#theres moon. and there is virus. they cant be the same.

[itty-bitty-sunshine]

At what point do you start seeing one in the other?

At what point do you start looking at the devil like a friend?

[just-a-floofy-catt]

THE LAST DRABBLE FOR NOW

Thank

Fucking

God

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This ones another barely coherent bullet point one lol

Its based completely around the song "Rises the moon" and its lyrics :)

• The dca bois in their recovery after the virus incident in sb :(

• Like, imagine a fic where you have to help them get better/back to normal after all that trauma

• Sun is still super paranoid and has a breakdown or panic attack at even the insinuation of the lights going out

• You have to slowly get him used to it and try to chill him out

• He feels really bad for not trusting Moon, since he missed him so much after all. But he just cant help it, and ends up overworking himself and trying to stay in control as long as possible and give as little chances as he can for Moon to come out.

• So then he has warring fear and guilt eating away at him

• On the other side of this, Moon is doing a hell of alot of reflecting

• He feels absolutely awful about what has happened, despite how much others try to tell him it isnt his fault and that hes also a victim in the situation

• He becomes incredibly distant and lost in his own wallowing, avoiding literally everyone and isolating himself out of fear of hurting someone

• Just imagine a super soft scene where after a month of trying to get Moon to just properly talk to them, YN ends up catching him sat alone in the dark with only the faint glow in the dark elements in the daycare illuminating him on the balcony. Hes literally just sat there, just staring sadly at the fake stars along the ceiling.

• YN approaches him carefully and he doesnt even notice

• They sit on the edge of the ballpit, looking up at him in silence

• He finally notices them and startles

• Random note - (Metaphor in the song of how every day with sun feels different, due to both his erratic behaviour and him actually slowly improving over time, but every night is always the same with moon refusing to open up to you)

• He just waits and stares at them suspiciously

• (This isnt their usual shift. They werent supposed to be in today and theyre a later than usual too.)

• (They asked if they could go in, because they felt like they just couldnt give up on Moon and made a spur of the moment impulsive decision before going to bed that they would go and see if catching him later would help at all or make a difference. They were desperate for just anything at all to work)

• They didnt really plan this, so not only do they not know what to do or say, but their lack of sleep means theyre tired af

• After a few moments of just silent staring, they start to droop a bit, and yawn, laying their head on their knees, just waiting for any reaction at all from him.

• Theres just complete stillness between the two, and YNs body seems to give into Moon’s stubbornness, dozing slightly and causing them to fall asleep

• Moon softens slightly, programming kicking in at seeing them so tired

• He hesitates, waiting a little longer, then goes down to them

• He cautiously approaches them, then reaches down to pet their head

• They shift slightly and he smiles

• His fear of accidentally hurting someone, or suddenly becoming a monster still holds him in its grip, making him rather scared when gently lifting them into his arms

• He goes back up to the balcony, heading for his room

• He jumps slightly as they suddenly grasp onto him

• "I promise things can get better, Moon... it will soon"   "i trust you."

• Moon is shocked and emotional from their sleepily-murmured words, suddenly having the realization that- yes. He does want that to happen. He does miss being with the childern. He misses being with Sunny. He misses being happy.

• He settles down into a pile of pillows and holds YN close, protective, as they sleep.

• Moon then agrees to working with YN and they slowly start his road to recovery

• Just YN helping a very nervous Moon to get his confidence back :)

• Meanwhile though, as this progresses, whilst Sun has pretty much eradicated his issue, he gains a new one. Dealing with the daycare kids all without Moon again is really taking its toll on him again, and not only does he desperately need the help, but he also really misses Moon

• Having him so close but just out of reach was destroying him over time. He knew he needed to be patient. Every time he asked you when he could properly talk to his Moonie again, thats what you always said. That moon needed more time to get better. And he understood that, but that didnt make it any less hard

• Eventually, theyre reunited

• Just

• Omg

• Imagine how FUCKING ADORABLE THAT SCENE WOULD BE

• I WOULD CRY

• Reading or writing it, i would S O B

• They finally have eachother back to take refuge in once again, and they owe it all to YN

