Nier Replicant Vs Nier Automata | Comparison 

exactly, the same as me when I went to underground cave that have kaine shack resemblence, feels like something was going on in the past, the atmosphere is on whole other level. When I check the lore, holy moly......

Yep, that happened with me as well

Yea, but like... It has no importance in automata... Its a refference....

@@avendurree that's the beauty of it. It's only a silent reference for you to feel.

Same bro, I was like, "am I supposed to know what this is?" So happy I played automata then replicant

Where was that? I played Automata first, and I don’t recall where that was. I’m assuming it was the “copied city”

@@mrcat3493 its in route c

@@mrcat3493 its in the tower

@@mrcat3493 don't say you played only route A...

@@raivin7172 no, I played a lot of the routes. It’s been a long time since I revisited it.

Wish I played Replicant first, but it’s indeed hilarious how this game is mostly known for looking up 2B’s skirt. But no surprising considering Blade Runner 2049 is mostly known for Ana De Armas. Lot of lonely dudes/pervs out there lol

I wish I actually knew others who shared my love for the Nier games 😭

numbers can 1-10

Same here.. Waiting for 3rd game (exept reincarnation) is soooo long.

Same bro, same...

@@SeFFiroth59_Eky even though my hopes weren't too high for Reincarnation, I was still dissapointed to see how much grinding was needed to pass a single level.

Drakengard 2 isn't canon

Full remake of the first one, remastered of the third

@@sorryyourenotawinner2506 so doesn’t mean we can’t get a remaster

@@sorryyourenotawinner2506 yet (also it is, look at the timeline)

@@sorryyourenotawinner2506 So is Nier since it's just a spin-off and Drakengard 3 is a prequel. It's the first game that actually matters

Weird how it all started as one of the endings to a separate ps2 game.

@@conlooka9356 And the joke ending

Play Replicant/Gestalt, so much better games

@@sorryyourenotawinner2506 in my opinion replicant was really boring compared to automata, especially having to replay the same part multiple times just for a few new cutscenes

@@rokosikic2961 bruh, Automata route 2 was boring af too, that's Yoko Taro's fault who locks scenes behind multiple playthroughs

@@nicogalax I really liked it because you played as 9S and you saw the story from his perspective while in replicant you have like 3 plays with just nier

@@rokosikic2961 Imagine if route B/C/D for Nier Replicant had you take the perspective of other characters, like Kainé, Emil and finally Devola. That would be amazing.

I was kinda hoping in the ending E section of replicant, that when you got to the underground copied world, that you could hopefully see automatas copied city down below, like deep below. or better yet I was hoping you could see "the tower" in its infancy somewhere in the far far distance, sort of growing or manifesting. idk, small things like that are cool to me. but fret not, automata doesn't directly have repeat locations from replicant, BUT in the novels, there's 2 short stories. 1 where the visit the lost shrine, and 1 where they vist the barren temple. both stories are about separate times 2B....has to do her duty.

Well there are some spots in replicant that can be find in automata too... actually quite some places

@@ciztime51 are there? I didn't spot anything familiar

@@eldarius237 Kaines Home is in Automata or Emils secret home in replicant is also in automata and some other spots

@@ciztime51uhm... Emil's secret home is inside a cave, he made it his home after the events of Replicant when his head was launched and flew far away. In his cave, Emil reconstructed Kaine 's shack to keep the memory of her. That's it :(

You sir have a great taste. NieR AC, AND MG? 👍 I wish they'll remaster the first games of MG and release em officially on PC.

I used to like ac when i was younger because of the theme/ezio/history but i dont think it stands near nier/metal gear. I know its an old comment but id like to listen to what makes it good if you have time... Because it really fell off for me as just a ubisoft game title

​@@HinamiMel hm, I'm somewhat in the same boat but I find the fact they're able to utilize all these real places with such ease is a feat imo. Nier and MGS however just have much better storytelling. Not that the AC games are bad by any means

@@amaterasumaster8781 yeah imo, no other game franchise capture the feeling of a historical city walking simulator like AC did.

Name of what?

From the beginning you mean drakengard 3 right? As that's where it all really began

@@Pinky_Piie well in terms of where NieR actually begins, that's ending E of drakengard 1. where the established yoko taro multiverse begins, is drakengard 3. with currently only the drakengard and NieR series being part of that established multiverse. voice of cards is currently unknown in terms of whether it's part of the multiverse of yoko taro.

