...what kind of edgy, nihilistic, twisted fucking psychopath

people like you

You're acting like there's any kind of direction with this retard.

He makes the endings first, then crafts the stories after. He's a hack, and I'm 100% sure he just tells his writers to put as much bullshit as possible, word for word.

There's people who will eat it up seriously, not unlike the Metal Gear series. I like Metal Gear, but it's fucking ridiculous at times.

Japanese people just get away with dumb shit.

>>376912651
He gave Automata a happy ending though, while it should have continued the train wreck.

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post more taros

>>376912651
He just doesn't care.

So is Emil really dead? Poor bastard deserves peace but that still leaves a pretty shitty taste in my mouth

>>376912651
Seeing his friend fall to his death at an early age and being amused by the dead guys boner made him this way

>>376912651
Uh, what? Drakengard and Nier are both really tame in terms of explored themes. They're like a children's book.

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>>376913298

>>376913818
what children's book explores a Priest latent tastes for fucking children ?

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>>376913298
Here's another one

>>376912651
>xD lmao le wacky random psycho amirite guize? xDDD so random like ohmygosh xDD

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>>376914002
That's bullshit but I believe it.

>>376913827
>Yoko Taro
>liar
pick one (1)

>"He has also stated that he likes to be blunt when stating his opinions, as he feels that video game fans deserve truth and honesty."
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Taro#Career

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>>376912953
Anon, you know most scenarios are planned from their ending, right?

>>376912953
>He makes the endings first, then crafts the stories after.
There are also artists who come up with the video before recording the song as well
There's nothing inherently wrong with it.

>>376913818

Yeah man all my favorite children's books are a rejection of nihilism.

>>376913298
This is the most adorable Japanese man I've ever seen.

>>376912651
Guy is a massive edgelord that likes to toy with the concept of death(or reacting to death). He also gives zero fucks about anything and somehow Square Enix keep throwing leftover Final Fantasy money at him.
And I like that because edge done right is my guilty pleasure.

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>>376914346

>>376912953
It's a fucking game, entertainment is more important than artistic value.

>>376914163
>>376914316
>>376915078
tfw you trigger 3 babbies and none say you're wrong anyway

>>376914138
>He doesnt know about the fake script leak

>>376915343
wat

It's interesting to note that the same person made the E ending of Automata which is some of the most positive and inspiring things i ever saw in vidya.

Shit writer that writes Twiligt-tier stories.

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>>376913298
Posting best Taro

>>376915376
It wasn't really a lie. It was half-truth. That ending would happen if there was no people to answer 2B's plea for forgiveness and a life together with 9S.

>>376915376
He didnt actually lie. The concert script said the content might change on concert day

>>376915457

The original Nier was supposed ot have a happy ending E but they ran out of budget

>>376913506
Nope. What makes you think he's dead? Have you only finished Nier once?

>>376915663
Nier series in general has a reverse symbolism compared to Drakengard so i'm not surprised.

>>376912651
am I supposed to even know who this faggot is?

>covers his face wearing a mask

so he has the mentality of a 15 year old and probably idolizes slipknot, nice.

>>376915776
You don't have to pretend, you know.

>>376912953
>He makes the endings first, then crafts the stories after
Isn't that a good thing, considering the ending supposed to drive home the whole point of the story?

>>376912953
>He makes the endings first, then crafts the stories after.
That's what your supposed to do anon

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>post yfw Taro literally is a Wojak

>>376916035
How did you manage to post a blank image?

>>376916035
His eyes look funny.

I love him.
He is my husbando.
No bully or I'll cut you.

>>376916035
He looks normal.

>>376916143
He's Asian, you racist fuck.

>>376912651
He saw one of his school friends fall off a roof and die, and then saw that his friend's corpse had a boner and couldn't help but laugh at it.

The rest is history.

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>>376916341
He doesn't. Just like Miyazaki, he looks like a fucking alien creature, like from that Man in Black film. Ironically, both of them are edgelords.

>>376916886
I've never heard about the boner part, I thought he laughed because of the weird grim on his friend's face. Is that actually true, what the fuck.

>>376916901
They both grow above pure edgelord shit in their best works though.
Both Automata and Bloodborne are hopeful in their true endings.