• Cue the 3 of yall just being really sweet and all

[cornflowercanine]

god imagine having a life as eventful as vriska fucking serket. you do fucking 8a8y Trials and have to kill or some shit as a literal 8a8y and then fresh out of the g8 your mom+creature you zook33p for lets you know "i eat people" and youre like "whoa" and shes like "what are you w8ing for im hungry" and youre like "WHOA" and you fucking kill people while youre. you look like fucking this

you are this many years old. and then you make online friends with another girl who is that^ many years old and you m33t up irl to larp as your grandma. and also a fucking treasure chest from your gr8gr8gr8g8r8gr88grg88grr88g88g8gr8 grandma like falls from the sky into your yard or some shit i forgot a8out that and shes like a tur8o pir8 and has given you guides to get cool ass weapons etc and youre like oh shit anyway you larp and then you have a friend and aquaintance group of 12 fucking people and you have a comphet h88oyfriend at like 7-9 and you find magic dice and The Fucking Cue 8all Where Even Was It Like Darkl33r's A8andoned House??? Fuck If I Know and also you try to make doomsday devices cause you want the world to end (totally healthy 7-9 year old girl f33ling) and some cr33p is like you should kill your friends cause i know you will also im not manipul8ing you so you try to kill a guy while you are also still larping and it fails so a girl convinces a shitload of ghosts to scare the shit out of you so you possess her 8oyfriend to kill her (again remem8er you are all like 12 years old MAX at this point) and this makes your first larp friend really fucking mad so she indirectly half 8lows you up taking an eye and arm in the process and WHILE YOU ARE 8L33DING OUT HEAVILY you possess your attempted-murder friend to possess her mom to convince her to 8lind herself in her sl33p and right after that WHILE YOU ARE STILL 8L33DING OUT you message her like 'haha we're even now i'm so excited to 8e friends again what do you wanna do for our next game?' and then your gross neigh8or gives you medical attention somehow and a whole ass arm (he can make whole ass arms 8tw, he is also like 12 just in case you forgot) so none of you talk for like idk ranging from several months to may8e a few years idk until the guy who you possessed to kill his girlfriend, who you killed, found/made a game/virus idfr what they thought it was initially and it guarant33s the end of the world and youre like hell YES cause As Far As Youre Concerned The World Cant End Soon Enough!!! <- totally healthy 13 year old girl 8ehavior and youre desper8 to revive the girl you killed cause everyone h8s you now and youre alone <- totalyl healthy 13 year old girl rel8ionships 8ut it doesnt work and l8r she ends up 8eating you to near death flinging you into houses so hard they EXPLODE until you are 8l33ding out For The Second Time and the guy you tried to kill rescues ?? ??? you 8ut you 8eg him to kill you anyway cause youll get Cool Video Game Powers If You Do 8ut it doesnt work 8ut you still Literally Die so you get the powers anyway and uhh some other shit happens you make a universe i fucking guess 8ut then some dog guy is like grr so all your friends/"friends" have to hide out on the fringes of Your universe and then people from the universe you JUST made are playing the same game as you and talking to you a8out it somehow asking for help and you use this to try to make your first larpfriend from way earlier jealous and also the dog guy from earlier kills all your friends' dream selves (theres two of everyone 8tw) and like tears apart two planets and moons and a 8unch of other shit so everyones on edge and Your Larpfriend Isnt Paying Attention To You (worst possi8le case) so you decide to do shit that will for sure get her attention and kill the guy you tried to kill when you were like 9 8ut this freaks you out a lot so you vent to some guy (who you also just killed earlier 8ut hes fine) and reread some of your grandmas 8ook and then 2 other guys who just killed like half of your friend group in total do a face off with you 8ut then your ex-qpp (who also chainsawed the guy you just killed in half a while ago out of jealousy 8ut he was fine) who has her stomach 8lown the fuck out and is also glowing now and is a vampire chainsaws one of the guys in half and kicks the other in the nuts so hard he flies away and then punches YOU so hard you fly and youre like holy shit hot. and then you try to have an orchestr8ed face off with your first friend where you

percieve everything and fix everything 8ut it doesnt work and she fucking kills you. and also that is kinda not the end of the story you do a 8unch of crazy shit while dead 8ut anyway vriska did so fucking much from day 1 i would also die at 13 if my life was that 8usy, and also im def forgetting+misremem8ering some things here 8ut im not rewriting this lol

[starmon]

hey, im really into your nightmare cases au.. got any information on gate and maybe alia?

