Once again, I hate to do so but, when compared to Nier: Automata, Nier Replicant comes off as very basic, especially when it comes to combat. Nier Replicant unfortunately really shows its age with its gameplay and level design. Then again, they also used this song in Nier: Automata, didn’t they?
The best song in Nier Replicant for me is easily The Song of the Ancients when sung by Devola and Popola. They were good but nothing struck me like Nier: Automata’s A Beautiful Song, Peaceful Sleep or The Weight of the World. Nier: Automata has one of the best soundtracks in video game history and, since Nier Replicant is its predecessor, I half expected the music there to blow my mind. I would like to refrain as much as possible from comparing the two but I can’t help it. The music in Nier Replicant is good but, sadly, not as good as the songs in the sequel Nier: Automata. His air of superiority mixed with his English accent lets us know how highly he thinks of himself. The best performance, by far, comes from Grimoire Weiss. Nier, the main character, does bounce between decent man who want to help everyone he comes in contact with and homicidal maniac who will kill each and every Shade in the world. Yonah breathy manner of speech lets you know immediately she’s frail but wants to help out. Kaine is no-nonsense and tough but you can tell she has a softer side to her. Emil has youthful naivety to him and loves to look at the positive side of things. You can also tell what kind of personality the main characters have from not only their lines but the intonations as well. What even more impressive are the vocal performances for the main characters! There’s a really nice, well, familiarity whenever they speak. Sure, they don’t really say all that much but the mere fact they hired a voice actor to record some throwaway lines was phenomenal. However, the mere fact you can literally go up to every person and start a dialog with them and actually hear them speak did strike me as something I’ve never experienced before. There are games, like in Square Enix’s Final Fantasy VII Remake, where you can hear background characters talking to each other, so this shouldn’t be all that impressive. Everyone, and I mean everyone, you talk to has some recorded dialog. It’s not the most gorgeous game but there is a simplistic charm to Nier Replicant’s overal aestethics.Īudio design is really good, though.
There’s even a certain “blockiness” to all of the buildings and terrain but I do love how most of the textures are hi-res images. The graphics in Nier Replicant aren’t what I would call gorgeous but they are pretty enough that I’m not retching from how awful it looks. Nier, alongside Grimoire Weiss and his companions, the lingerie-wearing hothead Kaine and the young Emil, scour the land and battle creatures known as Shades as well as a way to save Yonah from her fate. He eventually finds a mysterious book called the Grimoire Weiss, a sentient tome, who grants Nier the ability to access magical attacks. You control the protagonist, who I named Nier so I’ll just be calling the main hero Nier to make things easier, live in a small village with your younger sister, Yonah, who is infected with a deadly sickness known as the Black Scrawl. The main story of Nier Replicant takes place centuries from our present and several hundred years prior to the events of Nier Automata.
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