Just in case it's not obvious...THE QUESTIONS ASKED IN THIS CHAPTER ARE RHETORICAL. PLEASE DON'T ANSWER ANY OF THEM IN THE COMMENTS IF IT'S A SPOILER BEYOND THIS POINT LOL. I will find out answers eventually!!! Besides that, OMFG THIS CHAPTER WAS CRAZY HAHAHAHA I really do wonder what the experience was like on release to this chapter - even as a new player it was insane and I literally have seen Red Hood so many times before then, I can only imagine the hype build up wondering what the full form would look like! GOD THIS GAME IS SO GOOD HAHA Also ... this would be the beginning of my deer legacy that will forever haunt me to the end of my days....
Can we just take a moment of silence for that really awesome mech suit Modernia piloted. Such great machinery used for evil, even though Raptures built it for that purpose.
3:39:00 the thing about bond stories and side quests is they vary wildly between throwaway fun filler and important world building or character development. Like everything to do with Modernia/Marian is important to her character development I can't imagine just "skipping" any of it in an anime.
Mmmm, I don't remember if I specifically said to skip hers or not. Off the top of my head my take is just that they shouldn't do too many of them. Rapi & Anis' ? Absolutely. But including Modernia's comes down to how long the series is. My primary concern is pacing. As much as people would want this & this & that shown in season 1, game to anime adaptation's biggest problem is trying to fit too much in the episodes given. If it's a 12 episode anime, trying to fit Modernia's bond would probably be too much honestly. Ending around her rejoining Counters is honestly a really good cliffhanger. I find Modernia's bond important yes but it just depends on when they do it not really "if" they do it.
After you beat chapter 14, play the second affection side story, then the last kingdom event, they continue Marian's story, and there's a HUGE SURPRISE for you on the last kingdom hard mode ending
Of all the 34+ chapters this is one of the highest points in the story I love seeing people freak out at Rapi’s hidden powers! Back when this first happened we didn’t even have a Red Hood model so there was a lot of mystery around this Red Hood entity. Also when Ingrid says Rapi’s “getting younger” it’s just a Korean translation issue for “the weight you’re bearing” turning the ark upside down. I forgot if the Marian’s side story Second Affection that takes place after ch14 was done here? I highly recommend it, very fun little piece of story that connects the main story to Last Kingdom.
FUN FACT: Rapi's Secret Body is foreshadowed in the earlier chapter where you meet Alice and Ludmilla. Come to think of it in that chapter there are many things that Alice say that does not make any sense and only can be realize when going thru the future chapter.
So, as for the first 30 chapters being prologue (I'd heard it was first 40 actually) and releasing a game that would take 2-3 years to even get to main story, I THINK they intended to release chapters faster originally. However, the game was a HUGE success, and one of the BIG pieces of feedback that got from Survey after Survey was that we wanted more fully voiced content. So I think they shifted to releasing content slower, but better quality, and since the fan base was ok with that, we have the game we have now. We may not get A LOT of new chapters each year, but we get GOOD chapters, and also more of the big side events are voiced now (The original Christmas event was NOT voiced, but they went back and added voices for it when the 2nd Christmas event hit) so most of the fanbase is pretty happy with how things have turned out.
That would make sense - like I just find it a huge gamble/hard to believe they MEANT to take this long to get through "prologue" at launch (again you can hope it does well but there's no guarantee of it). Them switching the game plan AFTER launch AFTER the success came pouring in is a lot more believable from a game production perspective. Obviously, it's great it worked out the way it did but it's apparent adjustments definitely were made along the way.
@@vidianottIt's also interesting that Destiny Child, a former gacha game made by Shift Up, also had a similar story plan for the prologue I believe. Though it never reached fruition due to various limitations and being too generous from what I hear. But speaking of Destiny Child, I suspect that unselectable shower in the commander's room had a considered function given how something worked in that game...
@vidianott I don't see why it would be that hard to believe destiny child went on for six year making litterally 1/20th nikke makes and they did the exact same 40cchapter prologe in that game too.
About hitting the deer thing. The wildest thing I heard when I was in driving school for motorcycles, the instructor said that in Germany, the initial advice when encountering a deer with a motorcycle is to accelerate and aim for the center of the deer because with enough speed it's possible to split it in half. Though he doesn't recommend doing that and instead just try to tip your motorcycle over and slide under it 💀
I think mythbusters tested hitting a deer, nah that deer would make a crater and go through the windshield. It does depend on the speed in a car. Now a moose is a literal tank, ya ain't running over a moose.
