The Virtual Songstress Edition

A place for the works of Japanese game director, writer, drunkard and absolute madman Yoko Taro (aka Toko Taro, aka Yoko Yaro, aka Coco Taro, aka Taro Yoko).
Discussions of the NieR/Drakengard/Voice of Cards games, as well as forgetting and cashgrab kusoges like SINoALICE, NieR Re[in]carnation and 404 GAME RE:SET are welcome!

>Accord's Library closed down
https://accords-library.com/ (secret backup >>500135007)
>NieR: Automata Anime Adaptation Season 2 FINISHED AIRING
https://nierautomata-anime.com/
>SINoALICE Movie SUBS RELEASED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nd5YH0YLKMo

>NieR Replicant Remake on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113560/NieR_Replicant_ver122474487139/
>NieR: Automata on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/524220/NieRAutomata/
>Voice of Cards games on Steam
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1457790/Voice_of_Cards_The_Isle_Dragon_Roars_Demo/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1113570/Voice_of_Cards_The_Isle_Dragon_Roars/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1748660/Voice_of_Cards_The_Forsaken_Maiden/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1890740/Voice_of_Cards_The_Beasts_of_Burden/
>Emulation guides for Drakengard games
https://pastebin.com/8xrQXZHV

>Complete Yoko Taro resource pastebin
https://docs.google.com/document/d/13MJypGK-BOMSaAVAxphhY_o5GBopXcB9Z0vVygxsweo/
>Yokoverse Fanbook
https://files.catbox.moe/i1rabh.pdf
>Drakengard 1.3 Translation
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EQgIx0uv6MMsXClKgdZdgwLze8urV12P

>SINoALICE Resources (Guides, Database, Arts, OSTs, etc.)
https://pastebin.com/DwsJmF6y
>Nier Re[in]carnation Resources (Guides, Database, Arts, etc.)
https://pastebin.com/PGa9kkZS

>Previous thread
>>531024070

>>533859538 (OP)
Cheer up for our official vtuber idol!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4woBc38zdBU

>>533859814
Gimme Manah or fuck off.

>>533859814

It's really fitting that I started to listen to The Sun and The Moon soundtrack yesterday! This one is amazing. It's so refreshingly "modern". I can feel that Keiichi enjoyed writing songs for Rein.

>>533893761
Wait, where did the link go...
https://youtu.be/T9EqErXsb5A

>>533859814
And when I listened to Normandy yesterday, I started crying in the middle of the song. I didn't even understand why. How did they do it? Damn wizards casting their stupid hexes onto music...
https://youtu.be/Wi8WHyVhCbc

And while searching for the song on YouTube, I found this version. What a day.
https://youtu.be/C23Mj99aDQY

I think I will never learn to appreciate stage plays, or theatre in general. I can only find all of it silly. Definitely not my preferred form of entertainment.
https://youtu.be/CG0ZN0HqUzQ

>>533898365
> I will never learn to appreciate stage plays, or theatre in general.

Stage plays have little to do with real theatre. Stage plays are mere pop culture. It is no sophisticated Beckett, Strindberg or Kantor. It is simple entertainment for the people. Just watch, have fun and don't look for great acting.
Just look how cute Idol for A4 is !

>>533902794
It's hard for me to have fun when, for example, Accord (male) kills Red Girls (male) with a really angry face. I just look at this and can't comprehend any of this absurdity. At least the music's good, and I think the costumes should be of good quality too, if they're even showcasing them at the current exhibition.
In any case, this track is really nice. I thought it was another Machine track at the beginning, but then it turned into a proper Desert Level music, so I realized it's about THOSE two.
https://youtu.be/N7Uc3DUK3wI

>>533895917
Yea Normandy was originally a track for a scrapped Accord boss fight in Drakengard3. That was later repurposed to be the opening of the Automata stage plays and then surprise appearance on Rein.

>>533908486
>Accord bossfight
>every attack is just Accord groping Zero in different ways and places

>>533908737
Five had alot of orgasms each time you hit her

>>533908737
I wonder how a counter attack on Accord would look like. Spanking Accord ?

>>533917596
That's nice.

today we beat fio

Today we beat anon!

Today we get a new announcement. I can feel it.

>>533941987
Yes, more MERCH to BUY!

>>533945428
More mercs?

>>533951761
More goons, more likely.

This one is really nice.
https://youtu.be/S4LyHdlN9_o

>>533972376
AAA games should stand for:
>Anime
>Autism
>Asses

Taro is going to starve if you don't BUY the MERCH!

>>533928380

This thread is starving for content or anything anyways.

>>534006426
Just like Manah's butt is starving for me hand.

When i wake up you better be alive
Or else...

