who needs to go out learn about history n stop the flower it be nice in my idea buti doubt itll happen T_T
The first drakengard had an ending very similar to this, except you fall into a portal to Tokyo japan before the rhythm game bit, the events of that final ending eventually lead to nier, and later, Nier Automata.
As I played this things went through my head. Wait the flower? Wait what now a WOMAN, a WOMAN grows from it, please not this deja vu! *Then the bell chimed at **3:00* So, I see. It begins. *Damn you Black Flower, you killed one of my favorite characters, an another's heart.*
I always laugh at these nerds who break their controllers in anger. "What idiots getting so mad at a game they broke a 60 dollar controller lmfao" The day I beat this game I joined those nerd ragers. Why? Because on try number thirty or maybe it was forty....? I got to the end on the black screen with the final bells. I didn't realize at the time that my controller died. Battery dead. Boom, right there. It decides to crap out on me right there. I ignored the low battery thing and that's what happened. I threw the controller so hard that the casing broke off. The controller wouldn't work anymore. I joined the grave valiant losers who nerd raged to that extent on that day. I never finished this game. The guy who thought of this owes many people reimbursements for their controllers and probably some tvs lmao. So whenever someone tells me they are the best troll alive I tell them play this game to the end. The guy who came up with this was troll level nine thousand.
I'm proud I have this game's platinum trophy. I actually beat this boss 3 times, once on my game, and twice more for a couple friends. I earned $40 from them to beat it.
Must be awesome to have friends who love playing games like these with you! Mine only plays multiplayer stuff and almost never stop for any storytelling ones 🥺
*gets to this boss fight* ..... wait..... no.... no it can't be...... NOT AGAIN!...... well at least there seems to be only one color. maybe this'll be easier than.... that. *gets to 3rd sister*...... no. no no no nonononono no FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- *after many tries finally makes it past all the bullshit camera angles* *screen fades to black* *CHIME* WHAT NOOOOOO-*dies again*
@@igot2remember ahahah me too 1 mouth, maybe I spend a full week in this boss but this final is a good gift for beat it. Good night zero, this silence is mine ^^
This boss has one almost identical in the first game. It's far more complicated rhythmically, and it has black and white notes at a much faster speed. This song technically goes to 170bpm, but the melody is so much slower than the songs beats. The developers were thinking "Let's do what we did already, since she has magical powers to do with singing". It's so unfair, but it was perfectly logical D:
I'm a drummer, and I like mix of beat. I used to listen to music with my eyes closed. Sounds cheesy, but it's for real. So, I've attempted to play this part with my TV off and just focused at the beat and the "ting" sound. Nailed everything. ...except the final fucking note. Woke up from my bed and wait for Mikhail's 2nd dialogue.
Accord: "I cannot shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, that Zero is still alive. And that...someday, she and I will see each other again." Drakengard 4 confirmed. (Camera-kun intensifies)
@@caboosehelpsu2840 I feel like the parallel between Emil and Kaine is very strong. For a second I thought they were voiced by the same people, but they weren't
Professor Emil I did it too. Spending summer in the heat marching actually pay off. Closed my eyes and got it on 3 try. The beat is simple, just got to know when it speeds up or slow down at the end. Just count 1 2 3 4. The song is in 4/4
I tried knocking on my desk to the beat. I'm a violinist in my school's band, and I'm usually the only one, so I have to be the one to keep time. You know that last note? It's off beat. "Ki....e..." "One two three four. One, two, three-" (blocking sound) "Wait, what?"
It's timed to Mikhail's dialogue, not the beat. You literally cannot beat this boss first try. More than that, this is deliberately designed to fuck you in the home stretch and make you undergo the whole ordeal again.
@@youraftermyrobotbeeYup. Grab a guide video, try to sync it up with your gameplay and move on. This is just evil. Like, P ranking any long level in Pizza Tower can be a pain in the ass that can cost you several minutes (6-8) and any mistake is a reset, BUT it at least builds from all the skill you gathered while playing. THIS ONE is really damn difficult for your first time dealing with rhythm, pulls out cheap tricks and has no damn variety to make the 8 minutes pass by faster. Like jeez why do you gotta do all that stuff for just an ending where Mikhail lives lmao
@@panthekirb7561 Trust me, I have to You see that dragon on my pfp? He's an old OC of mine. And he has a brother. You know what his name is? MIKHAIL And his design, despite being based off an unrelated dragon skin from Kogama, my Mikhail and this Mikhail are so similar it's not even funny 💀, white scales, yellow accents, all that stuff! I literally borrowed the name from this fucker (as there was a Drakengard Mikhail skin on Kogama) so I felt attached to the character And having to do ALL THIS SHIT for an ending he doesn't die or get fucked over in is just cruel Oh did I mention he's like the only interesting protagonist in this game? Zero is also great but mostly around the endgame but everyone else is either boring or an asshole, so doing this to that character is specific feels like the devs are pretty much saying "did you really expect this game to not be a waste a money? come on now" Seriously, thank god I haven't played Drakengard 3 lmao (meanwhile here I am having beaten 100% with both noise and peppino and now trying world 3 of a pepperman mod)
while playing I could never tell because I was in panic mode with a side order of PTSD from the first game, I never noticed but each one of their indivdual dances actually are done in a specific manner to reflect their personalities. like Ones, erratic and slightly unfocused, but always orderly and towards a single direction.
I always mess up on the last few notes. I've been at this for days, though. I'll keep trying. But I have to give credit, even though it's frustrating... I kind of really like it. The music, the girls, it's pretty.
true that. any other game and i would've written this off as 'lazy design'. but they really put some effort into it and it looks&sounds amazing. unfortunately i wasnt granted the gifts of patience and sense of rhyme at birth
I keep getting to all of the sisters singing together then fucking up right before the music slows down which is really annoying because I know how close I am to reaching the black screen...speaking of which, what's even worse, I'll _then_ have to deal with the black screen. It sucks because I can do _most_ of this last boss without looking...I only need to look at the screen after dealing with Two's song.
