Game plots that went insane
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...I'm kind of glad I never got around to finishing that game.aegix drakan said:
OT: Didn't that one True Crime game start getting dragons to come around and fuck you up along with ghosts or something? That was weird.
Also Nier. It's been a while so forgive me but I think I remember most of it.
Game starts in the modern day, you play a father taking care of his daughter Yonah in a ruined world as she's covered by these weird evil words that appear to be killing her. Evil shade monsters attack, daddy accepts the offer of power from a book named Grimoire Noir to gain power and protect his daughter, then we fast forward about 1000 years.
Now in a more standard fantasy world after everything has been rebuilt we find ourselves playing as the same dad taking care of the same daughter with the same disease, the world being filled with the same evil shade monsters. Things are fairly standard with you doing some odd jobs, fighting some monsters. You find out about a way to cure your daughter so you go out to find it.
During which you find yourself allied with another talking book called Grimoire Weiss and an incredibly scantily clad lady (but not really) with a shade for an arm giving her weird powers named Kaine.
Then the halfway point comes.
Your home village gets attacked by a super evil shade dude who looks suspiciously like yourself, you fight him off as best you can but bad things happen, you get stabbed, Kaine is petrified by your friend Emil (Who is a young-ish child who turns people to stone if you looks at them with his naked eyes) onto a wall to lock a monster inside the town library and your daughter is kidnapped by the evil shade dude.
Fast forward five years.
Your village is under basically constant attack nowadays, so you end up getting a fuck-off huge sword and spear to fight them better. Otherwise, the five years have been spent with Emil researching how to un-petrify Kaine now that you're strong enough to beat the beastie in the library. Some of the information he needs however is locked down in the ruins of an old civilization under his mansion.
Turns out the ruins are basically a high-tech research facility from our time. It's filled with shade monsters and while inside Emil starts having horrible visions and flashbacks to something. You find a lot of notes and books in the facility talking about some kind of disease and ways to stop it. At the end of the facility is is Emil's sister (who is a giant skeleton monster who was created artificially (as was Emil, we find out).) She eats Emil, you beat her in a boss fight, Emil is free and his power able to be controlled but he's also now a skeleton monster.
So you go and free Kaine and quest around for a bit doing... something, I forget. Long story short you find out where to go to save your daughter with the help of your lifelong friends the twins Popola and Devola. They also didn't age during the five years by the way, and your main character makes note of this.
So you go to find her, and if things we weird before, they're craaaaaaaaazy now.
Turns out Popola and Devola weren't so nice after all, and they're working for the evil Shade dude called "The Shadowlord." Plot dump:
A thousand years ago in our time a horrible disease was going around which is what our daughter is infected with. If someone had the infection they felt immense pain and their bodies start to twist and contort into the shade monsters who are still conscious, but are looking to find a replacement body. These beings are called "The Gestalts." The scientists who made Emil and his sister a thousand years ago were researching on how to transfer the soul of an infected person into a non-infected, artificial body (called "The Replicants"), but died before they could and the research was only partially finished. The Shadowlord had been continuing the research over the years (I think) and so kidnapped our daughter to cure her and then transfer his daughter soul into our daughter's body.
So when it comes to it we play as the Replicant of The Shadowlord's Gestal body. Our daughter is the Replicant of his daughter's Gestalt. Popola and Devola are... Replicants I think, and they were giving us hints on where to go and what to do so that we could get to the Shadowlord's castle having unlocked the information in the facility that we did. Or something.
After the exposition dump they attack you, Emil is killed (but not really) helping the rest of the party escape, Kaine slaps you for being all mopey about his death but supposedly that's also when she realises she's in love with somebody for the first time in her life.
Anyway, you continue on, Weiss in injured and the normally well spoken hoity toity book starts having trouble come out with even the most basic or words and seems to be slowly dying. You come up against a near invincible enemy and some allies you made earlier have to come in and sacrifice themselves to distract it while you escape to get to The Shadowlord. That might have been out of order, I forget.
So you get to The Shadowlord, Weiss loses the last of his power as his physical body vanishes you've basically lost all your magic. Gestalt Yonah's soul has already been placed in the now cured Replicant Yonah's body, but after sharing the body with the Replicant soul realises that R-Yonah's love for her father is so strong she allows her body to be taken back and her soul fades into nothingness.
Shadowlord gets right pissed off, attacks you, Kaine is otherwise predisposed or just doesn't help but you fight him, kill him and save Yonah. But now it gets doubly weird.
See, the game has four endings. One for finishing it once, one for NG+, one for NG++ standard and one for NG++ with 100% of the weapons.
