Recap of NieR Gestalt [NieR] (RECAPitation)

[@MoistChungus]

totally just made the connection why devola and popola in automata said they were trying to fix the sins of their earlier android models for "making a mess"

[@Techy2112]

Moist Vapour it also would explain why Emil is just a head as well when you meet him

[@deadpoolrockz6410]

the only thing that was left out is the disappearance of magic in Automata.

[@MoistChungus]

Deadpoolrockz6 what about the magic of 2bs glorious robotic ass

[@lunerblade13]

remember that magic does not exist on earth. they came from the corpses of the drakengard world. the only people in nier who used magic were the grimores, devola and popola, kaine, the shades, and emil. now all but emil are dead and emil stays to himself. this is why their no magic in nier automata.

[@friendlyelites]

lunerblade13 technically emil did use magic in automata's lore, he replicated himself 85 million times to try to defeat the aliens but he failed to stop them from driving the androids/replicants to near extinction because humanity went extinct due to the events of Nier killing off all of the shades i like to think the aliens created the machines specifically to try to replicate humanity themselves

[@WindiaNata]

I love Nier Gestalt soundtracks, some of it's soundtrack makes me cry but I didn't play this game. So thankyou for making this. I appreciate it

[@darkinfini]

same here

[@CianaCorto]

The remake, Nier Replicant Version 1.22 is out now. Try it out, it's great!

[@laiden25]

I hate the fact that I played Nier Automata without playing Nier

[@randomd00d19]

"yUo DoN't NeEd To PlAy Da FiRsT!!"

[@AmishGuy222000]

I played Nier so many years ago. My life changed alot. Then Nier: Automata came out. I sat staring at that title for the last few years going... I've seen that somewhere... And behold it was this game! Now I get to play Nier:Automata all caught up and resume it. :) So hey its taken me a while

[@morocomedium8932]

i do as well

[@JessieBusher]

Sameeeeee

[@sinsei2165]

The replicant remaster was announced today. What a time to be alive.

[@Flareboxx]

This is the third Nier recap video I've watched. I've been so confused until I finally found your video. Thank you so much for your detailed summary! This was so awesome. I know this video is over 2 years old, but you've got yourself a new subscriber!

[@Cheesefist]

Clemps has a great series of videos on the Drakengard series as a whole as well.

[@Flareboxx]

@@Cheesefist Yes I've since seen those as well! I've also played Nier Replicant since that came out after I made that comment so I've experienced it firsthand :)

[@BKGlu]

Only just realized "resident malice" = "resident evil" Nice one

[@Okarine]

I love how Yoko Taro spaces his games in the timeline. It makes his settings so interesting seeing how the world evolves

[@WeskersPlayhouse]

rip Papa Nier

[@OniBlackMage]

A bit late for the NA release of NieR Automata, but here is the preceding game, though the series is part of the Drakengard series. I really enjoyed the Zelda/Resident Evil homages the game dropped, and the motto of the old king of Facade is one of my favorite quotes in games. While I will still be wrapping up the RE series and Legend of Dragoon, thanks to a Patreon Patron request, next month will be 9 Hours, 9 Persons, 9 Doors among the other releases.

[@colinsoulsilver]

Oni Black Mage another great one oni! Thanks

[@xxatmosfear9689]

Oni Black Mage you gonna do one on FFXV at some point? best wishes. love the vids

[@OniBlackMage]

xLiltyy M3rkzx Yes, when all of the story DLC is out

[@xxatmosfear9689]

Oni Black Mage nice, i figured as much. good to know.

[@ElicatrothTV]

Nah this is perfect for me as a PC player :D Thank you!

[@darkbornelines4587]

Damn, what a story, I wish I played this before playing Automata

[@lobesteral]

Darkborne Lines it's definitely worth it... If you can find a copy

[@kilomaster]

LobesterAL too bad for me, i dont have a last gen console

[@zayevfenrisulfr]

i played it before Nier Automata but to be honest I didn't think Nier Automata was a sequel xD. So many years gone by I thought they forgot about Nier lmao

[@dianexxx6760]

Me too. I didnt even know what happened to humans. I mean what the hell is project gestalt. Tsk

[@BCSSilverMoon]

@@dianexxx6760 when you are 9s and in the factorys system hacking it you can find info on the project there.

