It comes down to experience. Father Nier knows far more about people and how to engage with them than Brother Nier does. Playing Nier Replicant for the first time, I had the same feeling that you did. The truth is, despite Brother Nier's arc supposed to be about growing up, I still find him to be more of a stand in for the player than anything else. It just seems like there's not much going on there. His changes are physical more than they are mental. So ultimately, I think the coming of age story doesn't really work. To be fair, this makes the change in voice actor between part 1 and part 2 work exceedingly well. There really was no adjustment period for me. I believed they were the same character the moment Nier started speaking. Regardless, though the original vision contained Brother Nier, there's this idea that makes him the "canon" version and this simply isn't true. Both are canon as both are referenced in the stories of 2 separate weapons in Nier Automata. Virtuous Dignity for Brother Nier and Cruel Arrogance for Father Nier. I think people just completely forget sometimes how nebulous the canon for Drakengard and Nier can be.

The father daughter dynamic was so powerful. I find a man trying to save his daughter much more impactful than the brother and sister story.

Father nier >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> generic femboy nier

Such a simple yet effective menu for it's time. It works well for those with well organized, spartan inventories, but it's kind of a pain for the mage to scroll down their long spellbook for the one off spell in combat. Another positive is how this menu managed to fit inside a single player's window during 4 player splitscreen back in the 480p days.

This game needs a remake in Unreal Engine 5, the character models are highly detailed and with physics, more dynamic environments, gameplay improvements, a multiplayer mode and use of real music, imagine that the first part sounds Just Dance by lady gaga...

I played both the Dreamcast original and then the upgrade on Xbox. I remember my mind being blown when that little window popped up by accident. I had been so excited to jump into the game that I missed that it was even a feature!

I'm re-playing the Gamecube version recently. Awesome video.

Put hundreds of hours in to Ver1 for DC... and gotta say, being a FoNewm had it's advantage in that you didn't need to menu much lol. Def used it a ton on GC where I played HuCaseal a lot tho!

I played the Gamecube version first, and have since expanded into playing every version of PSO semi regularly. I remember discovering this menu by accident one time years ago, and it legitimately changed my playstyle for the better pretty much immediately. Going back to Version 1 after being used to literally any other version always throws me off for a moment.

I have no idea why I spent so much effort continuing to play phantasy star online with my dreamcast rather than just get a PC version... Something about the novelty about continuing to play this on an old ass console I can't ignore... This video makes me want to play it again... don't know If I want to break out my dreamcast with codebreaker... or just do it on a PC lol

watching this made me sad again how hard i bounced off the latest pso games....i miss this series so much and would kill for something closer to ep 1/2

It is my favorite windows in any game as well. For all the reasons you already said

There is nothing special about this game, it's too confusing on how to control it and the graphics are not even PS1 or N64 quality, maybe Sega CD or 1980s PC 3-D games. there are other games with voice acting that are better and look way better with ground breaking graphics for their time. It's weird game or unique game to get as a collectors item if you could get it from a barging bin or download the GDI and play it on a ODE. Back in the eighties it might have been a cool looking original and unique game but in 1999 it's nothing to write home about or pay anything but bargain bin prices just to add to your collection.

I knew this was going to be about that menu. Literal game changer

I never knew someone could talk about the quick menu for 10 minutes. I understand mastery of the quick menu is kind of key since it basically is the meta around everything, attacking efficiently, avoiding any enemy hits, avoiding traps, planting trap, etc. Once you know how to use it the game flows better... or well, as well as 24 year old game can flow at least.

A large part of why modern games simply don't appeal to me as much is that they don't respect your time or intelligence, and this is a perfect example of the type of power user feature games used to go out of their way to provide but refuse to now. The later PSO games maybe do in fact have too much going on to justify having this feature, but in that case the games should be designed in such a way that you'll have to spend as little time as possible worrying about items in the first place. It just seems like instead of identifying a problem and providing a solution, the modern mentality is to check off boxes and include as many things as possible even if they don't make sense.

Great video! It makes me wonder what other games would work better with a shortcut menu? There must be a balance with the UI and the use of it. I am sure MMOs get the most out of it but like you said it might be too complicated to make a full menu on the screen.

I remember having this on my ACE card as a kid. I never finished it but loved just running around with the track ball

not even the right aspect ratio for a gbc screen dense person

Nier Replicant is better simply because of the character design. I absolutely despise the clothes of the father protagonist. Either wear shorts or actual shoes. Not pants with sandals 🤮 and the dialog and dynamic of the brother is way better and fits perfectly. The grandpa feels out of place.

I feel like the whole "lol Japan sure is wacky and kooky" has kinda diminished over the past 20 years. Mainly due to the rising familiarity of anime/manga and all the tropes and cultural context, especially with the sudden popularity since the late teens. That and, well, how much weird shit most have seen thanks to the internet (those weird-ass misleading mobile ads, memes, brainrot humor, etc). Having grown up with X-Play, its kinda nostalgic just vibing with it alongside the other G4/TechTV shows circa 2000-2006. However, its interesting watching it with modern context. Mainly just the way they go "lol wacky Japan" while having "skibbidy gyatt sigma Hero Wars Poop emoji" in the back of my mind as I watch those. Honestly while theres a certain charm experiencing a title without knowing the language (partially due to how our minds fill in the blanks without much context), I prefer having either an English translation or just learning Japanese to get a full experience.

