Even without the context of the consequences of this ending in later games, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that this was supposed to be a _joke._ This is one of the most eerie things I've ever experienced.
I absolutely understand what you are feeling. However after watching a few videos explaining the lore of this game and this ending, I'm pretty sure it being a "joke" ending is a myth. The directors of this game did not state that this ending was a joke, only that it was "copying" Evangelion. This simple sequence however is extremely disturbing, everything about it is off putting yet alluring. The depressing tone of the game, its rather janky controls, endlessly killing to grind out every weapon for only this to take place. It's almost as if the game is punishing you for this kind of commitment, I can't help but constantly watch this video. The extreme tonal shift, the out of nowhere new gameplay, how difficult it is, and of course what happens after you successfully completed this mission. This game isn't perfect in the slightest, but what I believe it does perfectly is leave a long lasting impact on the gaming community with this one ending. It's bleak, depressing, and a perfect way to end such a dark game. Clearly it has worked, for you and I are still talking about it to this day!
@@FreezerdaBlue Reading all these comments but having played only Nier: Automata and the recent Replicant remake, I now understand much better why the games look, feel and play as they do. They were entirely oddball from the beginning! Automata left, as you said, an impression that will probably stick with me for the rest of my life. It goes on showing how taking creative risks and not conforming to boxed expectations can pay off, and makes it a piece of art more than a videogame product. So glad that I got to experience it, though I don't think I'll put myself through Drakengard unless it gets a modern treatment. And the punishing nature of Replicant was nasty business. Making players lose progress like that after mid-game, or grinding endlessly to make a point about how pointless 100% game completion is.. wonderfully evil :D
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen giant salty woman was so salty, that everyone dying from the salt in Japan. And then Americans thought if would be a great idea to nuke Japan again. But it wasn't, so everyone dies cause of big salty woman. (C) Yoko Taro
This has got to be one of the creepiest endings to a game like I couldn't imagine playing this as a kid when it first came out years ago. The statue with the bell sounds ringing is just creepy lol
Aside from no kid should ever play this game, what you'd have to do to unlock this ending would be less scary for the kid and more frustrated that all that grinding led to depressing DDR.
yeah hi hello I played this when I was 13 years old and this ending still gives me nightmares years later. I play the NieR raid in Final Fantasy XIV and every time I hear the gong of the bells I get chills. Ever. Single. Time.
I wish I had this game as a kid. I played a lot of obscure games back then (mostly forgettable stuff) and never encountered this game until I discovered emulation. Would've been cool to show off to the other kids lol
It was ducking crazy. The game really shaped the stuff i like and this ending was so surreal at the time. Hell i was about 5 or 6 playing it with my older brother. This game is my favorite of all time cause it had such an impact on me
@@chainingten3819 Drakengard takes place in a very fucked up fantasy world. At the end the main character's sister commits suicide cause her love for her brother is unrequited and the main antagonist is killed off by her brother cause she's insane. Cue pregnant salt lady and her babies that want to eat everyone. After a few of your teammates die to give you a chance to take the god down, Ending E kicks in and the main character and his dragon buddy go after the god, but get flung into our world where they play a rhythm game battle. Cue NieR. And trust me, that's a lot of context. If you want a better idea, check out The Dark Id's let's play on Something Awful, cause playing it can be frustrating.
@@Arntonach Thank you for the explanation. Believe it or not, that actually really helped my understanding of what is going on here. Now it makes sense.
I didn't play the game but I watched the boss battle for the music. I'm honestly traumatized when I heard THE BELL and thought I click the wrong channel
I first played this game when I was maybe 15 or 16. I was never able to find all the weapons to unlock this final chapter. With 4 endings under my belt, each becoming steadily more screwed up and depressing than the last, I was certain that this final ending HAD to make it all worth it. Cut to 20 years later, I finally get a copy of this game again, and with the help of the internet, I hunt down every single weapon. ( Many with EXTREMELY arbitrary conditions to make them spawn). I finally loaded the chapter that had been locked away for so long... And then. This. Yeah...
@@pauladudleycreatfeat Hmm, I don't know it in full details but from the sounds of it in Japan in the 90's; it seems like the rhythm games has been there for quite a long time.
Same I forgot there was loads of ending, so I started a play tho to play the 2nd one I have never played. Finish and was like that kinda sucked, "ohhh 4 ending cool" The game was way better with the extra levels and finely made sence. I got 50% of the weapons and was like stuff it I want to play the 2nd one so looked online. My gosh I'm glad i skipped that, troll task, troll boss, troll ending.
Now imagine its the early 2000's, you have no guide or idea how to finish it and there are no online references yet because the game is more obscure than major releases...... :)
@TonyKnockOff it's just a rhythm game with awful visual cues and where the beat is produced only by the player which is synchronized with the music only when you know ahead of time what note comes next there are Taiko no Tatsujin "extreme" songs that are easier than this, which is fucking ironic because Yoko Taro married the character designer of Taiko no Tatsujin
I remember trying desperately to do this, without any guides cause I didn't have the internet, and I WROTE ALL THE NOTES DOWN, played and failed the level so many times I thought Angelus was going to jump out of the screen to bite me. I loved and despised this level.
@@HertoioLoco Yeah, then when Caim and Angelus KO'd her, they were like, "Stupid dragon, why'd you cockblock me..." And then a few years later, they were like "This snow ain't snow, it tastes real salty..."
Drakengard and Nier games were never bullet hell games, don't overuse that word, bullet hells have like half the screen covered in bullets and you have to avoid and navigate between them, they don't have to be the hardest thing ever, but it's a very specific feeling.