Glad you finally got to see the Red Hood reveal. They've been hinting at it since the tutorial. If you recall right before you were going to fight the Black Smith in the tutorial, Anis wanted to run but Rapi wanted to fight to save Marian. Anis asks Rapi "Have you found it?" and Rapi says "I'm not sure". The "it" in Anis' question refers to the way to activate Red Hood.
I switched over to your twitch vods just so I could see this part before it came to UA-cam. Appropriate response to all the crazy jazz that happens in these chapters. Now I can't wait for you to do the Kingdom event for more Modernia, more tears to come for sure 😊
I got Modernia right after chapter 13, literally 5 minutes after we were given her according to the plot. And then I got her 3 more times while I was going through chapter 14 :)
What's funny is something similar happened to me. I had finished that section and I was telling a friend "man I wish Marian was playable" Proceeded to get 2 copies of modernia back to back
On the deer tangent, I'm kind of surprised by people not having heard that (I don't drive and i've heard it a lot). I guess it's basically road safety trivia. I love baby-Mod, the greatest thing to come out of Nikke (followed by Doro).
I thought I was crazy LOL. Yes I said it wrong & misworded it in the moment, but it's definitely something I've heard multiple times before so I was like "wha? I KNOW I didn't make this up...right?" haha
@@pint2463 Yeah but luckly the game got the high quality mold system so i ended up having enough n some from before to pull twice from it n js got 2 spare bodies for my main ssrs
Have you played through Red Ash (first anniversary event) yet? Edit: Just got to your comments about it in the video. The exposition dump isn't just on Red Hood. I won't spoil it, but if you're the kinda gamer who gets hooked on lore...yeah..
24:18 I have heard similar things about 1)swerving to avoid animals makes you more likely to crash your car, and 2) if it’s a small animals like squirrels or opossums you have a better chance of driving directly over them and everyone getting out unscathed. Chat is right though, moose will destroy your vehicle.
I am 98% sure they teased the existence of Red Hood in the tutorial, but none of us realized that until Chapter 13 (unless spoiled). This realization was my reminder that time does not mean a topic is done in Nikke.
Noah is the only Pilgrim I don’t have 😢 That gremlin keeps avoiding me and I need her for PvP. I even bought spare bodies in the hope it would encourage her to come home.
24:00 slight correction, the tip to "hit the animal instead of dodging" is for small animals, like birds squirrels etc. DO NOT do it with deer. animals as large as deer will straight up kill you if you hit them, always attempt to break and avoid them, just dont full swerve
HOLY Wtf is with this miracle level *RNG* I've witnessed you being blessed with, consistently?! You pulling like you're the actual *RNG-sus,* personified.✝ I'm bout to start worshipping *DAT 🙇🏻♂ASS,* just in case. 🙏🏻🍑🛐 GG
I personally would've closed the game for the day after hearing "Protagonist". They really need to rework/update to some voice lines. And with the jp dub they should really stop translating words as "..." (though i know thats a EN script issue)
I agree with you. That's why I'm playing with the Japanese voice on. The English voice acting, imo, does not suit the characters' design and mostly sounds emotionless. Especially all the Pilgrim voices, which I hate the most (watching Old Tales bleeds my ears). Sadly, all the streamers are playing with the English voice, which makes me unable to watch full vods because I'm gonna skip parts a lot. I have already reported this topic to the devs after I watched the whole Vidia's playlist yesterday, hope they'll improve. 😂
While I don't mind most of the voice acting itself, the translation quality for english are kinda weird sometimes. For example at 51:42 Eunhwa was saying "What are you doing here?" in english, which is really bizzare and doesn't match the context. I haven't check what she said in Korean but in Japanese she said "Kita ka?" Which roughly translates to "They finally arrived?", a proper response to the situation. This is just one example of many But as you can see, it's nothing compared to the Ingrid part that are left unfinished. Calling the commander as protagonist or sometimes skipping the call when it can be simplified by referring to the commander as "You" or they/them instead. Furthermore, she also skip calling the unit name Counters sometimes. In this case, they should be re-recording the line
I still remember Marian's "no" and "yes, I am" in the first chapter lol. All the English subs and dubs are weird in this game. I'm not sure how they are working on this. Luckily, I can understand Japanese, and the subtitles in my language match with the context, even though it doesn't match the Japanese dub (the Japanese VA speaks a whole paragraph while my subtitle shows "..." 😂). But yeah, they have to make a big change to English translation.