HI sorry i got to this a bit late! shits been busy lately

i do have information on gate, however alia i really haven’t developed yet in all honesty! she doesn’t really have any information right now.

i havent really figured out what to do with her (as much as i do like her) so at the moment, she’s basically the same as her canon counterpart. that’ll probably change though

as for gate… [hands u seatbelt]

ur gonna need this. buckle up ITS REALLY LONG IM SO SORRY I JUST LIKE TALKING ABOUT GATE AND HIS INTERACTIONS W/ OTHER CHARACTERS

right off the bat i’m gonna tell you gate was WAY LESS BITTER in his researcher days. the man looked way less tired honestly. i think…i think what i can tell u the biggest difference between source gate and nm cases au gate is that - he had/has alot more empathy . he was really actually proud of his creations up until…you know. the incident

also something random but i feel like it needs to be said, funfact : gate actually could never stand x from the start. like, x could probably give gate fucking migraines without trying (i love x but in this au he’s such a fuckin gremlin my man)

he finds zero to be a bit more tolerable pre-X6 but he obviously develops rather strong opinions on the maverick hunters post sabotage incident 

his actions in X6 are pretty much unchanged. the virus he ended up picking up from zero’s DNA ended up warping his personality alot more drastically than whats implied in canon, so much so to the point his speech patterns grow very… erratic. he sounds like he speaks in a more “sing-song” voice during X6′s events, and you can pretty much tell his logic made 0 sense

[put under read more because theres so much, holy fuck]

additionally something to note is that due to zero’s viral dna or whatever, a large side effect aside from the warped personality is dangerously rapid mood swings. especially when it comes to certain characters (coughimmostlyreferringtobrassandnightmarecough) , his mood can go from sickeningly sweet to increasingly violent within a matter of…seconds. everything about the man is off putting around this point

i said it before in my other post but gate does get a redemption arc post-X6. the mav hunters dont actually pick up gate tho (i still need to iron out details, but-) , due to being a…now labeled maverick and what not. 

i still need 2 introduce this character to the AU but bass isnt the only mm classic series character to dip into this whole thing. without saying too too much, its one of dr.light’s robots 👀

due to that, eventually a cure ends up being developed that could atleast reverse most if not all of the zero virus’s effects. it does take a bit of heavy rehabilitation afterwards, though.

as you’d expect even tho gate has like…way more empathy in this au. he’s just so fucking tired, my guy………. he’s way more cynical (even more so than what he was post destruction of his creations) and has alot less energy to put up with bullshit anymore. this man is gay and tired, please send him help immediately

the only reason gate was helped tho was only due to brass - one of the only ‘bots around that knew what he was like prior to everything, convincing said character i need to introduce into this au to even do so

literally no one trusts him up until brass opens his fukin mouth and is like

“but brass he’s literally a fucking maverick- we dont know what he’s capable of doing after what happened previously-” “hes stoopid i Kno This but PLEASE”

additionally this is very random but i can assure you nightmare zero tried to punch gate’s shit in multiple times after X6. 

LIKE FUCKIGM

gate: [wakes up] nightmare: [immediately tries clocking him in the jaw for asking too many questions]

gate:

joking aside, he ends up hanging around brass , nm , and the Other One ™ since they all got one thing in common: maverick hunter hq hates our ass

seriously, we have two mislabeled mavericks, an ACTUAL FORMER MAVERICK, and a weird part time doctor running an illegal clinic for reploids and humans alike

they hang out around one of the eurasia colony collision point areas due to the fact after a certain point, they just pretty much evacuated the area and no one goes there anymore. perfect for a couple of outlaws to roam around

they cant really be in any highly populated areas for fear of being recognized and brought in, since - i assure u almost everyone there except maybe one person wants everyone’s head on a plaque. especially gates.

they make do with this fact however , but its just pretty much a post apocalyptic setting they’re in. even more so once human’s start jumping shit and going to the damn moon out of all places (though of course they couldn’t fahking do this without atleast trying to add one person to their body count and FOR ONCE ITS NOT GATE. FOR ONCE.)

AND…YEAH….THATS PRETTY MUCH ALL I CAN THINK OF!!!

thanks for sending an ask! (feel free to ask me about any specific events in canon that you’d like to know a little more about.)

