NieR Tower 24-man NEST Raid Highlights

[@DrakGamestein]

It's rare I get the chance to work with a brand I genuinely enjoy. The snacks make me want to book my next trip to Japan like, now. If you wanna give them a try, use the link here: bit.ly/3xujJg8 And don't forget code 'DRAK10' for your 10% off! Also, I kept all the same music in these fights for you NieR fans out there. It ended up being crazy slow, but I doubt that matters much to you anyway :) Cheers!

[@Tessa_Ru]

Lol, you got me last time you promoted bokksu 😂 No regrets, actually one of the few sub crates I felt was worth the money. 👍

[@blazesona12]

drakenguard too drak or have ha never hurd of that series yet?

[@DrakGamestein]

@@blazesona12 I've heard of it, just figured it was implied along with "NieR" since it's the same lore or whatever.

[@blazesona12]

@@DrakGamestein well im not sure how many have hurd of it but the final boss mainly is drakenguard referance especaly the raidwide aoe and the light/dark circle thing (drakenguard 3 is the raidwide and 1 is the light/dark circles)

[@142crystal]

As much as I want to use make use of that code, I gotta prepare for a move so I can't get those tasty snacks q-q

[@hjt091]

"This is pandemonium" "No, that's the next raid tier" the actual fucking prophecy

[@YOKAISONIC]

Macey saying "i like all of the raids" with the crying cat pic while everyone else was arguing about them fucking killed me way harder than It should have

[@TransientWitch]

I have a similar experience every single time we clear a certain boss in the current raid tier...Because I like the boss, I like the mechanic, and I love the callbacks it is STUFFED FULL OF to my favorite FF entry

[@Rakaszta]

(26:53) Lemur: This is pandemonium! I love this! Choco: No, that's the next raid tier little did they know...

[@JadeTheurgist]

Fun Fact: that building that yeets you off the stage? It has Square Enix written on the side.

[@craigfunk3453]

Where's the screen shot? I need to see this

[@VioletMaeve]

More so "SQE". And I love how its just that building, and Square saying "I don't know if its ours. Our office front is different."

[@TransientWitch]

First it was the CEO as a boss in Automata. Now it's just Yoko Taro throwing the building at us. He is such a wonderful troll.

[@VioletMaeve]

@@TransientWitch The ceo of Square Enix was able to be fought in the demo of FFXV as well.

[@adrammelechthewroth6511]

Nani?!

[@chellise]

Doing this the first day, I cannot overstate how hilarious it was to be hit by a fucking train in my fantasy mmorpg

[@tommenno]

I am sad at the lack of suplex jokes, I"m not gonna lie.

[@chellise]

@@tommenno I think the community collectively ran out when sigmascape dropped

[@blackjet2000]

I was more happy getting thrown off the stage by a building at least and seeing many players flying off was hilarious

[@MyVanir]

Titan savage should've taught you not to run into traffic...

[@chellise]

@@MyVanir I wasn't good at red light green light as a kid

[@waywardshooter5742]

Macey is the nier nerd needed in this series of videos... Her entire reaction is me. Also RIP fucking Sonic being called Tobi Kadachi's pincushion. Lmao.

[@BlueCenter77]

Dude same. Gotta have at least 1 Taro simp in the party.

[@sleepysera]

Haha yea when she was the only one who freaked out during the final boss I was like...spotted the Nier superfan 😂

[@HanabiraKage]

Drakengard 3? Well, the background is Drakengard 1 though.

[@Kanetsuguru]

@@HanabiraKage it's also 3 aswell Replicant/gestalt

[@CloudHiro]

@@HanabiraKagespoilers for drakenguard the city is in 3 as well, along with a more rediculous version of the bell boss from 1... made up of the protagonist of that game with a flower in her eye and her sisters. basically it was attempt to sacrifice herself to seal what were assuring as taro is vague about it what eventually becomes the grotesque queen in 1 since 3 is a prequel. which when dies sets off the events of nier. so theres your context for the final boss

[@EmpyreanRagnarok]

What did the final boss say when she challenge NEST? Drak! Engarde!

[@Xenmaru00]

i hate you. take a like.

[@tylorhobbs8920]

That joke drags on like a dragoon.

[@DragonKnight90001]

@@tylorhobbs8920 as a dragoon i approve of this message

[@Adamantian9]

@@tylorhobbs8920 as a dragoon main, i cannot deny this, nor will i admit it xD

[@ecrulis6954]

Rhaya: Don't make me hack Me: *waits patiently for Red Girl*

[@gateauxq4604]

I don’t think Ive ever been so excited to see a streamer be let down before lolololol

[@LeonardoBramante]

Macey was all of us who knew Yoko Taro's work. Healing through that raid while breaking down in tears was not easy, I tell you that.