Ending A has you kill The Shadowlord, and go over to Kaine and Yonah, but you find that Yonah isn't responding. Fearing the worse, your character nearly breaks down but the disembodied voice of Weiss tells you that she's fine and simply needs to be reminded of the name of the one she loves the most (the name you entered at the start of the game). Kaine goes off with "her own shit to do" and you and Yonah go off to relax at the village. Shadowlord and G-Yonah have a metaphysical moment and reunite.
Ending B is very much the same but has The Shadowlord all alone in his metaphysical moment, weeping to himself and remembering both his daughter and all the horrible things he did to try and save her. We flash to a scene of Emil's skeletal head in the desert, who rolls along going to find you and Kaine, hoping you haven't done anything that would get you in trouble.
Ending C is quite different. You kill the Shadowlord, but before you can handle Yonah, Kaine goes into a "relapse" phase, which happens when a Replicant body gets too self aware and was made imperfect initially. A relapse has the Replicant go unconcius, then when it wakes up it is beserk and attacks other Replicants.
As it turns out the shade in Kaine's arm (known as Tyrann) can speak and does so, telling you that he can save her life, but to do so he'll need a sacrifice in return. Whoever is sacrificed won't just die, all memory of them will be removed from eternity. Somehow. If you deny him you kill Kaine, then go through the regular process of going back to the village with Yonah.
Ending D is essentially the same but you choose to save Kaine instead. Your existence is removed, Yonah wakes up and thanks Kaine for saving her, Kaine is incredibly confused about why she is here but they both remember some sort of person who effected them in some kind of way, but you are a forgotten being.
This also happens literally as when you go back to load your data for whatever reason EVERY SAVE FILE YOU MADE IS COMPLETELY DELETED. YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM EXISTENCE.
So yeah Nier basically tells you to go suck a dick.
There's also apparently an Ending E found in the "Grimoire Nier", a book released to fill in some plot gaps. According to the wiki it takes place after Ending D where some kind of program initiates and it's going to restart the Replicant system, presumably turning all the current Replicants into shades or something I dunno. Kaine goes and destroys is and finds a young boy who is actually the forgotten protagonist reconstructed through memory. Or something.
Also NG+ playthrough lets you hear the voices of the various Shades enemies and boss fights. As it turns out they're all fully conscious and you take the role of a murderous angel of death, running into wherever they like and killing all of them in an incredibly brutal fashion. For example, one of the bosses is a young child whose mother you killed. He finds a robot and they make a wonderful friendship-esque connection, but you come in and throw the first punch so they fight back. Doesn't end well for them.
Now in a more standard fantasy world after everything has been rebuilt we find ourselves playing as the same dad taking care of the same daughter with the same disease, the world being filled with the same evil shade monsters. Things are fairly standard with you doing some odd jobs, fighting some monsters. You find out about a way to cure your daughter so you go out to find it.
During which you find yourself allied with another talking book called Grimoire Weiss and an incredibly scantily clad lady (but not really) with a shade for an arm giving her weird powers named Kaine.
Then the halfway point comes.
Your home village gets attacked by a super evil shade dude who looks suspiciously like yourself, you fight him off as best you can but bad things happen, you get stabbed, Kaine is petrified by your friend Emil (Who is a young-ish child who turns people to stone if you looks at them with his naked eyes) onto a wall to lock a monster inside the town library and your daughter is kidnapped by the evil shade dude.
Fast forward five years.
Your village is under basically constant attack nowadays, so you end up getting a fuck-off huge sword and spear to fight them better. Otherwise, the five years have been spent with Emil researching how to un-petrify Kaine now that you're strong enough to beat the beastie in the library. Some of the information he needs however is locked down in the ruins of an old civilization under his mansion.
Turns out the ruins are basically a high-tech research facility from our time. It's filled with shade monsters and while inside Emil starts having horrible visions and flashbacks to something. You find a lot of notes and books in the facility talking about some kind of disease and ways to stop it. At the end of the facility is is Emil's sister (who is a giant skeleton monster who was created artificially (as was Emil, we find out).) She eats Emil, you beat her in a boss fight, Emil is free and his power able to be controlled but he's also now a skeleton monster.
So you go and free Kaine and quest around for a bit doing... something, I forget. Long story short you find out where to go to save your daughter with the help of your lifelong friends the twins Popola and Devola. They also didn't age during the five years by the way, and your main character makes note of this.
So you go to find her, and if things we weird before, they're craaaaaaaaazy now.
