She is capable of summoning an army of watchers at her behest. It also has two difficulty modes, Easy and Normal. This demonic element started to affect the humans of our world, and caused a disease called the White Chlorination Syndrome. In another part of the Dengeki Online interview, Yoko confesses that he became director only because Iwasaki was too busy with other projects at the time. Eventually, Red Eye and the Legion were defeated, thus ending the threat of the White Chlorination Syndrome. Or perhaps, another timeline. In the less-common aerial missions the player flies on the back of a dragon destroying enemy fortresses in mid-air, which was repeatedly compared to Panzer Dragoon Orta by reviewers. Either way, original Drakengard's Ending E is the most interesting route here story wise. When the party finally finds Manah, they realize that Manah’s mind was actually being manipulated by the Watchers this entire time, and they were the ones commanding the Empire to destroy the Seals. Angelus and Caim, having achieved their final task, are killed by the overwhelming grotesqueries. Yoko felt Drakengard wouldn't stand a chance against Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy if the characters were normal. Titled the End of dragon sphere, this ending served as a tribute to The End of Evangelion. The final credits roll silently as the sounds of a typical urban area in Tokyo is heard, the end of which scrolls down to a dead Angelus impaled onto Tokyo Tower. These relapsed Gestalts (later known as Shades) cornered them, and Nier had no choice but to use Grimoire Noir to fight them off. While it could be dismissed as a simple reference to the parasitic Flower in Drakengard 3, that doesn’t seem very likely. They were rushed by Square-Enix to finish it within their deadline on one disc, a decision which still upsets Yoko to this day. Leonard sacrifices himself to blow a path clear for Angelus, Caim and Seere. We’re not entirely sure what her motives are, but it’s clear that Accord is tasked with monitoring the timelines of the Drakengard universe and recording events. By forming a Pact, Caim and the dragon Angelus become linked to one another and are rescued from their near-death states. The Project Gestalt scientists then put Gestalt Yonah into hibernation and kept her there until the threat of the disease had passed, and she could be put back into her Replicant body. To achieve this, he imagined that he had been sent back to that historical period. Those infected with the disease are forced to make a pact with the god of another dimension. Caim and the dragon succeed in stopping Manah, High Priestess of the Watchers and Seere's sister, and sealing her powers. 2. There are a lot of interesting details that we can pick up from previously released footage of Automata as well, and there’s a reason why I’ve opted to recap the stories of Drakengard 1 and 3 instead of just jumping straight into the original NieR. The disparity here is that Emil was supposed to win after humanity fully died out after Ending E - Automata was a branching timeline as a result of Emil failing in his task to fight off the machines.... IIRC anyway. The ending wasn't shown to the entire team until the very end of development; Shiba hated it once he saw it. Don’t ask. Brother is actually a clone of One, whom One created herself as a fail-safe in case anything happened to her. Saito was interested in making Yoko's story concepts into a game. Clearly, the Queen-beast is a monster sent in by the Watchers, which means that she must have some link to the Flower. NieR: Automata takes place many, many centuries after the events of the first game. Considering the similarities between the Queen-beast and Flower Zero boss fights (both are rhythm games), it’s possible that the Flower from Drakengard 3’s Ending D timeline got sent into an alternate timeline where the events of Drakengard take place. After a long and grueling aerial fight, Caim succeeds in defeating his reborn sister. It is revealed in Ending D that there are tons of androids exactly like Accord. The military shoots down our heroes Angelus and Caim. Instead, Caim engages Inuart in a brief fight, where Inuart defeats Caim and kidnaps Furiae. I have read Berserk, though. Cavia was also severely undermanned for Drakengard's development process. So. Or are they some sort of higher entity? Zero and her sisters were six such beings that had the ability to summon them because of the power of Song. Anime: Evangelion. After defeating Devola and Popola in a heated battle with really awesome music, the party proceeds to confront the Shadowlord. In Ending A, Zero kills One, but immediately after, she’s killed by Brother. Although Angelus still has respect and love towards Caim, she knows that they must fight for the rising dragons plan on destroying humanity and taking over the world. Celebrations are short-lived, however, as the sky turns black and an unsettling evil arises. This outline aligns somewhat closely with the series for the first fourteen episodes, but deviates fast after that. Hierarch Verdelet, guardian of the seals, speaks through the dragon, pleading with the group to bring the goddess to the temple that holds the Seal of the Desert. Either way, the important thing to take away here is the fact that the Flower is evil, and it wants to destroy the world. This ending leads to the events of NieR. They return to the desert, only to find the seal broken. Midgard is rife with conflict, and the war between the Empire (obviously evil because they’re called the “Empire”) and the Union seems to have no end in sight. ヨコオ：あ、ちなみに“the End of dragon sphere”は“The End of EVANGELION”のパクリですからね（鶏肉を咀嚼しながら）。 