I mean Nier was technically part Bullet hell and Drakengard has it’s fair share of it as well so.. Plus these rhyme sections were fine but if they would’ve designed DrakenGard 3’s rhythm section at the final boss well or updated a bit. Then they would’ve been fun to play rather then a pain in the ass, I know that’s the whole point of it but still it is poorly designed. I feel like that’s why they didn’t bring the rhythm gameplay back in Nier Automata or in Replicant.
*This song might play when falling statue isakai'd into reality will only end up bringing apocalyptic disease, zombies, human experimentation, alien invasions and robot wars in the near future.*
Nier actually sold nothing, it was in the red and a complete commercial failure, the producer of dragon quest (friend of yoko taro) had to threaten to leave square enix to convince them to make automata
I love the fact that this boss is even harder if you are musically inclined because the bell ringing has a beat you cannot match unless you know the notes ahead of time. The only way to beat it legit is to know the last part by memory, otherwise you must pause the game and just string all of the notes 5 at a time when the waves are 1 inch away from you, stuff of nightmares
I love this guide, a lot of guides I see aren’t very in sync with the actual rhythm of the bells and makes it nice to understand, thank you! This little rhythm boss shit was total bull!
So, this popped up randomly on my recommended videos. I have never played Drakengard or Nier or had any idea what those games were even about. At first I thought this was some kind of obscure Japanese only rhythm game so I began to dive into what exactly I was looking at. I've honestly never been so sad that I didn't get to experience something like this first hand. Also, WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK, this game, this whole franchise; 10/10
@@kamutza3011 I guess I specifically should have pointed out that I haven't played any of the games so I agree with your skepticism of my review. My 10/10 is based on only what I have seen and also I took Nier into consideration of that. The entertainment value of the experience, for me, so far, is refreshing. The current gaming landscape isn't what it used to be and I may be nostalgic for something that was similar to what I remember growing up. All reviews of anything are biased and for me, my bias comes from being born in 1990, when videogames still felt unique to me. Some the best experiences with a game, for me, is buying a used copy of something at blockbuster or Software Etc. (later EB games/Gamestop) with the little money I had, with nice box art, and not having any expectations of what the game is; only to find out its either totally rad or not as cool as I imagined. You cant recapture that in todays gaming anymore unless you forcibly stay away from any phone or computer until the game comes out. sorry if this was a little wordy but I felt like I owed you an explanation.
This exact video make me install drakengard and deep down in a rabbit hole of it, this and one cool youtuber videos on drakengard and nier automata, still this video live rent free in my brains along with the song.
@@KalanzoHI kinda same, i live in country with high piracy and most of cartridges or disc i bought were shit but this feeling of unending sea of video games of which you knew nothing and can only judge by a stupid box art which in my case 99% isnt even from the game cause piracy was amazing. You can still expirience it, try searching on abandonware sites, there are a lot of games nobody ever recorded, some of them are good
yeah wouldnt have worked lol if you notice at the end of the stupid part (specifically the bit that looks like something with fire and flames in the background) the waves sent out by the Queen almost hit the dragon. and that was with perfect inputs. so spamming anything in the wrong order would have got you killed. but you wanna know a secret? THERE IS AN EVEN DUMBER VERSION OF THIS SHIT!!!! look up Drakengard 3's ending E! same as this, but the final note is done WHILE THE SCREEN IS TOTALLY BLACK AND WITH NO INDICATOR, SO AFTER IT FADES TO BLACK YOU CAN JUST FECKING DIE these games hate you btw. yes you specifically. every new player is targetted individually with new hatred. it's rather remarkable actually.
@@godsplayingfield D3's was significantly easier than this one like cry about camera angles all you want it's literally tutorial level if you actually use your ears instead of eyes
@@godsplayingfield if you watch closely he actually misses one and that's why they got close, you see the final white note hit nothing so it's clear he missed a note
@@godsplayingfield not to mention the tempo down and the absolute horror spam that comes right before it... Also the transition right before the second half of the song is REALLY hard.
I hate that THIS is what's constantly stuck in my head most days. I remember sitting outside talking with family one time and for almost an entire 2 hours this is playing in the back of my head
You can’t even imagine my frustration as a middle school kid finally beating this after many, many tries and then getting that fucking ending being shot dead out of nowhere by jets in the future lmao. Thanks for the video and nostalgia.
On June 12th 2003, at approximately 15:00, a massive ripple opens up in the skies above Tokyo, and a colossal white Giant falls through, landing right in the middle of Shinjuku. Shortly thereafter, a red Dragon ridden by what appears to be a human in medieval armor emerges, and the Dragon and the Giant engage in battle. It appears as though the Giant is singing, and the Dragon is counteracting its song. The song is heard as a loud, disharmonic cacophony of bell sounds. Everyone in Tokyo can reportedly hear these bell sounds, though it sounds as if it's coming from inside their own heads, drowning out all other sounds, nearly deafening. Mass panic ensues among the population. The Japanese Self-Defense Force observes the situation and plans countermeasures. An emergency Cabinet meeting takes place regarding the situation. At approximately 16:00, the battle between the Dragon and the Giant concludes. The Giant breaks apart and dissolves. It's composition is unable to be determined. It is similar to salt, but seemingly lacks any mass or weight. It quickly disperses and vanishes from the area. Shortly after the fall of the Giant, Bravo-One, callsign: Scarface, of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 6th Air Wing, 303rd Squadron shoots down the Dragon with a missile strike. It is not known who issued the order. The Dragon's body falls and is impaled atop Tokyo Tower. It is later recovered and taken to a government research facility for testing. The body of the Dragon's rider was never found. This event later becomes known as the 6-12 Incident. It resulted in 56 deaths, 320 injured, and an economic cost of over ¥60,000,000,000. A gag order is issued regarding the events of the 6-12 Incident, but videos and photos of the Incident circulate on the internet shortly thereafter. Fears of terrorism, foreign plots, and other conspiracy theories soon follow these extraordinary events.
