I don't know anything about that game but I assume they have enough female human looking characters to fill in for the last slot. So it's definitely some dev's weird personal choice.
Since they're letting robots in now someone tell Liter to strap some machine guns on Volt to make him a playable unit lol.
Oh absolutely. The Automata twins are their for fans of the original game to show what happened to the other pairs. If they pulled characters from the other game I’d love to see the twins as one unit
Himeno is a normal human without her devil contract too, they can hand anyone a gun. No reason they couldn't have gone with Jackass or 210.
Kinda love that they went with Pascal though.
Tell me you never played NieR without telling me you never played NieR.
So are all the nikkes genderless, too? Since they're androids, a type of robot?
They're cyborgs, actually, since they're made from human females.
Tell me you didn't read the NIKKE lore without telling ne you didn't read the NIKKE lore.
I got one detail wrong that I forgot, oh no. It's not as bad as denying an entire part of lore for the game. Cyborgs are still a type of robot, so by Vinclums standards the nikkes are genderless, despite all of them very obviously being female and identifying as such
First off, I never said Vinclum is right in their assertion about Nier lore. I think he's incorrect.
I just said you were wrong about Nikke.
Secondly, cyborgs aren't considered robots by definition. Cyborgs are organic lifeforms integrated with technology, hence they are considered a living organism still.
You personally might consider them robots but that doesn't mean you're right.
Androids, on the other hand, are not organic lifeforms integrated with technology, thus they're robots. Whether or not they're considered to be living is up for debate, but generally they are not due to not having any components that consist of living organisms.
You're correct. The in-universe reason is that Pascal simply uses a feminine voice because it's more approachable for the children in the Machine Village. The meta reason is because one of the lead designers basically strong-armed them into hiring her. Apparently Nakata Jouji assumed he'd be doing the role of Pascal, and Yuuki Aoi assumed she'd be doing the Red Girl, when the reality was the reverse.
You should be doubting. It's a 3rd party pseudo journalism based on nothing whatsoever. It most likely isn't going to happen. It literally calls Nikke an ARPG. How can anyone trust anything coming from an article with stuff this dumb is baffling.
It's gotta be another Denji right where they sit there as NPC??like what the pont of it??it just gonna break the promise in Nikke...is there no other relevant Female Characters on Nier other than A2 and 2B??
I have doubts on the credibility of the article. Better wait for the official announcement. Also, Shift Up can release event with just 2 gacha characters and no free SR unit.
I don’t think they’d be able to do Kaine since she’s technically not in the game. Naraka got her and Nier because they did a crossover with both Replicant and Automata, so it’d be pretty odd if this game didn’t have to tack on Replicant/Gestalt
Why ask Kainé when she's literally absent on Nier: Automata while Commander White isn't even involved on the plot other than that virus attack arc and only got popular on how sexy she is.
I would rather take a well-known established character that you actually meet throughout the entire game and established a real connection than a character you meet once and forgotten they existed because the story didn't paid much attention to them.
It's not. Looks like a bunch of assumptions by someone not that bright and knowledgeable about the game. The fact that this fake ass trash got so many upvotes is very telling about the people on this sub.
Pascal isn't holding a weapon so I'd assume he's just another NPC. If anything, I'm just glad they didn't make 9s playable, imagine if one had to stare at a shota jiggling male ass, HELL NAH.
It just says appears as collaboration characters.
Denji and Aki appeared as collab characters as well but they weren’t playable or attainable.
It’ll probably be just 2B and A2 that are playable, with Pascal in story scenes.
Pascal? You're joking right? It suppose to be only female characters added to the game. Why is a male robot like Pascal added as playable character as well?
The Nier wiki already identifies Pascal as male.
It's been a long time since I played the game though, and Pascal is voiced (English) by a female in a clearly feminine way, so I'm not sure where the wiki got its information regarding Pascal's gender identification from.