[actualbird]

AGES AGO somebody sent me an ask about a star trek au and i cant find it anymore but i did try to outline a fic but i dont rlly have the time or motivation to make a full fic so heres what i did put down anyway

a bmc star trek au in bullet points

WELCOME TO THE U.S.S. ENTERPRISE. let’s meet the crew!! captain chloe valentine. brash, bold, and hard headed with a heart of gold. got through the academy in three years and totally cheated on the kobayashi maru because she is better than no-win scenarios. her first officer, navigator, and longtime crush since the academy days (but you heard NOTHING, CAPICHE?) is brooke lohst, making sure they go through the stars in the right ways. 

we’ve got dreamy academy prodigy jake dillinger who served on another ship since he was seventeen, jesus, now on the enterprise as a skilled helmsman and the ship’s local heartthrob. count chief security officer rich goranski—somebody who swears he can take down four klingons with nothing but a tricorder and a piece of string—along with all the swooners. 

chief communications officer and xenolinguistic specialist jenna rolan can mediate diplomatic ties in ten languages but she can also start a barfight in over twenty. theres chief medical officer christine canigula who also happens to be one of the most odd (half) vulcans ever but people the crew never minds. not when christine is always the one saving their skin and stabbing them all with hyposprays.

then theres jeremy and michael. jeremy and michael who have been friends since childhood and always looked to the night sky. the both of them have always wanted to be out there, but jeremy always doubted. his dreams were too big for just the earth, but he never thought he’d be good enough to go up into space. 

(jeremy and michael who, at twelve, promise on a shooting star that theyll both at least try, and that theyll try together.)

(racking up the necessary grades and high performance for the academy is hell and their high school years are tense because of it, but they get accepted, and by that point, neither of them ever want to stop. it’s hard work and sleepless nights and days where they stumble back to their shared dorm room high and cursing space and space things before mumbling back and forth about how they want to be out there so badly. somewhere along the way, jeremy wonders when exactly looking at michael felt like looking at the stars. when exactly it started feeling like fear and desire and love all at the same time.)

(michael wonders back to the shooting star and wonders if looking at jeremy will ever feel like anything other than hope. than maybe. than what if. than i wish) 

michael ends up chief engineering officer and jeremy is chief science officer. theyre both incredibly good at their jobs and theyre both utter fucking dweebs. most of the crew is, really.

and then theyre all off on a three year exploration mission. three years among the stars.

//STAR TREK OPENING THEME PLAYS

most of the exciting drama happens off-ship which makes michael a little grumbly because he stays on ship 90% of the time that’s his job. and he loves his job. he loves the enterprise so much. many ensigns have seen michael talking to the engines in a soft, cooing voice while stroking the metal. michael knows the ship and the ship knows michael (and all of his mushy thoughts because “god, i’m really that person now, that person who monologs about being in love with his best friend to a hunk of MACHINERY…..sorry babe, i didnt mean that. i love you.”)

(jeremy has heard michael call the enterprise so many things. babe. baby. darling. love. the light of my life. jeremy never thought he could be jealous of a SHIP but here he fucking is.)

as CSO, jeremy goes with the ground crew a lot. jeremy loves his job so much. so many new planets and plants and things to study and understand. he usually has his comms on to talk to michael while on planet just to gush about everything. “the main source of liquid here is green, michael. then at night it turns red. what the hell!!!”

the planet in question with the weird liquid is a one on the outskirts of near empty space, a planet the federation has been trying to recruit for a while. strange planet. two moons. plants that glow electric blue sometimes. home to a generally advanced and eerily perfect and in sync civilization. jeremy suspects theyre telepaths (they act like theyre all connected), but none of the other telepaths in the crew can read them. it’s very odd

somewhere back on the enterprise, michael gets a sinking feeling in his gut

turns out the planet is alive and is controlling all lifeforms through a hivemind activated by ingesting a certain pill-like fruit along with the green water. ground crew gets their brains taken over and the usually on ship crew (michael, christine, brooke, jake) have to go down and save their friends. hell yea

aside from that odd movie-like barely main plot, imagine the shenanigans more on the series flavor!! getting stuck in part of the universe that traps them in a timeloop. weird virus that makes jake start fencing through the halls shirtless. brooke accidentally getting engaged to alien royalty while chloe resists the split second urge to shoot her phaser. christine not letting any red shirts die on her watch at all but wondering just why theyre so susceptible to injury. ykno, the usual.

also pining. in SPACE. michael and jeremy making time for each other in spite of their erratic shift times. jeremy walking in on michael monologing to the pipes about somebody he’s so in love with and jeremy walks away with a cold feeling in his gut. michael dragging a sleepless jeremy to his quarters after hours of trying and failing to understand a sample. michael lays jeremy in his bed only for jeremy to gently grab his wrist and say with a voice just on the edge of consciousness “stay? please?” 

michael thinks of shooting stars and blue eyes and settles next to jeremy, willing himself to sleep against the beats of his heart. 