This "boss" is a core memory of gaming for me. I'm terrible at rhythm games, and played this back when it released, which back then guides were text based and there wasn't video of this anywhere. Hardest boss ever at the time for me, and it came completely out of nowhere in the game. Nothing prepares you for this.
Oooh, you were 5? Seems like we were in this together at the same age, though my uncles did everything but this rhythm ending. I finished it and they didn't believe lil'ol me. Edit: nvm, you weren't 5 but asking questions while playing this is annoying indeed.
It's a tragedy because , nothing could stop the destruction of mankind. The dragon killed the Giant , who cursed humanity and the dragon was killed.....
If I remember right, there werent button indicators so you had to go off of color alone. I remember pausing the screen to memorize like 5 of the fast ones to finally clear it
I took so long to beat this! I had to memorize the last half. I rocked to one side for one color and the the other for the other color to help reinforce it. My heart was pounding by the time I beat it!
Fun fact: the reason why the one in 3 is *like that* is because this one can actually be cheesed with pausing. Essentially players would pause to read each note ahead or one at a time. Taro heard about this, got annoyed that we'd do that, and made 3 as bad as it could be out of pure spite
I stayed up for 24 hours trying to unlock every ending thinking at least one of them had to be a good ending. My sister took a picture of me once I beat this stage, I looked exactly like goofy in faelrockers profile pic.
its 2023 and im with my boyfriend giving him moral support to defeat this thing, we finally collected all of the weapons, and this is the last part on our journey of the Nier saga, he accompanied me while played gestalt and autonoma, and he played drakengard. we tecnically played through everything but i still have left the remake of replicant, i will edit when he finally defets him update: don't remember how long it took but I think around 2 hours, last part was just save states learning the pattern until it was beatable.
@@Higurashi690 we did it after the 2 hour mark with some save states, the last part was just total bullshit and we were kinda tired of drakengard 1 at that point. Still, this feels like nothing in comparison to the whole drag that was playing drakengard 2, so much that my BF got tired and let me play the third playthrough. now we're at drakengard 3 having a lot of fun and finishing ReIncarnation separately.
@@volfreude2637 I played on PS2, got the game in 2014 after I started with Drakengard 3, but only just now got to this finally 😅 Are save states where you can save anywhere you want? None of the guides helped me with this, I had to keep pausing the final part, do 5 inputs and pause again, check the next 5 rings and do another 5 inputs etc. And then I beat it. Just a warning that D3 has a similar thing to this, but it’s not as quick. Using a button guide works way better for that (though I only needed one for the final note 🎵) I’m gonna continue Re[in]carnation next too, since it closes on 29th 😔
Thank you so much for this, I had been struggling on this for 2 days trying to do it on my own, but got it in a single try just staring at this video while playing this verse.
Wish I even knew what Drakengard was back then because I was too young to buy myself games (96’ baby) I wish I could experience this like everyone back then
Why, why a rhythm game of all things to end this insane game? And the worst part is, you can’t fuck up once, or you have to do the whole thing all over again.
Japanese Military: should we shoot the giant monster? Leader of said military: no lets wait till the banger is over and kill the thing that has done absolutely no damage.
I have never played a Draken Guard game but I have played NieR Automata and Replicant, hell there's even stuff to be learned from the FFXIV NieR raids. Learning that these stemmed from Draken Guard makes me feel like I need to play the game for myself, all the lore is so interesting. This stuff is so perfectly eerie, plus the games are just generally fun to play imo (except the mobile game)
This mini game pissed me off in Drakengard 3, because not only in the song long but at the end when it fades to black there's a last minute note you have to hit, they had the nerve to lock a trophy behind that cheap crap
yoooo it totally does its weird. Like your ears cant make sense of it alone but with the visual component of something thats more concrete u can hear the flow better
i remember collecting all weapons myself when i was finally done it was around 4 or 5 am then this shit just hit me i legit thought it would at best just be another ending cutscene or a regular aerial battle but then i was just hit by...this i love this game with all of my heart
This is honestly one of the greatest endings to a game i've ever seen. It is absolutely mesmerising in all aspects. I've never played this game but I keep coming back here countless times to take it all in. I really wish I knew of more games that don't play it safe and allow auteurs like Yoko Taro and his developers to express their bizarre creative sides like this. This, upon viewing, would otherwise be classed as 'safe', but its uncanny nature is akin to that of something out of Silent Hill and I absolutely love it. A shame NieR never ultimately had anything this cool. Automata introduced dead, space aliens that were literally the cartoon jellyfish aliens from fucking Metal Slug 3.
I wish the raid had a rhythm music sequence where everyone has to do it perfectly lest you get a team wipe, the reward would be a drakengard mount skin, maybe a jet fighter lmao
I listened to all the Boss themes for the NieR Raid over again, but for the life of me, I couldn't pinpoint which one was supposed to sound like this. Could someone more knowledgeable about Drakengard tell me which it is?
@@harryguidotti3815 Sure! This song is not in any of the NieR raids - only Automata callbacks (and the Drakengard 1 and 3 rhythm ring references) are in the final fight. Check out DK3's ring ending 😁 ua-cam.com/video/cI0d6K8YiDU/v-deo.html
For someone who's never played the game. Imagine no button prompts, and that rhythm is what keeps you alive. Look at the tongue on that woman tho, something really disturbing and hopeless about this video.