And it makes perfect sense if you think about it. Zero and her sisters were Intoners, given that power by the Flower. So why wouldn't the final attack of this flower be a dangerous and deadly song?
it's a cool game, no the classic modern game where you continue without losing. This is called difficulty of video games, one thing forgoten in the 90's
TheMaux64 Nah, don't even try to compare this garbage to a legitimate challenge. This is artificial difficulty at its worst; the BAD parts of 80's/ early 90's gaming, incarnate.
zweihand If they wanted to do this "final boss" right then should have had it be where the flower (who's origins I would really like to know, is it in DLC or anything?) takes over Zero but instead of becoming a giant as hell statue flower (or some damn thing) she goes completely berserk and becomes insanely powerful. What follows is an almost heartbreaking battle between Zero and Mikhail to "This Silence is Mine" (song in the credits). The battle should be intense, hard but winnable with no uses of gimmicks but maybe with a Ice (Zero) versus Fire (Mikhail) to match the feeling that the song gives off. The ending needs to be different as well... Maybe a split ending depending on certain game conditions with a Best result and a Normal result? It would follow Cavia's pattern of up to five different ending types (NIER was no exception but you have to look for Grimoire Nier on the net for it). How's that? Sound better? I agree that the boss almost feels... unnecessary. And the ending felt more like, "Alright, this is our last game, see ya!" than a proper ending.
I have no problems with the final boss other than the camera. If they kept it consistent with the first phase, it would have been perfect. No problems with the story or the endings. As for the flower, it's elaborated upon in Zero's DLC.
It's really strange. I've been trying to beat this boss for hours, and the farthest I've gotten is to One and then I keep dying when the camera starts to flip out. Yet for some reason I'm not the least bit frustrated by it. Every time this boss kills me it's because I lost timing and missed a beat. It's not because of lag, it's not because of delay between the time I hit the X button and the time the game registers it, it's because I simply messed up. I just can't get mad at the game when all my deaths are of no one else's fault but my own.
I've never played this game, only came because supposedly it has the hardest boss ever, I was expecting mayhem but that was actually really nice and epic. Also I dunno anything about this story but when the clones saluted the dead one I got chills.
When I beat this...it wasn't really a feeling of "OMG I DID IT! I FUCKING DID IT!!" .... It was more like: "....FUCK YOU GAME. FUCK YOU YOKO TARO. I DID IT. I FUCKING BEAT YOUR TROLL GAME. I FUCKING. BEAT IT. FUCK!!!"
Thank you for this, by the way. After putting in over a month and a half into playing this game only to be unable to beat the final boss fight I was pretty pissed off. The way you made this, without obtrusive commentaries or anything, it gives me the closure the game's rather bullshit final level denied me otherwise. So, thanks, you made my day today.
+jurpentine I've also just started working over this final boss. Just use the timing video here and only take on the boss when you're calm, have a good sync on the vid, and patience. I propose a "fan" petition for a video to be made of Yoko Taro playing his own boss instead of observing a game tester doing it. I'd love to see how far he get's with his own "artistic" direction of "gameplay".
I bought the game beforehand. Then somebody told me about how... special the game was, never mind the ending. It was cryptic enough that I had to see it for myself.
SE: Hey Yoko Taro, people complained about the first game's final boss and since we're getting you back to make a Drakengard game after 2's backlash I was hoping you don't repeat that boss. Yoko Taro: Sure no problem. We'll just change some stuff about it. SE: Wha... THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEANT! Yoko Taro: Sorry, I can't hear you over the song that Keichi Okabe composed for the final boss fight.
Yoko Taro essentially has his own universe he can branch off to whenever he wants, lets be real. Even if he were to end the D/N series, I really hope to one day play the game of the Watchers vs Whatever the fuck the Accords are from.
Long story short: The flower is a being from another dimension that bonded itself to Zero (the main girl)'s eye. When she tried to destroy it, it created plot and made the other numbers you fight because only a dragon can kill the flower... for some reason.... It's never really explained. Zero's dragon kills her and then fights the true form of the inter-dimensional flower via. rhythm game because fuck you and finally seals it away forever. Orrr at least until Yoko Taro decides to bring this thing back for some reason (haven't beat it yet, but I REALLY feel like Nier: Auomata might be the one for that because glowing white flowers are fucking EVERYWHERE, lol!) Oh, also, there's a time traveling robot girl with a funny walk for some reason who records it all. It's literally never explained and she seems to exist pretty much purely to break the fourth wall and make the other endings like a canon 'alternate timeline' thing.
dracocrusher Maybe you dont know but this ending its not canon,the true ending its branch A,wich leads to Drakengard 1,so the flower its not really sealed.
Ekacahya Garfiantama This ending dont lead to nothing peacefull since dragons,monsters,magic and a god who want to kill all humans still exist.Just the flower its gone.
the relief when i hit that final note, holy shit... i had gotten up to that final note 4 times but i just couldnt get the timing of it down. but when i did that shit felt so damn good
They are different timelines, so we can say that all the endings are canonical and true, since in the end they all happened, as in Drakengard 1 and Nier and Nier Automata. In fact, in Nier Automata the Accord is named. Can you imagine that in the final video game of these two sagas, all the Accords bring all the characters of the video games for an amazing last battle against the gods? Zero making up with his sisters and having ice cream with Caim and Kaine at a coffee shop? Too bad Yoko Taro loves to be "realistic" and he spends his time fucking her characters.
Yes, they all happened in their own timelines, but for example for Nier's timeline this ending never happened, because the flower is destroyed so Drakengard 1 will not happen and the queen beast will never arrive to Nier's dimension. And i would really love if Accord end up being important for the plot, but for now she just seems like fan service. Her role in this game is little more than being a Deus Ex Machina and a funny character, and her mentions in the Nier games are just texts about her having a shop. And i dont even think she is from Nier universe as if the humans from Nier could travel dimensions and time all of their problems would be solved.
Well, this fight just destroyed another reality/world, just like Drakengard 1 that fight ended up in Tokyo and it spawned the entire Nier franchise. I wonder if this reality is gonna get its own spin off. XD
Fuck the boss I’m here for the character/story and the music. Ending D boss music and credit music is a melancholic ride of a lifetime. And Mikhail saying ‘Good night… Zero’ is a guaranteed way to make me cry every… single… time.
So I just realized what this battle reminded me of now. It's basically just Yoko Taro having a very bad day of Rhythm Heaven/Tengoku and saying "Fuck it, if this game's gonna give me hell, then I'm taking it out on everyone else, including the poor dumb baby dragon!" Then he proceeds to drink like half a bottle of Jim Beam through his Emil mask.
hey can someone tell me why the dragon with the baby voice is calling the woman with the flowery eye a big dummy i don't know how i got here what year is it
Daisy Conway The dragon (Mikhail) is calling the girl (Zero) a big dummy because he realises the time has come for him to kill her (as he was destined to do) to stop the flower in her eye from destroying the world.. After that, the flower consumes Zero, transforming her (and her dead sisters) into the final boss. The rhythm game that results is Mikhail trying to stop Zero and her sisters from destroying the world through their song.
