NieR Automata ver1.1a #24 — Deus Ex Pod
September 27th, 2024
Thanks, flying trashcans.
Impressions:
The crowning moment highlighting the pointlessness of this episode was not the multiple minute long scenes of the two Pods hovering as they talked to each other, but running into the antagonists, and both sides pretty much went "Uh, you're still here?" And then one side simply left. Pissed right off the planet while the other watched and did nothing. Boy, that burning drive really… did nothing. A giant tower, four or five episodes spent flipping the switches to break into it, a few noble sacrifies to get in the front door, and then couldn't be bothered to even TRY to stop their evil plan of… going away.
This is about a third into the episode, so we run credits, and then the Pods take over, fight their own war against their own machines, and reset everything! Turns out that, no, 2B was not actually dead all along, 9S could also be just brought right back, and they get to live happily ever after. Screw everybody else, got mine. Nobody matters except the one person I care about, and despite having learned nothing and grown in no way, happy ending pulled out of a floating robot trashcan. Is this supposed to be a happy ending? The new Adam and Eve bots? …Until they get reinfected by the legion of deathbots and whatnot still presumably swarming the planet.
The second season was absolutely a letdown from the first and did nothing to kindle any desire to give the game a third attempt to get past the tutorial without it janking out. I think I would've preferred it if Taro had shown up to do a puppet show himself. That would've at least felt like less of an asspull.
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The ending is from the game. I still don´t care for it that much. Replicant´s extended remaster also got a similar power of love revival as its new final ending. The only real difference is Anemone being exchanged for Lily but both do the same and Pascal dying. He can die in the game but you have to attack him for that after his tribe is killed. The 1.1 subtitle is a marketing gimmick in the end.
The anime had some hex codes that read out that a great calamity awaits but a new entry, not counting the phone game, was confirmed before the anime began so shrug. Not an ideal show but a rare coherent game to anime adaption. B- The game gets a B+. I don´t see it having any sort of legacy though. The half-life or gaming anime or manga is nonexistent.