Hey guys let's all die, okay?

>>533993241
Best girls!

I dont seem to remember this ending

hello lads, new to this general. completed nier automata couple of months ago and nier replicant just a week ago and i'm currently playing Ending B of Drakengard 3. i have nothing more to say

>>534029580
Drakengard 3 bored the shit out of me, I stopped playing before I even got to any ending.

>>534029580
Hello! What were the parts you liked most in Replicant/Automata? Who are your waifus? Who do you absolutely despise? What your favorite music track?

>>534029580
Hello and welcome to rabbit hole called taroverse

>>534036578
Im still playing because i like hack n slash although playing it on rpcs3 and having already getting the DLC, it kinda forces me to play the DLCs first because there's this weird glitch where if i start playing ending B now and trying to upgrade my weapon, the locked weapon option is already there but you can't even make the option appear on your screen otherwise the game will crash so i need to have the DLC weapons from the siblings first. Im kinda lazy so im slowing down to play the other game too.

>>534037014
I thought it's pretty comfy where i can spam square as much as possible (my favorite franchise is Dynasty Warriors and its other relates titles). The walking around in Replicant can get boring as fuck though. I dont really have a specific preference to anything inside the game surprisingly. I just played the game, finished it, and moved on.

>>534038764
>walking around in Replicant can get boring as fuck
I... don't remember that at all. Especially after unlocking fast travel. I just had fun running around on my boar, listening to music, killing Shades and gathering resources, for most part. Hated farming the Eagle Eggs and whatever parts dropped from the flying Desert Shades though. And climbing the Lost Shrine each time was kind of annoying, with there was a shortcut.
>dont really have a specific preference to anything inside the game
>just played the game, finished it, and moved on
But... how? Replicant is an amazing game with so many good characters and great OST. Have you done the 15 Nightmares DLC? Upgraded all weapons? Got Ending E?

>>534040405
I've done what's needed. Weapons upgrade can get fucked though the material's drop rate is beyond dogshit, i'd take me 20 more hours trying to do that. There was this request where I had to get 10 titanium alloys to make a kitchen knife and each time I entered junk heap i could feel my migraine slowly come back.

>>534042158
I've upgraded every weapon including Kaine's sword. The only thing I didn't finish in Replicant is getting every available Word. I left it at 98% or something because I didn't feel like killing Shades for hours after finishing the game. I had all Words of the highest tier, so that should be good enough for Weiss.

>>534026272
Stare long enough into the abyss and it...

>>534053707
And it will Fish!

Why is Commander White such a clutz?

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Taro is never going to release anything new, is he?

>>534072931
feesh

>>534083319
he's gonna release more foodposting posts!

https://www.famitsu.com/article/202508/49060
The world of "NieR" will continue into the future—Producer Saito gives his stamp of approval.
After "Kainé" ended and the venue erupted in thunderous applause, Okabe returned to the stage. After gazing at the audience with deep emotion, he invited Emi and June each to say a few words.

"Five years ago, I felt lonely performing here without an audience, but this time I was so happy to be able to sing while looking at everyone's faces. My heart is filled with gratitude and happiness. Thank you so much." (Emi Evans)

"I'm so happy to be able to conclude this tour, which has taken us around the world for a year and a half. Five years ago, there was no audience, but this time I was able to sing while receiving so much energy from all of you." (Junique Nicole) June's mother was also in attendance that day, and June's beaming smile, describing it as a "special day," was a memorable sight.

At this point, Okabe invited series executive producer Saito Yosuke and creative director Yoko Taro, who had been listening to the performance in the audience, onto the stage, and the two expressed their gratitude to the audience.

"Five years ago, the cherry blossoms were in bloom, but then it snowed. Today, a typhoon looked like it was going to hit us directly, but I think your power helped to change its path. However, NieR fans only have the power of curses (laughter from the audience), so it was thanks to the power of your curses that the typhoon was able to move away. I hope that you will continue to use the power of your curses to support the NieR series. Thank you very much." (Saito Yosuke)

>>534095943
Next up was Yokoo. "Five years ago, because of COVID, we had to hold a concert here without an audience..." he said, looking a little sentimental (I can only imagine, as he was speaking through a mask).

However, he quickly changed the topic, saying, "Taura-san (Taura Takahisa, senior game designer for NieR:Automata) and Ito-san (Ito Saki, director of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...) are in the audience, and if the applause is loud, they might stand up. I didn't say anything beforehand, but if the applause is loud, they might stand up and wave." This was, of course, met with thunderous applause from the audience. Taura and Ito stood up in response, waving and responding to the cheers.