[@rkbelmont1138]

I understand this game bosses are named after tales characters. Are the locations also based on tales? You fight Hook and Wendy on the Aerie, both from Peter Pan. You fight Geppetto and Cleo in the Junk Heap, both from Pinocchio. You fight Roc and Shariyar around Facade, both from Arabian Nights. Hansel and Gretel in the Lost Shrine.

[@lemonkerr3698]

Hansel and Gretel as Devola and Popola? OMG

[@herbertmoon2969]

It was left over from the original story

[@invisibleair2156]

And now nier automata has bosses named after philosophers

[@SlimeBlueMS]

never played this game so i didn't know anything about this story. that was heartbreaking.

[@Shangori]

Oh, it gets even worse if you read the rest of the story, beyond this game. 'Futility' is the word of the year here.

[@herbertmoon2969]

You don't truly understand it until you play it

[@recentteen14]

Honestly, the Drakengard and Nier series as a whole just loves kicking everyone while they're down. Futility is a good fit for the crap they pull.

[@rufrox9947]

Fun (?) Fact - Popola in our Spanish dialect here in the Dominican Republic means "vagina" (or roughly literally translates to the term "pussy" used in English). I remember coughing out my soda when Nier mentions he´s gotta go to Popola for a job.

[@untitled2012]

Wow this seems more like a movie than a game

[@FF18Cloud]

Which, funny enough, would only make sense in the context of a video game

[@EyehatePersona5]

@@FF18Cloud eh

[@HelenKellerDenier]

Thank you for this. I rented this game summer going into high school back in 2010 and I still consider it one of my greatest gaming experiences. Watching this recap was great because not only was it a good refresher but it really brought me back. This and Lost Odyssey were two of the more emotionally gripping stories I've experienced in a game. Just started Automata the other day and I'm loving every minute. Automata hasn't lost any of it's predecessors charm. Such a good series.

[@K0DeX]

Metropolis of salt - I've heard DSP lives there now

[@aiakumu3579]

Will you be doing a RECAPitation on the Drakengard series? I hope so, your videos are wonderful, I have watched them all.

[@OniBlackMage]

By doing NieR, I feel I will do the rest of the Drakengard/NieR series eventually, but not soon (stay tuned though)

[@drew6874]

@Oni Black Mage Do you have Nioh?

[@erazor825]

btw this is the 4th ending and the canon ending leading to near automata there are alot more info in the game that obviously Oni cant fit in the video because they are side things after you revisit the places on the second part of the game and playthrough and the flesh out side characters and let you understand alittle bit more about the world of Nier if you can find a copy of the game i highly recomend that you try the game for your self as it is a great experince

[@dragonskynocturne7347]

actually there is a 5th ending, where leads to the destruction of the human kind cause by kaine bringing back nier, that is the true ending for nier automata begins, this ending was only avaliable on a book and on the remaster of nier game

[@GIRru11]

I have never played this game until recently and I absolutely love both the story and the mashup gameplay it has

[@retrophobe9923]

Just found your channel while looking up explanations of the Kingdom Hearts storyline. How does your channel not have more views and subs? This content is excellent well thought out.

[@generizze6243]

And shadowlord did nothing wrong

[@herbertmoon2969]

That's the point, the twist is your the villain

[@inyalgaico1563]

Technically neither did you but that is the charm choice and motive on the reason of ones existence

[@victuz]

@@inyalgaico1563 Yeah, but Shadowlord (Nier's soul) existence was more important than his replicant counterpart because he was what was keeping humanity alive. Without Nier's soul, all of humanity would relapse and die, thus humans AND replicants going extinct.

[@ekadria-bo4962]

No- He just alter pscyo of Nier..

