>>2034830it takes place like a thousand+ years later and they say you don't need to have played the first game, but who knows. the ZTD devs said you wouldn't need to play the first two before it and that was a complete lie. plus some of the stuff we've seen of automata looked to have some connections to the first game and even the drakengard games
what I'm most excited for is all the people getting into the game because they want to fuck the robot, or because it's platinum games, and then they get blindsided by that trademark yoko taro depression