No one really expected a sequel (it didn’t exactly break sales records) and the game’s final ending wraps in such a way that you don’t need one. In other words, NieR is something unexpected –and special.Ĭonsidering its absurd origin and that its story takes multiple playthroughs to fully grasp, not to mention the sometimes rough gameplay and repetitive missions, and you’ve got a recipe for the cult-hit NieR became. And yet, finding how exactly that ties to NieR is an incredible revelation that also sets up one of the hardest gut-punch moments in gaming. This “rage against the dying of the light” dark fantasy is technically a sequel to Drakengard’s absolutely absurd “Ending E”, where the protagonist and his dragon are warped into modern-day Tokyo and shot down by jets. And the explanations for why they look, and act, the way they do are unexpectedly powerful and affecting. The creepy puppet-kid, however, is the sweetest character in the game, and the woman is foul-mouthed, antisocial, and hyperviolent. It shows in NieR’s sidekicks: A beautiful, lingerie-clad young woman, and what looks like the unholy combination of a mage, skeleton, and marionette. “You just have to think you’re right.” This led to NieR, a game that truly questions society’s expectations of its heroes. “The vibe I was getting from society was: you don’t have to be insane to kill someone,” Yoko Taro explained in an interview with Game Church. Yoko Taro struggled to make sense of it, but came to an unexpected and new conclusion. In the midst of developing this series and ruminating on killing, 9/11 happened. Yoko Taro expects the player to connect the dots that, oh yeah, these characters are humans, and acting like stereotypes is a coping mechanisms. It’s just stated and left for the player to understand. But the character never acknowledges the trauma, or wallows in the horror of that fact. Pretty par for the stereotype course, until you find out that he was raised his whole life as the slave to a dominatrix. On the surface, for instance, one sidekick in Drakengard 3 is a violent male teen who constantly tries to have sex with the female protagonist.
But, unlike many games, this reflects in the insanity of its protagonists they aren’t exactly heroes.
Like most fantasy RPGs, his Drakengard games have a lot of killing.
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