Wait, what are you confused about? There’s not a lot to get confused about IMO. Just realize that every timeline isn’t a what-if, but actually does happen. They are just parallel dimension versions of events
Nier: Automata is a direct sequel to Nier but many thousands of years later. They take place in our Earth after the protagonist from Drakengard 1 ended up in our world towards the end.
There is some inconsistent naming because of different translation teams but that’s mostly super background stuff really. IMO those videos posted earlier are plenty to help understand the background. And for this game you mostly care about D1 and Nier. Though there are references to others like the character name Accord
I got confused at the whole Replicant and Gestalt thing. Once a friend made sense of it to me than I have to learn about alien invasion and I gave up wanting to learn the plot at this point. Not helped knowing that Automata apparently is heavily drawing from material written in a tie-in novel.
My friend sent me those videos. I would like them more if he didn’t interrupt the analysis with awful comedy. I was so annoyed by it I had to stop watching.
I wouldn’t worry about taking it too seriously, the games narratives contradict themselves regularly, and I think Taro doesn’t take them seriously and neither should you. He takes the themes seriously, but not the actual narrative itself. They are just an excuse to make a game and then push the themes of of the game as far possible. Continuity isn’t something he’s terribly worried about, or it even making sense, the whole Nier part of the universe is based off a joke ending in Drakenguard and Automata seems to be based on a silly stage play. Half the reason there are supplementary materials is to explain all the shit in these games that contradicts itself or flat out doesn’t make sense.
Neo. If you want to be even more accurate, the O sound is a bit longer I think. Nioh is straight Japanese so it’s phonetic… unless you were asking him how HE pronounces it lol
Pre-ordered at EB and am just now seeing that you only get the t-shirt if you pre-ordered off the Squeenix website or if you’re in the UK. EB/Gamestop get some lame-ass download code for some fluff item that you’ll probably replace after 10 minutes of gameplay.