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>>376912953
>There's people who will eat it up seriously, not unlike the Metal Gear series
I came here to laugh at you.

>>376916901
He looks fine too. Do you normalfags just have super high standards on appearance?

>>376915764

I dunno, Nier and DoD3 basically have the same message. You just start out from a different perspective.

>>376916035

DELETE THIS

That's real cool, OP.

The DLC for Near A Tomato is out, right? Does it have any story content or nah?

One of his best friends died suddenly in front of him when he was young. And looking back on it, he couldn't help but laugh.

>>376913818
Oh man, remember that picturebook about the girl that went around killing her sisters and fucking their men? Or the one about the merry adventures of a genocidal maniac, a pedophile priest and a child-eating cannibal?
Good times man, good times.

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>>376917151
There's nothing "fine" about this.

>>376916035
He looks like a friend.

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Whats the point of asking this question after NIer: Automata when he made one of the most hopeful endings of his entire career? He even got the chance to ruin it for everyone by making Route CE a bad end yet he still didn't do it.

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>>376918031
Vague cinematics, arena mode, hair colours and pic related

So I just figured out you can fight Emil. Is it an essential thing or sort of fun little secret?

I never did finish the quest to find all the lunar tears.

>>376918334
>ruin it for everyone
It would have been better that way.

>>376918378
So, not really worth getting?

>>376917108
I don't think I'd call any of Bloodborne's endings hopeful.

>>376918034
Wasn't that because his friend died with a boner or something?

>>376918464
It's worth $2 at best.

>>376918426
It's optional.
Also not only that but you can also fight the giant Emil heads in the desert

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I love how whenever a game makes even an attempt as some thematic depth, or even mentions a philospher by name, the internet's army of philosophy degrees comes out of the woodwork to complain that the game doesnt include a thesis in the manual. They shout "pretentious," while waving their degrees around and signaling how well read they are.

Like yeah, the game doesnt go too into depth, but what do you expect. Its fucking vidya man, I like the dude just because he's crazy enough to try something like ending E, where it all paid off.

Taros just another japanese dude mixing the stuff he likes into his own blend of crazy and releasing it onto the world. You check his twitter you'll see how much he likes food, Berserk, Evangelion, and GiTS. Hell I told him he's getting close to his Anno-sempai in making nerds mad and he followed me for it.

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>>376916035
I DON'T BELIEVE YOU DELET

>>376918378
>>376918464
I liked the robot arena, the special rank flooded city challenge, and the plato story so I say yes.

>>376918557
Sick.

>>376918426
It's not essential unless you want all the trophies. Also you might get some feels from his lines during the fight.

>>376918465
Evolving into the Great One and taking humanity alongside you for a ride or leaving Yharnam are both the most positive endings Miyazaki ever did.
>true ending of BB is called Childhood's Beginning
>most powerful pre-E ending of Automata is called Childhood's End

>>376918464
Nah unless you enjoy beating up hard as fuck enemies in a Colosseum setting. Even the single quest isn't worth it.

I'd actually wait and see if E3 has any DLC announcement for Story DLC instead.

>>376918464
You can fight SE CEO and PLAT CEO it's fucking hilarious

>>376918584
You should see leddit and their best friend Super Bunnyhop. Though I suppose the fact that these conversations/debates/analyses even exist in the first place warrants some credit. You don't see people talking about Zelda, Horizon, or P5's story with that much "enthusiasm".

>>376916035
who are you?

>>376918712
>and taking humanity alongside you
That's pure headcanon though. All you know for a fact is that you become a Great One. And considering they are monstrosities that have been your enemies for the whole game that's kinda fucked up. Leaving Yharnam isn't exactly hopeful either because all that shit is probably just going to repeat itself some time later.

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>>376918584
Dat right eye

>>376918795
Superbunnyhop's annalysis was actually pretty fucking good.

Why are people so averse to the fact that Nier has philosophical depth? (And other games for that matter)

>>376914356
It's because his Dragon Quest buddy threatens to quit SE if they don't let Taro make a game

That being said, his next game I won't be surprised at it even being made, considering by all accounts it's been a commercial success

>>376919065
>That's pure headcanon though
While that's true I believe it's not unreasonable to think that the entire theme of Bloodborne is based on "Childhood's End" in one way or another.