This seems to be a problem with Shift Up overall. I finished and thoroughly enjoyed Stellar Blade but the English acting also has some spotty translation, lack of emotion, and generally falls flat outside of a few moments. This is the one area Shift Up needs to step it up a bit, especially since they are doing so well in all other areas (art, music, story, character design, etc).
I've aways hated Neon and this story event made me hate her more Why the *F* are you holding Anis back for?! WTF?! Was that supposed to be some heartbreak dramatic moment or something?! Marian was literally taken from us AGAIN and you're holding Anis back from being angry and smashing Chatterbox?! WHY?! IT made NO sense and pissed me off so much. So freaking unneeded
I mean. Lol. She probably didn't want her to get too caught up in her rage & forget the other important major issues at hand - the fact that the Commander was stabbed & probably bleeding out at the same time while Rapi is suffering the side effects of unleashing Red Hood... It was one of those moments of "yes this sucks but we're still in the middle of a battlefield and there are multiple bad things happening so we need to calm down and handle all of them"
Just in case it's not obvious...THE QUESTIONS ASKED IN THIS CHAPTER ARE RHETORICAL. PLEASE DON'T ANSWER ANY OF THEM IN THE COMMENTS IF IT'S A SPOILER BEYOND THIS POINT LOL. I will find out answers eventually!!! Besides that, OMFG THIS CHAPTER WAS CRAZY HAHAHAHA
I really do wonder what the experience was like on release to this chapter - even as a new player it was insane and I literally have seen Red Hood so many times before then, I can only imagine the hype build up wondering what the full form would look like! GOD THIS GAME IS SO GOOD HAHA
Also ... this would be the beginning of my deer legacy that will forever haunt me to the end of my days....
How come you don't fire on those boss charge-up markers? You know hitting those before they fill can stun them, right?
@@mechasaurus I just click Auto & vibe unless I'm doing content that actually requires me to lock in LOL
Deer Legacy and/or Hitting Deer Legacy either way this is okay for me
The answer is multiple choices, I just respond like I do in tests: "AAAAAAAAAAA!!"
Who's Red Hood? Red Who?
It's so funny to me that the SSR pulls pretty much were foreshadowing for the chapter lmaoo
Can we just take a moment of silence for that really awesome mech suit Modernia piloted. Such great machinery used for evil, even though Raptures built it for that purpose.
3:39:00 the thing about bond stories and side quests is they vary wildly between throwaway fun filler and important world building or character development. Like everything to do with Modernia/Marian is important to her character development I can't imagine just "skipping" any of it in an anime.
Mmmm, I don't remember if I specifically said to skip hers or not. Off the top of my head my take is just that they shouldn't do too many of them. Rapi & Anis' ? Absolutely.
But including Modernia's comes down to how long the series is. My primary concern is pacing. As much as people would want this & this & that shown in season 1, game to anime adaptation's biggest problem is trying to fit too much in the episodes given. If it's a 12 episode anime, trying to fit Modernia's bond would probably be too much honestly.
Ending around her rejoining Counters is honestly a really good cliffhanger.
I find Modernia's bond important yes but it just depends on when they do it not really "if" they do it.
They could always set 1 cour to cover episode 1-13 then start the first episode of the next season with Marian's bond story
@@vidianott is like it if it was a nice oddball number like how Frieren was 28 episodes lol
After you beat chapter 14, play the second affection side story, then the last kingdom event, they continue Marian's story, and there's a HUGE SURPRISE for you on the last kingdom hard mode ending
She should definitely play First Affection before Chapter 14, Second Affection and Last Kingdom though.
@@toyue4201first affection takes place after chapter 14, it referenced chapter 14 so I would say do 14 then first affection then second affection
@@ghunterdpanda8728 I agree, also because you don't say to do Last Kingdom, which actually can reference events from up to chapter 26.