in the words of the big man himself In The End of Evangelion, Gendo forces his hand into Rei III, merging the Adam embryo in his right hand with her in an attempt to control Lilith and reunite with Yui. Over and out". Drakengard with combat by platinum, better controls and design for the other gameplay sections, and the original rejected version of Ending E with the sing off against a J-Pop idol to decide the fate of the world. This causes Replicant Nier to seek him out and take back his own daughter. Even so, Yoko considers Iwasaki the "true father" of the series since he pushed for the project's completion the most. Twelve mighty Angels (called Apostolos) depart from the moon, America and Eva Unit-06 (not featured in the series proper) completely disappear and something called "the ancient r… The Gestalt relapse is a phenomenon that can happen due to defects in the Gestalt transformation process, which is what happened with Yonah and the other survivors. This leads to Ending D and, subsequently, Ending E. By giving up his existence, no one in the world remembers Nier anymore, and even Yonah forgets all about him. Later, within the Valley of the Faeries, Caim meets Leonard, who joins him as an ally. After his parents are killed by the Empire, he is weakened, but he finds a red dragon on the brink of death near his castle. After Arioch joins the party, Inuart appears, having sealed a pact with a black dragon — the same one that murdered Caim's parents in the past. Raised as a royal princess, she struggled to come to terms with her appointed role as the goddess at the time of her parents' death. End of Evangelion) Drakengard 3's final boss itself seemed like a reference to Rei at the Third Impact. Events get a little muddy after NieR’s ending, but we’ll do our best to explain some possible connections and links between the original and Automata. More than anything, Arioch enjoys feeding on flesh - particularly that of children. After killing Furiae and breaking the fourth and final Seal, the Seeds of Destruction are revealed, summoning the Queen-beast and other grotesque monsters into existence. This marks the end of Drakengard, and brings us to the events of NieR. Thanks to Saito's mediations ("and bribery," Yoko jokes), much of the world remained intact. During the earliest stages of development, Iwasaki and Shiba had no experience writing stories and were mainly driven to have as many game mechanics and content as possible over creative issues. The main antagonist of the Drakengard series isn’t some crazy, cackling villain; instead, it’s a small white flower that looks innocuous to anyone who passes by. The entire group join the final battle between the Union and the Empire, resulting in the latter's defeat. 3. As a result of the pact, Caim loses his voice, rendering him mute and causing a pact emblem to appear on his tongue. Gestalt Nier, on the other hand, went on to help the organization with stabilizing other Gestalts and keeping them from relapsing. Without protests or delay, they head off, only to find the village invaded and the seal destroyed. There were a few other survivors with them as well. With ending E, IIRC, Seere doesn't go with Caim, and the big grotesquerie is the one that creates the rift in time and space that sends all three of them to Tokyo. Manah suffered from a lack of love and attention from her mother, thus leading to her vulnerable state of mind. They are in turn, led by an adult-like Queen Grotesquerie. In Drakengard 3’s Ending C, Zero is completely taken over by the Flower and she spirals out of control. To combat the Legion and Red Eye, the human souls were taken out of their bodies, leaving Replicants and androids to fight the monsters. The E ending (Tokyo ending) and its dramatic gameplay change were added by him and a small group of developers to be a "surprise joke" for players –following a similar train of thought as the UFO endings in Silent Hill. Arriving at the desert, Caim finds Furiae safe, but realises that Inuart and Verdelet have been taken as prisoners. He says the Square executives were displeased with practically everything in Drakengard and wanted them to rebuild the entire game from the ground up. Furiae is soon abducted by the Empire, because of course she is. In Endings A and B, Replicant Nier kills the Shadowlord, effectively dooming humanity as he was the one who was helping to stabilize the Gestalts. She probably dies at this point. Are they robots? Drakengard Wiki is a FANDOM Games Community. Zero - A Rain to End and a Flower to Begin, a dragon that is now in a petrified state, https://drakengard.fandom.com/wiki/Drakengard?oldid=19600. Sad but that´s the lore, the machines weren´t affected by maso. She’s a kid, so obviously she’s wrong. flowers for the Broken spirit The story ends there, but we can infer that new Replicants are created in order to help salvage Project Gestalt. Zero’s sisters were all blessed with the power of Song as well, and were known in Midgard as the Intoners. The Flower gained power by latching on to a young sex worker who was on the brink of death. She was abducted by Inuart, as she is the Final Seal that keeps the grotesqueries from appearing in their world. Why did it open that rift? All her attempts fail, and when Zero tried to commit suicide, the Flower retaliated by birthing five sisters who were named One, Two, Three, Four, and Five. Was expecting Ending E to be relevant (since Eve has a Watchers´ tatoo) but it´s irrelevant. What happens is, back in Drakengard, Caim and Angelus (and the Mother Grotesquerie) wind up breaking through a dimensional barrier and land in Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they do battle and all eventually meet their end. After the death of her family, Arioch lost her mind. Drakengard features Caim as the main protagonist. Branch E, or the End of the dragon sphere, is the fifth branch of the original Drakengard. Manah, out of desperation and realization that all is lost, attempts to summon a dragon; instead of obeying her, the dragon consumes her. Though these are a few I've played on PS4 that might interest you: spoiler So we