That stupid boss is the reason why I can never have the satisfaction of watching the ending on my save file And that "Thank you for playing" at the end does not make attempting that boss any better
I was dreading this boss fight. The way everyone talked about it made it sound like there was only a few frames where you could actually hit the beat, and those frames would often get skipped over due to the horrendous performance of the game. It took me four tries. The Book Club mission was harder.
I felt that the final boss was actually a cut scene that someone said "hey, lets make troll the people and have them turn it into a rythym game. Oh and also make sure when they finally let go of the breath they held so long when you hit em with the black screen, troll em with more notes"
I'm fine with one hit kills, I'm fine with having to start from the beginning of the whole fight, I'm fine with intense punishing difficulty. What I'm not fine with is the unskippable almost minute long cutscene wasting your time every single time you die and that FUCKING camera making it needlessly bs to hit those notes unless you have a master's degree in music and even then I doubt that will help.
I honestly want to see a new Drakengard game that takes place after the events of Ending D of Drakengard 3, since most of the events in Drakengard 1 and 2 and NieR are because Zero failed in ending A of Drakengard 3. Since she and Mikhail succeed in this ending, it would be nice to have a game in a timeline that occurs because of the Flower being destroyed. maybe we can learn more about the watchers, since most of their plans in the other games relied on the survival of the intoners in this game. With the intoners and the flower completely gone due to Ending D, the Watchers would have to come up with a different plan to end the world and that could lead to more revelations about them. However, that's assuming that Drakengard 4 will even happen and will take place after ending D of Drakengard 3. But that won't stop me from dreaming and hoping.
![Drakengard 3 Two/Raphael Battle - [Branch B Ending]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/yUSMfwOorWI/mqdefault.jpg)
Anybody who played the original Drakengard would have had warning bells going off when things went greyscale.
>Warning bells
>Bells
>THE BELLS.
I see what you did there.
DjayO L When the reply has more likes than the original comment.
yep. the moment I saw the screen go gray I went "oh god no. NOT THIS AGAIN!"
Why I'll never play this game
@@sondowultimate :(. You should tho
That last note was snuck in by a very VERY spiteful programmer.
HOHO, U MAD, BRO?
That program should of been fired instead Yoko gave him a promotion
@@sondowultimate agreed
Changing the rules just enough to trip you up, but not enough to justify warning you about it? Sounds like Rhythm Hell...or Heaven, excuse me.
Yeah, actually he was the real-life Decadus.
I can only imagine the planning meeting for this:
"Hey, people liked the final boss of Drakengard 1, right?"
"Uhh, no sir, it's universally joked about"
"Right, so let's do it again! Five times!"
The End Boss of Drakengard 1 is recognized as the top of the game for most of the fans.
it's sort of back again now in 2021 with FFXIV: YoRHa Dark Apocalypse Raid series.
@@dihnsfire ..what? Looks like I need to finally get into XIV..
There's a 3-part Nier/Drakengard raid at level 80.
It has its parts where it could be better, but it's one of my favorite things in the game.
"Also, let's make it a hundred times worse, instead of just having to match output, we'll require exact timing, and get this...WE WON'T LET THEM SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING!"
Mr. Taro was angry when he discovered that the original fight against The Beast Queen could be cheesed by constantly pausing the game, so you could tell which notes were coming your way. To avoid the same situation, he ordered his programmers to implement the crazy camera angles, and the diabolical black-screen notes, so, that no one could cheese out this similar fight.
So Taro-jiji isn't just a cynic, he's a sadist?
@@LonePhantom756 Yes. A total arsehole with no regard for the player.
@@LonePhantom756Exactly. Well, at least the ending's worth it: Mikhail lives
and lets not forget the tempo changes on every phase so it messes you up even more!! :D
@@TommyMaik001 At least it's common time, if it was a weird ass key signature you'd have a lot more to worry about.
3:07 well this isnt so bad
4:52 this is what people were complaining about? really?
6:02 ok thats a little fucked up
6:52 wow thats not necessary
7:21 wow THATS not necessary
8:25 WOW thats not necessary
9:05 wait, its over?
9:44 ... thats goddamn diabolical.
lmfao
youraftermyrobotbee
I know right!? XD
especially that last part, it fucking blindsided me at the last second because I thought it was finally over and then I had to do the whole damn thing all over again.
I pussied out and gave up on that fucking boss fight. I'm sorry but holy fuck I hate rhythm games because of how much I suck at them, after dying and reloading and then having to wait for the fight to start half a dozen times I was like "Screw this shit." Aside from that boss the game was great though. Glad I didn't keep trying until I got to that part with the surprise fuck-you though, that would have sent me off the deep-end.
Accord: "I cannot shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, that Zero is still alive. And that...someday, she and I will see each other again."
Drakengard 4 confirmed.
(Camera-kun intensifies)
@@7ChaosTheory Probably Zero coming back after fully subjugating the Black Flower and use it to fight its creators, obviously with a tragic end again.
I remember playing Drakengard.
I also remember the final boss.
The Rhythm. The Bells. Christ the bells.
Circling in a loop around a giant white grotesque statue of a woman while trying to keep in tune.
The hours I endured, the three remotes I destroyed. and the feeling of relief after victory.
And then I see a similar giant statue appear as this fight begins. And I see the same rhythm circles that haunted be years back. And soon I realize...
FUCKINGGODNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
Tower Knight Yoko Taro strikes again.
Tower Knight your paragraph was beautiful, but that is not a grotesque statue. Stop using words for "SEEMING" meanings.
Very Fast Actually in the Drakengard series, specifically in the first Drakengard, the giant white statues are literally referred to as "grotesque" or "grotesqueries" in racial terms.
When I refer to the statue as grotesque, I mean to do so echoing the official term used to coin the boss that you are fighting.
Very Fast It's pretty fucking grotesque if you think about it. Several enormous, half bodies of women floating in the sky, skin taut, connected to this flower shape, completely white eyes.
Tower Knight I know right, I was like "OH jesus not this again." but it was a cool "fight".
Drakengard needs to really fire that cameraman....
Princess Lucina I KNOOOWWW, RIGHT!? Jeez, that is pure trolling.