What are your argument Toyue??? The game itself said it's better to do it after finish chapter 14
Last kingdom and seconds affection shoulda NOT be played till after chapter 26
Of all the 34+ chapters this is one of the highest points in the story I love seeing people freak out at Rapi’s hidden powers! Back when this first happened we didn’t even have a Red Hood model so there was a lot of mystery around this Red Hood entity. Also when Ingrid says Rapi’s “getting younger” it’s just a Korean translation issue for “the weight you’re bearing” turning the ark upside down.
I forgot if the Marian’s side story Second Affection that takes place after ch14 was done here? I highly recommend it, very fun little piece of story that connects the main story to Last Kingdom.
Wait, so she's not actually getting younger??
Man, and I thought that plot point was gonna go somewhere 😂
The Red hood reveal is always fun.
Hype gained +128 Sanity lost -157
22:44 and so begins the longest running joke on this channel. and goddamn is it funny how often this manages to pop up
Really felt like the game files said "Nikke will remember that" & locked tf in to torment me forever
FUN FACT: Rapi's Secret Body is foreshadowed in the earlier chapter where you meet Alice and Ludmilla.
Come to think of it in that chapter there are many things that Alice say that does not make any sense and only can be realize when going thru the future chapter.
So, as for the first 30 chapters being prologue (I'd heard it was first 40 actually) and releasing a game that would take 2-3 years to even get to main story, I THINK they intended to release chapters faster originally. However, the game was a HUGE success, and one of the BIG pieces of feedback that got from Survey after Survey was that we wanted more fully voiced content. So I think they shifted to releasing content slower, but better quality, and since the fan base was ok with that, we have the game we have now. We may not get A LOT of new chapters each year, but we get GOOD chapters, and also more of the big side events are voiced now (The original Christmas event was NOT voiced, but they went back and added voices for it when the 2nd Christmas event hit) so most of the fanbase is pretty happy with how things have turned out.
That would make sense - like I just find it a huge gamble/hard to believe they MEANT to take this long to get through "prologue" at launch (again you can hope it does well but there's no guarantee of it).
Them switching the game plan AFTER launch AFTER the success came pouring in is a lot more believable from a game production perspective. Obviously, it's great it worked out the way it did but it's apparent adjustments definitely were made along the way.
@@vidianottIt's also interesting that Destiny Child, a former gacha game made by Shift Up, also had a similar story plan for the prologue I believe. Though it never reached fruition due to various limitations and being too generous from what I hear.
But speaking of Destiny Child, I suspect that unselectable shower in the commander's room had a considered function given how something worked in that game...
@vidianott I don't see why it would be that hard to believe destiny child went on for six year making litterally 1/20th nikke makes and they did the exact same 40cchapter prologe in that game too.
1:37:00 there's an explanation for this later but it is never explicitly said. You gotta remember it. I only connected the dots watching this video.
About hitting the deer thing. The wildest thing I heard when I was in driving school for motorcycles, the instructor said that in Germany, the initial advice when encountering a deer with a motorcycle is to accelerate and aim for the center of the deer because with enough speed it's possible to split it in half. Though he doesn't recommend doing that and instead just try to tip your motorcycle over and slide under it 💀
HUUUHHHHHHH 💀
I think mythbusters tested hitting a deer, nah that deer would make a crater and go through the windshield. It does depend on the speed in a car. Now a moose is a literal tank, ya ain't running over a moose.
@@gabrielamaya9086 I'm talking about a motorcycle not a car. And thr mythbusters simulated a moose not a deer
Something interesting about Ominous Cross is tjat it uses Rapture noises you hear in game and i think thats so cool
Glad you finally got to see the Red Hood reveal. They've been hinting at it since the tutorial. If you recall right before you were going to fight the Black Smith in the tutorial, Anis wanted to run but Rapi wanted to fight to save Marian. Anis asks Rapi "Have you found it?" and Rapi says "I'm not sure". The "it" in Anis' question refers to the way to activate Red Hood.
I don't think it is. I believe that "it" refers to something worth living for. Consider what Anis and Rapi had in common.
I switched over to your twitch vods just so I could see this part before it came to UA-cam. Appropriate response to all the crazy jazz that happens in these chapters. Now I can't wait for you to do the Kingdom event for more Modernia, more tears to come for sure 😊
55:11 music is called ominous cross
Big thanks to chat for always smiling :) when we get to trying to solve the big Nikke puzzle!