[@reversaloff9997]

its fucked up how Devola and Popola is programmed to feel guilt

[@BL4D3RUNN3R0M3N]

Fixed camera angles, a scary manor in the woods with a lab underneath making bio-organic weapons, "Resident Malice", Star key. Someone was intent on doing an homage to Resident Evil. Lol

[@GibsonPrime]

I only just picked up Nier: Automata and I'm really glad I did. Sad that this game doesn't have a PC port. Thanks for the video. Filled in quite a few blanks :)

[@TsunaXZ]

Wdym? Nier: Automata has a PC port. I think you meant Nier (2010)

[@vgames1543]

There will be a Nier remake, then you should be able to play it on pc.

[@PotKun]

That Zelda reference by the prince lol.

[@claytonmaclellan8044]

I also love that Nier has become his name He's never named

[@hxcdsal89]

All your vids are filled with "Ah I see what you did there". Expert level writing

[@theoutragedowl5848]

Damn. You know, with the gaming industry as it is now, on a narrative standpoint, I think we need more games with convuluted stories. Where it is required to play the game over and over to find out more about the characters and the world they live in. I also think that this is a better grind in video games than constantly going after loot without much context.

[@andrewvirtue5048]

Now this is real recap. A great explanation for understanding NieR:Automata.

[@proxxei9906]

Every mission, thousands of shades die by the hands of a lunatic. One like = one shade.

[@Infinitydev-lh2bo]

- Axxion - 25 shades We can recover from this.

[@rodneyrivera7945]

@@Infinitydev-lh2bo Agreed

[@caradonschuester2568]

Think of shades like nanomachine stored consciousness in a wifi. every year information degrades. The older the shade, the more insane they grow every passing year.

[@JPdelaGhetto]

I came here because I'm 9 hours into Replicant (I been waiting to play this before Automata), and still ... this entire time ... I keep thinking ... how the hell is this 1,312 Years after the opening. That was a post apocalyptic frozen waste land. Now everything is bright and shiny and some how we're still alive and the same age. Its gotta be a miss translation or something. I don't finish any of these videos because I think it'll answer it for me eventually and I'm trying to avoid spoilers. It just nags me, alllll the time while I'm playing. I'm about to start part 2 and everyone has told me THAT's when the story kicks into high gear. I'm so excited I'm thinking about getting to play later while at work right now.

[@jeetusingh3030]

Wow Story is really good! The way you narrated it made it a lot better. Great work!!

[@alexisandme4eva]

One game that has one of the best soundtracks ever

[@p4ladin167]

"You don't need the first one!" Yeah you do. Automata is full of references to this one and i woudn't know any of them if it wasn't for this video. Even the text adventure that appears when you are still downloading the game on console but you finished the main sequence

[@roxyclaire3982]

great recap helped me out alot to learn the story i started with automata and kinda been interested in the past its so good, yet so depressing as well if u could only do the drakengard series eventually :D

[@toseeupload8855]

After losing his patience with fishing lmao.

[@keen96]

I had this video on my 'watch later' since I saw you uploaded it but waited until I finished Automata to come and watch it. I now realize that it was kinda dumb to wait since this is a prequel both in story chronology and release date but oh well, better late than never. Really enjoy your vids dude, they help me a lot since it usually takes me so long to finish games I always forget a lot of things. I also have a couple other vids in my 'watch later' for when I finish them.

[@JoeTurok]

Brilliant job my friend. I saw another video long back which had explained the other endings as well. I hope you can create a video around it as well. Cheers!

[@TwoFacedKid4]

Please do Xenosaga in the future, that's a long, confusing, but nonetheless interesting series to recap.

[@maiwei]

I remember playing this on PS3 and super stoked that it’s getting remastered on the PS4! I’m ready to get my heart broken again, this time with ONier-chan instead of Papa Nier.

[@allstarsteinman1]

Awesome video! I missed this when it came out but had heard about it when I picked up the new nier for ps4. after watching your video I really want to pick this one up. the story to this nier is amazing I'm suprised it didn't sell more. I feel like the story in this is amazing. thanks for this!