+Princess Lucina The point of the camera is make u think it's reliable at first, so then u fail. ITS A TRAP. It's actually easier doing it with your eyes closed and just trusting your ears
The final boss is suposed to be played with closed eyes, the entire game tells you hints about power with songs, and in the end you must trust in your inner senses and tempo. This game is awesome, too bad that many people dont understand a breaking rules like this.
Literally fuck that answer Fernando that's a cop out defense. That niche bullshit is bullshit and it's a bad final boss and gimmick.and it's a good game sullied by a shit gimmick dude. Period.
Like sorry I want to visual enjoy something I worked hard to earn fuck off with that ear shit
The true canon end to Drakengard 3 is snapping the disc in half in a fit of righteous indignation
Because of the last note?
understanable...
@@mr.trouble827 Cus the whole sequence is trashy
When Mikhail starts talking and when they show the pigeons, it's just so sad. I know Zero wasn't the greatest friend ever but it still sad for Mikhail and the disciples
***** In the motherly way, of course.
Zero did show that she cared for them (except Dito) during Branch D.
its much sader if you read in his diary that he dies
It's very unfair for Mikhail. He's so innocent and pure, that he deserved so much more. But well, that part of the "magic" of the stories of Yoko Taro, endings that left a hollow and never happy.
@@gatts1989Hey at least here he lives and isn't given a huge middle finger for doing so
I laughed my ass off when I realized that Taro Yoko made the final boss for this game another ridiculous rhythm game. Only he knows how kick his players in the nuts like that.
Yoko Taro, telling players to "git gud tho" since Drakengard 1.
skLaFarebear git gud ?
deadb4youknow git gud = get good
skLaFarebear LOL! that's funny because in DoD 1 you didnt have the camera zoom all the way out/in, or just have the camera look at the sky, or have the screen go black. Yoko Taro just hates everyone that isnt japanese.
He loves to toy with his players. Remember the deceptive advertising for NieR Automata?
As an interesting side note, the characters in the circles are of the celestial alphabet made by Heinrich Agrippa to communicate with angels.
=0 that was unexpected! So the are summon something??
@@StarrySkykes the end of the world
@@StarrySkykes Within the Drakenguard / Nier universe, anything using Angelic Script is typically associated with the Watchers. Which are eldritch horror-like beings from outside our reality whose only desire is the complete eradication of humanity. In this case the 'Flower' that was bloomed inside Zero's eye was of the Watcher's design. If allowed to fully bloom and complete it's song without Mikhail here countering it, it would 'sing' the end of the world into being.
@@CrashB111 Wonder when will Yokotaro make them the Main Villain in his games?
Dk3 main villian is basically yahweh
Zero: once there flower is in bloom you have to destroy it
The dragon: ok so fly around them while the cameraman has a seizure and block their attack like I'm in a rhythm game. Ok
Again, Why they dindn't make it last railroad flight?!
@@RyugaKuroraio because Yoko Taro is a massive troll
@@zaqareemalcolm he is. So i kinda glad he broke his Emile mask.
Mikhail: I have to stall for time??? In THIS situation?!
i mean, he's waiting for the flower to be in full bloom, as zero said
"You've grown strong, Mikhail"
"Zero... Zero, you big dummy!"
Hey remember how Zero says in like the first mission that she'll stop calling Mikhail "dummy" once he's worthy of that name? Yeah they reversed it... this part slays me every time.
So let me get this straight... this is a boss that involves an 8 minute long rhythm game that's devoid of visual cues?
I already feel an aneurysm coming on...
And if you screw up once, it's back to the beginning.
play Drakengard 1 final boss of ending E
Enjoy it, it´s the only really good ending in a Yoko Taro´s game.
I like to call this the true and canon ending after ending A occurs
for what drakengard is isnt that kinda lame?
I am both cracking up with masochistic joy and also burning with hatred that they did this for a final boss.
God. Dammit.
...still that's a GORGEOUS final boss theme.
It sure is. But the credits song is my favorite
@@MelonTartVA
Yeah. The Final Song is gorgeous but nothing can top This Silence is Mine.
@@rustkarl agreed
@@rustkarl the weight of the world clears unfortunately
..... welp, I enjoyed the ending credits. It was fitting for the broken pieces of my soul.
And my broken pieces of my PS3 controller.
And people still think that Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts is the hardest boss ever. This is worse.
Ninja Bobcat I could do this boss before fuckin sephiroth
Yozora: “I don’t think so.”
Sepiroth was not even that hard compared to mysterious figure with fucking terra.
Also the final boss in little town hero makes me want to smash my head into rusty nail because i have terrible rng luck.
@@Veryfreshveryflourish24 Mysterious figure was hard but it was also very bad designed and unfair.
@@Probably_Gonna_Die oh yeah he is like unfair Yozsroa I haven’t gotten to yet cuse I don’t have dlc So I can’t say yet
Unpopular opinion but i think these camera angles are intentional, replaying Drakengard 3 recently and i've noticed there's a pattern on each intoner.
Zero's Part 3:07 - It has no camera issues, she being kind of a warm up session ;
Five's Part 4:38 - The camera tends to zoom out further than usual ;
Four's Part 5:08 - It's mostly normal other than the camera being in weird angles at times ;
Three's Part 5:57 - The camera would zoom up close to Three's face ;
Two's Part 6:42 - The camera would zoom up close to Mikhail's face ;
One's Part 7:15 - Really, the camera would just go ape shit crazy, panning everywhere ;
When all the intoners starts dancing together, u can see that all 6 of the intoner's pattern would occur subsequently.
7:50 - 7:58 (no camera issues) [Zero's]
7:58 - 8:09 (camera zooming out) [Five's]
8:09 - 8:19 (weird camera angles) [Four's]
8:19 - 8:29 (camera zooming in on Zero's face) [Three's]
8:29 - 8:40 (camera zooming in on Mikhail's face) [Two's]
8:40 - 8:50 (Camera going ape shit) [One's]
Thought it was a cool small little detail and wonder if it was intentionally when making it, nonetheless this boss is a piece of shit.
Seeing all those Accords together at the end almost makes me expect them to say "Glory to Mankind!" during their salute.
Well Accord exists in Nier Automata so...
Who is Accord anyway? She says she is an android from an era long gone. Yet, there exists many of her, and she seems to be able to remember and travel to different time periods, timelines, and dimensions.
