![]() There are better, more topical ways to address current events and taboos without it being purposefully edgy like Drakengard.ĭrakengard might be where Yoko Taro first broke out into the industry, but it isn't what his stories are now. While a game like that can serve a purpose in our society as a reflection of how dark humanity can get, we are already living in a dark world that gets worse every day. At the end of the story, you are happy to see them all suffer even when you are rooting for them to destroy the Watchers. Finding purpose in a futile world, wanting to protect the people we love, accepting ourselves and the truth of reality.That stuff allows us to connect to NieR as an audience, and it still manages to hit us with the reality that the characters we are playing as are not heroes and that everything is not as black and white as it was assumed.ĭrakengard exists just to shock people with how dark it can get. It's easy for us to connect to characters like Nier or 2B because they embody aspects of ourselves that we can connect to and deal with problems we can understand. ![]() No, it is not logical when that franchise never made SE any money and it likely wouldn't make them money now because it has been surpassed by a better, more easily relatable one. TLOU2 didn't need a boost in popularity when it was already a massively popular franchise already because of TLOU and its DLC story. ![]() The "outrage" people were lobbing at TLOU2 when it first released were misogynistic and homophobic rants that fans and critics pushed back against. ![]()
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