>>376918712
>the most positive endings Miyazaki ever did
Except for maybe the ending in which you save the world in Demon's Souls. Hell, linking the Flame in DaS1 was probably more positive than any of the endings in Bloodborne.

>>376919065
>That's pure headcanon though.
Trophy's description:
>You became an infant Great One, lifting humanity into its next childhood.
They were your enemies because you were bound by a contract with Moon Presence. Great Ones aren't truly evil and some lesser ones are even seemingly helpful or at least neutral like phantasms.

Leaving Yharnam seems to be a happy enough. Two other ex-dreambound hunters are some of the toughest motherfuckers around, and seem to be immune to beast plague too.

>>376918795
Sbh is honestly okay, and his marxist interpretation of Auto Tomato was actually pretty cool.

His OG nier video was terrible though, he goes out of his way to have the least fun possible.

Its just another example of people not understanding that the nips like to take big ideas and tackle them up front. Its not subtle and never was meant to be.

>>376919078
Shitposters, insecurity, and retrofags that only play Doom WADS. I was fine with Gone Home, even wish I couod get thief fan missions with that much detail in the worlds, the press sucked its dick for the wrong reasons though.

>>376919240
Why do the nips love CE so much, Evangelion even has itz own version of it.

>>376916035
Another Tingle indeed.

>>376918584

This except for it's format I genuinely believe Automata explored it's ideas in significant depth; pretty much every sidequest deals woth them from some new angle.

>>376915741
Have you played Automata at all, anon?

>>376919403
Edit.
Did not mean to imply that gone homo had depth, was refering to REE GAMES MUST BE PURE GAMEPLAY instead of trying some environmental storytelling.

>>376912651
These circlejerk posts are getting out of hand if you actually look up why he creates games like this you can understand the reasoning for it. Granted you're not retarded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LD6xCLlF5dY

>>376919559
If you read Emils Heads weapon description his clone gets resurrected 500 years later. The "original" Emil died though since you killed him as 2B and 9S or as A2

I swear this is vidya-related, but where the fuck do I start with philosophy?

I'd love to join in discussions of games that try to incorporate it.

Is it bad Automata made me want to explore it?

>>376919712
Go back to school

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>>376913506
>spoiler
Ha ha, no. What are you, retarded? He's doing just fine, he's just on break. ;-;

>>376919712

start with the greeks

>>376919712

Start with greeks

No, that's not bad.

>>376919078
IT wasnt good he was just saying big words

>>376918334
it may be hopeful that they could do things differently but it doesnt mean they will or that jackass wont kill them for being yorha

>>376919403
>Why do the nips love CE so much, Evangelion even has itz own version of it.
Because it's an interesting concept. Only Bloodborne actually is the most similar to it. Neither Adam/Lilith aims were it to uplift humanity while it is plausible for Bloodborne.

>>376913506
Taro confirmed that original Emil is still somewhere out there.
But something makes me think that they used his personality as a base for 9S.

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>>376919773
Go away, /lit/.

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>>376919841
Jackass doesn't hate YoRHa, she hates whoever was responsible for it. Fuck man, Commander was YoRHa too and she pretty much lves her (in a non-romantic way)

>>376919902

do you have any better point to start out? western philosophy had it's source there and anything earlier is nigger-tier

>>376919359
Well, maybe I'm just too deep in the "fuck yeah humanity" mindset, but the Great Ones don't appear as something desirable in the slightest. Sure they have significant powers but what do they even fucking do aside from being horrible. We can't even understand them, we just know that they are powerful. I'm not gonna let go of my humanity to try and become something I know and understand so little about. It's just fucked up.

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Can you truly say you understood and enjoyed Nier: Automata if you didn't comprehend it on so many intellectual layers as Kastel-sama?

>Yokoo Tarou’s Eternal Recurrence: Transhumanism in NieR: Automata
https://tanoshimi.xyz/2017/03/21/violet-evergarden-spoilers/

>>376919887
>But something makes me think that they used his personality as a base for 9S.
What makes you think that? Even #9 didn't strike me as similar to Emil.

>>376919070
That's a left eye.

>>376919887
Man all this Emil stuff makes me want to play again. My saves are gone, so how long would it take me to get to Emil's lore/battle?