Thank you so much for this. Doing it with simple DDR inputs like this makes the job far more manageable than doing it how the game expects you to. I swear that point at about 2:00 when crap hits the fan is just so disorienting and makes it a real chore and a half to do it without some kind of outside help.
It took me over an hour of trial and error.... I couldn't get past the 2 minute mark, that was the worst. Everything else was getting slowly memorized.
Even without the context of the consequences of this ending in later games, I still can't wrap my head around the fact that this was supposed to be a _joke._ This is one of the most eerie things I've ever experienced.
I absolutely understand what you are feeling. However after watching a few videos explaining the lore of this game and this ending, I'm pretty sure it being a "joke" ending is a myth. The directors of this game did not state that this ending was a joke, only that it was "copying" Evangelion.
This simple sequence however is extremely disturbing, everything about it is off putting yet alluring. The depressing tone of the game, its rather janky controls, endlessly killing to grind out every weapon for only this to take place. It's almost as if the game is punishing you for this kind of commitment, I can't help but constantly watch this video. The extreme tonal shift, the out of nowhere new gameplay, how difficult it is, and of course what happens after you successfully completed this mission. This game isn't perfect in the slightest, but what I believe it does perfectly is leave a long lasting impact on the gaming community with this one ending. It's bleak, depressing, and a perfect way to end such a dark game. Clearly it has worked, for you and I are still talking about it to this day!
@@FreezerdaBlue Reading all these comments but having played only Nier: Automata and the recent Replicant remake, I now understand much better why the games look, feel and play as they do. They were entirely oddball from the beginning! Automata left, as you said, an impression that will probably stick with me for the rest of my life. It goes on showing how taking creative risks and not conforming to boxed expectations can pay off, and makes it a piece of art more than a videogame product. So glad that I got to experience it, though I don't think I'll put myself through Drakengard unless it gets a modern treatment.
And the punishing nature of Replicant was nasty business. Making players lose progress like that after mid-game, or grinding endlessly to make a point about how pointless 100% game completion is.. wonderfully evil :D
“Haha that’s pretty funny”
Sir this is the scariest thing I’ve ever seen
@@omnirhythm What? lose progress after the middle of the game?
I mean I feel like this would be yoko taro’s idea of a joke the man is mess up
If I had a nickel for every time Yoko Tarro hid a final ending behind a sudden rhythm game I'd have two nickels
actually three, there was a rhythm game also in nier reincarnation almost at the end of the game (it was way easier than this)
The bells are very fitting, considering what this leads to for humanity.
Mind telling me what exactly
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen you can play the Nier games which followes after this ending but long story humanity died
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen the statue would infect people leading them to dying out
@@J0hnHenrySNEEDen giant salty woman was so salty, that everyone dying from the salt in Japan. And then Americans thought if would be a great idea to nuke Japan again. But it wasn't, so everyone dies cause of big salty woman.
(C) Yoko Taro
@@ukinee8812 I still think drake 3 zero is the salt pillar
When the spin-off series becomes vastly more popular than the original. SMT knows all about that.
Seriously, Devil Summoner is too popular smh /s
@@ZetaMAGES no dude hes talking about jack bros
@@terraghost I totally get you, Digital Devil Saga really outshone the mainline
@@VirgosCostaaCosta Majin Tensei is too overexposed and no real fans play it anymore just filthy casuals
Everybody knows the Persona series was a flop. lmao
This has got to be one of the creepiest endings to a game like I couldn't imagine playing this as a kid when it first came out years ago. The statue with the bell sounds ringing is just creepy lol
Aside from no kid should ever play this game, what you'd have to do to unlock this ending would be less scary for the kid and more frustrated that all that grinding led to depressing DDR.
I played this game when I was 10, back when it first came out. In retrospect, not the greatest play of all time, but here we are anyway.
yeah hi hello I played this when I was 13 years old and this ending still gives me nightmares years later. I play the NieR raid in Final Fantasy XIV and every time I hear the gong of the bells I get chills. Ever. Single. Time.
I wish I had this game as a kid. I played a lot of obscure games back then (mostly forgettable stuff) and never encountered this game until I discovered emulation. Would've been cool to show off to the other kids lol
It was ducking crazy. The game really shaped the stuff i like and this ending was so surreal at the time. Hell i was about 5 or 6 playing it with my older brother. This game is my favorite of all time cause it had such an impact on me
Imagine fighting/killing a god with music and then some Ace Combat jackass blows you out of the sky
fun fact The Ace Combat team designed the aerial combats in this game
As someone that knows nothing of this series, this is hella uncanny in a existential way.
Believe me, even with context, it *is* still as you described
@@naif9464 context pls?
that description alone pretty much sums of the entirety of this game 😭
@@chainingten3819 Drakengard takes place in a very fucked up fantasy world. At the end the main character's sister commits suicide cause her love for her brother is unrequited and the main antagonist is killed off by her brother cause she's insane. Cue pregnant salt lady and her babies that want to eat everyone. After a few of your teammates die to give you a chance to take the god down, Ending E kicks in and the main character and his dragon buddy go after the god, but get flung into our world where they play a rhythm game battle. Cue NieR.
And trust me, that's a lot of context. If you want a better idea, check out The Dark Id's let's play on Something Awful, cause playing it can be frustrating.
@@Arntonach Thank you for the explanation. Believe it or not, that actually really helped my understanding of what is going on here. Now it makes sense.
I got war flashbacks when these goddamn bells started playing during the FFXIV Nier raid final boss
I didn't play the game but I watched the boss battle for the music.
