Nitro+Chiral (hypothetical cos it’s not cannon apparently) timeline AKA the periodical order of each game events
Since nobody did this before as far as I’ve seen in this commmunity and because I am very bored and forgot airpods at home so I could watch playthrough of TGC (last game I have yet to see) I am gonna try and attemp to periodically list time settings of all games. Warning- this is just my own interpretation on how I would it - since I was 90 % sure all games take place in 1 big universe. Also it’s been a while since I’ve played these games so my memory might be clouded. So take it with grint of the salt and let’s do this:
Time setting: Japan, urban area Tokyo? probably early to mid 2000s - no earlier than 1990 and no later than 2010 (assumption based on those flip up mobile phones)
Reason: We are starting with sweet pool simply because no magic (well if you don’t count whole Adam and Eve equals new race of perfect humans shit),no major technological development or dystopia shit or war has happened yet there. We only have some crazy occultism which should already warn us N+C is not going to play with us fair and square (as reality is cruel). Ironically, NC released sweet pool first lol
Time setting: Midorijima, fictional island, Japan, 20XX
Reason: Dmmd already takes place in some neomodernistic era since the presence of Allmates, Coils and other technological advacements such as robots (Clear and Alphas), games such as Rhyme and Rib, whatever Akishima is carrying - plus they have ID chips in their bodies. Yet it seems like it is not advaced enough for Aoba to wear anything but headphones (well airpods were not invented yet at the time of game’s release so we can’t have anything). Now you can argue DMMD could happen AFTER TGC, after country was restored after WW3 but we have no direct proof of war even taking place before events of DMMD as far as I can recall at least
Time setting: post-war Tokyo, Toshima ward, 20XX
Reason: Shit has really go down with the world of NitroChiral. In DMMD you don’t see young people depressed like at all (or simply generations moved on and mostly recovered and accepted their lives - again we simply don’t know as mainland was only briefly mentioned in Noiz’s and Koujaku’s drama CDs). Most of teens and young adults just wanna get high or/and fight and it is not all shine and rainbows with adults either as we have an evidence that most adults are unable to take care of these kids either (at least two characters experienced abuse, one with alcohol problem and other is just ignored altogether). All of this as a result of military training they couldn’t put to use - it is mentioned Tokyo (and Japan as a whole) is gonna recover in few years time but for now East and West are divided. I reckon if Dmmd happened AFTER all this then many years must have passed (at least one decade) and then our last game would have to take place which brings us to
Time setting: Sisa- No humans, some forests, villages, remains of human inhabitation only in one capital we know about, probably located at place Japan used to be. The beginning period of nekos ruling lands is unknown but definitely at least one millenia after humans, proof of existance is demons who used to be humans and one and only sorcerer (well after everything from previous games it should be given cats can use magic when they are fused with cat god and humans who probably have magic brains divided into Desire, Reason and maybe Restraint or something) - it’s very likely that Sisa are more similar to humans not only because of their appareance - it’s just that due to cat genes their instics (Desire section) tends to rule over their Reason
Reason: should be pretty obvious - this is post-apocalyptic “fantasy” world ruled by Cats that is now also on verge of destruction thanks to our beloved Leaks (but honestly Leaks is my fav antagonist of them all he is very well written and I can at least symphatize just a little with him although it does not excuse his actions just like wih other antagonists’ actions from other games)
Edit: Slow Damage: Time setting: Shinkoumi, 20xx, very fucked up piece of land, after Japan fucked up Olympics (this is prob world without covid??), Japan’s recenssion started (haha as if our world isn’t in one rn) and made one entertaiment town into full blow shithole where yakuza rules as kings (and somehow people on mainland think they are construction company). A decade later even yakuza “monarchy” starts to stop working (divided into two sections both equally shitty) and now you have poverty everywhere you look but hey at least our mc Towa has cool scars and fucked up method for painting his very cool art Ig (he srsly needed his LIs does not that matter who cos this boi is traumatised and prob most fucked up on NCH Mc list here ilh agavahzgbw). Oh ya and humans have Smoke which is like aura?? I wonder how that is linked to our big three emotions but it definitely plays a role in how Smoke shows when human experiences emotions and various situations
reason: after playing two routes from SD I can safely say that timeline would be perfect for few years before TGC (tension between Shinkoumi mainland just beg for war conflict and I don’t think any ending would make it better) Not sure where DMMD would fit but Ig it doesn’t matter - personally I see it take place after SD. I am not going to number it again so I am puting SD as 1.1 on list because hypothetically it’s like section between two extremes war and high tech era (at least when it comes to setting) - in other words SD takes place before TGC and after TGC we get DMMD