[ramblyravingnnjashark]

Nier Automata - Genius and Madness

the works of Yoko Taro are something that have eluded me for most of my life, and that I have given very little attention to. Probably for good reasons because from the outside, the gameplay of his games range from Mediocre to Average at best and I consider myself a very "gameplay First" person. Some of my Freinds would rave about Drakengard and how weird it is but that didnt quite convince me to look into them much further. However, one Fateful Day a little game called "Nier Automata" was announced, a sequel to Yoko Taros Xbox 360/PS3 game Nier with a little line of Text that would change things in an instant

                                   "Developed by PlatinumGames"

now friends of mine will know that, PlatinumGames is one of my alltime favourite Game Devs for their Crazy High skill Character Action Beat em up titles, containing Larger than Life characters and great and tight Gameplay that owes their roots in the Arcade games of old, which is something I have a appreciation for.

So, with a combination like this I finally decided to take on this series, by means of watching Youtube essays about it because goddamn, the gameplay in these games can get rather mind numbing sadly but honestly? Yoko Taro mighta earned himself now a nice cushy place as one of my favourite Directors, right next to  Hideki Kamiya and Hideo Kojima themselves.

But there is one thing I realised from watching these Essays and actually playing one of them it is one thing to watch a guy sum this series up for you, its a whole different thing to watch the Insanity for yourself

because the works of Yoko Taro arent stories about Heroic Knights slaying Demons and Evil Dragons, or Loving Fathers/older Brothers trying to survive the Fall of Humanity with their Daughters/Little Sisters

they are stories about Love, Hate, War, the meaninglessness of the Universe and the Hope growing from it, what it means to be Human, and what it means to lose all reason and go complete and genuinely Mad

(there will be spoilers, so be warned if you wish to expirience these games yourself!)

so originally, this was gonna be a brief recap of Drakengard and Nier, but then I realised I couldnt do these games justice so I just link this and this recap of these games that should give you a good idea what these games are about but to keep it brief

Drakengard is essentially to RPGs what Evangelion was to Mecha Anime, and thats a fairly approviate comparsion when you just look at, this

its also notable for how it handles its different endings, usually referred to as Ending A, Ending B etc, Ending E of the first Drakengard game was a Joke ending that nontheless became the basis for the setting of Nier, a ruined Planet Earth set hundreds of years after the Fall of Humanity about a Father (in the Western Releases) or a Older Brother (Japanese release) having to fend for himself and his Daughter/Younger Sister in a world under constant threat of creatures known as Heartless Shades

both these games are interesting, because their gameplay is nothing special, in the case of Drakengard its outright terrible,they got mediocre reviews and poor sales and yet these games have a dedicated Cult following and  tons of Novels, Audio Dramas, Manga and even Stage Plays that expand the Universes of these games and its lore

and thats for a simple reason: these games may have mediocre gameplay but, their Stories, their Characters, their Art Direction is actually of fairly high quality featuring intriguing Characters and worldbuilding that makes you invested in them regardless I mean, theres a entire exchange in Nier thats entireley between two Magical Talking Books for cryin out loud, and its one of the best parts of the game!

however, these games have thus far had a life as just that, Cult Classics, that didnt manage to garner a mainstream audience due to its aforementioned quirks, the Gameplay just could never stand up to the well written stories of these games

this is where PlatinumGames comes into play

now, the gameplay of Automata I honestly felt like was more on par with what Revengeance offered: there is stuff you can do with it but all in all its below the likes of Bayonetta and Devil May Cry 3 but thats not to say its poor, of course not, it doesnt encourage you to try anything other than just Mash about, but thats Fine, theres also Chips that your characters can even equip Chips that enhance their abilities and giv e them new ones such as a Bayonetta style Parry and Witch time or give them Heals upon Killing the enemy and while the actual enviroments can be a bit of a chore to go through (until you get Fast Travel), it still felt good to Parkour your way through them, nice snappy and smooth which gives me hopes they take a cue or two from this game for Bayonetta 3 in that regard at least

another thing I loved is the Soundtrack itself. Now I dont consider myself a musical person, however I can tell when a Song is used perfectly, and in Automata? Every Song is used to actual perfection. Music to me can be the deciding factor wether a Area or Scene in a Game or Movie is Garbage, Forgettable or Legendary, and for Automata, every song makes each area fall niceley into the latter fortunatly. One Standout track for me is Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) a retake of an earlier song that adds in additional Chorus, and the Theme for Pascals village which is a cute Melody involving Children singing.