Turns out Popola and Devola weren't so nice after all, and they're working for the evil Shade dude called "The Shadowlord." Plot dump:
A thousand years ago in our time a horrible disease was going around which is what our daughter is infected with. If someone had the infection they felt immense pain and their bodies start to twist and contort into the shade monsters who are still conscious, but are looking to find a replacement body. These beings are called "The Gestalts." The scientists who made Emil and his sister a thousand years ago were researching on how to transfer the soul of an infected person into a non-infected, artificial body (called "The Replicants"), but died before they could and the research was only partially finished. The Shadowlord had been continuing the research over the years (I think) and so kidnapped our daughter to cure her and then transfer his daughter soul into our daughter's body.
So when it comes to it we play as the Replicant of The Shadowlord's Gestal body. Our daughter is the Replicant of his daughter's Gestalt. Popola and Devola are... Replicants I think, and they were giving us hints on where to go and what to do so that we could get to the Shadowlord's castle having unlocked the information in the facility that we did. Or something.
After the exposition dump they attack you, Emil is killed (but not really) helping the rest of the party escape, Kaine slaps you for being all mopey about his death but supposedly that's also when she realises she's in love with somebody for the first time in her life.
Anyway, you continue on, Weiss in injured and the normally well spoken hoity toity book starts having trouble come out with even the most basic or words and seems to be slowly dying. You come up against a near invincible enemy and some allies you made earlier have to come in and sacrifice themselves to distract it while you escape to get to The Shadowlord. That might have been out of order, I forget.
So you get to The Shadowlord, Weiss loses the last of his power as his physical body vanishes you've basically lost all your magic. Gestalt Yonah's soul has already been placed in the now cured Replicant Yonah's body, but after sharing the body with the Replicant soul realises that R-Yonah's love for her father is so strong she allows her body to be taken back and her soul fades into nothingness.
Shadowlord gets right pissed off, attacks you, Kaine is otherwise predisposed or just doesn't help but you fight him, kill him and save Yonah. But now it gets doubly weird.
See, the game has four endings. One for finishing it once, one for NG+, one for NG++ standard and one for NG++ with 100% of the weapons.
Ending A has you kill The Shadowlord, and go over to Kaine and Yonah, but you find that Yonah isn't responding. Fearing the worse, your character nearly breaks down but the disembodied voice of Weiss tells you that she's fine and simply needs to be reminded of the name of the one she loves the most (the name you entered at the start of the game). Kaine goes off with "her own shit to do" and you and Yonah go off to relax at the village. Shadowlord and G-Yonah have a metaphysical moment and reunite.
Ending B is very much the same but has The Shadowlord all alone in his metaphysical moment, weeping to himself and remembering both his daughter and all the horrible things he did to try and save her. We flash to a scene of Emil's skeletal head in the desert, who rolls along going to find you and Kaine, hoping you haven't done anything that would get you in trouble.
Ending C is quite different. You kill the Shadowlord, but before you can handle Yonah, Kaine goes into a "relapse" phase, which happens when a Replicant body gets too self aware and was made imperfect initially. A relapse has the Replicant go unconcius, then when it wakes up it is beserk and attacks other Replicants.
As it turns out the shade in Kaine's arm (known as Tyrann) can speak and does so, telling you that he can save her life, but to do so he'll need a sacrifice in return. Whoever is sacrificed won't just die, all memory of them will be removed from eternity. Somehow. If you deny him you kill Kaine, then go through the regular process of going back to the village with Yonah.
Ending D is essentially the same but you choose to save Kaine instead. Your existence is removed, Yonah wakes up and thanks Kaine for saving her, Kaine is incredibly confused about why she is here but they both remember some sort of person who effected them in some kind of way, but you are a forgotten being.
This also happens literally as when you go back to load your data for whatever reason EVERY SAVE FILE YOU MADE IS COMPLETELY DELETED. YOU HAVE BEEN REMOVED FROM EXISTENCE.
So yeah Nier basically tells you to go suck a dick.
There's also apparently an Ending E found in the "Grimoire Nier", a book released to fill in some plot gaps. According to the wiki it takes place after Ending D where some kind of program initiates and it's going to restart the Replicant system, presumably turning all the current Replicants into shades or something I dunno. Kaine goes and destroys is and finds a young boy who is actually the forgotten protagonist reconstructed through memory. Or something.
Also NG+ playthrough lets you hear the voices of the various Shades enemies and boss fights. As it turns out they're all fully conscious and you take the role of a murderous angel of death, running into wherever they like and killing all of them in an incredibly brutal fashion. For example, one of the bosses is a young child whose mother you killed. He finds a robot and they make a wonderful friendship-esque connection, but you come in and throw the first punch so they fight back. Doesn't end well for them.
So yeah. Weird fucking game. Really good though.