This game is set one hundred years before the previous Drakengard games, so acts as a prequel. It’s been ten years since we last dipped into the Drakengard world, though to be fair, having no knowledge of the previous games will not be a disadvantage (though there was quite the demand for this to be given a release over here in the West). No, this is about swords and fighting and blood and fighting and dragons and hatred and fighting. This is no petty argument in the kitchen after what someone said about our Susan. 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.The story of Drakengard 3 is about sibling rivalry taken to an extreme level. Gestalt Yonah leaves the Replicant’s body and she becomes a Shade who fades away into the sun. After defeating Devola and Popola in a heated battle with, the party proceeds to confront the Shadowlord.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. It is also revealed that the overseers of Replicant Nier’s village, Devola and Popola, are actually androids who were tasked with taking care of the Replicants until they could be merged with the Gestalts. 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.Once they track down Gestalt Nier, who is known by the Replicants as the Shadowlord, Replicant Nier learns about Project Gestalt. This causes Replicant Nier to seek him out and take back his own daughter. In turn, this also causes the Replicant to suffer from something called the Black Scrawl, which is basically a technical malfunction sparked by a Gestalt’s relapse.The events of NieR kick off properly when Gestalt Nier realizes that Yonah’s relapse cannot be stopped, and so he kidnaps Replicant Yonah in an attempt to put his daughter back into her new body. A relapse can also occur when a Replicant becomes more self-aware, leading to a loss of control for the Gestalt, causing them to become Shades and start attacking Replicants themselves. 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. Gestalt Nier, on the other hand, went on to help the organization with stabilizing other Gestalts and keeping them from relapsing.However, the Replicants started to become self-aware, and that’s where problems started. 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. When Zero launched her first assassination mission against all five Intoners, they struck back, killing Michael and leaving Zero wounded. As the five sisters killed the evil rulers of the land, they were worshipped by Midgard, and Zero was branded a criminal because of her desire to assassinate them. She enlisted the help of the dragon Michael, who swore to kill Zero after they had hunted down her sisters.Zero’s sisters were all blessed with the power of Song as well, and were known in Midgard as the Intoners. Not very original, I know.As a result, Zero took it upon herself to hunt down her five sisters (or Flower clones, really) and look for a way to permanently destroy the Flower itself.

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. However, after learning of the Flower’s intentions and how it could bring destruction to the world, she tried to remove it from her eye to see if she could kill it.

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