[@KheaZhwan]

Macey absolutely LIVING for this gives me life.

[@EvionFox]

Rhaya's rage is so delicious. XD It's even better than I was anticipating. And Macey's excitement is a MOOD, I was that person in our party too! I KNOW YOUR FEELS, THE BUTTLOAD OF REFERENCES WERE JUST AAAA- Friggin' Rhaya. "Not everyone played Ivalice raids." YA THINK EVERYONE PLAYED DR SAVAGE??

[@Steve-YT383]

So 😋🤤

[@Bladehound83]

Not to mention you have to play the Ivalice raids to unlock DR savage.

[@EvionFox]

@@Bladehound83 YOU'RE RIGHT! I completely forgot about that part.

[@EverianKalim]

I was Macey on Day 1 too. Started Crying during that last boss due to the Music

[@hunterpalmer3183]

23:25 her reaction, just added 10 years to my life.

[@SuperIchi]

I laughed at Mieu's wheeze-face when Sam got hit by the train XD

[@HyperKatoa]

Macey and Sam were the highlights. Sams sacrifice to the train gods will never be forgotten.

[@Xenmaru00]

Den-Liner thanks Sam for his contribution to its energy stores.

[@MaggieBer]

He went to join his lb button, wherever it landed

[@ShivaServer2009]

@@MaggieBer ahaha!

[@projecteer9439]

27:07 Alright everyone place your bets where Sam got Isekai'd into.

[@projecteer9439]

My money is on Monster Hunter.

[@sleepysera]

That's trucks. Trains cause time travel, actually 🙃

[@xenrusxenomorph2268]

@@sleepysera He traveled ten years into the past to undo a mistake that could cause the end of the world and his existence

[@FireHeartLeon]

FFXIV 1.0

[@tribblesfoxfolk]

@@xenrusxenomorph2268 He locked his hotbar before doing LB3?

[@aze0012]

"i've been fine, i don't know what you all are-" --Sam's last words before he's reduced to a red smear

[@Dragonpit]

Drak: I was planning to share with my family, but they disappeared after a day...into my stomach. Me: Drak ate his family, confirmed!

[@CyberSoldier101]

Rhaya: *has no clue how the hacking works* Apparently someone hasn't played Ikaruga

[@Boyzby]

@@BlakLanner The Ikaruga black/white interactions weren't in Automata, so that was a nice addition to that fight. Makes my brain fry trying to survive the two meteors still.

[@DerivedKnight]

Just the sound of Macey becoming a train after Sam got run over? Most rewatched part of this video for me.

[@arceus227100]

Im loving Macey character lmaoooo, the cat face on her character, and then the wheeze fucking killed me

[@davidpower5710]

Macey is the only cultured person here she seem to know drakengard XD

[@raikaria3090]

And yet despite recognising the music and even knowing where it's from *she dosen't warn the raid about what might [and does] come*

[@blazesona12]

@@raikaria3090 to be fair the fight is quite easy even as someone who hasn't played drakenguard and only watched videos on it also the hardest "mecanic" of the fight is just the look down thing and even then its easy to douge

[@BleydTorvall]

So, on the first boss, it's possible to have a full wipe after killing it if you time it just right. His massive knockback move can still go off a second or so after it dies, but the blocks instantly despawn, so if you kill it at just the right instant, it knocks everyone off the platform to their death even after the boss is dead. I experienced this first hand, and it was hilarious.

[@LordKaguras]

You mean like E10S does regularly? Explodes as he dies? We did it twice xD

[@rukrawczyk]

@@LordKaguras oh my god...when my static cleared e10s the first time, everyone but myself(BLM) and the WAR were dead on the ground.

[@EverfreeFire]

We did this my last run, except somehow I managed to not fall off. It was HILARIOUS.

[@LordKaguras]

@@rukrawczyk can you imagine as a healer… „nah, this won’t kill“? That’s when the tank privilege comes to play :D my co heal and me still are getting mocked about this - deserved tbh xD

[@ClockWrxKnight]

Why do I imagine choco in his room somewhere in Eorzea trying to glue the bodies back together into the ball from bunker.

[@AnonLobster]

I like the fact that Rhaya brought up a mechanic from delebrum reginae savage, saying not everyone did the ivalice raids, when delebrum is locked off behind the ivalice raids

[@apollinarian]

Macey's such a delight, I love her reactions (and voice)!