I'm honestly traumatized when I heard THE BELL and thought I click the wrong channel
First boss of Bunker uses this as an AOE, i had a panic attack and caused a wipe day 1.
Then when the sphere showed up....
I was on voice chat with my fc and when the bells came in I started to scream lol
I first played this game when I was maybe 15 or 16. I was never able to find all the weapons to unlock this final chapter. With 4 endings under my belt, each becoming steadily more screwed up and depressing than the last, I was certain that this final ending HAD to make it all worth it.
Cut to 20 years later, I finally get a copy of this game again, and with the help of the internet, I hunt down every single weapon. ( Many with EXTREMELY arbitrary conditions to make them spawn). I finally loaded the chapter that had been locked away for so long...
And then. This.
Yeah...
I hoped you passed the rhythm. It is a cultural thing in Japan whom plays the rhythms.
@@ChaolaoFueChi what's the cultural context? I'd love to know
@@pauladudleycreatfeat Hmm, I don't know it in full details but from the sounds of it in Japan in the 90's; it seems like the rhythm games has been there for quite a long time.
Same I forgot there was loads of ending, so I started a play tho to play the 2nd one I have never played.
Finish and was like that kinda sucked, "ohhh 4 ending cool"
The game was way better with the extra levels and finely made sence.
I got 50% of the weapons and was like stuff it I want to play the 2nd one so looked online.
My gosh I'm glad i skipped that, troll task, troll boss, troll ending.
yyyyyep
2:02 I'm sorry, WHAT
yea is madness to be sure
It's even more difficult than what it looks like.
Dark souls got inspired form this
Now imagine its the early 2000's, you have no guide or idea how to finish it and there are no online references yet because the game is more obscure than major releases...... :)
@TonyKnockOff it's just a rhythm game with awful visual cues and where the beat is produced only by the player which is synchronized with the music only when you know ahead of time what note comes next
there are Taiko no Tatsujin "extreme" songs that are easier than this, which is fucking ironic because Yoko Taro married the character designer of Taiko no Tatsujin
I remember trying desperately to do this, without any guides cause I didn't have the internet, and I WROTE ALL THE NOTES DOWN, played and failed the level so many times I thought Angelus was going to jump out of the screen to bite me. I loved and despised this level.
Okay, I believe you
Every Drakengard player remembers. Looking at this now, even I have no idea how I got pass this years ago.
@@slayershadow i remember doing that too out of pure concentrated mind of 4 year old who finished what my uncles couldn't do while they were away.
t-that thing.....WHAT CAN WE DO??? x10000 times
Yeah i dead 130 times
Nobody:
People In Tokyo: "Oh sweet, they made a new statue."
Also people in Tokyo: *turns into salt and others start murdering each other in a frenzy*
Then again the drama CD says otherwise.
@@MarakamiSG There had to have been at least one strange dude who was into it.
@@PhoenixBaby96 Haha, one at the very veeery veeeeeeeeeeeeeery least XD
I'm like 95% sure every boy hitting puberty was into this statue.
@@HertoioLoco Yeah, then when Caim and Angelus KO'd her, they were like, "Stupid dragon, why'd you cockblock me..." And then a few years later, they were like "This snow ain't snow, it tastes real salty..."
i find these bells strangely addicting to listen to, so eerie but cool
You have White Chlorination Syndrome.
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People new to DrakeNieR that get this in their recommendation will be a bit confused...
“They have a rhythm spin-off?”
XD
hahahahaha
fun fact the artist for the rhthym game Taiko no Tatsujin is married to Yoko Taro (Yukiko Yoko)
were in deep lore now
@@zaqareemalcolm holy shit for real!?
@@devilmostdie yes, she's also the one who drew the censorship card in Drakengard 3 when Zero kills Five
I never seen this and I was like this sounds pretty good how each note hits so perfectly.
Just waiting for Nier to realize that it's not an action RPG bullet hell but instead it's Dance Dance Revolution
Drakengard and Nier games were never bullet hell games, don't overuse that word, bullet hells have like half the screen covered in bullets and you have to avoid and navigate between them, they don't have to be the hardest thing ever, but it's a very specific feeling.
I mean Nier was technically part Bullet hell and Drakengard has it’s fair share of it as well so.. Plus these rhyme sections were fine but if they would’ve designed DrakenGard 3’s rhythm section at the final boss well or updated a bit. Then they would’ve been fun to play rather then a pain in the ass, I know that’s the whole point of it but still it is poorly designed. I feel like that’s why they didn’t bring the rhythm gameplay back in Nier Automata or in Replicant.
"Calm down bro it's just a joke"
The joke:
*This song might play when falling statue isakai'd into reality will only end up bringing apocalyptic disease, zombies, human experimentation, alien invasions and robot wars in the near future.*
*NieR future
Yeah, whats a few measly 10,000 years huh
Zombies?
@@valoropedia2844 WCI turned people into Legions, creatures that actef like zonbie apocalypse
@@RPGNoZero WCS*
Still love that the "Joke ending" is what spawned now one of the most succesful games of all time.
I mean they're very good games but they're far from being "successful games of all time"
Man, I LOVE Nier and Automata, but that´s quite an overstatement :)
Nier actually sold nothing, it was in the red and a complete commercial failure, the producer of dragon quest (friend of yoko taro) had to threaten to leave square enix to convince them to make automata
Nier: Replicant and Nier: Automata are the very pinnacle of a good game, but sadly they are not as successful as you claim them to be.
@@AB-jt4rs I hope that changes, Nier Replicant got a Lot of sales now too...