@@trevorveillette8415 Drakengard 3 is first. Is a prequel, a lot before d1

@@Pinky_Piie yes

I totally agree, playing Automata and Replicant after playing the first NieR killed me mentally.

I feel like Nier was the stepping stone for how Automatas story would be done. They hit super similar beats but automata takes it many steps further in streamlining the playthrough process while also giving so much context to the different routes themselves. Nier is definitely easier for someone to just pick up without much complexity in combat but Automatas system goes super deep. Its damn near a perfect game as it has an immaculate story with immaculate combat.

@@132478699 I have always had a very similar opinion. NieR Replicant is by all means a masterpiece. It's a work of art, and a work of art of its time. But, it's also really unpolished and a little bit shallow compared to its 2017 successor. I remember when I claimed Replicant was like "a beta test version of automata", I offended a lot of Replicant fans whenever I said that. I am aware that putting it like that is very harsh and is actually quite incorrect since both games sport different characters, story and OST. But there's 0 credibility for someone who wants to claim automata isn't more polished, finished, and either simply, or harshly put, automata is just the all around better of the 2 games. Peoples opinions on the story and characters between the 2 games are their own opinions, and they are entitled to them. But automata objectively built upon what replicant did, and did so 10 fold. Even with ver 1.22 the OST still isn't dynamic like automatas, and still reuses way too many songs; both in how many times they're played in separate moments of the game (like kaine salvation, emil sacrifice), and also how many songs are repeats on the official ost, just slightly tweaked, like all the various remixes of yonah, dispossesion, the hills of radiant winds leitmotiff gets recycled a lot, and there's some others I think too. Here's a comparison of automata and replicant OST put simply, just from a technical standpoint. Replicant: yonah in all its versions is just a solo instrumental (no vocals) version of ashes of dreams. Dance of the evanescent is just yonah/ashes of dreams as a waltz. Overall because of this, ashes of dreams essentially appears in the game like 6 times or more. That's 6 official songs on an ost being taken up by 1 song and it's various remixes. Those remixes are counted as official songs. Whereas in automata, those remixes would just be considered "quiet, medium, dynamic, vocals, no vocals" and some songs Even have "become as gods, this cannot continue" remixes. Then factor in that you can mix and match which things play at once (like pairing vocals/no vocals, variously with quiet, medium, dynamic versions of the song) So essentially what I'm getting at is, you could argue what are considered "full songs" on replicants ost, could just be considered small remixes on automata because the official automata ost includes no remixes, just the dynamic versions of the songs. Then there's combat which I won't even need to get into. It's just obvious since you can actually do combos between weapon types and which slot the weapons are assigned to will change each weapons moveset. Meanwhile that's not present in replicant. Then there's the fact that replicant goes through the same exact story every time in every playthrough, just with new info each time. Route C/D could all just be fit into route B. With ending C/D being conditional endings. And E being gotten by getting all previous endings. Automata actually has real new content by route C/D. And it's the actual meat and potatoes of the game too at that. Then factor in that in replicant you need to collect all weapons to go beyond route B and in automata you don't, and you have 1 game with horrible pacing issues, and the other game flows like water.