So well-behaved, makes me very happy!
I got Modernia right after chapter 13, literally 5 minutes after we were given her according to the plot. And then I got her 3 more times while I was going through chapter 14 :)
What's funny is something similar happened to me. I had finished that section and I was telling a friend "man I wish Marian was playable"
Proceeded to get 2 copies of modernia back to back
On the deer tangent, I'm kind of surprised by people not having heard that (I don't drive and i've heard it a lot). I guess it's basically road safety trivia.
I love baby-Mod, the greatest thing to come out of Nikke (followed by Doro).
I thought I was crazy LOL. Yes I said it wrong & misworded it in the moment, but it's definitely something I've heard multiple times before so I was like "wha? I KNOW I didn't make this up...right?" haha
I thought it was a tamiya revving up for a race but it's just Vidia 😂😂
1:17:52 the way the mouse bounces along the screen lmao
it almost makes up for seeing that modernia pull dude i felt sick to my stomach 💀
congrats 💢
I just spent like 20k gems trying to get modernia after finishing these chapters and got not a single ssr 😭
That's actually insanely unlucky because iirc the standard SSR pull rate on Nikke is every 25 pulls on average
@@pint2463 Yeah but luckly the game got the high quality mold system so i ended up having enough n some from before to pull twice from it n js got 2 spare bodies for my main ssrs
I never even got Modernia until they put her banner up, just after the first anniversary. And Scarlet took even longer.
Been waiting for this chapter :) I loved watching the roller coaster 😂
So sad that we don't see much of coffee sweety in story mode :(
Marian story's continue on the second affection side story, then the last kingdom event, just so you know
You should mention that those should not be played until after chapter 26
Have you played through Red Ash (first anniversary event) yet?
Edit: Just got to your comments about it in the video. The exposition dump isn't just on Red Hood. I won't spoil it, but if you're the kinda gamer who gets hooked on lore...yeah..
Like bond stories that impact the main story, and the ones that don’t should be like a side story anime / ova.
Modernia was my first Pilgrim. Been in my squad since. Also, SSR Rapi Confirmed.
You can shoot the train for more damage even when the smaller parts are destroyed
the first thing welcomes me into the stream is papapapapapapa...and I know it would be a great stream. FOR THE DEER CULT, FOR THE QUEEN!!
0:59 Pulling Diesel right before this chapter is perfect timing
2:16 Streamer luck is fucking real
6:59 Lap of discipline!
24:18 I have heard similar things about 1)swerving to avoid animals makes you more likely to crash your car, and 2) if it’s a small animals like squirrels or opossums you have a better chance of driving directly over them and everyone getting out unscathed.
Chat is right though, moose will destroy your vehicle.
1:03:24 Mommy?! Sorry. Mommy? Sorry, I meant Mommy- sorry.
25 years of Nikke Piece?!?! Let's Goooo
Ahh yeah the horror game recommendation topic. I suggest Layers of Fear. It's 2$ right now on steam.
Yes. The moment we’ve all been waiting for. The Magnum opus all us NIKKE fans love to watch players go through
finally I'm waiting for this mind blow chapter
Ah yes always run-over a deer if possible
😭😭
Ah, so this is where the deer thing comes from!
Bruh, i thought my audio was broken and than realize it's just your mouth
LOL do you not enjoy my drumroll/waiting build up impression >:0
Sure Vidia suuure lmao, you better do it everytime the golden thing pop up
I am 98% sure they teased the existence of Red Hood in the tutorial, but none of us realized that until Chapter 13 (unless spoiled).
This realization was my reminder that time does not mean a topic is done in Nikke.
I hit a deer while on a golf cart once. It was at 3am and i was going downhill.
The Red Hood thing could get crazier in later chapters. Not gonna spoil but you've been fairly warned.😂
Please play and react to First Affection (in the Quest Event Archive) next before you proceed with Chapter 14 :D
You seek for answers, but you'll end up getting more and more questions
The next chapters are going to break her completely
nice pull, better than my Noah with 4 copies for no reason
Noah is the only Pilgrim I don’t have 😢 That gremlin keeps avoiding me and I need her for PvP. I even bought spare bodies in the hope it would encourage her to come home.