[@dwikiiramdani1996]

when recap make you cry T.T

[@trianglec974]

This is so useful, so glad I found this

[@TrueChaoSclx]

Only 900,000~ copies? I'm surprised this got a sequel, to be honest

[@Lakefront_Khan]

TrueChaoSclx So was EVERYONE else.

[@oniuserjh]

a gamble that paid of

[@eaglenebula2172]

If you're surprised on this then how about the Tales games, they sell less than that and here they're still released and oh boi how glad am I they do that :)

[@thatrandomguycommenting1261]

900k was alot in 2010 for square enix. They relied heavily on final fantasy to carry them. They always have spinoff games. Neir just went ridiculously unappreciated.

[@PrinceRPG]

the game didnt have an insanely high budget sales honestly don't matter its about making profit

[@ARMRStudios]

Holy shit, the comedy here was subtle but on point, good job!

[@justsomeguywithoutalife230]

Nier’s games got some of the most interesting story in video game history

[@eaglenebula2172]

Oh wow that's a one damn big of a plot twist once again, Taro really is great at it 👌 . Thanks a lot for the explanations man as I've only played Automata now I can make the links.

[@KazeKageAnthonyTTV]

Thank you for this. Watching it before I start the new one I know they take place way apart but still good to know

[@1jidion]

a remake of this is being made as we speak, good news for all

[@silent1823]

Its not tho its the Japanese version or 3rd game or something

[@silent1823]

There Nier Gestslt and Nier Rep which is the one that coming to 2022

[@X2XO99]

​@@silent1823 They're the same exact game. In one you play as the father and in the other you play as a brother. That's the only difference. Same everything else.

[@abikinebi6235]

nier replicant?

[@zimaam_]

@@silent1823 wait 22 i tot it was 21

[@RanMouri82]

Thanks for recapping this crazy spinoff of a crazy series!

[@caradonschuester2568]

You missed out a fact. Kaine is a female primary hermaphrodite hence the curse the people of the village referred to BEFORE she was possessed by the 'three legged shade' get it?

[@Netch_Godling]

6:59 - 7:07 you sonovabitch sneaking in legend of zelda references

[@Netch_Godling]

9:00 - 9:22 the end one was said a lil hard :D resident evil

[@OniBlackMage]

agreed :P

[@RainwriterMusic]

That's so depressing. And has interesting parallels with Automata. Which makes me wonder the writer's inspiration for this type of story for losing someone you love dearly and forgetting their existence and the endless pain of that. Hm. I like it.

[@notimeforcreativenamesjust3034]

He's an asshole, seriously the ONLY reason he even made the nier games was to piss off his fans who hated the 4th ending of drakengard which was so hard so unfair so stupidly annoying hard that of course he makes a whole game sequel based off of it.

[@suddenlycrows]

Just about to dive into Automata and I'm grateful for videos like yours.

[@vinnieting]

Thank you so much for this! I finally understood the whole story!! :D

[@thecpme14]

1:41 This is what I don't understand. Is the boy we see at beginning the same person as the one we play?? Why doesn't he get older after 1312 years but later in the game after the 5 years ellipsis he does. I really don't understand.

[@Zorgot.]

the nier you play is a replicant one, the orignal one in the intro has become gestalt and is the shadowlord that you see in the end of the game

[@thecpme14]

@@Zorgot. So a Gestalt is a real human with a soul right? But wait, in 1312 years, how many replicants were made? How old is the character? Is it just a coincidence if the original Yonah and the Yonah from 1312 later have the same disease? Why nothing is said about the way they proceed to make these "clones" because it's what they are right? Replicants are clones with no soul hmm? Thanks for answering me btw, i NEED to know! :-)

[@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810]

@@thecpme14 there's something called the replicant system. As long as a soul is not rogue(what we call shade or Gestalt) it creates a copy of it's original body. Basically every person you encounter, his true soul is still not a Shade. Once the soul becomes a shade the replicant system can't recreate another body corresponding to that soul. If the body dies it creates another as long as the soul is still not a shade. Once the soul starts to become a shade the body gets what we call the Black Scrawl. Once the soul becomes a shade the body dies from the black scrawl. So since tge 13... whatever years there has been countless Yonahs snd Niers. The reason the last one is special is because Yonahs true soul began to turn into a shade and so Yonahs replicant got the black scrawl which drove the story.