@@132478699 and from narrative aspect. replicant touches lightly, and briefly on some existentialism with the whole shades reveal. but that's very small and overall not that powerful, since at the end of the day, your characters are people too, and shades have hurt you and your loved ones. so it's really not that much of a horrible existential dread moment. replicant just dips it's toes into the depression pond. it dabbles heavily with sadness though. automata on the other hand is both very sad, and heavily depressing. existential themes taking center stage and tying into each characters own suffering in the game really helps accomplish this. both games feel like "NieR", like "yoko taro" but it feels like automata is the most "NieR" of the 2 NieR games, and is the most "yoko taro" of all his games. drakengard feels like yoko taro entering a phase of finding what he loves to make. it's like an introduction of what he began as, as a creator. then we come to NieR replicant. this is where it feels like he found his niche. he found what style he enjoys best. or simply put, he found "his style" and in automata it feels like he fully embraced and perfected his style. because automata is styled the same way replicant is in its execution and overall presentation and format, but it's to the extreme. it's amplified. people thought replicants camera changes were crazy? boom, automata with the seamless camera transitions, and multiple in quick succession. replicants genre changes? boom, hack and slash, arcade hacking mini games, shoot em up sections, side scrollers, bullet hells, visual novel sections. (oh I forgot to mention automata has an algorithm that can transfer any ost being played, into chiptune versions, so count that towards the list of things automatas OST has over replicants) replicants got bosses with sad backstories? well welcome back, there's more now! over half of replicants lore being hidden in a book and a play? well God diggity damn son, automata has like 80% of its lore hidden in multiple novels, stage plays, like 2 script readings, 2 world guides, a collectors edition artbook, and in crossovers with other games. there's even more actually but I'm just forgetting the other formats that yoko taro has used to spill some lore into. replicant having 3 main/central characters? automata also has 3, but now you can play as all 3! I really liked replicant (apart from grinding for the platinum trophy, oh God), but I REALLY loved Automata. automata has like 2 maybe 3 flaws, and they practically don't even count because 2 of them are just technical things. 1. bushes/assets popping in and out of existence, especially in the city ruins. they should release a patch for this. it's an easy fix, especially now with next gen. 2. resolution being locked to 1080p. they should increase it to 4k. it annoys me seeing fuzzy edges on character models. would love to see a more crisp looking automata. 3. this is actually not a flaw, just would be nice to have. more side story content being included. replicant did this with ver 1.22 adding the little mermaid side story, and ending E. automata should add 2 short stories called "memory cage" and "memory thorn". these 2 side stories are ESSENTIAL to understanding 2B and 9S as individual characters, as well as understanding their relationship. so many replicant fans complain about automata not "characterizing" it's characters enough. well memory cage and memory thorn fixes the majority of the missing info you need to fully appreciate 2 of the 3 main characters. they could add flashbacks for A2s past that are visuals from her side story YoRHa ver 1.5 (otherwise known as the pearl harbor descent records). this short story is actually in the game in a text section in the resistance camp, but it's just the text, and I don't believe it's word for word. there's a manga that adapts this specific short story since it's so long of a short story, and it gives the story visuals of course. flashbacks/nightmares for A2 would help connect her to this story more since it's COMPLETELY missable in the game. you can just walk by the terminal in the resistance camp dozens of times and never know there's a whole essential character backstory just sitting there in the hub area. automatas lore is so easy to miss and ridiculously hard to piece together that it's no wonder that replicant fans complain about automatas story being too complicated or hard to understand.

It was the other way around for me, I just couldn't care less about Automata characters (didn't do most of the sidequests, but the ones I did add something to their characters), the story was better in Automata but yeah I still prefer Emil, Nier, Kaine and WEISS (best character)

@@nicogalax I can get that as when I played replicant, which was my first time playing OG nier, I think the characters felt much more human and relatable, and I think that was the point. The androids are suppose to be more stiff until they start to figure things out. I'd probably agree though, I love Replicants characters more in the end. Weiss, Emil, and Kaines voice actors/actress did S+ work to make them feel alive.

Replicant story is so tragic.

Agree 100%

So how is it? If good yet like automata, i'll buy too

I hope u got replicant, its so good

I did the same but feel the opposite. Replicant was so good but Automata is quite a bit deeper than Replicant and delves into more themes and philosophies. Music was about equal to me. When I played Replicant I missed a few tracks from Automata and vice versa. Characters is about equal as well though replicant does have a bit more development, again Automata just goes a bit deeper. Story is where I think Automata takes the biggest edge though, it had that vagueness in details that I love in stories while still having a good direct plot. I think I'm gonna have to go replay both of them now.

​@@MrKing-qd7gi agreed on everything but the characters, replicant's are far better 9s feels like a dummy npc untill you start his story, A2 is nearly non existent most of the game and B2's story cant be compared to any of the 3 main characters in replicant

@@iR4ng3z I just think that Replicant was more personal with it's characters while Automata was more nuanced with them. Easier to get attached to replicant's, but there's more to look into with Automata's. That's how it feels for me anyways.

Agreed

Hopefully it will be the same for the Automata anime 🤞

@Liquid Schwartz I mean, if you are not able to actually play it cause you feel bad or similar, you don't have to. Put your health and mental health first, always

What are you talking about? First Replicant ver. 1.22... is a remastered and not a remake. Second it is a remastered of the original NieR Replicant which was only released in japan since we got NieR Gestalt in the west.

