After years of wanting to make this video and over a year of writing it, I present to you my analysis of NieR Replicant exploring the characters of Weiss, Emil, Nier and Kainé covering both their journeys within the game and in Grimoire NieR’s short stories, the latter being rather crucial and underrated in how they shape each character!
Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:24 Weiss's Backstory
6:10 Grimoire Weiss
11:08 Halua & Emil's Backstory
14:43 Emil
20:11 The Boy (Nier)
27:55 The Man (Nier)
35:01 Kainé's Backstory
39:05 Kainé
46:39 NieR Replicant & Perspective
49:37 Ending E
53:16 Credits
Special thanks to:
- @SonnyNovus
- @mikaylagrosse9276 or @/createdbymkla (Instagram)
- @dingle8385
- @jarroddelaney8374
- @ViscoseOCE
For their awesome narrations!
Thank you @GuitarSVD and @AryaViotta for allowing me to use their wonderful covers you can find here:
- Shadowlord guitar cover by GuitarSVD https://youtu.be/tAkJYvRLvo8?si=vVZjbwE2raC7eRGD
- Descendeus / Fallen God vocal cover by Arya Viotta https://youtu.be/fAOdB-geRRg?si=6G43c3oJIXGP5XdF
Shoutout to:
- NieR Wiki (Grimoire NieR short stories)
- Defade (fan translation of Red and Black)
- shirobooty / spffn (fan translation of NieR Replicant CD Drama)
- EVPointMaster (NieR Replicant save collection)
- BuffMaister (NieR Reincarnation footage)
Footage used:
- The Pied Piper of Hamlin - Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove Film - Puppet Animation 1981
- https://youtu.be/LD6xCLlF5dY?si=9cs14gLAXXJRf6_q
- https://youtu.be/RDjjXfTn6-8?si=z2UoKFsXB55ezqCL
- https://youtu.be/QRJ4IGeY49I?si=8iQev70gJ5JSAe_O
Music used:
- Song of the Ancients - NieR: Automata Announcement Trailer
- Broken Windows - Sonny Boy OST
- Servants of the Mountain - Final Fantasy X HD Remaster OST
- Drift - Monster OST
- The Book of Lies and the Universe - SINoALICE OST
- Distant From You… - Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance OST
- Chain of Memories - Re:ZERO - Starting Life in Another World OST
- Exhausted (piano ver.) - DRAG-ON DRAGOON Chips Music
- Bloom_Outro - Ender Lilies:Quetus of the Knight OST
- pianoVIIIVI-i - 86 EIGHTY-SIX OST
- Messenger (piano) - Steins; Gate 0 OST
- Yonah (pluck ver. 1) - NieR Gestalt & Replicant OST
- Boundless Memories - SINoALICE OST
- The Theme of NOMAD (unplugged) - Megalo Box 2: NOMAD OST
- One of the selection - Gate of the steiner - GATE OF STEINER 10th Anniversary
- Mobius (Bonus Track) - Metro: Last Light OST
- Sobre Sus Costales - Blasphemous 2 OST
- Metro 2033 Main Theme - Metro 2033 OST
- Emil (arranged & performed by TakaNori Goto) - Square Enix Music Channel
- Dispossession (pluck ver.) - NieR Gestalt & Replicant OST
- Shadowlord (arranged & performed by Cecil Chau) - GuitarSVD
- In Circles (Instrumental) - Transistor OST
- Grandma (Orchestral + Piano) - NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…
- Empty Tone - Drakengard 3 OST
- Descendeus / Fallen God - cover by Arya Viotta from Drakengard 3
- Ashes of Dreams (Music Box) - NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… OST
- Reminiscence (Opening Staff Roll BGM) - Suikoden II OST Vol. 1
- Analogous Memories - NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… OST
- Kainé / Escape - NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… OST
- Kainé / Salvation - NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… OST
- Agonizing Heart - Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters GX Sound Duel Vol II
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