I love the fact that this boss is even harder if you are musically inclined because the bell ringing has a beat you cannot match unless you know the notes ahead of time.
The only way to beat it legit is to know the last part by memory, otherwise you must pause the game and just string all of the notes 5 at a time when the waves are 1 inch away from you, stuff of nightmares
Yeah if you slept on the pattern, the next day you could probably do it
There are only two notes you need to listen to - the starting eighth for white and the first quarter for black.
I love this guide, a lot of guides I see aren’t very in sync with the actual rhythm of the bells and makes it nice to understand, thank you! This little rhythm boss shit was total bull!
So, this popped up randomly on my recommended videos. I have never played Drakengard or Nier or had any idea what those games were even about. At first I thought this was some kind of obscure Japanese only rhythm game so I began to dive into what exactly I was looking at. I've honestly never been so sad that I didn't get to experience something like this first hand.
Also, WHAT THE ACTUAL HECK, this game, this whole franchise; 10/10
intereting
Are you really sure this game of the franchise is a 10/10 though?
@@kamutza3011
I guess I specifically should have pointed out that I haven't played any of the games so I agree with your skepticism of my review. My 10/10 is based on only what I have seen and also I took Nier into consideration of that.
The entertainment value of the experience, for me, so far, is refreshing. The current gaming landscape isn't what it used to be and I may be nostalgic for something that was similar to what I remember growing up.
All reviews of anything are biased and for me, my bias comes from being born in 1990, when videogames still felt unique to me.
Some the best experiences with a game, for me, is buying a used copy of something at blockbuster or Software Etc. (later EB games/Gamestop) with the little money I had, with nice box art, and not having any expectations of what the game is; only to find out its either totally rad or not as cool as I imagined. You cant recapture that in todays gaming anymore unless you forcibly stay away from any phone or computer until the game comes out.
sorry if this was a little wordy but I felt like I owed you an explanation.
This exact video make me install drakengard and deep down in a rabbit hole of it, this and one cool youtuber videos on drakengard and nier automata, still this video live rent free in my brains along with the song.
@@KalanzoHI kinda same, i live in country with high piracy and most of cartridges or disc i bought were shit but this feeling of unending sea of video games of which you knew nothing and can only judge by a stupid box art which in my case 99% isnt even from the game cause piracy was amazing. You can still expirience it, try searching on abandonware sites, there are a lot of games nobody ever recorded, some of them are good
Bro at a certain point, I would've just spammed both buttons and prayed for it to work
No joke
yeah wouldnt have worked lol if you notice at the end of the stupid part (specifically the bit that looks like something with fire and flames in the background) the waves sent out by the Queen almost hit the dragon. and that was with perfect inputs. so spamming anything in the wrong order would have got you killed.
but you wanna know a secret? THERE IS AN EVEN DUMBER VERSION OF THIS SHIT!!!! look up Drakengard 3's ending E! same as this, but the final note is done WHILE THE SCREEN IS TOTALLY BLACK AND WITH NO INDICATOR, SO AFTER IT FADES TO BLACK YOU CAN JUST FECKING DIE
these games hate you btw. yes you specifically. every new player is targetted individually with new hatred. it's rather remarkable actually.
@@godsplayingfield D3's was significantly easier than this one
like cry about camera angles all you want it's literally tutorial level if you actually use your ears instead of eyes
@@godsplayingfield if you watch closely he actually misses one and that's why they got close, you see the final white note hit nothing so it's clear he missed a note
@@godsplayingfield not to mention the tempo down and the absolute horror spam that comes right before it... Also the transition right before the second half of the song is REALLY hard.
I hate that THIS is what's constantly stuck in my head most days. I remember sitting outside talking with family one time and for almost an entire 2 hours this is playing in the back of my head
You can’t even imagine my frustration as a middle school kid finally beating this after many, many tries and then getting that fucking ending being shot dead out of nowhere by jets in the future lmao. Thanks for the video and nostalgia.
God you'd think those rhythm skills could save humanity from extinction
Unfortunately it is the defeating of the statue that signifies the extinction of humanity
@@isaacwurmbrand ☹️💔💔💔 exactly
@@isaacwurmbrand to be fair humanity was screwed the moment queen beast came down all they did was delay the inevitable
I'm pretty sure if the statue kept singing all the humanity would've been wiped out soooo its slightly better?
Everybody gangsta until the giant statue starts ringing bells and everyone turns into salt
On June 12th 2003, at approximately 15:00, a massive ripple opens up in the skies above Tokyo, and a colossal white Giant falls through, landing right in the middle of Shinjuku. Shortly thereafter, a red Dragon ridden by what appears to be a human in medieval armor emerges, and the Dragon and the Giant engage in battle. It appears as though the Giant is singing, and the Dragon is counteracting its song. The song is heard as a loud, disharmonic cacophony of bell sounds. Everyone in Tokyo can reportedly hear these bell sounds, though it sounds as if it's coming from inside their own heads, drowning out all other sounds, nearly deafening. Mass panic ensues among the population. The Japanese Self-Defense Force observes the situation and plans countermeasures. An emergency Cabinet meeting takes place regarding the situation. At approximately 16:00, the battle between the Dragon and the Giant concludes. The Giant breaks apart and dissolves. It's composition is unable to be determined. It is similar to salt, but seemingly lacks any mass or weight. It quickly disperses and vanishes from the area. Shortly after the fall of the Giant, Bravo-One, callsign: Scarface, of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's 6th Air Wing, 303rd Squadron shoots down the Dragon with a missile strike. It is not known who issued the order. The Dragon's body falls and is impaled atop Tokyo Tower. It is later recovered and taken to a government research facility for testing. The body of the Dragon's rider was never found. This event later becomes known as the 6-12 Incident. It resulted in 56 deaths, 320 injured, and an economic cost of over ¥60,000,000,000. A gag order is issued regarding the events of the 6-12 Incident, but videos and photos of the Incident circulate on the internet shortly thereafter. Fears of terrorism, foreign plots, and other conspiracy theories soon follow these extraordinary events.
