The "True" ending

[Glorious Magnificent Ducksu]

Well, ♥♥♥♥. Not to really spoil the ending, but "We will erase your game data to assist other players"
"Oh ya, that's fine, I have 2 other save files"
"Are you sure you want us to delete your save file?"
'Ya, sure, I'll help other players"
"Are you REEEALLY sure?"
"Yes ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥"
*EVERYTHING ERASED* including every save file
Just a tip. When they ask if I want to erase my save, they mean every save. Back to square 1 for me, yay.
So what'd folks think of the ending? I was expecing bullet hell, sexy androids and Bayonetta and I got philosophy, an existential crisis, and sadness.

[Bombast]

Why does no one believe the game? Geez.

Anyway, I liked the ending. I was a bit disappointed at the happier bits (I feel like bringing all the characters back at the end kind of undermines the sobriety of the themes, but not much I guess), but otherwise I liked it.

[Clord]

Yeah, it's probably assumed that you would likely get it, considering console users have their stuff tied to their profiles, making it easily apparent that by deleting save data, you mean deleting all game related save data in a profile.

Before consoles started to tie data behind accounts, it was much more common to games have their internal profiles or a lot of save slots in a case there is more than one player wanting to play the same copy.

[Noblesse☮Oblige]

Originally posted by HexStadium:

I was expecing bullet hell, sexy androids and Bayonetta and I got philosophy, an existential crisis, and sadness.

First time playing a game in the Nier/Drakengard series I see. Only sadness can survive in the Taroianas trench.

[John Madden]

E was the most sunshine and rainbows ending Taro ever did

[Bazzy]

I'm sad that i have done all there was in the game now.
Speechless, really...

[Null_User]

For some reason I didn't feel as emotionally attached here. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice game and I enjoyed it, but I still can't fully grasp the concept of sentient machines. More when the game itself keeps slapping that very same sentiment in my face on every corner.

As I said somewhere else, if you really want a downer ending at first, that then somewhat finishes in an up note but still makes you feel like 'daaamn', play Odin Sphere. Then come here and tell me with a straight face that it didn't crush your soul. :)

[Soul]

Originally posted by Bombast:

Why does no one believe the game? Geez.

Anyway, I liked the ending. I was a bit disappointed at the happier bits (I feel like bringing all the characters back at the end kind of undermines the sobriety of the themes, but not much I guess), but otherwise I liked it.

A2 is still dead as far as I could tell. Though I was a little surprised that Taro actually wrote a "happy," (hard to call it that, considering everyone else, including poor Pascal is dead, his memories erased or living in eternal agony) ending.

[Glorious Magnificent Ducksu]

Originally posted by Hanuke:

For some reason I didn't feel as emotionally attached here. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice game and I enjoyed it, but I still can't fully grasp the concept of sentient machines. More when the game itself keeps slapping that very same sentiment in my face on every corner.

As I said somewhere else, if you really want a downer ending at first, that then somewhat finishes in an up note but still makes you feel like 'daaamn', play Odin Sphere. Then come here and tell me with a straight face that it didn't crush your soul. :)

I have played through Odin Sphere to the end, but that was years ago, back when the Game Cube was new. I don't remember much about it other than Odin was a ♥♥♥♥ and had a crazy huge stroker arm. Like it's so big I can't remember anything else!

Originally posted by Bombast:

Why does no one believe the game? Geez.

Anyway, I liked the ending. I was a bit disappointed at the happier bits (I feel like bringing all the characters back at the end kind of undermines the sobriety of the themes, but not much I guess), but otherwise I liked it.

Also The way the robots were putting back together all the characters reminded me A LOT of the ending of Metropolis (the anime, not the live action.) In fact, I'm drawing a lot of weird lines between Nier and Metropolis now.

[Sticky White Stuff]

Of course it is going to delete all of your save data. However the meta-data is still stored. You just saved someone from a hit, which means a lot at the end, just like other people did it for you.

[Null_User]

Originally posted by HexStadium:

I have played through Odin Sphere to the end, but that was years ago, back when the Game Cube was new. I don't remember much about it other than Odin was a ♥♥♥♥ and had a crazy huge stroker arm. Like it's so big I can't remember anything else!

It was a PS2 game. The main ending was rather hard to reach, and then the true ending required full 100% to EVERYTHING to get, but it was a tear inducing roller coaster, mostly since the true ending required everyone but only 4 people in the whole world to die via global cataclysm.... so yeah, it left me rather bittersweet. :/

[Glorious Magnificent Ducksu]

Originally posted by Hanuke:

Originally posted by HexStadium:

I have played through Odin Sphere to the end, but that was years ago, back when the Game Cube was new. I don't remember much about it other than Odin was a ♥♥♥♥ and had a crazy huge stroker arm. Like it's so big I can't remember anything else!

It was a PS2 game. The main ending was rather hard to reach, and then the true ending required full 100% to EVERYTHING to get, but it was a tear inducing roller coaster, mostly since the true ending required everyone but only 4 people in the whole world to die via global cataclysm.... so yeah, it left me rather bittersweet. :/

Ah ya, dont know why I thought it was on my Game Cube. Maybe cause of the vivid color style

[max :)]

The first NieR admittedly made me tear up in a few scenes, especially during the second playthrough. This one made me sad but I didn't feel as much as the first game. Better game on a whole though.

I'm happy with ending E in general. That whole experience was traumatic for everyone involved, they went through a hell of a lot of ♥♥♥♥. Also 9s is a sweetiepie, it's so sad that his partner was just there to kill him over and over, and he had to kill his operator, etc. I feel he got the roughest deal out of everyone (maybe on par with Pascal...) so I'm happy it sort of works out in the end.

Some of the side quest stories were heartbreaking too, especially The Wandering Couple.

[Null_User]

Originally posted by HexStadium:

Originally posted by Hanuke:

It was a PS2 game. The main ending was rather hard to reach, and then the true ending required full 100% to EVERYTHING to get, but it was a tear inducing roller coaster, mostly since the true ending required everyone but only 4 people in the whole world to die via global cataclysm.... so yeah, it left me rather bittersweet. :/

Ah ya, dont know why I thought it was on my Game Cube. Maybe cause of the vivid color style

Vanillaware, the art team that did Odin Sphere, got a VERY similar game for the Wii. It was named Muramasa The Demon blade. The whole setting was different and it cannot be even called a spiritual successor, but the art style and fluid animations was pretty much the same. Maybe that's where you thought it was on a Nintendo console?

Anyway, I'm deviating the thread so I'll let you guys continue with the topic.

[Mashpit]

I dunno, some of the dialogue in the Emil superboss fight is worth playing the game over for imo.
ISN'T THAT RIGHT, KAINE?!. That line just had so much raw emotion in it, the English VA really did a phenomenal job.

[Aeshi]

I saw that coming since I played the first game and backed up my save beforehand, but even with that aside this ending sucked away a lot of my goodwill. Not so much because of the ending itself (god knows this series needed at least ONE ray of hope), but because of what comes before it.

NieR asked you this question after a cool, meaningful boss fight & conversation with Shade-Kaine, which was a good note to end on.

Automata could've done the same thing by just asking us this after the 9S/A2 fight, or maybe even the fused spider-bot fight. But nope! Instead we got yet another godawful hacking section that even with help drags on for far, far too long (seriously, I think it's about 10 minutes. That's WITH the help option.) That's the note they ended the game on.