I like the idea that the actual text of Romeo and Juliet was lost somehow, but the rest of Shakespeare's work survived the apocalypse, so they're trying to reconstruct the story using his other plays and one of those AI predictive text bots. ...I guess they used Titus Andronicus this time.
My jaw fucking dropped when I first saw this in game. I don't know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't fucking this. And yet, I'm so, so very glad that it was.
If you consider the play is foreshadowing the tragedy in Nier Auto and that the game itself is an allegory for mankind trying to discern meaning in existence, that some of the robots see it as “deeply moving” and others see it as pointless suffering is just *chef’s kiss*.
The unfittingly epic music actually makes it funnier. Feels kind of like watching a play of Hamlet ending up with a bunch of Hamlets played by Cactuars beating each other to death with false Chocobo skulls while One Winged Angel plays.
Flamerax13 its meant to be a connection to how juliet finds out romeo killed himself via poison after believing she was dead. and without her beloved she wanted to live no more. and she killed herself with Romeo's Dagger. so the juliet left standing killed herself for destroying them.
Shakespeare actually put in (what looks like) a parody of poorly-acted sappy romantic tragedies at the end of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", so you might very well be right.
Me: *falls through the roof "Hi. I'm mankind." 2B, A2 and 9S: "Art thou serious?" Game: "The hell?? You're ruining the plotline!" Me: "well I guess my name is Mercutio then." And thus, the mankind was once more eradicated from Earth.
Oh my god, my sides. While it's pretty stereotypical to always have robots utter kill phrases, you have to admit this isn't too far off from what the Montagues and the Capulets wanted to do to each other. XD
I just randomly stumbled on this while fucking around as 2B today, never knowing this exists. And as soon as I heard "Thou stupid asshole" I laughed my ass off.
I think the best part about this play is that the context of the side quest it occurs in is literally just a day at the amusement park. This is the kind of thing they do normally.
the part of the game which made everyone go- "im not gonna skip this, I wanna see how this ends.... then at the end- *crying and applauding* " THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN THE ORIGINAL!!! BRAVO! BRAVO!" or -"wtf did i just see...." whichever 1 of those 2 kinds of people you are, this play is still better than the original! XD
The stage to a tragedy, a tragedy of how one machine's unrequited love drove her into the very depths of madness, to cannibalize her own kind in a futile attempt to win whom her heart yearned for, whom it pined for day after heart-wrenching day... Now this stage hosts a production where my sides are at the Andromeda Galaxy and the Kuiper belt respectively.
I'm just now playing this game for the first time thanks to the Switch version and I'm so glad to have finally experienced this masterpiece of a performance. Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever seen in a game. "Pisseth off" in particular got me real good.
Watching your playthrough of this game is making me want a PS4 all the more. This game and Horizon Zero Dawn (amongst others) are making it hard to decide between this or a Switch. Also 10/10 description