>>376919970
yes but if you read the document after you beat the game doesnt dhe explicitly say shes going to kill yorha and machines basically continueing the pointless war and doing what 9s and A2 were doing

>>376918584
You aren't special, he follows everyone.
It's ok, I thought senpai noticed me too ;_;

>>376912651
He is japanese dev.

>>376918728
Did they not mention something about E3 during the initial livestream when they announced the colosseum DLC? Or am I just making shit up.

>>376920043

This has several misunderstandings about the facts of the story

>>376920176
The document said she's gonna find the people responsible for it and destroy any "evolutionary dead end machine lifeform" implying she'd let machines like Pascal and his villagers live.

>>376920282
I see i just interpreted that to mean the whole groups of machines and yorha

>>376920240
Point them out to Kastel-sama on CuriousCat.
https://curiouscat.me/kastelpls

>>376920235
I think they did or it was someone that mentioned it in the thread.

>>376916035
His wife is kind of hot.

>>376920412
He has a wife?

>>376920412
post pics

>>376919841
Jackass wants to go against higher-ups.
Apparently in concert script 2B receives a message for her when she searches for a way to wake 9S up, indicating that Jackass doesn't have any grudge towards them.

If anything, she will deeply relate to them simply because they are subordinates of her beloved White.

>>376920446

The lady who does the illustrations for the Taiko games

>>376920446
Yes.
>>376920453
Yukiko Yoko. She's Taiko no Tatsujin artist. She's a milf.

Japan loves twisted inescapable cruel fate melodrama, anon. It's practically their flag since Fukushima

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>>376920181
I thought i was special.

>>376912651
Suda51 is a better Taro

>>376920342

Okay

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>>376920708
>>376920540

>>376920810
Cool, it could lead to an interesting discussion.

>>376920787
Suda fails at making anything close to cohesive storyline unlike Taro. Not even talking about underlying messages.

>>376920781
>>376920181

>Sent him a messae telling him to never stop making games others won't make

>He likes it but doesn't follow me

What's wrong with me?

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>>376912651
He's quitting video games to open a restaurant now.
You have to eat there 4 times to taste every dessert and after the 4th time Yoko himself will offer to pay your tab but only if you throw up everything you just ate.

>>376920787
>Suda51
>Better than anyone or anything
Suda51 is all style over substance as you can see in No More Heroes or Killer is Dead and Lollipop Chainsaw.

The only genuinely good game he made was Killer 7

>>376920958

In another thread an anon suggested he would secretly feed you a family member and only reveal it after you said it was delicious to teach inportant lessons about perspective

>>376921113
jokes on him i don't like my family members

>>376920958
I'm there. Even if it's just instant ramen.

>>376920984
>Killer7
>good
I will never understand this meme. This is an absolute fucking unplayable piece of shit, filled with shitty cellshading artstyle, edginess all over the shop and stuff that annoy you on purpose (characters who were mumbling incoherently made me so fucking mad I thought my blood started to boil). Underrated game my ass.
If I will ever going to have a chance to punch somebody in the face scott-free, I would definitely go with Suda. or Kojima.

>>376921113
So I guess only westaboos watch South Park there, huh.

>>376920958
>eat 4 desserts
>the tab is a spoiler to Nier/Nier: Automata you could live without

>>376918795
Fuck you SBH is literally our guy.

>>376921312
I'd punch Kojima in the face simply because he has the budget to do almost anything but instead chose to fuck everything up. Suda has the excuses that he has only low budget to work with.

>>376921424

An eceleb will never be our guy

>>376912651
Japanese are still locked in the 19th century because of the traditionalism from their sad excuse of religion

>>376921424
>SuperRedditHop
>our guy

Your guy perhaps.

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>>376921312
>made me so fucking mad I thought my blood started to boil

>>376915972
He's saying that because Taro makes the ending first, the way to the ending is just made up.

Which actually makes his argument make no fucking sense.

I think I got to the end of automata but I couldn't really tell. Is there a more to ending E if I finish all my side quest or does that "thing just for show" mean that's all the cutscenes I'll get?

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>>376920862
>this
>a milf

The fuck kind of standards do you have nigger

>>376922071
I can't help myself, seeing people up their own asses irritates me immensely.

