Square Enix has offered up a lengthy new trailer showcasing the next update coming to Final Fantasy 14’s Shadowbringers expansion, and with it comes a look at the MMO’s long-awaited Nier: Automata-inspired 24-person raid.
The raid, known as The Copied Factory, is only the first part of Yorha: Dark Apocalypse, a collaboration between the Final Fantasy 14 team and Nier: Automata’s producer and director Yosuke Saito and Yoko Taro. More raids are due at a later date.
Here’s the official blurb for Yorha: Dark Apocalypse’s debut instalment: “Machina indistinguishable from men in appearance, speech, demeanor─anyone in Norvrandt would dismiss such an idea as the fantastical ramblings of drunken dwarves. The discovery of a white-clad woman identifying herself as an ‘android’, however, may call everything that has long been believed about technology into question…”
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Based on the trailer, The Copied Factory certainly looks the part; it features familiar enemies and characters – including Nier: Automata’s protagonist 2B – and the whole thing sports the distinctive, washed-out aesthetic associated with the original, critically acclaimed game.