Anybody who played the original Drakengard would have had warning bells going off when things went greyscale.

Mr. Taro was angry when he discovered that the original fight against The Beast Queen could be cheesed by constantly pausing the game, so you could tell which notes were coming your way. To avoid the same situation, he ordered his programmers to implement the crazy camera angles, and the diabolical black-screen notes, so, that no one could cheese out this similar fight.

The true canon end to Drakengard 3 is snapping the disc in half in a fit of righteous indignation

I remember playing Drakengard. I also remember the final boss. The Rhythm. The Bells. Christ the bells. Circling in a loop around a giant white grotesque statue of a woman while trying to keep in tune. The hours I endured, the three remotes I destroyed. and the feeling of relief after victory. And then I see a similar giant statue appear as this fight begins. And I see the same rhythm circles that haunted be years back. And soon I realize... FUCKINGGODNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I can only imagine the planning meeting for this: "Hey, people liked the final boss of Drakengard 1, right?" "Uhh, no sir, it's universally joked about" "Right, so let's do it again! Five times!"

3:07 well this isnt so bad 4:52 this is what people were complaining about? really? 6:02 ok thats a little fucked up 6:52 wow thats not necessary 7:21 wow THATS not necessary 8:25 WOW thats not necessary 9:05 wait, its over? 9:44 ... thats goddamn diabolical.

That last note was snuck in by a very VERY spiteful programmer.

As an interesting side note, the characters in the circles are of the celestial alphabet made by Heinrich Agrippa to communicate with angels.

When Mikhail starts talking and when they show the pigeons, it's just so sad. I know Zero wasn't the greatest friend ever but it still sad for Mikhail and the disciples

Seeing all those Accords together at the end almost makes me expect them to say "Glory to Mankind!" during their salute.

I am both cracking up with masochistic joy and also burning with hatred that they did this for a final boss. God. Dammit. ...still that's a GORGEOUS final boss theme.

I laughed my ass off when I realized that Taro Yoko made the final boss for this game another ridiculous rhythm game. Only he knows how kick his players in the nuts like that.

Drakengard needs to really fire that cameraman....

Zero: once there flower is in bloom you have to destroy it The dragon: ok so fly around them while the cameraman has a seizure and block their attack like I'm in a rhythm game. Ok

"You've grown strong, Mikhail" "Zero... Zero, you big dummy!" Hey remember how Zero says in like the first mission that she'll stop calling Mikhail "dummy" once he's worthy of that name? Yeah they reversed it... this part slays me every time.

So, leveling up Zero, buying and upgrading weapons, learning the combos, and stocking up on recovery items. ALL FOR THIS???!!

probably the most beautiful boss fight I've seen. I haven't played the game but I've heard it's rage inducing.

Yes, this is the same VA that voiced Edelgard Von Hresvelg in Fire Emblem: Three Houses. With this, you just know how in character she was even back then.

I can't think of another full credit sequence in any medium where the entire cast and crew, every contributor in every unit, is listed alphabetically. What class, to acknowledge a work as an all-hands effort.

"Hey, Zero?" "Yeah?" "I... I had a lot of fun.... but NOT this part!"

nd that, kids, is what we call the Third Impact.

So let me get this straight... this is a boss that involves an 8 minute long rhythm game that's devoid of visual cues? I already feel an aneurysm coming on...

The four birds stay around Zero's sword..

..... welp, I enjoyed the ending credits. It was fitting for the broken pieces of my soul. And my broken pieces of my PS3 controller.

When it goes back to singing Kuroi Uta, I just wanna cry. I really thought this Drakengard was just going to be a sexy, bloody rampage, but it turned out to have its heartwrenching moments. ...Still not as ridiculously dark as the first, of course xD Thanks for uploading!

And people still think that Sephiroth in Kingdom Hearts is the hardest boss ever. This is worse.

well atleast decadus is pleased with the fucking pain this final boss gives

I was actually feeling really really good about myself cause i defeated this boss! it was really easy the feeling after you do the last rhythm pattern, but then i woke up...

Besides all the rage this seems to induce, it’s pretty crazy that you’re essentially the last boss.