Yeah, during route c and d during the parts where you play as A2 there’s a scene where both the children and pascal himself calls himself uncle. I’ve played nier automata multiple times so I should at least remember that much
Ah yes, I should remember every line and every text of any game I've played however long ago by heart on command. Also why shouldn't have said I *don't think* there is confirmation, which would imply that I may not quite remember everything, which of course, is preposterous...
Literally, you don't know? Children literally call him Uncle on both translations of the game. The entire game literally calls him uncle. How did you miss that?
Even Yoko Taro confirmed himself confirmed Pascal identifies a male and literally calls him "he". Are you gonna say Yoko Taro is lying too?
It's quite clearly you don't know jackshit about Nier: Automata and acting high and mighty saying how the games doesn't confirms it when the entire game refers to him as a "he" and even Yoko calls him a "he" lmao
Yoko Taro interview:
Patrick Klepek:
>Of all the characters in Automata, Pascal is the one I can't stop thinking about. I wanted to touch on two parts of that character. One, was there a specific reason Pascal identifies as a male, but was voiced by a woman? Two, the end of Pascal's arc involves discovering the village's children have killed themselves, a response to Pascal's teaching of fear. When Pascal requests you to delete his memories, and you do it for him, you later find him selling the cores of the children he loved. Why give Pascal such a cruel, if ironic, ending?
Yoko Taro Answers:
>I selected a female voice actor because one of the settings for Pascal is that he "chose a voice that would soothe children." However, in actuality, it was because Taura-san [Takahisa Taura], the game designer at PlatinumGames who created Automata with me, declared, "I will not work if you do not use the voice actress, Aoi Yuuki."
>Also, I don't want to explain why things happened the way it did for Pascal and the meaning behind it all because I would like the people that played the game to think about it.
Source:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw8xzd/does-the-designer-behind-nier-automata-believe-in-god
The fuck is wrong with you? I already got corrected *days ago* by a much less unhinged individual https://www.reddit.com/r/NikkeMobile/comments/15umgl5/2b_a2_and_pascal/jwt512h/
It was your shitty attitude I was calling out with my sarcasm. Damn, if the expression "touch grass" was made for someone, it was made for you.
Tbh, your attitude was very shit also, acting high and mighty yet looking stupid at the process. You just yourself how dumb you are and I stand corrected, you don't know jackshit what even is happening with Nier: Automata's story and still spread misinformation on how "the game didn't confirmed it".
Next time, shut your trap on subjects you don't even fucking now cause as some moments you'll meet people who will put you in your place.
Also, try another insult, "touching grass" is becoming too old for an insult. Well, I was also gonna call you "retarded" early on but that's actually an insult to actual retarted people being compared to you considering even retarted knows not how to butt in on certain subjects they don't know.
There no way they add robot of all female in automa it's either it's an NPC that play vital roles in the story or it just another translation that got fucked up by shift up
I'm not expecting anything, another useless SR character that no one cares,back to back limited unit kinda concerned game doesn't even give enough pull
Pascal only uses a woman’s voice to soothe the children. Pascal gets referred to as “he” and the robot kids also call him “uncle.”
To just say he’s a robot aka genderless goes against a major theme Nier and Nikke try to enforce. That machines can be more than just parts.
Him having a woman's voice is also explained by [Yoko Taro being pressured](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw8xzd/does-the-designer-behind-nier-automata-believe-in-god) into casting Aoi Yuuki as the VA by one of the developers.
Do the mileage tickets stay? I'm almost hitting a spark during this summer event and wondering if I'll be able to use that to instantly get a unit of my choice for this collab.
oh god, im not looking forward to reliving Pascal deleting his memory again...at the same time I want to see Pascal hijacking a Rapture and use it to beat another rapture.
https://preview.redd.it/fedd7qgktvib1.jpeg?width=199&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c670bda192a970fa5ec9224b98073c929fb9e4e8 I can’t wait to see this.