How the hell does one win the robot-arena?

>>376922267
>Is there a more to ending E if I finish all my side quest
No what you saw is everything

>>376922321
>has a child
>not a milf

>>376922487
>ugly
>a milf

>>376920947
You're that bad.

>>376920984
Killer is Dead was pretty bad.

>>376920862
Like Taro she's sort of homely but still cute.

>>376922732
As far as stylistic goes, it's among his best games. Also one of the best if not the best gameplay-wise. Gigolo mode is the worst thing about it.

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Here's why some people dislike philosophical waxing about video games.

It leads to insanely cringey euphoria like this.

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So what's the main theme of his works? Life is pointless, just live it through as you want?

>>376923042
More like if you have no meaning in life you should just kill yourself and you can give your life meaning simply by having someone else walking that very same life together with you.

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question :
when pic related happen ?(i finished the main ending by the way)

Why do you guys think this game will get story dlc for E3?

>>376923565
Emil's quest..

>>376923042
Read Sartre's Existentialism is a Humanism

>>376923565
The Emil quest is rather hidden since it's not obvious when you get it. It also gives you a rather memorable scene during Route C when you do it.

TL;DR

After you finished the Forest Kingdom go to the Luna Tear in the Shopping Mall and interact with it, Emil will then appear and you get a quest that tells you to find all the other Luna tears. You eventually go with Emil to Kaines shack which is the place in the image.

>>376923565
Questline for Emil.
To start it you have to go to the commercial center (the entrance to the forest) and look at a flower.

>>376923775
>Sartre himself later rejected some of the views he expressed in it and regretted its publication.
?

>>376923793
>>376923808
>>376923727
thx guys i need to do that quest in a specific route ?

>>376924003
Route A or B, you can't do it anymore in C

>>376914337
>>376912651
>nihilistic
do you even know what that means?

>>376924053
thx and last i can redo it ? so i can see the cutscene with different costume ?

>>376923042
Each of his games have different themes

OG Nier was about perspective and how the road to hell is paved with good intentions
Automata was about breaking from the pointless cycle of life and finding your own reason to live, no matter how hard or painful.
Drakengard was about immorality and heroism

>>376924221
You need to do it before you start the religious cult mission

>>376923002
Wow mate, a youtube comment. That'll really show those pesky pretentious philosophy interested folks!

>>376923002
I'd argue that any game that uses a standard sidequest system like Automata is inherently not Marxist, unless it was poorly written, which considering how all the side quests tie into the actual themes of the game, any marxist concepts are reading into it too much and/or unintentional. But that's just me.

>>376924428
It could show them how cringey they come off when they don't curb their euphoria.

When they do, like for example Kastel-sama (linked ITT) did, it's okay.

>>376924513
what does nier automata have to do with marxism?
t. uneducated

>>376924428
t. JPArtSpace

>>376924676
You know what else is cringy? Going so far out of your way to shill some literal nobody's opinions on this game's themes instead of coming up with your own ideas through personal interpretation and discussion with others.

>>376924949
t. SuperRedditHop watcher

>>376923002
BunnyHop fans are pretentious ass-kissers. Some of them even defend communism and claims that you can't conflate that with dictatorship.
But doesn't communism eventually lead to a dictatorship?

I just want george socks

>>376925363
It did in my country. As such I'm not too keen on liking cucks that support communism.

>>376924736
In his analysis Super Bunnyhop quickly mentionned how in marxism classes become conscious of themselves through conflict. Wich is what happens with the Machine Lifeforms.
However he then states that the conflict in Nier: Automata isn't a class conflict and that he's talking about Marx because he's the author he know the most about that's been mentionned in the game.

Essentially, the guy who posted that comment is an idiot.

Tell me /v/, how does one analyze a story like BunnyHop? What should I look out for?

>>376925513
Yeah, George himself says taro was acknowledging his ideas, not affirming them.

>>376925750
Read a book nigga

>>376924736
Someone made an effort at it. See >>376919403

I personally agree it has nothing to do with the subject. I'm also certain that you could read into anything and claim it's marxist, but numerous systems that are common place in RPGs are inherently capitalist in nature, so I was just stating these interpretations are completely unintentional on the writer's part and are mostly euphoric commies looking for euphoria anywhere.