This "boss" is a core memory of gaming for me. I'm terrible at rhythm games, and played this back when it released, which back then guides were text based and there wasn't video of this anywhere. Hardest boss ever at the time for me, and it came completely out of nowhere in the game. Nothing prepares you for this.
this is the easiest-to-follow guide I've found yet, ty!
2:11 is designed to take you apart, and it does.
All the years of playing Project Diva have prepared me for this
Was able to beat this after dozens of tries. What did it was a 5 year old asking like 600 questions about the game while I was doing it.
Your parents failed you letting play this bugger at 5. 😆
@@Kalleron no no I was in my early 20s, it was my partner's nephew that was 5, and asking me a shitload of questions while I did this part.
@@allyourbase50 You have the willpower of legends.
@@user-hz7pk9vb6z Thanks lol. The Queen Beast had to die. Been playing that game for years, couldnt just leave it hanging.
Oooh, you were 5? Seems like we were in this together at the same age, though my uncles did everything but this rhythm ending. I finished it and they didn't believe lil'ol me.
Edit: nvm, you weren't 5 but asking questions while playing this is annoying indeed.
Never before have I been shown up by a blind person than in this boss fight.
It's a tragedy because , nothing could stop the destruction of mankind. The dragon killed the Giant , who cursed humanity and the dragon was killed.....
its because humanity in "tokyo" already suffers because of the first dragon (mikhael)
@@juliantpandiangan7575 WHAT???
Tragedy for the "modern world". Caim saved humanity in his realm by dooming it in another timeline
If I remember right, there werent button indicators so you had to go off of color alone. I remember pausing the screen to memorize like 5 of the fast ones to finally clear it
You can also go by the bells ringing.
@@voice-less Nice profile name though not everyone is that great at the bells ringing.
You have done a great service for making this.
I took so long to beat this! I had to memorize the last half. I rocked to one side for one color and the the other for the other color to help reinforce it. My heart was pounding by the time I beat it!
Man, this takes me back. I need to replay this series again
I need to buy this game again.
This song transmits the feeling of waking up for the first day of school really well
At least this isn't Drakengard 3 one.... I swear the developer team hate us.
Yoko taro has made a career on actively trolling his fans via the stuff he makes. This is known
Fun fact: the reason why the one in 3 is *like that* is because this one can actually be cheesed with pausing. Essentially players would pause to read each note ahead or one at a time. Taro heard about this, got annoyed that we'd do that, and made 3 as bad as it could be out of pure spite
Nah its just Yoko that hates us
This is the first thing I've seen this game in my life and I have so many questions
Drakengard is super weird
But also fun if you like to smack whole armies with a big dergun and such
Help, I fell back into the Drakengard rabbit hole!
I’m not entirely convinced that this isn’t just a hallucination I’m having between being awake and asleep.
I've never been so infuriated by a boss fight/final ending in my entire life
And next drakengard 3 boss :)
1:50 死 ぬ が よ い
Hi there. Are you an FF14 player? Are you JUST getting this in your recommended? Welcome to DrakenNier!
The RINGS ok
All this crap is TERRIFYING
I already knew though
how did you know
Play DDR to spawn a milennia of suffering and the extermination of humanity
This is honestly the most confusing thing that I’ve ever stumbled upon on the internet
This is a great resource - thank you very much!
I stayed up for 24 hours trying to unlock every ending thinking at least one of them had to be a good ending. My sister took a picture of me once I beat this stage, I looked exactly like goofy in faelrockers profile pic.
Sounds like the Futurama intro in its goth phase.
its 2023 and im with my boyfriend giving him moral support to defeat this thing, we finally collected all of the weapons, and this is the last part on our journey of the Nier saga, he accompanied me while played gestalt and autonoma, and he played drakengard. we tecnically played through everything but i still have left the remake of replicant, i will edit when he finally defets him
update: don't remember how long it took but I think around 2 hours, last part was just save states learning the pattern until it was beatable.
Well, did you beat this? I beat it yesterday after around 2h 😅
@@Higurashi690 we did it after the 2 hour mark with some save states, the last part was just total bullshit and we were kinda tired of drakengard 1 at that point.
Still, this feels like nothing in comparison to the whole drag that was playing drakengard 2, so much that my BF got tired and let me play the third playthrough.
now we're at drakengard 3 having a lot of fun and finishing ReIncarnation separately.
@@volfreude2637 I played on PS2, got the game in 2014 after I started with Drakengard 3, but only just now got to this finally 😅 Are save states where you can save anywhere you want?
None of the guides helped me with this, I had to keep pausing the final part, do 5 inputs and pause again, check the next 5 rings and do another 5 inputs etc. And then I beat it. Just a warning that D3 has a similar thing to this, but it’s not as quick. Using a button guide works way better for that (though I only needed one for the final note 🎵) I’m gonna continue Re[in]carnation next too, since it closes on 29th 😔
Thank you so much for this, I had been struggling on this for 2 days trying to do it on my own, but got it in a single try just staring at this video while playing this verse.