@@manuelalbertoromero9528 Cathedral City in Drakengard's timeline may well be a piece of another world. It did appear overnight and threw medieval Europe into chaos. I like to think that there's yet another band of people who tried to save their own world from The Flower and ended up yeeting the place The Flower was residing at to another dimension (Drakengard's), and these people are long forgotten, just like Zero, her sisters and the disciples were by the time Drakengard 1 happens. Just like the people in Drakengard 1 were when they ended up on our Earth. Just like Nier and his daughter were by the time of Nier Automata.
Accord may very well be a piece of that world that was brought along with the Cathedral.
@@XXXKaruXXX I mean, Grimoir Nier explains that to get rid of the Legion, Androids had a ritual to send the maso particules to "another world" which seems to imply that they can, at the very least, open a small dimensional door.
@@XXXKaruXXX Accord was created in the Kingdom of Night (along with the "Dragon" weapons) between the time of Nier and Automata (both happen in the Kingdom of Day). This has been confirmed by Taro.
probably the most beautiful boss fight I've seen. I haven't played the game but I've heard it's rage inducing.
If the last boss fight wasn't so troll, it'd be an +A.
There is videos in YT that adds visual crues to beat the boss, and reduce the difficulty greatly. But yes, it's annoying that a boss with so beautiful music and coreography is so troll at the same time
Just looking at the camera angles made me feel rage even though I don't play it...
I feel like I'm putting in the inputs but they're not registering properly
@@gatts1989 The video doesn't work, because the game framerate is inconsistent and so the timing constantly change between console. It can only be used if you emulate with no frameloss.
"Hey, Zero?"
"Yeah?"
"I... I had a lot of fun.... but NOT this part!"
"I... AAAAAGH!"
When it goes back to singing Kuroi Uta, I just wanna cry. I really thought this Drakengard was just going to be a sexy, bloody rampage, but it turned out to have its heartwrenching moments.
...Still not as ridiculously dark as the first, of course xD Thanks for uploading!
If ANY of NieR: Automata's ending bosses are like this I'm literally going to fucking explode.
I think there is a nier re[in]carnation coming up.
Thank god they aren't
kinda wish simone would be that boss, as a nod that was a tad easier
Well I mean you’re right to an extent if you don’t ask for help in ending e lol
I was actually feeling really really good about myself cause i defeated this boss! it was really easy the feeling after you do the last rhythm pattern, but then i woke up...
So, leveling up Zero, buying and upgrading weapons, learning the combos, and stocking up on recovery items. ALL FOR THIS???!!
Drakengard baybeeeee
yes.
Supposedly the reason why the last boss is a rhythm game is becuz there is no longer a reason to kill anymore. No more blood needs to be shed becuz all who need to die to save the world have already been killed.
Not gonna lie this is fucking shit
I saw the final boss and went nope!
Turned off my Ps3.
XD I did that with Drakengard 1
i almost killed myself but i still can't finish Draken 3 i think im really screwed ..
blader linker Yea same here , and it's the only damn trophy that I need :/
Know the feeling died 10 times in a row.
Kakashi X Leonhart i understand that its about braging rights but is it really worth it ..
nd that, kids, is what we call the Third Impact.
Kyon it all comes tumbling down, tumbling down, tumbling down.
Hello there, random NGE fan.
But that can't be possible, we need everyone to turn into strawberry jam for it to be legit. XD
ol man eh?
wouldnt it be the second impact since the game takes place 1000 CE, while in NGE, it is 2000CE?
well atleast decadus is pleased with the fucking pain this final boss gives
I don't think even Decadus would enjoy this.
I'm well versed in music production and composition, but how the hell are you supposed to keep track of that note released during the ritardando? What?
+PsychGoth Y, and the worst part about it is that it seems to come just before the beat, which you have no way of knowing.
1 2 3 4
Counting 16th-notes: 1234 1234 123[4] 1234
As you can see on the beat within brackets, just one 16th before the 4th beat, which you have no way of knowing. You can hear the bells/glockenspiel play 1,2,3,4, but the note you're supposed to hit seems to come just before beat 4.
the final note is off the beat entirely. its a complete cheat.
ikr! I'm well versed in rhythm generation, but that doesn't sound rhythmically correct at the end....haha
Analyzing this song, the progression is like this: Most notes in the beginning are in a 1/4 scale, but as the songs progress, they jump to 1/16. Zero's part is 120 BPM, Five's 130 BPM, Four's 145 BPM, Three's 155 BPM, Two's 165 BPM, One's 175 BPM, all dancing is 127 BPM, then in the ritardando, each section reduces app 15 BPM, and the last one is on the 12th note in a 1/16th scale at 50 BPM. So yeah, tricky xD
You can say the devs put a: retardando.
Bdm tsssss.
It's a shame we haven't seen Accord since this game.
She would've been perfect in Automata... or at least show a small cameo for the Replicant remake.
She was mentioned in Automata, and she's mentioned in the Replicant Remake. She met Yonah.
Yes, this is the same VA that voiced Edelgard Von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses.
With this, you just know how in character she was even back then.
Saw this fight mentioned in a top 15 video, so I decided to look it up. Didnt think it'd be that hard TILL I SAW THE FUCKING CAMERA MAN DANCE AROUND LIKE IT WAS PROM NIGHT AND THE HOTTET GIRL JUST ASKED HIM TO DANCE. JESUS CHRIST
I can't think of another full credit sequence in any medium where the entire cast and crew, every contributor in every unit, is listed alphabetically.
What class, to acknowledge a work as an all-hands effort.
Nier replicant, which curiously is also made by the same Yoko taro lol
I will be one to admit that I haven't played Drakengard 3, but I did EVERYTHING possible in Drakengard 1, and I at least appreciate that this pays homage to the boss fight in Ending E of Drakengard 1, that leads into the story of Nier Gestalt and Nier Replicant.
wait this game goes off into another series. Man drakkengaurd one was my favorite games as a kid
thing is because of this game the ycan do at least 1 more following this ending path really where many years later of events of drag on dragoon 2 happen they return back n the flowers even stronger and you are a new person who needs to go out learn about history n stop the flower it be nice in my idea buti doubt itll happen T_T
The first drakengard had an ending very similar to this, except you fall into a portal to Tokyo japan before the rhythm game bit, the events of that final ending eventually lead to nier, and later, Nier Automata.
As I played this things went through my head.
Wait the flower?
Wait what now a WOMAN, a WOMAN grows from it, please not this deja vu!
*Then the bell chimed at **3:00*
So, I see. It begins.
*Damn you Black Flower, you killed one of my favorite characters, an another's heart.*
The four birds stay around Zero's sword..
