How Drakengard Leads to NIER

so a common and completely warranted question that most people new to this series have is how in the world does Drakengard connect to NIR I myself was actually only recently introduced to yoga Taro's work through near automata and since I've completed every single game in the series aside from Drakengard - since it technically isn't connected I actually just finished the original NIR yesterday which was last on my list and after wiki diving furiously was compelled to make this video anyways the question of how the games are related is totally valid seeing how at first glance the two games are absolutely nothing alike in this video I'm going to answer that question as well as give a summary of the complete story of Drakengard explaining how and why it leads to the events and setting them near I'm gonna keep it brief as to avoid as many spoilers as possible but be warned I'm going to spoil the entire main story of Drakengard in regards to all major plot points as well as the ending well one of the endings to get started I'm gonna give a summary of both games Drakengard is a medieval RPG set in the fantasy world of Midgard not Final Fantasy 7 Midgar but Midgard humans are divided into two main factions the Union and the Empire the world is protected by four seals which the Empire aims to destroy if the seals are destroyed that leads to the invasion of the Watchers servants of the gods that will cause the destruction of the world I'll be giving the entire summary of Drakengard shortly so for now on to near near is a medieval RPG as well but it's set in a post-apocalyptic version of the real world humans are few and the land is overrun by shades mysterious monsters that attack humans near the main character is trying to save his daughter or sister depending on the version you play from a disease known as the black scroll it takes place roughly 1,000 years after ending II of Drakengard now I'm sure I've answered 0 questions and probably raised quite a few more and you're probably wondering even more how Drakengard possibly lead to near but let me answer that like most yo guitar games Drakengard has 5 endings the one we care about for this video is ending II but to even make sense of it you'll need to know the story of Drakengard the Empire led by the cult of the Watchers seeks to destroy the seals that protect the land from the gods if broken the seeds of destruction will appear in the world and the gods will send the Watchers to destroy humanity chyme the main character watches his parents die by the hands of a black dragon injured during the fight he finds a mortally wounded red dragon with whom he convinces to make a pact with him in order to keep them both alive despite his hatred pacts are lifelong bonds usually between humans and beasts that grant great power in exchange for a price usually the loss of a voice aging etc who di princess and goddess of the land as well as chyme sister is the final seal to stand once the Empire breaks the other three she's kidnapped and eventually killed by mana leader of the cult of the Watchers thus breaking the final seal and allowing the Watchers to enter the world a horde of Watchers appear led by the grotesquerie Queen began to destroy the world this is where any of Drakengard comes in time and the red dragon attacked the grotesquerie queen but as they do so they are transported across dimensions alongside the Queen into modern-day Tokyo time lives hand in hand with good and evil we too must adapt to this world of chaos [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] you [Music] [Music] after an unforgivably difficult final boss fight the Queen is defeated and time and the Dragon declare victory [Applause] out of nowhere a missile hits them both immediately killing time and causing the dragon to fall out of the sky until she is impaled on the Tokyo Tower you hear the pilot radio in that the unidentified threat has been neutralized and the credits roll this is Bravo one unidentified target has been neutralized now I'm sure you still have several questions but the main one is probably this how does this lead into near a game where you fight shadow monsters in a post-apocalyptic real-world setting well let me tell you in killing the queen a chemical known as meso was unleashed upon the world which is what causes white chlorination syndrome leading to the aforementioned apocalypse affected by white chlorination syndrome humanity enters a state of Anarchy with a lockdown taking place in the Shinjuku district where near and his daughter Jana were at the time without spoiling anything near related a time-skip occurs which will learn the meaning behind during the game story and you see NIR and his daughter living in a simple medieval fantasy village thus wrapping up how Drakengard leads to beer you probably still have the question why is there now magic and monsters in the world if time the Dragon and the Queen were all killed well all of those questions are actually answered within the story of near so now that you know how the events of Dragon guard lead into the events of near you should go play it for yourself but if you don't plan on playing near for yourself a reconsider your life and B I plan on making plenty of videos covering tons of near and Drakengard related topics so just stick around and I'm sure I'll answer your questions soon enough if you have any questions Corrections or comments leave them down below I'll read them off feel free to let me know which topic you'd like to see covered next I'm down for doing anything from any game series as long as I've played it but I'll probably be doing the near and Drakengard series for quite some time anyways that's all for this video hope we cleared some things up and look forward to the next one

Channel: Naniko

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Id: BHRsAQZbDy8

Length: 7min 24sec (444 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 06 2017