Yo this lowkey slaps
Exactly ☺️✨✨ yes tf it do slap and to think I clicked this by mistake
this song such a banger that it spawned a whole different subseries.
all i hear is a sick ass sample for a beat
years of drumming and guitar hero had led to this, still failed
You and me both brother
Okay I guess now I know why those four descending notes showing up in FFXIV scared the pants off so many people, haha.
Wish I even knew what Drakengard was back then because I was too young to buy myself games (96’ baby) I wish I could experience this like everyone back then
Same... (2000)
But age wasn’t the problem in my case, in my country such games don’t even exist at that time...
“Just popular games”
Imagine getting through it all and then getting hit with that one last black one on its own. I can't imagine how much that would suck.
That was nearly me 😅
Why, why a rhythm game of all things to end this insane game? And the worst part is, you can’t fuck up once, or you have to do the whole thing all over again.
I like how Taro throws that little extra triangle in the end in case you were celebrating getting over the crazy part.
The rhythm of the last 20 seconds throws me off. I’ll have to try this with the sound off.
1:43
I have no idea what's happening. I just clicked on this video because it was there.
project diva has prepared me for this moment
Nice one
Preparing for The Intense Voice and The Dissapearrance in Extreme difficulty.
"The land of gods."
Too sad that I didn't find this video earlier, I could've saved 5 hours of my life...
Japanese Military: should we shoot the giant monster?
Leader of said military: no lets wait till the banger is over and kill the thing that has done absolutely no damage.
Angelus fireballs did kill multiple people as stated in the NieR Replicant drama CD.
Solitude in E minor
-Squidward
I have never played a Draken Guard game but I have played NieR Automata and Replicant, hell there's even stuff to be learned from the FFXIV NieR raids. Learning that these stemmed from Draken Guard makes me feel like I need to play the game for myself, all the lore is so interesting. This stuff is so perfectly eerie, plus the games are just generally fun to play imo (except the mobile game)
Well this is absolutely terrifying. Then again it is basically the prequel to the Nier universe
This mini game pissed me off in Drakengard 3, because not only in the song long but at the end when it fades to black there's a last minute note you have to hit, they had the nerve to lock a trophy behind that cheap crap
やっぱりこれを初見でクリアできるやつなんていないだろうな…
Looking at the button presses in a timed chart it actually a lot more sense to it. It feels nonsensical when you actually play it.
yoooo it totally does its weird. Like your ears cant make sense of it alone but with the visual component of something thats more concrete u can hear the flow better
Wait. What????? There aren't button prompts????
When the final battle is just a rhythm game section
And people say the “The final song” from Drakengard 3 it’s hard 😂😐
Now I have something to point to when people question why I became a music major.
This is like a rhythm game built by nightmares
why is youtube recommended me this game everywhere out of nowhere
God damn this is some heat beat right there
The fallout of this event ... Will go on seemingly forever
i remember collecting all weapons myself
when i was finally done it was around 4 or 5 am
then this shit just hit me
i legit thought it would at best just be another ending cutscene or a regular aerial battle but then i was just hit by...this
i love this game with all of my heart
This is honestly one of the greatest endings to a game i've ever seen. It is absolutely mesmerising in all aspects. I've never played this game but I keep coming back here countless times to take it all in. I really wish I knew of more games that don't play it safe and allow auteurs like Yoko Taro and his developers to express their bizarre creative sides like this.
This, upon viewing, would otherwise be classed as 'safe', but its uncanny nature is akin to that of something out of Silent Hill and I absolutely love it.
A shame NieR never ultimately had anything this cool. Automata introduced dead, space aliens that were literally the cartoon jellyfish aliens from fucking Metal Slug 3.
If you were here back in '03 you've got my respect - ff14 peeps will never know
I wish the raid had a rhythm music sequence where everyone has to do it perfectly lest you get a team wipe, the reward would be a drakengard mount skin, maybe a jet fighter lmao
@@wwld9823 oh that would be SWEET!
I listened to all the Boss themes for the NieR Raid over again, but for the life of me, I couldn't pinpoint which one was supposed to sound like this. Could someone more knowledgeable about Drakengard tell me which it is?
@@harryguidotti3815 Sure! This song is not in any of the NieR raids - only Automata callbacks (and the Drakengard 1 and 3 rhythm ring references) are in the final fight. Check out DK3's ring ending 😁 ua-cam.com/video/cI0d6K8YiDU/v-deo.html
I hated this part so much, I tried so hard to forget it now I'm here again
Is there one of this for Drakengard 3? the struggle... it's real.
Holy shit you did this perfectly, how
For someone who's never played the game. Imagine no button prompts, and that rhythm is what keeps you alive. Look at the tongue on that woman tho, something really disturbing and hopeless about this video.
To this day, I dont understand how this was a joke.
Nier and Yonah: Ahh shit, here we go again... The worst place in this world, Shinjuku
Instructions not clear, confused by the prompts. Was turned into Salt.
I spammed the pause button over and over again to do the final part I am not proud of it but it worked.
Thanks for this! Helped me tons with the last part, wouldve been at it for another day at least! I can still hear the bells tho...
ah yes my favorite Yoko Taro game Dance Dance Revolution
This creepy song makes Nier replicant and Automata.
I used to rent this game from my local movie rental joint on the ps2.. God I feel old
Thank you so much for this. Doing it with simple DDR inputs like this makes the job far more manageable than doing it how the game expects you to. I swear that point at about 2:00 when crap hits the fan is just so disorienting and makes it a real chore and a half to do it without some kind of outside help.
It took me over an hour of trial and error.... I couldn't get past the 2 minute mark, that was the worst. Everything else was getting slowly memorized.
The people who are witnessing this : Wow, what a beautiful light show :D