Besides all the rage this seems to induce, it’s pretty crazy that you’re essentially the last boss.
I always laugh at these nerds who break their controllers in anger. "What idiots getting so mad at a game they broke a 60 dollar controller lmfao"
The day I beat this game I joined those nerd ragers. Why? Because on try number thirty or maybe it was forty....? I got to the end on the black screen with the final bells. I didn't realize at the time that my controller died. Battery dead. Boom, right there.
It decides to crap out on me right there. I ignored the low battery thing and that's what happened. I threw the controller so hard that the casing broke off. The controller wouldn't work anymore.
I joined the grave valiant losers who nerd raged to that extent on that day. I never finished this game. The guy who thought of this owes many people reimbursements for their controllers and probably some tvs lmao.
So whenever someone tells me they are the best troll alive I tell them play this game to the end. The guy who came up with this was troll level nine thousand.
I'm proud I have this game's platinum trophy. I actually beat this boss 3 times, once on my game, and twice more for a couple friends. I earned $40 from them to beat it.
Must be awesome to have friends who love playing games like these with you! Mine only plays multiplayer stuff and almost never stop for any storytelling ones 🥺
*gets to this boss fight* ..... wait..... no.... no it can't be...... NOT AGAIN!...... well at least there seems to be only one color. maybe this'll be easier than.... that. *gets to 3rd sister*...... no. no no no nonononono no FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- *after many tries finally makes it past all the bullshit camera angles* *screen fades to black* *CHIME* WHAT NOOOOOO-*dies again*
I've never played this game, but it's good to know that even in the apocalypse, the Institute of Silly Walks will carry on
The Ministry of Silly Walks will always endure.
I wish there was a remaster in the works, I would absolutely Love to play this game and experience this ending. It's beautiful.
U can emulate it even if u have a potato pc :D
i would cry like an ugly potato
I never beat this boss...
Oh wait.
Yes I did.
I locked it in the closet.
+The Rice Demon lol... Why didn't i think of that, as it took me 3 month playing every other day for 4 hour session before i finally beat it.
@@igot2remember ahahah me too 1 mouth, maybe I spend a full week in this boss but this final is a good gift for beat it. Good night zero, this silence is mine ^^
What the fuck were the game developers thinking?
* Game Developer
He's an asshole. And he acknowledges it. Like...Jeez.
The boss is amazing, just horribly executed gameplay.
Drakengard! 8D
This boss has one almost identical in the first game. It's far more complicated rhythmically, and it has black and white notes at a much faster speed. This song technically goes to 170bpm, but the melody is so much slower than the songs beats. The developers were thinking "Let's do what we did already, since she has magical powers to do with singing". It's so unfair, but it was perfectly logical D:
Taking the bad drugs.
I'm a drummer, and I like mix of beat. I used to listen to music with my eyes closed. Sounds cheesy, but it's for real.
So, I've attempted to play this part with my TV off and just focused at the beat and the "ting" sound. Nailed everything.
...except the final fucking note. Woke up from my bed and wait for Mikhail's 2nd dialogue.
I. Hear. A. Sound.
"what is... This thing? What can we do?"
I hear a song.
Accord: "I cannot shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, that Zero is still alive. And that...someday, she and I will see each other again."
Drakengard 4 confirmed.
(Camera-kun intensifies)
I didn't play the game, but wouldn't she just have reincarnated, as Yoko Taro is so fond to do, into Kaine, and/or later A2?
@@caboosehelpsu2840 I feel like the parallel between Emil and Kaine is very strong. For a second I thought they were voiced by the same people, but they weren't
We got SINoALICE. 1 of 2 ain't bad!
Accord does see Zero again, but as the Queen-Beast in Drakengard 1 Ending E
....wait-
Wait there's a drakengard 4 coming out??
Close your eyes and listen. The camera only serves to fuck up your shit. When I beat this boss I actually felt pretty damn good about myself lol
You beat this with your eyes closed? You're a fucking legend.
Professor Emil I did it too. Spending summer in the heat marching actually pay off. Closed my eyes and got it on 3 try. The beat is simple, just got to know when it speeds up or slow down at the end. Just count 1 2 3 4. The song is in 4/4
Click your tongue in time of the beats and you'll beat this.
I tried knocking on my desk to the beat. I'm a violinist in my school's band, and I'm usually the only one, so I have to be the one to keep time.
You know that last note?
It's off beat.
"Ki....e..."
"One two three four. One, two, three-" (blocking sound)
"Wait, what?"
It's timed to Mikhail's dialogue, not the beat. You literally cannot beat this boss first try. More than that, this is deliberately designed to fuck you in the home stretch and make you undergo the whole ordeal again.
@@youraftermyrobotbeeYup. Grab a guide video, try to sync it up with your gameplay and move on.
This is just evil. Like, P ranking any long level in Pizza Tower can be a pain in the ass that can cost you several minutes (6-8) and any mistake is a reset, BUT it at least builds from all the skill you gathered while playing. THIS ONE is really damn difficult for your first time dealing with rhythm, pulls out cheap tricks and has no damn variety to make the 8 minutes pass by faster.
Like jeez why do you gotta do all that stuff for just an ending where Mikhail lives lmao
@@tammid8423 Don't even bring up a good game like Pizza Tower to compare to this garbo
@@panthekirb7561 Trust me, I have to
You see that dragon on my pfp? He's an old OC of mine. And he has a brother. You know what his name is?
MIKHAIL
And his design, despite being based off an unrelated dragon skin from Kogama, my Mikhail and this Mikhail are so similar it's not even funny 💀, white scales, yellow accents, all that stuff!
I literally borrowed the name from this fucker (as there was a Drakengard Mikhail skin on Kogama) so I felt attached to the character
And having to do ALL THIS SHIT for an ending he doesn't die or get fucked over in is just cruel
Oh did I mention he's like the only interesting protagonist in this game? Zero is also great but mostly around the endgame but everyone else is either boring or an asshole, so doing this to that character is specific feels like the devs are pretty much saying "did you really expect this game to not be a waste a money? come on now"
Seriously, thank god I haven't played Drakengard 3 lmao (meanwhile here I am having beaten 100% with both noise and peppino and now trying world 3 of a pepperman mod)
while playing I could never tell because I was in panic mode with a side order of PTSD from the first game, I never noticed but each one of their indivdual dances actually are done in a specific manner to reflect their personalities. like Ones, erratic and slightly unfocused, but always orderly and towards a single direction.