I wish there was a remaster in the works, I would absolutely Love to play this game and experience this ending. It's beautiful.

I. Hear. A. Sound.

I will be one to admit that I haven't played Drakengard 3, but I did EVERYTHING possible in Drakengard 1, and I at least appreciate that this pays homage to the boss fight in Ending E of Drakengard 1, that leads into the story of Nier Gestalt and Nier Replicant.

It's a shame we haven't seen Accord since this game. She would've been perfect in Automata... or at least show a small cameo for the Replicant remake.

Unpopular opinion but i think these camera angles are intentional, replaying Drakengard 3 recently and i've noticed there's a pattern on each intoner. Zero's Part 3:07 - It has no camera issues, she being kind of a warm up session ; Five's Part 4:38 - The camera tends to zoom out further than usual ; Four's Part 5:08 - It's mostly normal other than the camera being in weird angles at times ; Three's Part 5:57 - The camera would zoom up close to Three's face ; Two's Part 6:42 - The camera would zoom up close to Mikhail's face ; One's Part 7:15 - Really, the camera would just go ape shit crazy, panning everywhere ; When all the intoners starts dancing together, u can see that all 6 of the intoner's pattern would occur subsequently. 7:50 - 7:58 (no camera issues) [Zero's] 7:58 - 8:09 (camera zooming out) [Five's] 8:09 - 8:19 (weird camera angles) [Four's] 8:19 - 8:29 (camera zooming in on Zero's face) [Three's] 8:29 - 8:40 (camera zooming in on Mikhail's face) [Two's] 8:40 - 8:50 (Camera going ape shit) [One's] Thought it was a cool small little detail and wonder if it was intentionally when making it, nonetheless this boss is a piece of shit.

If ANY of NieR: Automata's ending bosses are like this I'm literally going to fucking explode.

while playing I could never tell because I was in panic mode with a side order of PTSD from the first game, I never noticed but each one of their indivdual dances actually are done in a specific manner to reflect their personalities. like Ones, erratic and slightly unfocused, but always orderly and towards a single direction.

I've never played this game, but it's good to know that even in the apocalypse, the Institute of Silly Walks will carry on

I'm proud I have this game's platinum trophy. I actually beat this boss 3 times, once on my game, and twice more for a couple friends. I earned $40 from them to beat it.

Accord: "I cannot shake the feeling that somehow, somewhere, that Zero is still alive. And that...someday, she and I will see each other again." Drakengard 4 confirmed. (Camera-kun intensifies)

Close your eyes and listen. The camera only serves to fuck up your shit. When I beat this boss I actually felt pretty damn good about myself lol

I tried knocking on my desk to the beat. I'm a violinist in my school's band, and I'm usually the only one, so I have to be the one to keep time. You know that last note? It's off beat. "Ki....e..." "One two three four. One, two, three-" (blocking sound) "Wait, what?"

I'm a drummer, and I like mix of beat. I used to listen to music with my eyes closed. Sounds cheesy, but it's for real. So, I've attempted to play this part with my TV off and just focused at the beat and the "ting" sound. Nailed everything. ...except the final fucking note. Woke up from my bed and wait for Mikhail's 2nd dialogue.

One of the most haunting/unnerving endings in VG history to me.

Saw this fight mentioned in a top 15 video, so I decided to look it up. Didnt think it'd be that hard TILL I SAW THE FUCKING CAMERA MAN DANCE AROUND LIKE IT WAS PROM NIGHT AND THE HOTTET GIRL JUST ASKED HIM TO DANCE. JESUS CHRIST

Its one of those things where if your just watching, its amazing. When your the one playing its hell on earth.

Who else noticed thta one of the Accord (the girl who walks all weird) in the final scene said "It's a secret to everyone."

Thank you for this, by the way. After putting in over a month and a half into playing this game only to be unable to beat the final boss fight I was pretty pissed off. The way you made this, without obtrusive commentaries or anything, it gives me the closure the game's rather bullshit final level denied me otherwise. So, thanks, you made my day today.

I actually think this is one of the greatest boss fights/endings of all time.