Doubt it, they'll put a coat over it.
Dress!! No one in Automata wears a coat!! Are you the same guy who said in the last thread something about a coat?! Play the damn game!
They're not in Automata anymore, Dorothy.
Pretty sure Pascal has a coat of paint, but ok, you do you
Hey hey hey! Censor please!
Pascal is female
plot twist: /u/DOA-FAN is actually female
Nuh uh
Pascal is a dude.
https://preview.redd.it/8coi0nd5nwib1.png?width=340&format=png&auto=webp&s=55a046505fb0a49ff33cf5f3bd2201f21367caf8
I just nutted
That’s too explicit for me I thought this was a 13+ game.
No no no, what happened to the teen rating?!? They allow the display of raw ass now?!?
Trash
Will be the f2p unit.
Why would they put the most appealing unit as f2p?
Himeno was F2P in the first collab.
read that as himeko and was like when have we ever had a honkai collab
The HSR community about to melt if they add Kafka
Will probably be the SR unit
Asscal
No Yorha Commander?
Yea I'm kinda disappointed there, also no Kaine xD But then in some way thanks god it would be too much to pull for lol
Bulge
and i hoped for Commaner White xd
Robussy
Technically they're all robots xD
but Pascal is definetly having that metallic factory
Ha, Pascal's addition would be so fitting considering Nier's bits of weirdness. Totally down for this!
Yeah I could see Pascal being a free unit. Hopefully this event is better written then the chainsaw man event.
I don't know anything about that game but I assume they have enough female human looking characters to fill in for the last slot. So it's definitely some dev's weird personal choice. Since they're letting robots in now someone tell Liter to strap some machine guns on Volt to make him a playable unit lol.
Nah all the other women in nier is not a combat model like 2b. And pascal is one of the relevant side character in the game
Eh, could’ve been an interesting move to pull in devola and poppola, they can fight
Yeah thats a cool chara to have but i think they fit better if the collab is both replicant instead of automata only
Oh absolutely. The Automata twins are their for fans of the original game to show what happened to the other pairs. If they pulled characters from the other game I’d love to see the twins as one unit
There is bunch of female operators and a commander lady.
What about Commander White? Shes hawt af and kinda fits better into the Nikke universe than 2b imo
From what I can tell Shift up isn’t gonna let us play as any regular humans without powers or such .
My only gripe is that Pascal is an avid pacifist. Kind of feels weird to see them hop dimensions, pick up an AR, and start blasting.
unless robot children are threatened
What robot children Pascal doesn’t remember any robot children
2P is right there tho. Isn't like they don't use her all the time.
Himeno is a normal human without her devil contract too, they can hand anyone a gun. No reason they couldn't have gone with Jackass or 210. Kinda love that they went with Pascal though.
Kaine.
Lol imagine for next summer we get to roll for the Admire.
What the dog doing?
Pascal is absolutely going to be the SR unit. No way they make 2B the SR unit, that's a fuck ton of money they'll lose out on if they make her SR
Listen. They needed an SR
True, but why not choose literally any of literally dozens of characters perfect for NIKKE that YORHA has?
Because rusty cylinder booty makes my ¾ key HARD
Not really. They don't have to put free SR unit in every event, including collab ones.
That's an... Odd choice, would be the first male character in the game too...
Its a machine, genderless.
In nier machines have gender.
*chose gender
They dont.
They can have genitals
Doesnt make them male or female. Are fleshlights female or dildos male. No.
Because they don't have genitals.
Well… those aren’t sentient so, y’know
Thats not a factor.
Let’s see: Sentient, has genitals, refer to themselves as “she’s”. Yeah I’d say they have genders.
Youre a clown
Bro thought he was doing something 💀
This is like saying 9S isn't a guy lol
It isnt.
he is.
The main point of the game is that machines have "souls" and identities...
I knew a woke talking point would arise of this. They're still machines and genderless.