I actually don't find this one very hard... the music cue is very obvious unlike the first game.
Except for the last note. That one is pure bullshit.
I always mess up on the last few notes. I've been at this for days, though. I'll keep trying.
But I have to give credit, even though it's frustrating... I kind of really like it. The music, the girls, it's pretty.
true that. any other game and i would've written this off as 'lazy design'. but they really put some effort into it and it looks&sounds amazing. unfortunately i wasnt granted the gifts of patience and sense of rhyme at birth
I keep getting to all of the sisters singing together then fucking up right before the music slows down which is really annoying because I know how close I am to reaching the black screen...speaking of which, what's even worse, I'll _then_ have to deal with the black screen. It sucks because I can do _most_ of this last boss without looking...I only need to look at the screen after dealing with Two's song.
Simplicity itself. I like your taste, my lad.
And it makes perfect sense if you think about it.
Zero and her sisters were Intoners, given that power by the Flower. So why wouldn't the final attack of this flower be a dangerous and deadly song?
Yeah...It's called Stockholm Syndrome.
that fucking walk at the end....wtf is dat shit?
***** It was the Drakengardian Ministry of Silly Walks
it's a cool game, no the classic modern game where you continue without losing. This is called difficulty of video games, one thing forgoten in the 90's
TheMaux64 Nah, don't even try to compare this garbage to a legitimate challenge. This is artificial difficulty at its worst; the BAD parts of 80's/ early 90's gaming, incarnate.
zweihand
If they wanted to do this "final boss" right then should have had it be where the flower (who's origins I would really like to know, is it in DLC or anything?) takes over Zero but instead of becoming a giant as hell statue flower (or some damn thing) she goes completely berserk and becomes insanely powerful.
What follows is an almost heartbreaking battle between Zero and Mikhail to "This Silence is Mine" (song in the credits). The battle should be intense, hard but winnable with no uses of gimmicks but maybe with a Ice (Zero) versus Fire (Mikhail) to match the feeling that the song gives off.
The ending needs to be different as well... Maybe a split ending depending on certain game conditions with a Best result and a Normal result? It would follow Cavia's pattern of up to five different ending types (NIER was no exception but you have to look for Grimoire Nier on the net for it).
How's that? Sound better? I agree that the boss almost feels... unnecessary. And the ending felt more like, "Alright, this is our last game, see ya!" than a proper ending.
I have no problems with the final boss other than the camera. If they kept it consistent with the first phase, it would have been perfect. No problems with the story or the endings. As for the flower, it's elaborated upon in Zero's DLC.
I finally beat it last night, only took me 4 days.
4 days? Took me a solid month.
You guys finished it?
Took me 5 years
its only took me 36 maybe 37 hours to beat the whole game this boss wasn't as hard as fighting legna or Angelus from the first 2 games
Who else noticed thta one of the Accord (the girl who walks all weird) in the final scene said "It's a secret to everyone."
It's really strange. I've been trying to beat this boss for hours, and the farthest I've gotten is to One and then I keep dying when the camera starts to flip out. Yet for some reason I'm not the least bit frustrated by it. Every time this boss kills me it's because I lost timing and missed a beat. It's not because of lag, it's not because of delay between the time I hit the X button and the time the game registers it, it's because I simply messed up.
I just can't get mad at the game when all my deaths are of no one else's fault but my own.
💞
dude really yoko taro is a b4stard for creating something like this, and I love it! lol!
I've never played this game, only came because supposedly it has the hardest boss ever, I was expecting mayhem but that was actually really nice and epic.
Also I dunno anything about this story but when the clones saluted the dead one I got chills.
The effing time-traveling fourth-wall-shattering robot girls
*Crying in Japan tears* Encouraging you to play this game. Or rather, step inside their world just like how we do it when reading books. *winks*
She gave up her life to save this Branch. I like the salute as well.
I guess the Ministry of Silly Walks funded the construction of Accord.
I actually think this is one of the greatest boss fights/endings of all time.
Thats some next level Evangelion type craziness.
When I beat this...it wasn't really a feeling of "OMG I DID IT! I FUCKING DID IT!!" ....
It was more like: "....FUCK YOU GAME. FUCK YOU YOKO TARO. I DID IT. I FUCKING BEAT YOUR TROLL GAME. I FUCKING. BEAT IT. FUCK!!!"
Thank you for this, by the way. After putting in over a month and a half into playing this game only to be unable to beat the final boss fight I was pretty pissed off. The way you made this, without obtrusive commentaries or anything, it gives me the closure the game's rather bullshit final level denied me otherwise. So, thanks, you made my day today.
just fucked up at 9:45 and feeling awesome
edit: just did it again, awesome
This is art.
Even if it is a gigantic fuck you from Yoko Taro, it's still absolutely breathtaking and there's nothing else like it (bar DOD1 lol).
That fucking walk cycle has to be the true biggest troll in the game
The average player during this stage:
"I HATE MY LIFFFFFFFFFFFE!!!!!
.................. but the music is nice."
Its one of those things where if your just watching, its amazing. When your the one playing its hell on earth.
Congratulations. I jsut started on Drakengard 3. Now I want to yank the disc from my PS3 and bury it in the backyard.
+jurpentine I've also just started working over this final boss. Just use the timing video here and only take on the boss when you're calm, have a good sync on the vid, and patience. I propose a "fan" petition for a video to be made of Yoko Taro playing his own boss instead of observing a game tester doing it. I'd love to see how far he get's with his own "artistic" direction of "gameplay".
+Cugastratos But it -is- artistic and it -is- gameplay.
I bought the game beforehand. Then somebody told me about how... special the game was, never mind the ending. It was cryptic enough that I had to see it for myself.
2 years too late but, you just started the game yet your watching literally the final ending? What?
Finally I can hear a full Zero's song.
20:37 "It's a secret to everybody"
Wait, what? WAIT, WHAT!? This is not Zelda!
SE: Hey Yoko Taro, people complained about the first game's final boss and since we're getting you back to make a Drakengard game after 2's backlash I was hoping you don't repeat that boss.
Yoko Taro: Sure no problem. We'll just change some stuff about it.
SE: Wha... THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEANT!
Yoko Taro: Sorry, I can't hear you over the song that Keichi Okabe composed for the final boss fight.
This boss is beautiful I've heard it's impossible but it still makes me want to play it
Not impossible, just tedious. But the satisfaction is worth it
20:45 why are they walking like they have to piss ?