Yokoo then, in a voice that was loud enough to match the applause, loudly thanked them, saying, "Thank you for coming today!" Yokoo also dropped a little tidbit: they still have merchandise in stock from the "NieR: Something Like a Dinner Show 12024" event held at the end of 2024 (so be sure to buy some).

Okabe finished with a closing speech. "Thanks to all of you for your continued support over the past 15 years, I'm truly happy that we're able to deliver a wonderful orchestral performance in front of you all today, as revenge for what happened five years ago. Thank you for your support."

Afterwards, a commemorative photo was taken, and the Tokyo performance on August 2nd came to a close. It was a wonderful concert that likely cleared away the regrets of five years ago for both staff and fans.

PIN THE COMMANDERS LEGS BACK
EXTRA HARD
This defeats the commander

>>534097084

>>534106984
kissu

Yea Humanity deserves to be eradicated either by God or a machine

>>534095943
>>534096116
Yes, moving forward with MERCH!

>>534124570
Robutts wouldn't use condoms.

Merch status?

It's all so tiresome.

>>534152401
The NieR Exhibition starts in 3days

>>534165809
Waiting for the NieR exhibitionists!

Sinoalice 2 doing good progress

>>534170797
Not my Snow.

>Fio finds Grimoire Azul
What happens next?

>>534170797
fairly kino. I don't sub bit I'll buy it when it's out

So, if I understood everything correctly, it WAS possible for two different YoRHa units to share a personality type, but it was limited to one girl and one boy, like 4B and 4S.

Dying again?

>>534128870
We'll def be lucky to even get the next Nier in a world where people are afraid of boobs

>>534216967
I ain't afraid of any boobs!

.

>>534221730
nuh uh, its definitely possible

>>534251597
Yuh-uh!

new to this general but are the card trilogy games highly discussed in here

>>534281382
They are mentioned, occasionally. Once every three threads or so. Honestly, nobody really talks about any of the games anymore, because all the gachas are dead and not gachas were released many years ago. We mostly talk about garbage cosplay, sluts, spanking and BUYING MERCH nowadays. It's rather sad, but it's all we have. I miss the Library, and the Cage... Taro, I need a new gacha...

>>534282373
God please no !
No more gacha !

>>534284343
Anything, man, anything at all... Just not more MERCH or another COLLAB... This cannot continue...

I bet men take advantage of 2B all the time.

It's just a matter of time before the entirety of SinoAlice and Reincarnation becomes lost media...

So here's the Nier model from ReInc
It looks okay but it noticably meh compared to the remake model which I don't have.

I might rig it just for practice

>>534311289
There's also a model of Nier in a nice jacket somewhere.

>>534308634
we have to keep what we can alive...

>>534318486
Square Enix will come after us... They will force us to FORGET...

>>534311289
It should already be rigged tho

I wish there was more Operator lewds...

>>534332241
i wish there were more sino lewds...

>>534324386
the rigging is retarded and I want IK
Why waste my time struggling with it when I can just autoweight it to a meta-rig?

>>534332241
Yes ! We need them.
These suits do soimething to me even more than toobies dress, thighs and butt.
>AI's Anon image

pig out alice...

>>534339465
Yep... To be really honest, there's just not enough of good content for any of Taro's games, and that includes Automata. How the fuck can there be tens of thousands of different Tobutts, but neither of them are actual decent?

>>534340418
Toobie is really overrated. Every other YoRHa and every other android is hotter than Toobie.

>>534343038
Big Arisu thighs...

>>534339829
good luck then, i tried doing it with the witch several times, but i found that I'm not good enough to do it, so I just stick with the default one

>>534311289
I dont even know how you got the textures to come in so clean
Mine has this wierd dotted transparent shading that never goes away no matter how much I adjust settings

>>534346181
>Every other YoRHa and every other android is hotter than Toobie.
But

>>534353917
That's odd, can you show a picture?

>>534353917
that's probably alpha/transparency
look at it in render preview and make sure you select cycles

if not just scale it up a bunch, for some reason Unity assets import really tiny into Blender

>>534356264
That's bad and you know it.

10 years......................

>>534385796
New game never ever...

why does Yoko Taro prefer to churn out gachaslop over console games. think Drakengard 3 will be the final game of his that i play because i'm not interested playing a poor version of Dynasty Warriors (Drakengard 1) and i'm not sure about his card games

>>534393957
I was seething over this to a friend because I'm pissed that after Automata (his first successful game) he's done nothing but phoneshit.

Apparently YT is a huge gachahead, she follows him on Twitter and according to her he "plays everything", like every single big gacha game he's playing and posting pulls on his account.

>>534393957
>why does Yoko Taro prefer to churn out gachaslop
Fast dosh. Gacha launches are their main income, then shutter them shortly after before a hard turn down.

