What is the City the game takes place in?

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Has it ever appeared in the previous games of the series?

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monoestate lähetti viestin:

Probably Tokyo.
Plenty of Old World Archives with in the old city ruins that refrence Japan.

inouye lähetti viestin:

The city is the world of the gods from Drakengard 1 ending E, aka Tokio

I'm not quite sure of it, because as far as I know it's impossible to see the Ocean from there, only Tokyo Bay. However this Ocean is Pacific, they mentioned it in one of the dialogues, so the city is likely somewhere in Japan or in the western part of North and South America.

[Shu]

I think the earth doesn't rotate anymore and it goes back way to Nier, i can read on some forums that even in Nier, there wasn't any day/night cycle, and if you remember, on automata, we can help the scientist machine to build a tower to reach the moon (but he goes to mars instead), proof that the planet doesn't rotate anymore.
And if the planet doesn't rotate anymore, the temperature of the planet on the sun side would go up and that's why the desert is growing.

Probably.

[Unaimed Player]

There is allways day since that moon incident. At least that is said somewhere at the beginning of the game, when you arrive at the resistance camp.
I have no idea what incident though, but I haven't finished the game yet.

[Totally Not An Illuminate Spy]

To the people wondering about the how/why of the sun never setting and why there's no day/night cycle, it's apparently because the Earth is tide-locked with the sun. Tidal locking eventually happens when a celestial body's rotation eventually slows and completely stops. It'll happen to the earth eventually, around the time our sun transitions to a red giant, but the process was dramatically sped up for Nier's Earth. Hence, no sunrises or sunsets.

Tidal Locking as an explanation would raise entire mess of questions: Such as "why is the entire planet not utterly uninhabitable for human life? Half of the planet should be lifeless desert, and the other half lifeless icecap. I'll be completely honest when I say "don't think to hard about it." Honestly I doubt Taro Yoko has himself.

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Madman_Andre lähetti viestin:

To the people wondering about the how/why of the sun never setting and why there's no day/night cycle, it's apparently because the Earth is tide-locked with the sun. Tidal locking eventually happens when a celestial body's rotation eventually slows and completely stops. It'll happen to the earth eventually, around the time our sun transitions to a red giant, but the process was dramatically sped up for Nier's Earth. Hence, no sunrises or sunsets.

Tidal Locking as an explanation would raise entire mess of questions: Such as "why is the entire planet not utterly uninhabitable for human life? Half of the planet should be lifeless desert, and the other half lifeless icecap. I'll be completely honest when I say "don't think to hard about it." Honestly I doubt Taro Yoko has himself.

Well, beyond the animals apparently being alive (unless those happen to be androids too, they imply that they're not), technically most of the life on Earth is now machines.