I hate it when you come across a story where you need to have read or be familiar with supplementary items beforehand in order to understand the work. This game especially.

>>376926168
You can get into this game without any supplementary materials, though.

>>376926168
I dunno, I played Automata and managed to understand the plot perfectly fine. The supplementary stuff was just icing on the cake.

>>376926168
The only supplementary material I felt was necessary was the YoRHa stageplay as it adds a lot to A2's characterization. Other than that, the only thing you're missing out from not playing OG Nier is a lot of neat references and some heavy emotional moments (going beneath the shopping mall and Emil's questlines).

>>376920947
He said after Automata was released he got so many tweets he was having trouble following people. I bet if you tweet him again he'll follow you. He does it in spats.

>>376926469
>I felt was necessary was the YoRHa stageplay as it adds a lot to A2's characterization.
This is what irks me the most because I know almost nothing about A2 and in order to learn about her you need to watch or read up on a stage play that sends chills down my spine and cringe.

>>376926168
The supplementary material only explains some of the world and background for Taro's games. Drakengard, Nier, and Automata all tell a specific story with their own themes, and don't hinge upon knowing every facet of the world during or beforehand. That information is still out there and taken into consideration, but it's ultimately not the focus of the game.

>>376926168
But that's wrong. The important elements of Nier 1 are explained in the game, parts of the stage play are mentionned in-game (not that it is really relevant), and the philosophical shit don't necessitate having read anything about philosophy.

The only things that will change is the plot surrounding Emil, Devola and Popola wich doesn't strike as hard if you haven't played Nier 1. And they are all side characters, you'll still understand the main plot.

You don't need to know that Eve has the Watcher's symbol in his tats to enjoy the story.

>>376926168
I don't know shit about philosophy but I like to get lost in my thoughts so this game worked pretty well for me by just presenting a lot of interesting scenarios that are literally just there for you to think about them without having any clear answer.

Or if you are talking about the side stories from the strategy guides or whatever, I read them all and they don't really add anything important. The only notable thing I'd say is Memory Thorn that deepens 9S and 2B's relationship and the stageplay that gives A2 a slightly more detailed background.

>>376926748
It's an EXTREME dickery to leave Memory Thorn outside of the game, though. That thing is instrumental for understanding true nature of 2B's feelings and character development.

>>376919681
Pretty sure the other anon wasnt talking about the brain dead clones when asking about Emil's fate.

>>376926557
Nani?
He looks a lot better than that other pic.

>>376927909
are you fucking retarded

>>376927909
I'm pretty fucking sure that's Hideki Kamiya.

>>376927485
Original Emil at the beginning of Automata remembered just as much as the clone that is described in the Head weapons. Only reason why Emil started remembering anything at all was due 9S and 2B helping him with the Lunar Tears.

>>376912953
>he writes his ending first waaah hes a hack
How is that a bad thing you fucking mongoloid?

>>376926819
The Watchers tattoo doesn't even mean anything according to Taro

>>376928481
Im not surprised. People tried to make connections with the Red Eye disease or the White Chlorination Syndrome, completely disregarding the fact that they have nothing to do with the Network and Logic Viruses.

>>376926847
No, less sad content in game the better.

>>376926557
That's how you can tell shit isn't staged in Japanese videogame press releases. Only a couple people even bothered to react. In America, there would be a spotlight, and you would hear the building go nuts.

>>376928873
It's not just sad, it also gives a vague hope and explains why 2B is still alive because she lives not for the purpose of being a E model but to be with 9S.

>>376928037
You should learn a lot more from.
>>376928074

I see now, that that is Hideki Kamiya. Caught me off guard because I'd always thought Taro would be wearing his mask. Plus I've seen Kamiya twice before, so it was easy for me to mistake them both.

>>376928385
If anything that made his games much more memorable. A game (or book/movie/etc.) with a strong opening but weak ending are usually regarded negatively and considered disappointing since the bar has already been set so high in the beginning, leaving the rest of it lackluster, but a weak opening and strong ending leaves a much stronger impression since you come out of it feeling satisfied.

>>376928847
To be fair it would have made sense for N2 to imitate either of them as a way to advance it's own evolution by fucking itself over. It doesn't actually need to be tied to the Watchers, just N2 imitating a relic of the old world.