all know that Ending A in Drakengard leads to the manga, the manga leads to Drakengard 1 and Drakengard 1 leads to Nier and Nier leads to Nier Automata. Alternatively, the Queen-beast could also be the reappearance of the Flower after it had been sealed away in Drakengard 3’s Ending D. In this ending, Mikhail successfully defeats Zero and her sisters in yet another rhythm game boss fight, and we’re told by Accord that the Flower was sealed into another world. Both Adam and Eve wear gloves covered in scales, and Eve’s design is made more obvious with his scaly pants. Caim manages to defeat her, but hears more dragons coming his way. Not only that, both Adam and Eve also have red eyes. The Queen-beast being a consumed Zero definitely sounds like a plausible theory. It is possible that this urge was caused by her weapon and not her madness alone, as is implied by the weapon's story in Drakengard 2. In this ending, the Queen-beast is summoned, and Caim and Angelus enter a whole new dimension to fight her. In Drakengard 3, the Flower sisters could link their powers with their disciples to call forth an angel from the heavens to aid them in battle. Most grotesqueries resemble giant human infants with stony skin and sharp teeth. Either way, the humans are living on the moon because Earth has been overtaken by the machines. This is the protagonist of Drakengard 3. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. This was a science project that would attempt to separate the human souls from their bodies and store them somewhere safe until the threat of the demonic element had passed. By implanting itself in the girl’s eye, the girl was brought back to life and she gained the power of Song. 1. Yoko was originally planned to be the art director, but his artwork didn't impress the team to be used. The game's theme revolves around pacts, as most characters initiate a pact with other entities to gain certain abilities, and must pay the price of the pact in return. For the purposes of this article, we’ll be examining the timeline that brings us to the events of NieR: Automata. No one is really sure where the Flower actually came from or what it is exactly, except that it has to be the product of some form of black magic. Yet the B ending represents his opinion for fetishism regarding the superficial "idealistic younger sister". Drakengard is pretty damn Evangelion influenced tho. Were they created by the humans too? They’re both men, and they’re clad in dragon-like clothing. Ending E is actually a hidden ending that was only revealed in Grimoire Nier, a Japan-exclusive book that offers more insight into the game’s lore. In Pascal’s character artwork, he’s seen holding a small white flower. During the battle, Caim is mortally wounded, but comes across a red dragon, chained to the ground by Imperial forces. That symbol looks awfully similar to that of the Cult of the Watchers, which is pretty suspicious. In review, Drakengard is a very smart story, with multiple outcomes to choose from (one of which is very End of Evangelion esque) But it’s less then desirable game play caused it not to gain much in the way of praise… Weirdly, enough, Square Enix thought that the Drakengard series had a bit of potential and greenlit Drakengard 2. Their true identity is revealed in, Scarface, the Japanese callsign of the pilot in Ending E, is commonly associated with. I mean, the Tower quest at certain moments seemed a bit like going through nge and eoe for me. This means that we’ll only be covering the events in the relevant branches for each game, but do note that the endings we do leave out also contain lore points that will help to further your understanding of this world. As Verdelet performs the rite, the dragon sees Caim cry for the first time. Anyway, things in the human world were pretty messed up, so the government had to do something. The Legion was led by a commanding monster named Red Eye. 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She enlisted the help of the dragon Michael, who swore to kill Zero after they had hunted down her sisters. Yoko became quite fond of the reaction it had on the team and players, and it was one of the reasons why it was revisited again for Drakengard's alternate continuity, Nier. Replicant Nier and his daughter live their days out in peace, but Replicant Yonah continues to suffer from the Black Scrawl. There’s also the matter of Accord and her fellow android friends. After fighting the Shadowlord, Gestalt Yonah (who is currently inhabiting Replicant Yonah’s body) tells her father that it’s not fair for her to take someone else’s body like that. Gestalt Yonah leaves the Replicant’s body and she becomes a Shade who fades away into the sun. You don't need to get any of the pact-partners or see any … When young, he made a pact with, Caim's former friend and son of a noble of the kingdom once ruled by Caim's family. Along the way, Replicant Nier enlists the help of a magical book called Grimoire Weiss, as well as a young boy named Emil, and a hermaphrodite named Kaine. After fending off the Shades, we find out that Yonah had interacted with Grimoire Noir as well, causing her to start to relapse. As an inherently broken person, she focuses single-mindedly on slaughter. Seere, with his significant pact sacrifice, has the ability to stop time, at the cost of his life. Caim and the dragon regroup with his sister Furiae, the goddess of the seals; and Inuart, Caim's childhood friend and talented musician. The title of Ending E is likely a reference to Project Dragonsphere, Drakengard's project name. The last few episodes are the most drastic departure. Yeaaaaah, I don't quite see it, especially in terms of lore. The White Chlorination Syndrome brought about the Legion, which is basically a group of humans-turned-monsters from the pact they made. Michael didn’t really die, though. 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