#ffxiv x nier automata

[koukouture]

An unnecessarily long essay/rant abt the Nier raids in ffxiv bc I feel cheated lol

The ffxiv Nier alliance raid series is such a letdown because the raids themselves are SO fucking good. Oh my god. As a Nier Automata fan there was just so much cool stuff. I haven't touched Replicant or the Drakenguard series, but man everything was so cool. All the references were top notch. No notes I ADORE the Nier raids as pieces of content.

HOWEVER

The story is so ass I'm sorry 🤮Like I physically do not have the strength to continue after unlocking Tower at Paradigm's breach.

I wouldn't have minded Konogg and Anogg being the main perspective characters if the whole thing was just written better. As it stands I don't think I cared about them at all until like the third act of the story where I started to get worried for them. Like they were occasionally funny but other than that they don't really have the most compelling anything, really. At least, it's not compelling until said third act. I'm not gonna say that everything peaked at the third act- I think a lot of stuff was just kinda lost by then- but the third act tries to pull at your heartstrings and it just feels like such an undeserved moment. It's such a last ditch effort to get the player to care about them and it kinda worked? But also, too little too late.

I think coming at Nier's sci fi elements from the angle of a fantasy world that's still largely stuck in a more archaic age was the right move so obviously the main perspective characters couldn't be androids. But I just wish the androids were actually in it more? And like explained their presence? And actually had more weight to their presence overall???

I feel like if I didn't like Automata so much I wouldn't have gone as far as I did. There is definitely something to be said about how differently Automata structures it's story compared to ffxiv, but I don't think it would really be a crime to lean towards one of them. Automata is much more vague and it often doesn't show you the full picture and I think that's what they tried to do but it fell flat just because the story felt like it didn't have a message or theme. It felt largely aimless and like that's fine sometimes for ffxiv- but raid quests in ffxiv always have something.

Like the Crystal tower raids were a delight and brought insight into the Allagan empire + set up Shadowbringers. The Bahamut raids kind of give Alisaie something to do during ARR and serves as a direct link to FFXIV's failed 1.0 launch. The Alexander raids... are mid lmao but I do think the themes of time and cycles was neat and fits really well into the wider narrative of ffxiv. The Omega raids were amazing development for Cid and I am ALWAYS a sucker for stuff about machines becoming human. Also Alpha is just the best. My point is; yeah, ffxiv raid stories aren't always the BEST but they at least have something to say. The Nier raids are literally just the raids and then the cool fashion WHICH I APPRECIATE thank you. I swear the 2B bottoms gave your character's ass extra polygons. (unrelated but not really, I heard the Heavensward Alliance raids r really fun but I keep putting them off for some reason lmao. Soon, trust. I finished Shadowbringers way too quickly I gotta find shit to do)

So yeah I guess that's just my beef with the YoRha Dark Apocalypse storyline. It's just so nothing. Automata and ffxiv are two games with amazing (albeit very different) writing. Both of them with profound themes and messages- and you'd think a crossover event between these two would have some semblance of a story but no <3 We can't have anything in this fucking house.

Sorry I am just kinda disappointed in this because when I saw 9S in the copied factory as a boss I thought this was going to be some cool dark Nier Automata timeline where 9S has already lost 2B- but no. And yk maybe I wouldn't have minded if I was proven wrong if the story actually utilized the Nier Automata universe at all.

(gonna get into mad spoiler territory for both games here oop-)

Like I think what could have been really interesting is WoL teaming up with the YoRha androids as they both battle the truth of everything. WoL and 9S have both fought for gods that were really just one huge lie. The revelation that Hydaelyn is a primal in Shadowbringers is such an insane thing to find out at this point in the story. I guess it would kinda require one to go into the post ShB content more but still my point still stands. WoL finds out the goddess that has made them everything they are is no different than the things routinely poses a threat to their world, and 9S finds out that humanity- his "god"- has been extinct for thousands of years. Idk I'm just spit balling ideas here. It's really a shame because obviously Shadowbringers is fucking peak, but the Eden raids were also so good. Like we could have had three for three but I feel like they kinda just half assed the Nier story.

Anyways

If I'm feeling cute I might rewrite the entire YoRHa x FFXIV storyline.

(This is a lie I have started drafting it already. Which is not the best thing for me to do bc I already have my major project/hyperfixation in the form of Hellbound and my last crossover fic got rlly popular and then I just kinda abandoned it so... yeah I don't have the greatest track record when it comes to these things. If I feel really ambitious I might make it a whole machinima thing but I shudder to think abt the editing that would take tbh. But likeeee I have lotsa ideas because I think Nier and FFXIV's themes would mesh rlly well together. Also it already has a title bc of course it does. It's YoRHa: Neo Fantasy. Yeah yeah it's cheesy whatever let me live.)

[koijikido]

Close up from AU gpose shooting of Koiji as 2B ❤️💙 I have more pics, but I don't want to spam around 😅

[doyoulikethis-videogame-song]

I'm bad at favourites because I have a colander for a brain (so sad) but I'd probably go NieR Replicant or FFXIV Shadowbringers if asked. The fact that Shadowbringers/5.x has Automata music in there may be cheating but I stay winning. ~ Mod Rae

mx poll person, what’s your favorite video game ost of all time?

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[zenathered]

I love how the NieR guys are just... THAT in their thinking.

[7marichan714]

💗Lovelies YorHa style + extra Mog sparkle💗

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[dreamangel-ren]

So awhile back, I got into NieR Automata, became obsessed, created an OC for that world which you can see her first look here: https://dreamangel-ren.tumblr.com/post/649926411757486080/my-ass-got-super-obsessed-with-nier-automata-that Well, while playing YoRHA: Dark Apocalyspe via New Game + on FFXIV, I decided to take it a step further! That’s right, I got my WoL to cosplay as my NieR OC, 11E and I took several screenshots of her interacting with a couple of special characters :> (in these images, you see 11E, not Ren lol).

P.S. Since 11E simps heavily for 9S, I had to take a couple shippy photos of them XD

How does 11E feel towards 2B...it’s complicated.

Hopefully soon I will finally have the concept art of my NieR OC drawn and perhaps draw some key images from her story as well. But in the meantime, enjoy these photos. BYYYYYYEEEE!

[chevaliers5]

"I Never Quite Realized ... How Beautiful This World Is."

[koukouture]

YoRHa AU girlfriends ft @asoundofdrop 's OC Saji!

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First meeting

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[koijikido]

• NieR - AU •

... with this DDoS going on, I feel like if Koiji were able to fix it, he would rush over and berserk to make servers work properly again!😤

[notreallysorryxx]

Finally decided to share my ao3 pseud:

when you have no idea what to write/post on tumblr but are pretty active on ao3 T-T anyway, come check out my ao3 XD

i have yet to write anything ffxiv yet, but I may take my fics from tumblr and transfer them over to ao3 (but don't worry, I'm not abandoning tumblr, I'll still post when i get motivation or feel like shitposting ! ! !) warning: there is nsfw/potentially triggering content on my ao3 (either in my bookmarks or in my own works) ty ! ! !

[candideangel]

Nier Automata: Things Humans Once Did

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[zenathered]

2P Versus 9S

[floatyskye]

Nier Exarch

Soo I saw a tweet from one of my favourite artists, surfacage, and I couldn’t resist. Dropped my commissions’ to sketch this out instead. I have no self-control when it comes to the crystal husband send help Q_Q

Now back to commissions which is taking me way too long to complete :’)