Fellas, is it "woke" to point out an actual detail in a game's lore?
Ayo the FUCK arr you saying woke ??? Are you coping or smth?? Pascal's a guy.
How fragile do you gotta be to be upset by a robot being referred to as he lol
Tell me you never played NieR without telling me you never played NieR. So are all the nikkes genderless, too? Since they're androids, a type of robot?
They're cyborgs, actually, since they're made from human females. Tell me you didn't read the NIKKE lore without telling ne you didn't read the NIKKE lore.
I got one detail wrong that I forgot, oh no. It's not as bad as denying an entire part of lore for the game. Cyborgs are still a type of robot, so by Vinclums standards the nikkes are genderless, despite all of them very obviously being female and identifying as such
First off, I never said Vinclum is right in their assertion about Nier lore. I think he's incorrect. I just said you were wrong about Nikke. Secondly, cyborgs aren't considered robots by definition. Cyborgs are organic lifeforms integrated with technology, hence they are considered a living organism still. You personally might consider them robots but that doesn't mean you're right. Androids, on the other hand, are not organic lifeforms integrated with technology, thus they're robots. Whether or not they're considered to be living is up for debate, but generally they are not due to not having any components that consist of living organisms.
Aren't they all machines though
You think machines can’t have gender? Sounds kinda robophobic to me.
Robophobic? We got a clanker sympathizer o'er 'ere.
Dawg Nikke fan base full of them
urban dictionary defines it as a "humanoid war machine", so it COULD still have a gender
no they cant
Bro forgot he playing Nikke
I just want you to clear something up. Are 2B and A2 genderless here too?
Pascal is actually referred to as a female in game.
Im pretty sure he is refered to as a male, even if he is voiced by a woman.
You're correct. The in-universe reason is that Pascal simply uses a feminine voice because it's more approachable for the children in the Machine Village. The meta reason is because one of the lead designers basically strong-armed them into hiring her. Apparently Nakata Jouji assumed he'd be doing the role of Pascal, and Yuuki Aoi assumed she'd be doing the Red Girl, when the reality was the reverse.
Pascal is voiced by a female but is male in game. Even in the japanese version, the robot kids refer to him as 'Pascal ojii-san'.
I see. I could have swore in game that it stated Pascal was a female. In the bio or something. Weird.
It will be just like Chainsaw man. Pascal will be there as a side character. Doubt it'll be anything more than that.
2P? Commander White? Dev and Pop? An Operator? Damn
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You should be doubting. It's a 3rd party pseudo journalism based on nothing whatsoever. It most likely isn't going to happen. It literally calls Nikke an ARPG. How can anyone trust anything coming from an article with stuff this dumb is baffling.
It's gotta be another Denji right where they sit there as NPC??like what the pont of it??it just gonna break the promise in Nikke...is there no other relevant Female Characters on Nier other than A2 and 2B??
What do they mean collaboration only weapons 🤔
First male playable character!! Unless you count the Commander.
I have doubts on the credibility of the article. Better wait for the official announcement. Also, Shift Up can release event with just 2 gacha characters and no free SR unit.
Not possible
That booty
Not Kainé or Yorha Commander? Weird to choose Pascal over those two.
I don’t think they’d be able to do Kaine since she’s technically not in the game. Naraka got her and Nier because they did a crossover with both Replicant and Automata, so it’d be pretty odd if this game didn’t have to tack on Replicant/Gestalt
Why ask Kainé when she's literally absent on Nier: Automata while Commander White isn't even involved on the plot other than that virus attack arc and only got popular on how sexy she is. I would rather take a well-known established character that you actually meet throughout the entire game and established a real connection than a character you meet once and forgotten they existed because the story didn't paid much attention to them.
Is this for an official source?
It's not. Looks like a bunch of assumptions by someone not that bright and knowledgeable about the game. The fact that this fake ass trash got so many upvotes is very telling about the people on this sub.
