NOT LIKE THIS 9S... | NieR:Automata Ver. 1.1a Episode 19 REACTION

[@WeaklinksShootingandHorrorGami]

Fallout 4 companions react to 9S killing non-hostile machines: [Cait loved that] [Codsworth hated that] [Curie hated that] [Danse hated that] [Deacon hated that] [Gage loved that] [Hancock hated that] [MacCready loved that] [Old Longfellow hated that] [Piper hated that] [Preston hated that] [Strong loved that] [X6-88 loved that] [Valentine hated that]

[@AICW]

Um wow. The events of the game are being adapted on paper, but there are big differences between the anime's portrayal of them: - Operator 21O was a boss battle in the game, but she was encountered at the top of the final Resource Recovery Unit as one of the last major events before the game's ending, not at the start at the tower's entrance. The lines about her wanting a family are still there, but it is doubly tragic in the game because as 9S fights her, as she takes more damage she starts breaking down and glitching out and that's when she starts blurting out her deepest feelings of how she's always wanted a family and saw 9S as a sort of surrogate son to her. 9S's last words to her are to say as he's sobbing "Don't worry, Operator, it's okay... it'll be okay... because I'm going to kill you now!" - Pascal's villagers coming under siege is something A2 was late to the party with. In the game, when A2 arrives in the village to pick up the materials for the Resistance, the whole place is on fire and infested with infected machines. After you secure the area, Pascal tells you he evacuated the children to the factory and you have to meet up with them there. It seems in the anime, they are having A2 be present for the village attack. - The Resource Recovery Unit, the "Meat Box" in this episode, has its whole tone and location changed. In the game, the RRU was in the Forest Kingdom and the machines inside were not sleeping innocents: they were all Forest Kingdom soldiers explicitly out to kill 9S for revenge for the time he and 2B invaded the castle and their king was killed (by A2, but they don't know that). And in the game, the last soldier at the top was extremely malicious and hateful towards 9S, he was not interested in negotiations and his taunting 9S to kill him at the end came off as much more spiteful than in the anime. It seems the anime wants to depict 9S as a lot more morally gray by mentally collapsing a lot faster than he originally did by having him witness Operator 21O commit suicide in front of him very early in his solo journey, and this coupled with losing 2B so recently has him cross a serious line by killing a bunch of non-hostile machines. He never went this far in the game: while he was still full of hate and obsessed with exterminating all the machines, every enemy he fought in the game attacked him first. Ironically enough, it's A2 that can trigger an (optional) cutscene where she will kill a bunch of non-hostile machines who are literally down on their hands and knees in front of her begging for mercy late in the game, not 9S. Whether that scene will make it into the anime (after all the additional character development she's gotten) is still to be determined.

[@Keldarien]

They have been shuffling events around, the story with A2 right now is probably headed towards a certain event that played out at the factory in the game.

[@DipDownAnime]

Interesting! Very curious as to why they went with the order that they did. Thanks for the info!

[@Keldarien]

@@DipDownAnime Nier games are among my favorites, but they involve a lot of backtracking and revisiting of the same exact locations (while also introducing new ones). For example, Pascal's village in the game is set up as a major hub to pick up quests from Pascal, and sidequests from the rest of the friendly robots. The anime seems to go for a more streamlined approach, to have the characters switch locations every few episodes instead of going back and forth. This does not explain all changes though.