@@tuikyo Its a remake

Same here

2010 nier is dogshit, it’s nier replicant but shitty everything and nier is the father of yonah instead.

OH MY GOD IT IS!!!! LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME WOAH

Because it is! :)

It is! When you use it in NieR Atuomata it also changes your dash animation and the HUD to make it more like final fantasy's style

Yes I love Nier I was lucky to play it on my Xbox 360

Same

Replicant

No lo pude jugar al no tener play3 pero vi un video y se ve claramente la mejora. Pudo haberse mejorado aun más pero quitaria esencia en la historia que personalmente me atrapo más que el automata.

Automata tiene mejor gameplay y graficos, en lo demas el replicant se lo come

@@iR4ng3z totalmente

idk if you're cracking a joke or not. but no. They're both set in japan. automatas city is Tokyo, the beginning of replicant in the snowing city, is Tokyo I believe. specifically shinjuku. the people alive during replicant are not alive during automata since there's over 8000 years of gap time between the 2 games. automatas city is just the ruins of Tokyo, it's not something that people from replicant built over time.

@@trevorveillette8415 Thank you for the clarification.

@@afnannazri1691 the desert areas are the same though, to an extent

Which final boss tho? Replicant got like three of em

Song of the ancients - Popola ver.

@@Cherno_editz thank you man

I guess it's not, although automata and replicant took place in kingdom of day, they are in different region. And shadowlord's castle was a apartment looking building, not a real castle like forest kingdom

@@iyaajadah8703 there are big doors in the forest kingdom, it’s not the actual castle but it’s before you go in it. it’s hard to explain, but it looks like the hallways when you’re fighting the final bosses in replicant

Replicant is the prequel and is heavily connected with automata

​@@suave605Not a prequel. Automata is the sequel of the original Replicant/Gestalt.

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You better play Replicant first if you really want to blow your mind.

Play replicant first as it takes place before automata and you'll understand some references more

your best chance at falling in love with these games is by playing Automata first since it's the better of the 2 games. I never would've played replicant if i didn't played automata first. also in automata, popolas library is in route C/D where you enter the tower.

@@trevorveillette8415 Thanks

@@saltysgene584 I have already read the lore from drakengard until automata in some reviews and I can confirm that xD Although I want to get the original released games in it both versions also... (^^)/

Yes 100%. You don't NEED to play both to enjoy one of them alone as they have different characters but to fully understand and appreciate the story you definitely want to as they tie directly to eachother. Plus they are both amazing anyways.

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@@cajunseasoning1846 cool thanks

Thousands of years actually

Replicant should take place somewhere around the 3000s and Automata is in the 11000s

an imperfect replica of the original

Nope. Every song in the original Nier is incredible right off the bat. Automata has an impressive OST, but it never reaches the emotional heights of the OG soundtrack and almost the entire time in game is spent with the extremely minimalist versions of songs.

@@radicalstanza3614 Did you see video? It isn't OG!!!!!!! Its a REMAKE, with SHITTY music. OG have a gorgeous soundtrack, Automata is beautiful soundtrack, REMAKE VER -1.990... - DAMN AWFUL soundtrack, and you agree with this, if you have EAR on your head, lmao.

@@Kirill_Ivanov. I love these two games and I don't want to start seeing Automata ugly because of people as undesirable as you, but RepliCant's music is much better, only songs like Shadowlord, Snow in Summer, Song of the ancients, they already beat it very easy to any of Automata

@@Cherno_editz Are you drunk? I wrote that the music in the video is not from the Replicant, but from the remake, since you did not watch the video itself. The music in the remake is HORRIBLE. You, apparently, only listen to all sorts of shit like rap and noise, so you can’t understand this.

@@Kirill_Ivanov. To begin with, calm down your arrogance, you can't know anything, just suspect, the remake's music isn't all bad but the original's is good, one question I have is how you can play these beautiful games if your behavior is equal to or worse than that of a monkey, you cannot designate what people's tastes are, after all you do not know me nor I know you and I am not interested in doing so, after all your behavior here defines what you are a totally imbecile and conceited being, and if it is not, well, you see how stupid it is to designate the personality of someone who you will surely meet in your life