now onto the game itself, Route A puts you in the sexy and Lucious Thigh High boots of YoRHa Unit 2B, whereas Route B puts you in the cute Boy shorts of her Partner and mostly Good Boy YoRHa Unit 9S both tasked with ridding the world of Machine Lifeforms and making Earth inhabitable for the Humans stuck on the Moon again Both Routes play out roughly the same, 2B plays like a Standard Character Action Heroine with Lights and Heavies and such, whereas 9S is mainly focused around his ability to hack enemies and engage into brief SHMUP segments.

of the two I felt like 2B was a little more fun to play all in all, the Hacking was fine but also felt a teeny bit like a pace breaker but not too much, at least until late in Route B the game throws curvebals and unique hacking segments into the mix

a thing Yoko Taro games have been very good at showing, is showing the process of a Person losing their mental stability and throwing it all away to become a one track minded Mad Man and I find that interesting.

Drakengard had a good example when the Character Inuart completley loses it and becomes obsessed with bringing back his Dead Love interest, causing here to turn into the monster posted above. Automata meanwhile, shows this also but with Machines, being that shouldnt even go mad in the first place but become Insane with concepts like Revenge, Fear or other. Now I am not a Psychology Major or anything but I cant help but feel "this is Intriguing", not sure if thats a bad thing or anything but thats how it is.

now, Route C is where officialy the PlatinumGame ends and the Yoko Taro game begins, in that things become utterly, utterly Bleak. Not to say it was happy funtime before, many of the sidequests end on a very sour or outright terrible note, but here? Shits gon Bad!

YoRHa falls, everyone on the Protagonists homebase dies or becomes infected with a Virus that makes them go insane, 2B dies and 9S is severeley wounded and has his mental state utterly ruined by seeing 2B, his Love interest, die. from this Point onward, you play as Either A2, a former YoRHa gone Rogue and 9S as he tries to kill every last Machine Lifeform, and as hes utterly loses his mind. Focusing entireley on his one Goal so that maybe, he can find Death and be with 2B in the Afterlife.

this is where the game really became interesting to me. Gradually 9S goes from this sweet pure boy to a Violent Mess that only wants to Kill and Kill and Kill, Over and Over, its a Interesting Development for such a Character I feel. A2 meanwhile, while still a Great Character and a Blast to play, I felt like was severeley underutilized, getting very little playtime compared to 2B and 9S, with most of her greatest character Development limited to a Japan only Stage play that got a short text recap on a terminal. and it just goes from there and it keeps going, plot twists happen, reveals happen, callbacks to the first Nier and Drakengard 1 happen, its just this huge Mountain of themes and stuff to uncover and analyse. references to old Philosophers and the Concept of Nihilism itself ebing explored, little details that popped up in the early game and now have much greater meaning, its....actually incredible?

I dont think I ever played a game that had so much going on, the last time I think I did was, Metal Gear Solid 3, maybe?! I think....this might actually be one of the best written games I ever played?

and there is still so much content I could go through, the Stage Plays, the Novels, theres probably a buncha Audio Dramas for it too already its like, Jesus christ. and then theres Ending E, which while rather difficult (and probably causes at least 4 people to fucking hate my Guts) was probably one of the best ending sequences I seen in recent years, I'm not gonna go into detail what it is because, it needs to be seen to be belived, but I find it genuiley incredible.

I dont think theres a single game in the Drakengard and Nier series I would actually consider my "Favourite Game", maybe Nier Automata but thats up for consideration still, but I think I can safeley say that both games story as a whole is easily up there with Metal Gear as  one of my favourite Game stories out there, and friends and followers of mine would know by now how much I love that Franchise and its wacky insane story, Drakengard and Nier are special little series that you dont see enough of these days, but maybe thats for the better

I'm not gonna say "Nier Automata rekindled my love for video games" or anything, but I am glad I got to expirience these two series.