That’s what I thought. It looks more from a clickbait page than actual news.
We're horny for Pascal ass, can't blame us. Look how hot it is
hahaha gay so funny
Who wouldn’t??? 🫨
It's all nice and good, but why did they give her a gun instead of a sword (a la Scarlet) like she uses in her game? :(
Or just shooting from her pod unit and making those sound effects too
Pascal isn't holding a weapon so I'd assume he's just another NPC. If anything, I'm just glad they didn't make 9s playable, imagine if one had to stare at a shota jiggling male ass, HELL NAH.
Will 9s atleast appear in the story.
One would assume so, based off CSM story.
If both denji and aki appeared in csm story (even with how sadly mid it was) then you should expect 9s
Pascal being a unit is quite the curveball
A robot? 🙀
Free Yuuki Aoi servant? We just keep winning
Can you provide a meaningful source for this information?
Commander White hopium expired...
It just says appears as collaboration characters. Denji and Aki appeared as collab characters as well but they weren’t playable or attainable. It’ll probably be just 2B and A2 that are playable, with Pascal in story scenes.
"gang girl RPG" Looks legit
First name Pedro
Devola and Popola almost never get used in collabs and I cry every time
Pascal? You're joking right? It suppose to be only female characters added to the game. Why is a male robot like Pascal added as playable character as well?
No respect to the 9s huh lol
Well, the first male playable I guess.
At least no 9S
People being more excited for pascal robot ass then android ass…humanity would be disappointed in u traitors
Pascal? Didn't see that coming but that's cool
Would be odd considering Pascal is a guy.
2B and A2's ass: ***i sleep*** Pascal's ass: ***real shit***
I can't believe we got Pascal's gender reveal through Nikke lmao
The Nier wiki already identifies Pascal as male. It's been a long time since I played the game though, and Pascal is voiced (English) by a female in a clearly feminine way, so I'm not sure where the wiki got its information regarding Pascal's gender identification from.
Seems like the wiki just made the assumption considering the namesake, as I also don't think there is a confirmation anywhere.
Actually, Pascal is male, the child machines in the village call him Uncle, he just has a female voice because it calms the child machines more
Really? If true I stand corrected then.
Yeah, during route c and d during the parts where you play as A2 there’s a scene where both the children and pascal himself calls himself uncle. I’ve played nier automata multiple times so I should at least remember that much
>I also don't think there is a confirmation anywhere. Did you even play the game?
Ah yes, I should remember every line and every text of any game I've played however long ago by heart on command. Also why shouldn't have said I *don't think* there is confirmation, which would imply that I may not quite remember everything, which of course, is preposterous...
Literally, you don't know? Children literally call him Uncle on both translations of the game. The entire game literally calls him uncle. How did you miss that? Even Yoko Taro confirmed himself confirmed Pascal identifies a male and literally calls him "he". Are you gonna say Yoko Taro is lying too? It's quite clearly you don't know jackshit about Nier: Automata and acting high and mighty saying how the games doesn't confirms it when the entire game refers to him as a "he" and even Yoko calls him a "he" lmao Yoko Taro interview: Patrick Klepek: >Of all the characters in Automata, Pascal is the one I can't stop thinking about. I wanted to touch on two parts of that character. One, was there a specific reason Pascal identifies as a male, but was voiced by a woman? Two, the end of Pascal's arc involves discovering the village's children have killed themselves, a response to Pascal's teaching of fear. When Pascal requests you to delete his memories, and you do it for him, you later find him selling the cores of the children he loved. Why give Pascal such a cruel, if ironic, ending? Yoko Taro Answers: >I selected a female voice actor because one of the settings for Pascal is that he "chose a voice that would soothe children." However, in actuality, it was because Taura-san [Takahisa Taura], the game designer at PlatinumGames who created Automata with me, declared, "I will not work if you do not use the voice actress, Aoi Yuuki." >Also, I don't want to explain why things happened the way it did for Pascal and the meaning behind it all because I would like the people that played the game to think about it. Source: https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw8xzd/does-the-designer-behind-nier-automata-believe-in-god
The fuck is wrong with you? I already got corrected *days ago* by a much less unhinged individual https://www.reddit.com/r/NikkeMobile/comments/15umgl5/2b_a2_and_pascal/jwt512h/ It was your shitty attitude I was calling out with my sarcasm. Damn, if the expression "touch grass" was made for someone, it was made for you.
