A Quick Analysis of NieR Replicant & Automata
129I really like NieR, so here's the NieR Retrospective thingy.
So I combined the essays, added new little edits for fun, and tried my best to fix the audio. The vids were made in 2024 when I was just starting this kind of longer essay, but with these augmentations it's now closer to my original vision for it.
Emil's lovely, innit.
00:00 - [DESERVE ANA QOLA]
00:20 - The Illusion of Agency
03:52 - The Sentient Humanity of the Replicants
08:13 - The Pre-Emptive Self-F*ckening of Project Gestalt
12:34 - The Communication of Conflict
14:52 - The Metaphysics of Humanity
22:01 - [KUWATA TSUNOWO VRALAI]
22:35 - The Ephemeral Relevance of Nier Lore
26:17 - Locational Archetypes & Liminal Highways
27:50 - Village & the Illusion of Agency
33:16 - Snow in Summer
35:26 - The Northern Plains Kicks Rhinos
36:26 - The Lost Shrine was a Tesco Metro
39:12 - The Forest of Myth is a Migraine
43:27 - The Aerie is the Happiest Place on Earth
44:09 - The Liminal Highways
44:56 - A Seafront Repose
45:42 - The Junk Heap: 50 Shades of Brown
48:14 - The Desert: Where Boring is Fun
49:21 - Facade: Law, Consequence & OCD
52:34 - Barren Temple... of Drifting Sands
53:53 - Emil's Manor Scares Me
54:23 - Underground Lab: Lego City
55:42 - Shadowlord's Castle: A Gate to Purgatory
59:07 - [ONCE THERE WERE TREES FULL OF BIRDS]
1:00:22 - Devola, Popola & Autonomy
1:05:54 - Kaine & the Difficult Art of Expression
1:09:22 - Nier Can't Swim
1:12:30 - The Shadowlord
1:13:25 - Yonah
1:14:26 - Grimoire Weiss & Selective Epistomology
1:15:13 - Emil & the Freedom of the Outcast
1:19:17 - Kaine & Weissy, Banter that's Spicy
1:19:48 - Banter!
1:30:51 - Side Quests (Fun in Mundanity; Deadlock of Sanity)
1:37:08 - Charm: A Sprinkle of Yonah
1:38:27 - [YA'THAH LA'THALAH]
1:38:41 Multiple Endings; Subtracted Beginnings
1:53:09 - Route E
1:59:12 - [SHUL PAREL MOIHIM]
1:59:20 - A Supercomputer Full of Birds
2:02:51 - NIER AUTOMATA
2:03:05 - The Ultimate Cosmic Punchline
2:09:38 - "In my body and my soul"
2:09:48 - Depression is Probably Just Common Sense
2:15:01 - Existentialism vs Nihilism I
2:16:21 - "And the sky, it looks so ominous"
2:16:32 - God is Bread
2:18:56 - Misery is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
2:20:00 - T Shirts, Love & Social Media
2:27:00 - A God Worth Living For
2:29:25 - Psychology is History I
2:32:39 - Memory Data & Mortal Illusions
2:34:00 - Psychology is History II
2:37:54 - Existentialism vs Nihilism II
2:40:38 - "And as time comes to a halt"
2:40:50 - Bad Pudding
2:44:24 - Rise of AI I: The Keys to Consciousness
2:47:20 - Rise of AI II: Self-Control & OCD
2:48:57 - Rise of AI III: The Liminality of Linearity
2:54:42 - You Want to Plap 2B, Don't You?
2:57:56 - Of Schopenhauer
3:01:50 - Thank You for the Flowers
3:03:17 - "Silence starts to overflow"
3:03:27 - WORLD; MUSIC
3:07:32 - City Ruins: The Nier Aesthetic II
3:09:43 - The Bunker: Cosmic Hamster Wheel
3:15:14 - Resistance Camp: Peaceful Sleep
3:16:28 - Amusement Park: Codified Colour
3:18:17 - The [C]opied [C]ity
3:20:04 - Desert Zone: Memories of Dust
3:23:02 - The Machine Village Loves Ladders
3:24:20 - Alien Mothership: Because Why Not?
3:25:10 - The Abandoned Crap Factory
3:25:49 - Emil's Home Makes Me Feel Feely Feelings
3:26:25 - The Viscerality of the Forest Zone
3:27:17 - Flooded City: Good for Panoramas, Innit
3:27:48 - Meat Box + Soul Box + God Box
3:28:22 - The Tower: Is Special
3:32:20 - "My cries are inconspicuous"
3:32:30 - CHARACTERS
4:00:11 - "After all the laughter fades"
4:00:27 - NARRATIVE II - Of Cartesian Dualism
4:01:03 - Of Metametaphysics
4:01:22 - Of the Anastomosis of Ideology
4:03:50 - QUESTS + PACING + FLOW
4:06:09 - BANTER & FUNNY MOMENTS
4:11:00 - MAIN ROUTES / ENDINGS RUNDOWN
4:19:19 - Ending E
4:21:08 - "Signs of life all washed away"
4:21:23 - ALTERNATE / JOKE ENDINGS
4:29:03 - COMBAT
4:31:32 - The End of YoRHa
4:37:55 - Final Thoughts
4:38:30 - "AND LIFE HAS BECOME MY ENEMY."