For me it's just tomodachi life but on the ds since I don't own a 3ds

they casualize a lot of thing , like lore and customization , and slow down the combat a lot. ultimately ended up something that's really bland in between the set piece , not to mention the OMG moment is very rare in this game.

they were right that game sucks

It's funny though because the guys behind the series are making another chibi-Robo like called koROBO and have a whole kickstarter up for it now.

Alice in Cyberland mentioned!!! I wondered about that karaoke glitch when I watched a playthrough on KZbin.

KAINE USED TO HAVE JIGGLE PHYSICS?????

Monolith soft always has interesting combat systems

I know this is old but do you still have te game? with the manual? can you take photos of it?

Boy nier is less interesting or memorable as a character. His responses and dialogue is very "anime" and at times feels like he's trying to hide his true feelings and emotions, which makes it harder for us to connected with him since we ARE supposed to be him yet we can't trust his responses or remarks. I think they were going for less personality in an attempt to make him more universally appealing like a generic anime MC. I suppose this worked well for those who didn't get to play Gestalt. Meanwhile, Father Nier seems grown up, open with his opinions and thoughts, and has an actual personality which makes him an actual character in the story as opposed to "generic MC" that you're supposed to fill in your own thoughts or self into?

thanks for the review, unfortunately the control scheme isn't for me, it's fun and has it's own appeal like you said but doing it constantly for 20 hours does not sound like a good time. having the option to use the dpad when I want would be a lifesaver.

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I played the fuck out of this game back in the day

as though some elements of the game may be hard it still is a pretty good game for a firefighter simulator

Cool to hear good things from someone unfamiliar with Bionic Commando. The overhead battle sequences are meant to give you continues (when you destroy the tank). Also, the Glitch: my original cartridge (bought 2002) glitches on my GBC when saving and/or loading a save. It's been many years, but I think I have to reach a certain point before saving, to avoid The Glitch.

I have this on the switch and 3ds both digitally and physically but the physical version has a bug that i can’t open the door in the arcade to get to the pet store

If I’m not wrong the replicants cannot reproduce, so how can there be a father daughter relationship???

This game definitely needs a remake. There's not enough rpgs based off of classic literature I say. Alice in Wonderland JRPG when?!

Obvious clickbait title.

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Anybody know the song that begins at 7.52 ?

5 years late, but it was Intelligent Systems, of all people who made this one, which explains the Paper Mario reference of the floating castle on Rainbow Road.

Hey bro, does the gun also work on time crisis 4 ps3?

Literally 1984

Why is this game actually fun when u learn it ?

I finished Gestalt few days ago and really liked it. Though there were too much side quests close to end (which slowed things too much for my taste), to point that I ignored a few (and finished them during replays (why no achievement for 100%-ing them?)). < little spoiler to ending D below > . Does Nier kissing Kaine had some reason/meaning in case with Brother guy? With Father it felt a bit out of place.

I really like it, been playing it for a bit on my ds and its so cool to have a classic ridge racer on the go

I have a funny history with this game. I played Gestalt back in maybe 2011 or 2012, I just know it was before Drakengard 3. I went to the trouble of importing Replicant so I could play that too! Only managed to get through it because I had played Gestalt right before, and the "decorative" English text in the menu helped a ton. I couldn't read any kana back then, let alone kanji. So 1.22 was a very interesting experience You point out a lot of the differences boil down to the dad being this sort of world-weary, often sarcastic but sure of himself guy, while the brother is much more vulnerable and uncertain. A lot of the time, the brother just makes an observation whereas the father cracks a joke or says something witty, and I think this shows that Gestalt had an *excellent* localization team The question then becomes, when 1.22 was being localized, should they have retained as much of the same personality as possible? I honestly don't think so, but it makes me question the localization team a tiiiiny bit. A lot of the brother's lines come across as generic or just more passive because, quite simply, that's your typical anime dialogue. How many times have you seen an anime/game/whatever where the villain explains something, then the protagonist just repeats what they said word for word in a surprised tone? Gestalt's original localization team clearly wasn't too big a fan of that, and so a lot of Nier's passive/reactive dialogue was altered to give the father the personality he has. 1.22's localization team felt that it would be better to maintain that passiveness it seems. Was it because they just got lazy and couldn't be bothered to come up with something less generic? Was it because they just felt that such a personality suited a teenager/young man more than a middle aged man? Maybe one or the other, maybe a bit of both, maybe neither. But whatever the case, I think it ultimately does serve the characterization better I can buy a big, strong man in his 40s being unfazed and commenting on things in a "been there, done that" sort of way, and acting as a competent unifier for the group. I can buy a short, slender teenager being scared and unsure of how to go about things other than playing it by ear. Reverse those characterizations, and suddenly it doesn't work. You'd have either an incompetent man who acts like a kid, or a boy with, well, the personality and world outlook of a more grizzled adult I think the way 1.22 did things was ultimately for the best. I think they could've been a bit more creative with Nier's responses to things, especially after the time skip, but it really doesn't bother me all that much. I have a love for both versions of the character, and I'm glad that 1.22 not only incorporated the DLC but added a quick conversation between Nier and Weiss. Just one tiny little taste of nostalgia for the fans of the father version of the character

it came out a year before the ps4. I dont get why they released it on ps4

KOS-MOS' line when she falls in HaKox lives rent free in my head because of how hilarious it is hearing her of all people screaming.