>>376912953
>Makes endings first, then crafts the stories after
I tried that with one story, it's a really good method but makes introduction really tricky to handle. He must be really skilled to do what he did with Nier Automata

>>376929072
but if the opening is weak why would you bother continuing?

>>376929326
Because some people don't suffer from ADD

>>376929326
The momentum of a stone that just started rolling down a slope is the slowest.
It's also why I will never understand the three episode rule for anime series. Some series just start slow but end up being amazing after you made the initial investment of sticking to it.

>>376929169
That's actually what I think it is. There is no link between those things, but N2 and machine lifeforms in general really like taking shit from old human archives and replicating them.
The Network probably found old data about Red Eyes from the time where Replicants and Androids fought against it, found that neat little Watchers motif (including the little girl voiced by an old man) and decided to run with it.

>>376929326
I don't see why anyone wouldn't stick to it in hopes of things getting better. Especially when you paid $60 for it.

>>376913120
And then he reversed it in a play.

>>376929641
Which he reversed again at the actual day the play happened.

>>376929641
No he didn't

>>376912953
Double King was created one scene at a time with no forethought at all and is one of my favorite pieces of short animation. There's no right or wrong way to do something, only the end result matters

>>376929485
There are two reasons for this:
There are many other series who aren't slow as fuck, and keeping on watching a boring series on the hypothesis that it may become good is a dubious bet, as well as a likely waste of time

If you watch the fifty episodes of a trash series you're more likely to find it good since you're going to rationalize the fact that you spent 25 hours of your time watching something boring, lowering your standards for other anime. You can't be corrupted by shit taste if you stop watching it early

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>>376913298
RARE

>>376925363
Communism and capitalism are economic systems, not political ones. They can exist in all sorts of political systems. It just so happens to be that most historically communist countries were dictatorships, communism doesn't inherently require dictatorship though.

I think communism is retarded but the communism = dictatorship is just ignorance. Yes, a communist country can never have 100% freedom by definition of what communism is, but that doesn't make it a dictatorship. People need to stop thinking about political and economic systems as black and white rather than a gradient.

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>>376926557
So Yoko Taro was Kamiya this whole time? I guess this explains the partnership with Platinum.

>>376930359

Is this why people like Trails in the Sky?
I suffered through 9 hours of it because everyone on /v/ and the internet said it gets good eventually.

It doesn't.

>>376926836
There's already a write up of the stage play in the game, actually. It's not even hidden, just something that could be missed by people rushing through things.

I agree that not including Memory Thorn and Memory Cage was shitty though.

>>376912651
why doesn't taro show his face more often?

>>376930359
>and keeping on watching a boring series on the hypothesis that it may become good is a dubious bet
Depending on the length of a series I think it's a bet that can be worth it. The first 10 episodes of The Twelve Kingdoms are fucking boring and almost nothing happens yet the rest of it were absolutely amazing.

>>376929042
Lurk more

>>376916035
f-fake!!!

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>>376913298
>>376913827
>>376915538
>>376930574
Does he wear that mask in public?

>>376932262
He's more likely to be wearing than not. It's part of his statement, as well as his video games.

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>>376932262
yes

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>>376913298

>>376928934
>That's how you can tell shit isn't staged in Japanese videogame press releases. Only a couple people even bothered to react. In America, there would be a spotlight, and you would hear the building go nuts.

Everyone saw Taro & Kamiya taking the mask before the interview

>>376932495
>Due to his dislike of being photographed, he generally wears a mask when giving interviews or presenting games.

>>376923775
You mean Camus right? The game is all about defining your own meaning of life instead of looking to others to give you one.

>>376923897
>Jean Paul Sartre is an ass and the game treats him like an ass

>>376935030
I hated his fangirls more than him for forcing me to run to him and back to deliver some shit.

>>376919887
>But something makes me think that they used his personality as a base for 9S.

You meant Gideon, right? Because 9S and his entire story is basically a re-told android version of what happened to Gideon. Lost his Jakob (2B), lost his mind, even lost an arm. Even has his intense hatred for machines.