Yoko Taro essentially has his own universe he can branch off to whenever he wants, lets be real. Even if he were to end the D/N series, I really hope to one day play the game of the Watchers vs Whatever the fuck the Accords are from.
Always a land of sands, forests, sea and a cathedral. Is Zero going to meet up with everyone else in NieR universe and fight aliens on an airship?
No, I think this is a different realm in its entirety.
Zero and the Nier cast are separated by different dimensions and thousands of years so i dont think so lol
Everybody gansta until Three starts showing up
Need remake like Nier
I have many questions.
Long story short:
The flower is a being from another dimension that bonded itself to Zero (the main girl)'s eye. When she tried to destroy it, it created plot and made the other numbers you fight because only a dragon can kill the flower... for some reason.... It's never really explained. Zero's dragon kills her and then fights the true form of the inter-dimensional flower via. rhythm game because fuck you and finally seals it away forever. Orrr at least until Yoko Taro decides to bring this thing back for some reason (haven't beat it yet, but I REALLY feel like Nier: Auomata might be the one for that because glowing white flowers are fucking EVERYWHERE, lol!)
Oh, also, there's a time traveling robot girl with a funny walk for some reason who records it all. It's literally never explained and she seems to exist pretty much purely to break the fourth wall and make the other endings like a canon 'alternate timeline' thing.
dracocrusher Maybe you dont know but this ending its not canon,the true ending its branch A,wich leads to Drakengard 1,so the flower its not really sealed.
Ekacahya Garfiantama This ending dont lead to nothing peacefull since dragons,monsters,magic and a god who want to kill all humans still exist.Just the flower its gone.
I can hear Taro’s demonic laughter when the final note hits…
The bastard….
One of the most haunting/unnerving endings in VG history to me.
the relief when i hit that final note, holy shit... i had gotten up to that final note 4 times but i just couldnt get the timing of it down. but when i did that shit felt so damn good
I FUCKING DEFEATED IT, AFTER 6 DAYS LETS GOOOOOOO
They are different timelines, so we can say that all the endings are canonical and true, since in the end they all happened, as in Drakengard 1 and Nier and Nier Automata. In fact, in Nier Automata the Accord is named.
Can you imagine that in the final video game of these two sagas, all the Accords bring all the characters of the video games for an amazing last battle against the gods?
Zero making up with his sisters and having ice cream with Caim and Kaine at a coffee shop?
Too bad Yoko Taro loves to be "realistic" and he spends his time fucking her characters.
Yes, they all happened in their own timelines, but for example for Nier's timeline this ending never happened, because the flower is destroyed so Drakengard 1 will not happen and the queen beast will never arrive to Nier's dimension. And i would really love if Accord end up being important for the plot, but for now she just seems like fan service. Her role in this game is little more than being a Deus Ex Machina and a funny character, and her mentions in the Nier games are just texts about her having a shop. And i dont even think she is from Nier universe as if the humans from Nier could travel dimensions and time all of their problems would be solved.
Well, this fight just destroyed another reality/world, just like Drakengard 1 that fight ended up in Tokyo and it spawned the entire Nier franchise. I wonder if this reality is gonna get its own spin off. XD
Fuck the boss I’m here for the character/story and the music.
Ending D boss music and credit music is a melancholic ride of a lifetime.
And Mikhail saying ‘Good night… Zero’ is a guaranteed way to make me cry every… single… time.
So I just realized what this battle reminded me of now. It's basically just Yoko Taro having a very bad day of Rhythm Heaven/Tengoku and saying "Fuck it, if this game's gonna give me hell, then I'm taking it out on everyone else, including the poor dumb baby dragon!" Then he proceeds to drink like half a bottle of Jim Beam through his Emil mask.
I want to see the sisters again... Is that too much to ask Square Enix? 😭
hey can someone tell me why the dragon with the baby voice is calling the woman with the flowery eye a big dummy
i don't know how i got here
what year is it
Daisy Conway The dragon (Mikhail) is calling the girl (Zero) a big dummy because he realises the time has come for him to kill her (as he was destined to do) to stop the flower in her eye from destroying the world.. After that, the flower consumes Zero, transforming her (and her dead sisters) into the final boss. The rhythm game that results is Mikhail trying to stop Zero and her sisters from destroying the world through their song.
+Daisy Conway Zero always called Mikhail a dummy and never used his name, but now that she finally used his name, he called her a dummy.
That stupid boss is the reason why I can never have the satisfaction of watching the ending on my save file
And that "Thank you for playing" at the end does not make attempting that boss any better
What kind of fucking walking is that and I fucking hate this game now.
I was dreading this boss fight. The way everyone talked about it made it sound like there was only a few frames where you could actually hit the beat, and those frames would often get skipped over due to the horrendous performance of the game.
It took me four tries.
The Book Club mission was harder.
I felt that the final boss was actually a cut scene that someone said "hey, lets make troll the people and have them turn it into a rythym game. Oh and also make sure when they finally let go of the breath they held so long when you hit em with the black screen, troll em with more notes"
This fight was made in honour of the final boss of branch E from Drakengard 1,as it is almost the same
Wow... Looks like an evil boss.
I might get this game, after all.
I'm fine with one hit kills, I'm fine with having to start from the beginning of the whole fight, I'm fine with intense punishing difficulty. What I'm not fine with is the unskippable almost minute long cutscene wasting your time every single time you die and that FUCKING camera making it needlessly bs to hit those notes unless you have a master's degree in music and even then I doubt that will help.
Y'all complaining about this boss: Weak.
Credits in full alphabetical order: Strong.
Ooooohhhhh nooooooooo
If the camera actually stayed on you this'd be way easier >_>
I honestly want to see a new Drakengard game that takes place after the events of Ending D of Drakengard 3, since most of the events in Drakengard 1 and 2 and NieR are because Zero failed in ending A of Drakengard 3. Since she and Mikhail succeed in this ending, it would be nice to have a game in a timeline that occurs because of the Flower being destroyed. maybe we can learn more about the watchers, since most of their plans in the other games relied on the survival of the intoners in this game. With the intoners and the flower completely gone due to Ending D, the Watchers would have to come up with a different plan to end the world and that could lead to more revelations about them.
However, that's assuming that Drakengard 4 will even happen and will take place after ending D of Drakengard 3. But that won't stop me from dreaming and hoping.
I want this game just for this part. Except no. And what even is this? I watched a longplay of it, and know less now than when I started.
Oh well.
I have a feeling that this ending somehow led to the Beast Queen in Drakengard 1