[@Raziell28]

Seeing Rhaya freaking out about the hacking was the best! And I think Macey is now my new favorite

[@darkmirror21]

I'm just disappointed on the fact that no one got the pure ending E drakengard reference as soon as phase 2 of final boss. Even the final song is there... And it's tokyo.... On the upside, jesus fuck, i screamed when final boss showed up then the first few notes played. Healer said they can't heal emotional damage tho

[@FelixFalora]

I'm pretty sure Macey did, even though she didn't outright state it.

[@InchonDM]

@@FelixFalora Yeah, I'm pretty sure Macey was just too completely emotionally bluescreened to coherently talk about why.

[@ronny_innor]

Macey did but kind of late and just incoherently crying

[@seablade214]

I still do the mechanical callback by humming out [Dun dun dun dun] and [Bum Bum] as my party just shouts about white and black.

[@jedimasterpickle3]

As far as I'm aware, Drakengard doesn't have nearly the same kind of following that either of the NieR games have, especially Automata. I never got around to it, but I was pretty surprised when I learned that this turned into more of a Drakengard series than Automata like we originally were led to believe.

[@Earthdivine279]

It was very surreal watching the video because my reaction was opposite of Macey's for the last boss. While she's excited and sounds like she's so happy, the first few minutes was me just saying "Kill it, kill it, kill it!" in various pitches to my voice call.

[@Orionis_Delta]

And to think this was the first video (iirc) that I watched from this channel, and the first video that made me more interested in playing FFXIV :') I started playing in earnest this year and I cannot wait to do this 24-man when I get to it! Although I'm sorta worried my BRD might not be enough and I'll have to level up GNB instead. Let's just hope my experience in D2 raid teamwork coordination won't betray me.

[@coldReactive]

Skipping the cut-scene after means Drak doesn't get into smash.

[@Recca1979]

- Macey's wheeze (at 27:10) is the second's best laugh, right after Feralana's laugh, at 27:13... it's sooooo... pretty (she has a genuine laugh that is nice to hear) :)

[@haxorzleet7423]

The editing on the Avatars and all that is so good too T_T so funneh honestly

[@kishinhunter8821]

I want more Macey! I didn’t know who she was prior to this, but I need more of her in my life now

[@ShermTank7272]

Macey is the gushing Nier fan everyone needs in their life

[@kerokami9800]

I legit hoped you'd make a Super Smash reference of "GAME!" when the building yeets everyone. From the platform perspective you can see players slowly fall spinning like when sent Smashed out of stage. 😂 first time clearing I had Macey's almost dying laughter.

[@kdynce8637]

2 years later, and Choco's prediction that the next raid tier would be Pandaemonium was somehow fucking correct, HOW

[@angelmontanez3513]

I agree with everyone commenting this. We need more Macey! She's great! I had the same reactions as Macey on patch day. I was absolutely losing my shit through the entire raid. We get to the end and my friends started asking what's going? Me: ITS DRAKENGARD! *screams* Friends: Take a deep breathe, stop screaming, stop fucking crying and tell us what's going on?! Me: I CAAAANT, I CAAAANNT *proceeds to cry even more and they remove me from the party* Need more Nier nerds in my life

[@spicysandwich8943]

"Look down, guys- LOOK DOWN." followed by immediate, mass death amused me greatly

[@Delnoir]

There's two kinds of reactions going into that last fight. Fans who only played Automata: wtf is this even? Yoko Taro fans since Drakengard: Witness now an amalgam of every tragedy that came before YoRHa. Ten-thousand years of history made manifest before us. Zero and the Intoners. The Watchers unleashed upon the world. The plague known as the Black Scrawl that the Grotesquerie Queen's defeat brought. The place where Nier began. Welcome to Ending E of Drakengard... Stop the train, I want to get off.

[@aqj2014]

and then theres me : "idk whats going on but ima get automata and hopefully find out" note:' i have not found out

[@KalinaHitanaVTuber]

You know, the moment I saw the Red Girl's mechanics basically matched the hacking ones from Automata, my immediate first thought was "Rhaya's gonna HATE this, isn't he?" And then the ACTUAL hacking game happened XD Glad to see my predictions are coming through strong ^^ Also, I REALLY loved Macey's inclusion in this raid ^^

[@LyviannaXIV]

Macey and Sam were a great addition, enjoyed watching this a ton!

[@CoreyB88]

29:56 Pandemonium isn't the next raid *tier.* Turns out that it was just the next raid.

[@TheArkAngelDS]

Bruh... I love Macey lmfaooooooooooo! I lost my shiz when she wheezed at Sam's death XD also: same reactions 10/10

[@darcmoon9096]

I'm so excited for a Best of Sam and Mieu.