>>376935030
I also appreciated how the game treated one of the most influential people on modern day feminism as a cannibalistic loon the would manipulate and consume other female machines all for the sake of looking better herself and was ultimately and utterly btfo by a hot girl in fetishwear that may have been the nicest character in the game

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What happened with the ending from that script? I haven't been able to get around to read it and I want to know what happened when they woke up.

>>376936948
>Kierkegaard's followers all literally take a leap of faith and kill themselves believing that they would become as Gods

This game was great.

Taro is a really chill dude, I've talked to him quite a bit on Twitter and he follows me back (tho he follows almost everyone back). He's kinda like the anti-Kamiya when it comes to Twitter.

>>376939489
You know japanese?

>>376939570
Well once he responded to me in English, then I wrote him a message using Google translate (yeah I know) and he actually responded in both Japanese and English.

>>376940021
About what you both were talking about? I once read some of his twitter feed. He posts a lot of food images, reviews there..

>>376938342
Script says 9S doesnt wake up and 2B dies from grief. Actual concert changed it and had 9S wake up.

>>376918049
>>376913978
you never ever fucking read classical fairy tales?

>>376940251
First tweet I said was about how I wish I knew Japanese so I could talk to Yoko, he responded with this:

"I think we human can't understand each other if we have same language or not. So, I think that we have to enjoy this unreasonable world."

Which I found rather touching. Later I messaged him when I was drunk and told him I wanted to send him a design document for a game idea I had because I felt like he's the only one who could understand my vision for it, and didn't care about being credited or paid for it. He replied by saying thanks but legally game devs can't accept ideas from outside their company, and he encouraged me to hold onto my idea.

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>>376912651
DUDE YOKO TARO LMAO. YOKO. BASED GOD. TARO. HE ALMOST FIRED SOMEONE FOR NOT MAKING A PERFECT BUTT. HOW BASED CAN ONE MAN BE? PLEASE FUCK MY BITCH BASED GOD YOKO TARO. YOKO FUCKING TARO! SOMEONE LET ME OFF THIS WILD AND CRAZY MAD MAN MEME RIDE! based. BASED. BAAAASSSEEDDD!!!!

>>376940713
So they all lived happily together after that?

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>>376940908
u ok

>>376941181
Maybe

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>>376941181
>Yoko: With regards to all such speculation, you're absolutely free to think for yourself and assume whatever you please.

>>376940908
absolutely ARCANE

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>>376940713
So which one is considered canon? Script or concert?

>>376941290
> Pod 042 being bullied
> implying he wouldnt ground 9S and have him do house chores

>>376912953
MG reminds me of the ridiculous plots I would come up with in my head for the stickmen comics I used to make as a kid, so it has charm. What bothers me is that people actually take it seriously.

>>376941490
Official timeline literally says REDACTED about two dates where 2B woke up. Which most likely means players redacting their fate and giving them a happy ending.

>>376941490
Concert. Script was Taro trolling the fanbase. I also think the Script serves as a reminder just how much 2B loves 9s to the point she actially died from grief when he wouldnt wake up.

>>376941490
It doesnt really matter which is canon since the concert/script follows Route C into its own Ending E

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>this whole thread

>>376941701
>Concert. Script was Taro trolling the fanbase

Must be nice being able to pass off every bit of bad work you do as "lol! im just epicly trolling my fanbase!".

>>376941893
>sell concert script early, fully understanding that it will spread like fire
>write a little warning about possible changes during life performance
It was a conscious ruse.

>>376922041

Which one?

>>376941181
2B and 9S probably as they really only need eachother. Not as sure for A2 as she's alone with no companions or purpose.

>>376924098

Yes. Are you suggesting that automata doesn't deal with it?

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>>376942214
>purpose.
kill machines.

>>376942214
A2 is like a sister figure for 9S given that she's probably closer to original Number 2.
She's probably going to be fine just by staying near. She also grew to like 042, not even knowing that he's based on Zinnia, and Number 2 really liked him.

>>376925363

Not inherently, just often in practice.

>>376928481

That's not true though.

He said if he had to pick a side, it did mean something but didn't elaborate on what.

>>376912651
His BFF died young and popped a huge boner

>>376918034
People laugh inappropriately all the time, it's a coping mechanism. Also given his friend fell, the suddenness of it all freaks your brain out.

Not like he was laughing about it after the fact or actually enjoyed his friends death

Don't be retarded