[@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810]

@@thecpme14 the originals didn't have the same disease it's something different. I forgot what it was but google it.

[@justsomeotherguywithamusta6810]

@@thecpme14 if i remember correctly the setting where you begin the game is a mmmmm what is the word.... an experiment to discover the first Gestalt which they did. Also Weiss is what binds the souls with it's body, that's why the true soul of yonah couldn't merge with replicant yonah but merly possessed her. Noir is the opposite it removes the soul from the body. Roburn I think( the book in Emils mansion) is a support item that helps either Weiss or Noir during their respective process. Weiss is stupid. Once he regained his memory he knew damn well that killing the first Gestal aka true Nier was gonna lead to the death of every one by the black scrawl, and every soul was gonna turn into a shade and he still helped replicant nier do it.

[@navindranohar5734]

Have you ever thought about golden sun or golden sun the lost age? I think that would be awesome. No one on KZbin has a recap on that saga

[@hectorrocha8626]

Great video i play nier a while back , almost finish it but the story was something

[@Masenken]

This fucking soundtrack conjures too many feels 😭

[@ChipToothPrime]

Excellent video my dude!

[@oniuserjh]

jesus man... im not attached becuz i didnt play this game but if i had i would of been double depressed, there are like no truly happy endings in this universe.... like dark souls.....but so much more feels here

[@herbertmoon2969]

It's the most depressing shit i've ever played

[@bubblepopshot6891]

Just finished Automata, this video was very helpful for understanding the backstory. Also, the library shown around ~10:50 certainly looks familiar ..... :)

[@disturbedrebirth]

I played drakengard when it came out, then Nier, then Autómata and still was hard to link them together. Thanks.

[@OniBlackMage]

It's cool how they really threw a lot more references to Drakengard in Automata, compared to Nier.

[@disturbedrebirth]

@@OniBlackMage I don't remember the references to Drakengard in Automata. Just the talk about "Red Eyes", but it's been quite a few years. I never played Drakengard 3 either.

[@CrisValentina88]

When you play this game the second time around, and you see the shades' storyline.... damn, that gutted me

[@sxnchez34]

Why am i just finding out about this game. I been playing nier automata and never knew this existed.

[@dhufflepuff348]

To think that everything would have played out differently if Nier never found Weiss...

[@glockpackinmofo9231]

really interesting man, well done. is a video on drakengard out yet? can't seem to find it on your channel

[@OniBlackMage]

GlockPackinMofo Haven't done Drakengard yet, but the placeholder is there for the future when I do it and the whole series

[@glockpackinmofo9231]

Oni Black Mage oh okay thanks. eagerly awaiting it, you do amazing work mate.

[@ImranAhmad-rz5oz]

I really needed this. Thanks.

[@lebonk8081]

I freaking loooove the many references to other franchises, lmao

[@SirEvilestDeath]

Who is Taro Yoko? I’m pretty sure Yoko Taro is the director.

[@FlattyMchesterson]

People were not just afraid of kaine just because she is possessed by a shade. It was because of her hermaphroditism

[@Ron-ys7gs]

Fan XD Square Enix hermaphra... what

[@Ormagoden39]

She has both male and female genitals.

[@valeoncat13]

It's apart of the story. You can even see it on the wiki.

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

no -komma- you idiot gossiper.

[@battlestarnomore]

Fan XD Square Enix wow, you'ee dumb.

[@TheSuperrenato]

Really thank you... I wanted to know about this game so bad, so yeah... Thanks!