Red ash story will answer your questions
Funny, how i keep farming for more gems and pull on grave banner in hope for Crown or RH offrates, i get my 2nd grave and marian copy lul
On the bright side chatterbox has finally been put out of commission, so he may never inflict pain into another nikke ever again. Screw that guy.
24:00 slight correction, the tip to "hit the animal instead of dodging" is for small animals, like birds squirrels etc. DO NOT do it with deer. animals as large as deer will straight up kill you if you hit them, always attempt to break and avoid them, just dont full swerve
😭 It was the "don't swerve" bit that I MEANT to convey but it came out utterly wrong & misworded. Now this statement haunts me forever
@@vidianott lol, we can only hope nobody heard it and took it to heart
HOLY Wtf is with this miracle level *RNG* I've witnessed you being blessed with, consistently?! You pulling like you're the actual *RNG-sus,* personified.✝ I'm bout to start worshipping *DAT 🙇🏻♂ASS,* just in case. 🙏🏻🍑🛐 GG
The real DEER LORE!
We raised her as a menace. Well. We'll see about that in the future 💀
Play event red ash and you will know story red hood and squad goddess more
I personally would've closed the game for the day after hearing "Protagonist". They really need to rework/update to some voice lines. And with the jp dub they should really stop translating words as "..." (though i know thats a EN script issue)
Rapi and Red Hood are 2 different nikkes. I will leave it at that.
bruh ingrid's eng VA sounds like she gotta stop smoking xD
You’d smoke too if your company could only put out 1-2 mid units a year.
The english dub is... something, sometimes, i prefer JP jaja
They should really improve the voice acting direction for the english... so many errors and broken context. Especially for the Ingrid part.
Its like throwing dart on the dark and praying you hit the target sometimes 😢
I agree with you. That's why I'm playing with the Japanese voice on. The English voice acting, imo, does not suit the characters' design and mostly sounds emotionless. Especially all the Pilgrim voices, which I hate the most (watching Old Tales bleeds my ears). Sadly, all the streamers are playing with the English voice, which makes me unable to watch full vods because I'm gonna skip parts a lot.
I have already reported this topic to the devs after I watched the whole Vidia's playlist yesterday, hope they'll improve. 😂
While I don't mind most of the voice acting itself, the translation quality for english are kinda weird sometimes. For example at 51:42 Eunhwa was saying "What are you doing here?" in english, which is really bizzare and doesn't match the context. I haven't check what she said in Korean but in Japanese she said "Kita ka?" Which roughly translates to "They finally arrived?", a proper response to the situation. This is just one example of many
But as you can see, it's nothing compared to the Ingrid part that are left unfinished. Calling the commander as protagonist or sometimes skipping the call when it can be simplified by referring to the commander as "You" or they/them instead. Furthermore, she also skip calling the unit name Counters sometimes. In this case, they should be re-recording the line
I still remember Marian's "no" and "yes, I am" in the first chapter lol. All the English subs and dubs are weird in this game. I'm not sure how they are working on this. Luckily, I can understand Japanese, and the subtitles in my language match with the context, even though it doesn't match the Japanese dub (the Japanese VA speaks a whole paragraph while my subtitle shows "..." 😂). But yeah, they have to make a big change to English translation.
This seems to be a problem with Shift Up overall. I finished and thoroughly enjoyed Stellar Blade but the English acting also has some spotty translation, lack of emotion, and generally falls flat outside of a few moments. This is the one area Shift Up needs to step it up a bit, especially since they are doing so well in all other areas (art, music, story, character design, etc).
I've aways hated Neon and this story event made me hate her more
Why the *F* are you holding Anis back for?! WTF?! Was that supposed to be some heartbreak dramatic moment or something?! Marian was literally taken from us AGAIN and you're holding Anis back from being angry and smashing Chatterbox?! WHY?! IT made NO sense and pissed me off so much. So freaking unneeded
I mean. Lol. She probably didn't want her to get too caught up in her rage & forget the other important major issues at hand - the fact that the Commander was stabbed & probably bleeding out at the same time while Rapi is suffering the side effects of unleashing Red Hood...
It was one of those moments of "yes this sucks but we're still in the middle of a battlefield and there are multiple bad things happening so we need to calm down and handle all of them"
I mean commander was bleeding out an stabbed and could probably use some help.