>>534393957
Yoko prefers to do NOTHING, anon. Now he can pimp out Toobie on a daily basis so he doesn't need to work at all anymore.

>>534393957
gacha is easy and makes money, while full games take years

Why did Toobie say that a desert rose is not a flower but a crystal?

ACCORD SUITCASE IN NIER EXHIBITION

>>534428678
>Accord's suitcase of mysteries
>look inside
>not mysterious

>>534432252
mysteriously empty...

>>534433240
It doesn't even have a working lock! It's all lies!

>>534128870

>>534282373
Why can't they just make more actual fucking games?

>>534435037
Would you make more games if you had access to an infinite amount of money made from COLLABS and people BUYING MERCH?

Somebody should draw Nines in this t-shirt.

>>534436019
yes I'd make lots more games of my fetishes

>>534443747
Well, Taro is a lazy, greedy asshole that can't be bothered to even look for lewds himself, so he wouldn't do that.

At #ARTNIA and SQUARE ENIX GARDEN #sqex_garden, various goods for [NieR: Something Like a Dinner Show 12024] are currently on sale and receiving great feedback!

Some items are also on display as samples, so please take a look.
#NieR #NieR #NieRDinnerShow
#sqex_garden #ARTNIA

▼SQUARE ENIX GARDEN Official Website
https://sqex.to/dUpO2

>>534456586
I am NOT going to BUY this MERCH!

Guess who is going to the exhibition

>>534462434
WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITCH

>>534462434
If they are not gonna kiss, they do not deserve to wear these hats.

>>533859538 (OP)
Idol edition?

>>534473714
AI overlord edition!

>>534474474
Left or right?

Food!

Finally, starting tomorrow, the "NieR 15th Anniversary EXHIBITION: Unerasable Records" will begin.
Today, we’re giving a sneak peek of the venue’s entrance.
We sincerely look forward to your visit.

>>534503659
WORK DAMN YOU

>>534489849
left

>>534503659
Why is he just standing there?

>>534503659
Master of leftovers merch

>>534532620
matchie sexo

just got ending B of DoD 3 folks

>>534542481
congrats anon

>>534542481
Congratulations!

Does the exhibition have anything about Yonah, Kaine and Sixo?

Dead...

LIFE SIZE 2B

>>534564049
NEED KISSES

>>534564049
>>534564248
I hope Doll-anon sees this.

PEARL HARBOR

FIO UNDERWEAR

ITS HIM

REIN MEMORIES

EVERY REIN JOB

REAL MAMA

>>534565360

ZERO

RECAP

STAGE PLAY RECORDING

ORIGINAL NIER

>>534566414

THE TREE

NIER WEAPONS AND A STUPID BOOK

NEW NIER STATUE

>>534564721
Nice granny panties, very erotic.

>>534566903
You will call him by his proper name! He is GRRIIMOIRE WWEISS!
Was the Iron Pipe always this long? Where is Noir?

wanted to pull through for the last battle before getting Ending C but i think i got motion sickness so think I'm gonna continue tomorrow, weapons should be no issue, just need weapons from the lost verse and 1 more from accord's request.

THE CUBE

LUNAR TEAR GARDEN

THAT LEAD TO MERCH SHOP

>>534581042
>THAT LEAD TO MERCH SHOP
Disgusting

>>534581042
All roads lead to MERCH!!!

>>534580831
so pretty

Why did Emil only recreate Kaine's shack and not Nier's house?

>>534600323
I imagine because its easier to move a half destroyed container than a whole house brick by brick

>>534603037
Also, Emil never saw Niers house, as they always slept outside the village because people were scared of them. So i imagine there is more actual emotional attachment with Kaines house than with Niers

>>534603037
He has the power of magick! It should help him.

>>534603224
This is not true because Emil visited Nier's house when he was still a boy. He even met little Yonah in person.

https://x.com/Sumikaww/status/1953990386495762495/photo/1

>>534615024
BRAZIL MENTIONED

>>534615024
is that guy from old Drakengard mobile game?

here we fucking go

Taro has spoken

.

>>534641651
FFUUUUCCCCCKKK YOUUUUU TAAAARROOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Put Taro in a Saw-like trap that can only be disarmed by making a new GAME!

>>534671048
That would be one of the most brilliant or one of the most shittiest game ever made.

>>534672025
It's Taro, so it's gonna be both at the same time. It also won't include the REAL ending in the game itself, because you'd have to BUY MERCH (books) to know how the story ended!

We are dying without a statememt from YT

>>534641651
lmao the man said BUY

HMMMMM

>>534692806
Nines is very lucky.

>>534693114
Oh shit. Well, it's still true.

>>534683272
he telled us to BUY more merch >>534641651