[@inuazuma7922]

Seeing Rhaya foam at the mouth at the hacking, and then just all of you getting yeeted has brought great joy. also My friend was just like Mieu They were suffering so much on the last fight because of the music.

[@skyheart4026]

"i attempted to share these with my family, but they disappeared after a day. Into my stomach" DRAK ATE HIS FAMILY

[@neilkirby6160]

"What's so hard about not walking into the wall?"

[@Blitzwaffen]

PST.... No one tell Rhya that technically the first 4 fights are all hacking the doors.

[@rukrawczyk]

Omg, I recall my first alliance killing the first boss, and the first response I see is "all this to open a fucking door"

[@aqj2014]

@@rukrawczyk i think i said the same thing first time i did this. "all that to open a door." after fighting knave

[@rukrawczyk]

@@aqj2014 and low and behold, we had to fight a SECOND boss to open that door, not just knave

[@Baxdronn4]

My day 1 run of this was hilarious because, in addition to the usual lack of knowledge about mechanics, after the 2P trash fight and the Red Girls replacing the bodies, me freaking out was accompanied by someone in another alliance using their Danger Bongos macro, which was extremely fitting.

[@warriorofdawn876]

Not gonna lie, when I got the last boss of this raid, I think my brain just... broke. Short-circuited. I didn't know *what* to think about what I was seeing *or* what I was hearing. It was just that mind-blowing to me. But damn... this raid was pretty good. Story was confusing, in true Yoko Taro fashion, to the point where I had to look up information from Drakengard to figure out what the heck was happening, but the raids themselves were some of the greatest things I've ever seen in this game. I'm feeling really hyped to see what's in story for us in Endwalker! ...Hyped... and simultaneously terrified. Because mother of god, *that image for the Pandaemonium raid is still making a small part of me freak out in my mind!*

[@Dordracnor]

Macey cries for the entire raid me, whose never finished any nier game or played drakenguard 3: same

[@tsuribachi]

my exact same feeling. wish I got to finish those games but my action game and shooting skill is, to say it kindly, sucks.

[@kjelfalconer]

The art of Sam's character continues to be unreasonably hot and I'm far too gay to deal with this

[@Cassapphic]

I could say the same for macey

[@xloz12345]

The secong phace of the last boss and the whole background there is all a reference to the Drakenguard games. also the black and white cirkles is a rythem mechanick notorious to be insanly hard cus of the camera angles in Drakenguard 1. I love that Macey got the reference and i was in the same emotional state as she was first time i saw the last boss and heard the music.

[@startracings]

This was an absolute delight and Macey was such a joy to watch. She was an absolute mood and I'm glad y'all had fun!!

[@1wayroad935]

"Rhaya put the leash on."

[@thedevilsapprentice6666]

Nobody can comprehend how much I needed Rhaya's anger in my life.

[@centrifeudal9966]

I was so happy to hear Kainé's theme AND Wretched Weaponry both in the same raid. I had been insisting that Wretched Weaponry needed to be in the game for SO LONG

[@KonDragon008]

The "Look down guys, look down!" cracked me up. XD I also got jebaited by the pointer marker under the boss and was yeeted by the SE tower my first run. Also, it never fails to amuse me when someone gets destroyed by a train. People were probably crying during the final boss, and I was sitting there going: "The music is so pretty!". After the raid was over, I went digging into the lore to try and figure out what the heck the story was all about here. XD Was familiar with Automata but not the rest. I hate this new raid only because I spend about half of the third boss (Red Girl) with my eyes closed because I can't handle the flashing blacks/whites (as someone with sensory issues; thankfully no seizures) . So for the rest of the raid, I'm a good rezmage...but on the third boss I'll always need at least one rez. ^^; I do love the hacking part, though. And the rest of it is okay...I actually would prolly like this raid if it wasn't for the flashing lights in the 3rd boss.

[@Luessi92]

This cast had such chaotic energy all through the video....i loved it!

[@thedunkdojogaming]

I've been waiting so long for this one!!! I enjoyed the bosses personally and the mechanics were interesting. Even though I never played Drakengard, the final boss song still gets me. Also when Sam got hit by a train I literally almost laughed out loud and woke the baby up x3

[@Thentavius]

You know... Full Baby Drak is one of those treasures you can't help but think of as 'blursed'.

[@girlyaliapoh5023]

I appreciate all of Choco's Kingdom Hearts quotes 😂

[@arachineatzeer7478]

My man got SLAPPED with an office building

[@csmith4131]

The only channel I was waiting for to show their raid perspective! Let’s go NEST!