SE: Hey Yoko Taro, people complained about the first game's final boss and since we're getting you back to make a Drakengard game after 2's backlash I was hoping you don't repeat that boss. Yoko Taro: Sure no problem. We'll just change some stuff about it. SE: Wha... THAT IS NOT WHAT WE MEANT! Yoko Taro: Sorry, I can't hear you over the song that Keichi Okabe composed for the final boss fight.

Thats some next level Evangelion type craziness.

I saw the final boss and went nope! Turned off my Ps3.

Finally I can hear a full Zero's song.

As I played this things went through my head. Wait the flower? Wait what now a WOMAN, a WOMAN grows from it, please not this deja vu! *Then the bell chimed at **3:00* So, I see. It begins. *Damn you Black Flower, you killed one of my favorite characters, an another's heart.*

I always mess up on the last few notes. I've been at this for days, though. I'll keep trying. But I have to give credit, even though it's frustrating... I kind of really like it. The music, the girls, it's pretty.

I can hear Taro’s demonic laughter when the final note hits… The bastard….

I felt that the final boss was actually a cut scene that someone said "hey, lets make troll the people and have them turn it into a rythym game. Oh and also make sure when they finally let go of the breath they held so long when you hit em with the black screen, troll em with more notes"

the relief when i hit that final note, holy shit... i had gotten up to that final note 4 times but i just couldnt get the timing of it down. but when i did that shit felt so damn good

This boss is beautiful I've heard it's impossible but it still makes me want to play it

I guess the Ministry of Silly Walks funded the construction of Accord.

I finally beat it last night, only took me 4 days.

I've never played this game, only came because supposedly it has the hardest boss ever, I was expecting mayhem but that was actually really nice and epic. Also I dunno anything about this story but when the clones saluted the dead one I got chills.

Yoko Taro essentially has his own universe he can branch off to whenever he wants, lets be real. Even if he were to end the D/N series, I really hope to one day play the game of the Watchers vs Whatever the fuck the Accords are from.

*gets to this boss fight* ..... wait..... no.... no it can't be...... NOT AGAIN!...... well at least there seems to be only one color. maybe this'll be easier than.... that. *gets to 3rd sister*...... no. no no no nonononono no FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU- *after many tries finally makes it past all the bullshit camera angles* *screen fades to black* *CHIME* WHAT NOOOOOO-*dies again*

Fuck the boss I’m here for the character/story and the music. Ending D boss music and credit music is a melancholic ride of a lifetime. And Mikhail saying ‘Good night… Zero’ is a guaranteed way to make me cry every… single… time.

dude really yoko taro is a b4stard for creating something like this, and I love it! lol!

That fucking walk cycle has to be the true biggest troll in the game

It's really strange. I've been trying to beat this boss for hours, and the farthest I've gotten is to One and then I keep dying when the camera starts to flip out. Yet for some reason I'm not the least bit frustrated by it. Every time this boss kills me it's because I lost timing and missed a beat. It's not because of lag, it's not because of delay between the time I hit the X button and the time the game registers it, it's because I simply messed up. I just can't get mad at the game when all my deaths are of no one else's fault but my own.

Man the camera control in this ending is so psychotic!

They are different timelines, so we can say that all the endings are canonical and true, since in the end they all happened, as in Drakengard 1 and Nier and Nier Automata. In fact, in Nier Automata the Accord is named. Can you imagine that in the final video game of these two sagas, all the Accords bring all the characters of the video games for an amazing last battle against the gods? Zero making up with his sisters and having ice cream with Caim and Kaine at a coffee shop? Too bad Yoko Taro loves to be "realistic" and he spends his time fucking her characters.

I'm well versed in music production and composition, but how the hell are you supposed to keep track of that note released during the ritardando? What?

What the fuck were the game developers thinking?

Both songs are lovely.

What a masterpiece from Yoko tarooo

Most other bosses you hear about being rage inducing you can never really know how it feels. You can watch videos about it but you can never really get a grip on how bad they actually are. Here, though, you can tell. You can definitely tell.

20:37 "It's a secret to everybody" Wait, what? WAIT, WHAT!? This is not Zelda!

that fucking walk at the end....wtf is dat shit?