[@digitaldave5838]

That dairy tho O.O if you have ever beaten nier you will know what I'm on about XD

[@at0micl0bster]

"Resident Malice" i did enjoy that one

[@Fleshlight_Reviewer]

Kaine with the lingerie 👌

[@herbertmoon2969]

She has a dick ya know

[@number0017]

@@herbertmoon2969 that right lol.

[@_____._..--_]

Herbert Moon even better

[@muhammadmusabamiruddin3740]

@@herbertmoon2969 what? How come?

[@regieb2312]

@@muhammadmusabamiruddin3740 kaine is a hermaphrodite.

[@MageAtYou]

1:47 wait are they really the same nier and yonah as in the 2049 intro? how

[@Zorgot.]

they are the replicants of the orignals, the ones from the intro became gestalt, and original nier is the shadowlord you see at the end

[@eldrem]

Loved it! But I'm so anxious for the Legend of Dragoon recap! :D

[@TyTang24]

Is the "terrible fate" a reference to Majora's Mask? :P (7:00)

[@BerryBerryKPR1]

please do nier automata too and make a quick mention of most of the endings because I love this series but it confuses me sometimes

[@erazor825]

loved the first game im so happy that we finally got an other one ^^

[@shihoblade]

Did the project require replicant Nier to make some sort of connection to Weiss? Was he supposed to get just strong enough but due to weiss glitch, nier became too strong?

[@stormbunevitch4933]

Love the subtle reference to resident evil

[@knightsword8068]

i like how u breezed passed 1312 years has passed, I'm like wait hold up wait one minute lmao.

[@reishiki]

That's actually what the game did and I had the same reaction as you when I played it.

[@X_I_A_N]

fixed camera in emil's mansion is an homage to Resident Evil :P

[@briarios666]

Played this a few years back and loved this game so dam much now finally the new one is out for the xbox and i may get it but is their an animated series for this story or is it just a game/manga ?

[@blasuqar]

there are the games and several books that gravitate around theù

[@kumotx6175]

Great video 👍🏼 lovely voice

[@aseel33games47]

thank you so much for this video

[@takecare4880]

Majoras mask refrence at 7:00

[@1griffinguy]

This story is BONKERS

[@TerraFlareKSFL]

Hope that you will do a new video based on Replicant PS4 version with the new content it has :)

[@menheramorii]

damn my eyeballs are sweating

[@kevc2974]

that's a unique and interesting way to end a game

[@TonyRedgrave1]

You forgot the part where kaine literally drags Nier back into existence

[@claytonmaclellan8044]

Like your recap vids

[@LifeOfJulius]

Man, I’m so glad I played replicant first and automata right after. What a f*ckin experience.

[@boinkohh8394]

Makes me want to play the entire series for some reason.

[@thedeepfriar745]

So with Neir Replicant’s remake. I would assume that it’s now the de facto cannon game

[@m4rcin847]

IMO even today NIER >Automata. The "second" playthrou is the only game fragment that almost makes me cry, greatest example that there is no such things as good and evil, its just a matter of perspective. Oh, and Mr. Oni... what about other endings? What about NG+/second playthrou?

[@Trojianmaru]

So is this the "True ending" like how Drakengard had loads of endings, but only one was "canon" and led to this game?

[@wngmv]

This includes all the endings to Nier IIRC. the different endings are more sequential than alternative endings. Automata spawns from the last one, of course where the memory of Nier is completely erased. From that perspective it's funny to even have Nier in the title.

[@cakeistasty-yy38]

wngmv nier comes back tho so it okay to call it nier

[@i.147]

Actually, the ending that canonly leads to Nier Automata is ending E, a novel continuation of ending D.

[@Rogu14]

So updated version including new ending E when? :)

[@LegatusLucius1994]

Okay that's fine an interesting how there's a new dark lord could just appear when a thousand years prior there wasn't

[@victuz]

The white particles falling from the sky maybe isn't snow, but salt, from the White Chlorination Syndrome, the disease that was talked in the video.