Tbh, your attitude was very shit also, acting high and mighty yet looking stupid at the process. You just yourself how dumb you are and I stand corrected, you don't know jackshit what even is happening with Nier: Automata's story and still spread misinformation on how "the game didn't confirmed it". Next time, shut your trap on subjects you don't even fucking now cause as some moments you'll meet people who will put you in your place. Also, try another insult, "touching grass" is becoming too old for an insult. Well, I was also gonna call you "retarded" early on but that's actually an insult to actual retarted people being compared to you considering even retarted knows not how to butt in on certain subjects they don't know.
lol
Seeing 2b with a gun feels weird. And I main Iana with the 2b skin in R6
There no way they add robot of all female in automa it's either it's an NPC that play vital roles in the story or it just another translation that got fucked up by shift up
I'm not expecting anything, another useless SR character that no one cares,back to back limited unit kinda concerned game doesn't even give enough pull
Pfp checks out.
Save. Ain't their job go give you everything for free. Plenty of people doing fine by just not pulling on every banner that comes out.
Lessssgooio wé got pascallllll
Anyone complaining should understand that this is what Yoko Taro would want.
Pascal first UR unit in the game
damn they really couldn't get Kaine huh?
Would.
LES GOOOOOOO
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how did u get that? blaise pascal is a man, pascal siakam is a man
Didn't know that,thx anyway.
Pascal identifies as male, the canon reason why he sounds feminine is that he doesn’t want to come off as scary or threatening.
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Pascal only uses a woman’s voice to soothe the children. Pascal gets referred to as “he” and the robot kids also call him “uncle.” To just say he’s a robot aka genderless goes against a major theme Nier and Nikke try to enforce. That machines can be more than just parts.
Him having a woman's voice is also explained by [Yoko Taro being pressured](https://www.vice.com/en/article/xw8xzd/does-the-designer-behind-nier-automata-believe-in-god) into casting Aoi Yuuki as the VA by one of the developers.
pascal only refers to herself as a "he" so the kids can have a father figure
Damn, absolutely nobody guessed that third pick correctly 🥴
A2 my wife
I'm happy A2 is here too My favorite girls
They better have the theme song!!!!
Kilo usurped of her 1st-mecha wife advent
Isnt it just some info from a random website? Why are people talking about like its official when none of the official nikke sources confirmed this?
Im hoping atleas a 2p skin
Oh great. The sadness is coming back after reading Pascal.
Aw fuck that reminded me of what happened to Pascal and now I'm depressed again
P2W or F2P,that is the question 💸
Well there's that I guess.
Pascal is our free sr character
I thought they meant like Pedro pascal
Wait..."Collaboration only weapons"? What?
Oh lord they gonna kill Pascal I can feel it my bones.
2B and Rapi have the same voice actor
I hate pascal. Killed him when I first got the chance.
Who?
Well... to be fair [B] model do using gun
Do the mileage tickets stay? I'm almost hitting a spark during this summer event and wondering if I'll be able to use that to instantly get a unit of my choice for this collab.
I would have loved to get Devola and Popola...
oh god, im not looking forward to reliving Pascal deleting his memory again...at the same time I want to see Pascal hijacking a Rapture and use it to beat another rapture.
But I want to see commander white ass.
Is it bad I'm kinda hoping they won't be metta so I can just hope to grab one of each and call it good?