Why did the Shadowlord kidnap Yonah? If he had never done so,the world wouldn't have been fucked over by Papa Nier. He literally started everything.
Also Nier thread. Post your hopes and dreams for Nier Automata.
>>332879526
I hope Anthony Burch voices a character in it.
>>332879727
Can we have at least one truly vidya thread during this hellfire?
>>332879526
Yonah was a replicant of the Shadowlord's daughter. Nier was the Shadowlord's replicant.
For some reason the replicants developed souls (or at least, wills of their own). Yonah's soul was still inside her body and the Shadowlord's daughter could hear her. She decided it wasn't right to take a body that originally belonged to someone else and willingly gave it up.
With his daughter gone, the Shadowlord lost all hope and just went nuts. Without his daughter he had no reason to go on. It showed that he and Nier were the same, just on opposite sides of the conflict.
>>332880623
I see.
And why did they make the books have personalities? Why not just generic computers to store information? If they had never done that,Weiss may have never acted out against the Shadowlord
>>332879526
>Post your hopes and dreams for Nier Automata.
It comes out in 2016 in America uncensored or the Asian version has English text.
>>332880623
This. If Shadow lord Nier didn't rock the boat and try to kick-start the process, Papa Nier wouldn't have killed so many and permanently ruined everything for everyone.
They're both good fathers. Too good.
>>332879526
He was trying to reunite Yonah to her real bodyWhich is why you play as her in the sequel
>>332881104
The grimoires were people. Noir remembered his goal, Weisse forgot and grew too attached to Nier and the others.
>>332881104
Apparently they were originally people. I'm a bit foggy on the how and why, but there were thirteen people turned into books, each with a specific purpose.
>>332879526the shadowlord had waited over a thousand years for the androids to find a cure for yonah, like they promised when he became the first gestalt. he finally lost his patience at the worst timing imaginable and decided he was going to force yonah's spirit back into her replicant.
>>332881104
Grimoires were a result of a child soldier project. Kids were put in a room and made to fight and those who lost (or was it survived last?) had their gestalts removed and then put in book shaped replicants.
Weiss and Noir were rivals (or at least Noir was a dick to Weiss) and Rubrum was a girl that liked Weiss
>>332881682
The goal was because magic was the counter to WCS and because they could help reattach the shadows (actual humans) to their new hosts (gestalts/what Nier and everyone else is).
>>332879526
how can you fight if you have your fucking eyes covered
>>332879526
No vidya threads allowed, bucko. All of /v/ must be devoted to Burch.
>>332881921
by being a robot. 2B can see just fine but it's apparently forbidden for her to show her eyes and display emotion or something.
I really hope we get more news at soon.
>>332879526
Fuck off with your weebshit
ALSO ANTHONY BURCH
Video games are sexist
>>332881682
>>332881912
a better question is what the other 10 grimoires were for.
Weiss and Noir's specific purpose was to finish project gestalt and forcibly fuse all surviving gestalts with their matching replicates.
Rubrum apparently was a stabilizer or something. The other 10 which were never seen, what about those?
>>332882365
The Nier concert later this month will apparently have more info.
I have returned.
>>332882692
Fuck, I forgot that was happening.
>>332882590
That's a very good question.
Between the end of mankind and the point in the game, we've had thousands of years of time...maybe they were destroyed? Or went mad. Or simply were trapped in some old mechanical tomb for all eternity.