Always a land of sands, forests, sea and a cathedral. Is Zero going to meet up with everyone else in NieR universe and fight aliens on an airship?

This silence is mine is killing me playing at the end

Thank you for uploading the ending, the final boss is so freaking difficult especially for someone like me who has 0 rhythm. I tried for a few hours but kept failing half way through. I wish they'd let you miss at least once or twice instead, making you game over for missing just one note is brutal!

I'll say this again, the last note is the meaniest thing this boss did

Fun fact, you can lower the music in options so you only hear the bells ^_^

I did it with the audio settings of music low (middle bar al least), just listening and avoid to watch too much the screen, you need your ear, not the eyes

just fucked up at 9:45 and feeling awesome edit: just did it again, awesome

Fucking this mission, I was dead set on platinuming the game until this, the perfect internal clock required is beyond me. The end of part one was tedious, this is flat out sadistic.

One of the most amazing games with a final boss I will NEVER fight a second time. I had to use a video guide just to beat the damn thing.

This is art. Even if it is a gigantic fuck you from Yoko Taro, it's still absolutely breathtaking and there's nothing else like it (bar DOD1 lol).

I have a feeling that this ending somehow led to the Beast Queen in Drakengard 1

The first time I tried to play this boss, and failed I cried, but at least I got to Lady Three,almost snapping the controller,and thinking what I did with my life, I felt a lot better.

The average player during this stage: "I HATE MY LIFFFFFFFFFFFE!!!!! .................. but the music is nice."

Everybody gansta until Three starts showing up

I always laugh at these nerds who break their controllers in anger. "What idiots getting so mad at a game they broke a 60 dollar controller lmfao" The day I beat this game I joined those nerd ragers. Why? Because on try number thirty or maybe it was forty....? I got to the end on the black screen with the final bells. I didn't realize at the time that my controller died. Battery dead. Boom, right there. It decides to crap out on me right there. I ignored the low battery thing and that's what happened. I threw the controller so hard that the casing broke off. The controller wouldn't work anymore. I joined the grave valiant losers who nerd raged to that extent on that day. I never finished this game. The guy who thought of this owes many people reimbursements for their controllers and probably some tvs lmao. So whenever someone tells me they are the best troll alive I tell them play this game to the end. The guy who came up with this was troll level nine thousand.

When I beat this...it wasn't really a feeling of "OMG I DID IT! I FUCKING DID IT!!" .... It was more like: "....FUCK YOU GAME. FUCK YOU YOKO TARO. I DID IT. I FUCKING BEAT YOUR TROLL GAME. I FUCKING. BEAT IT. FUCK!!!"

As a transition to other entries in the series, I still like this ending more than A, so I prefer to think this was the transitional ending and brother One just failed to show up to fight Zero after defeating sister One. Like he was conflicted with One’s instruction not to be publically seen, at least not with her. Or he was trapped in debris for a time. Either way, Zero transformed into the flower before he could get to her. That or he watched what she did next and it turned out he didn’t have to fight her at all since she told Mikhail to finish her.

20:45 why are they walking like they have to piss ?

Drakengard 1 and 3 Desperately need remasters/remakes

They thought this would save the world. But the flower was only th begging of the end of 2 worlds, crazy

I honestly want to see a new Drakengard game that takes place after the events of Ending D of Drakengard 3, since most of the events in Drakengard 1 and 2 and NieR are because Zero failed in ending A of Drakengard 3. Since she and Mikhail succeed in this ending, it would be nice to have a game in a timeline that occurs because of the Flower being destroyed. maybe we can learn more about the watchers, since most of their plans in the other games relied on the survival of the intoners in this game. With the intoners and the flower completely gone due to Ending D, the Watchers would have to come up with a different plan to end the world and that could lead to more revelations about them. However, that's assuming that Drakengard 4 will even happen and will take place after ending D of Drakengard 3. But that won't stop me from dreaming and hoping.

So this is where that freaking LAST NOTE was from

Can I just say at the beginning of the video, I literally cried when Mikhail did? ;.; I was like "POOR BABY I WANNA HUG YOU"

Mikhail:Hey Zero Zero:No u *Game Over*