[@darcmoon9096]

I'm excited for Karina and Kel omg

[@csmith4131]

Werd the main attraction

[@Zackarco]

I love how filthy NEST has gotten since the Heavensward days. The chemistry between everyone is amazing.

[@urbncampr]

So this run was amazing with so many moments in it XD Macey is also amazing throughout as well

[@Squallcloud95]

24:29 i laughed so much, the timing, the editing perfect!! 😂

[@Timmy_Zach]

*-Is woken up by notification* *-A new drak highlights video* .....Well I can stay awake for a while time for content I subscribed for

[@SuperIchi]

22:02 "It was too late" > literally stood there doing nothing as the AOE told you which way it was going to go

[@daniellep.294]

I love watching people run this raid for the first time and watching whole alliances get yeeted off the edge on boss 1 This was also me

[@zeriuswolfhart4141]

I recall theres an Old NEST Meme when Drak got tilted by Hanzel and Gretal: "Imma Learn ya How to play Swords~"

[@randyhudson2269]

Best line: Drak, "You're Welcome."

[@Harrowing999]

My fc was dying of laughter as well got wrecked by buildings and trains on our first go through. I definitely got to see a sneak peek of Endwalker by getting yeeted to the moon

[@AngelScolarus]

Poor Sam, If only he knew a MNK that could suplex the train out of his way...

[@Pikachu59]

26:54 Choco predicted EndWalker Raid tier lol

[@tribblesfoxfolk]

Macey is a treasure. Now I wish we could have seen her reactions to Copied Factory and Puppet’s Bunker. Puppet’s Bunker ESPECIALLY.

[@ChouhouinNeko]

i loved rhaya's reaction to having the actually hack

[@Loispealz34]

I was so hyped on my first clear, i dont think i ever left /alliance chat the whole time. And then we went to tokyo and i lost my goddamn mind.

[@isocryd]

YES!! AND RHAYA IS IN IT TOO! Ever since I went through that raid I've been dying to see his reaction X3

[@zhouan786]

drak got sponsor! :D also man I've been waiting for your reactions to this haha, super hyped!

[@m.a.dmatt6689]

Ppl who hasn't played drakengard: "Cool music bro" Ppl who has played Drakengard: *Commence tears*

[@TheRileyss]

Macey's wheeze is 10/10

[@ravenbloodfang]

going back to these videos and hearing familiar names in always fun :)

[@lunausagi8495]

Not everyone did Ivalice Oh yeah and who makes ya think they'd do DR SAVAGE OVER IVALICE RAID

[@hjt091]

Ivalice is mandatory for Bozja and, by extension, DR

[@BlaBlaBla-76]

The end song of the raid hits ya in the feels😭

[@Saiken_usagi]

Omg I had that exact same reaction that macey had on the final boss

[@sable7571]

27:09 Loyalty at its finest

[@YellOhPanda]

Wait did Choco call Pandemonium all the way back in time for the next raid tier ahaha

[@dragorias2268]

And now I want to hear Lemur sing more

[@zombiekitsune]

When the fuck did I sing, hold up

[@dragorias2268]

That would be 18:19

[@SpeedoSausag]

Macey's reaction go Sam getting turned into mush is just pitch perfect

[@YuubiTimberwolf]

"There are more games than NieR: Automata?" Okay, let me tell you about the prequel trilogy called Drakengard....

[@bretsheeley4034]

I'm going to guess that I needed to play N:A in order to understand this beyond "kill evil AIs before they kill you".

[@Tensard]

Drak the only one surviving the first meteor. Biggest brain.

[@victorferreira8784]

the asdf movie reference got me rolling LOL

[@gilangraka1324]

Rhaya sneezed 3x in a row!? In Japanese myth that's means someone said that Rhaya is beautiful.

[@hexstrophie]

Rhaya, talking about Delubrum Savage: Not everyone's done Ivalice! RHAYA YOU CAN'T DO DR SAVAGE WITHOUT DOING IVALICE HONEY XD

[@bearandthebull2372]

The final fight is a great callback to drakengard,but fuck is it not foreshadowed at ALL.

[@nahnah390]

The seed of the apocalypse wasn't enough of a clue for you?

[@ShivaServer2009]

Sam getting derailed and Macey's wheeze omg lol.

[@goldenxninjaxchick]

Okay I love Macey though??? I hope we get to see a lot more of her

[@MorphoBloo]

The editing on this video is SO GOOD. Couldn't stop laughing.

[@arcanedeity5559]

I love the energy and fun you all have been providing for the game. I'm just putting it out there lol