Just finished Replicant, so here I am boys. 4 years later

The line "Is this the land of the gods?" followed by "Tokyo" sounds like something an Otaku would say.

Back in 2016 Clemp wore gloves in a supermarket. Now everyone's doing it. Clemp is truly ahead of his time.

“The pandemic spread after remnants of legion were thrown into the atmosphere, and made their way to China... *one of the most densely-populated nations on the planet* ” Aged like fine wine

Who's here after the remake announcement

"it's unclear on how Caim could have survived to become infected and become Red-Eye" The lore can provide a possible explanation. Angelus's 'dark' form somehow dissolves the pact with Caim in Ending C, allowing Caim to speak and, more importantly kill Angelus without dying himself. Since Angelus has this form in ending E, it's likely that the pact was naturally dissolved meaning the Red Dragon's death at the end of Route E would not have killed Caim. So how did Caim survive the missile explosion, let alone the fall to earth? Is he just a fucking LEGEND? (tbh I'd buy this) Well, in Drakengard 3, it's established that when a Dragon dies, it gets one wish, and usually dragons use this wish to simply reincarnate themselves, which is how Michael became Mikhail at the beginning of the game. However at the end of ending A, Mikhail implies that this wish can be used on other things. Perhaps Angelus used the dragon wish to keep Caim alive. Since we know that the Red Dragon developed something resembling feelings of love for Caim, it wouldn't be out of character to do this. So in short, Angelus's final form broke the pact with Caim, and then as they died, Angelus used the Dragon Wish to keep Caim alive, for a little while longer, anyway. This scenario would be in line with Drakengard 1's overall theme, where every seemingly heroic action winds up being nothing more than bows and arrows agains the lightning. Caim saved the world by sacrificing Angelus, but really only served to preserve the thin seal between peace and destruction. Caim could kill the demonic form of his sister, but not an entire army of her. Caim could defeat Angelus single handedly, but probably not an army of Dragons, etc... So in this scenario, Angelus may have protected Caim from death, but nothing could have protected him from the White Chlorination Syndrome, and what better revenge for the Watchers than to have the greatest champion against them be their slave to lead an army against mankind? That is so very Drakengard.

Whenever I hear “It might not ever be known unless automata expands on this” and I just shake my head saying “noooo, not one fucking bit”

Clemps.... We need you now more than ever.

I can't thank you enough for someone finally and skillfully giving this series the respect it deserves.

This is so far the first time I've seen someone who tries to share and explain the nuances of the Drakengard/NieR universes and actually get all the factual portions correct. I also agree with the theories and speculation you brought up. Friends and I are die hard DoD/NieR fans and it was refreshing to see someone do an explanation justice. Looking forward to your part two and I'll be sure to shadow your contributions with helping to advertise and link to your work. Good work!

WAIT WAIT WAIT so, that legend devola tells you is her lying to your face so blatantly it hurts, right?

"What am I playing here? Cold hard reality?" That statement alone made me laugh WAY harder than it should have, which in turn made me depressed due to how true it is. 10/10

It's a bit disingenuous to say there are no real differences between Brother and Papa Nier. I like both, but the reality is the first half of the game makes far more sense with Replicant as it's supposed to be a coming of age story and his loss of innocence. Getalt is just too cynical and hardened by a life in that world and it's why he doesn't change anywhere near as much by the timeskip.

In regards to 12:30 ---------------SPOILERS AHEAD------------------- I actually kinda have grown to love this little detail. It wasn't until after playing the game all the way through and revisiting it recently that I realized it's actually kinda awesome. These towns and villages with warriors capable of fending off the shades make it seem like humanity should be doing just fine. They've got food, protection, and while shades tend to attack it seems like they get wiped out more easily than people do. Even without Weiss, Nier can take down a swarm of the little ones without much issue. But that's the thing. The problem isn't the shades, not even the berserk ones. If that was the case, these locations would never see peace and would almost always be in need of repair. It would look more like we'd expect a post-apocalypse town to look. The problem is that they are killing the shades to begin with. In all irony, these villagers are their own apocalypse. Once a shade is gone, there's no way to create its replicant, ultimately reducing the population with every dead shade. It's not the monsters, it's just that the population just gets smaller and smaller with each generation. Long story short ... They're literally killing themselves.

Clemps, would you rather be a millionaire or eat a pancake?

You know why they call it Nier. Because it's nier-ly perfect.

Goddamn I could listen to you talk about Yoko Taro's work all day. Fuck!This world is so interesting!

So we went from a Berserk like Fantasy setting to a Sci-fi Ghost in the Shell like world(esteticly). Only Drakengard can pull this off. @_@

I wondered why the R is capitalized, and looked it up. Apparently, it's an inside joke/secret thing related to the *R*eplicants discussed later in the game.

Undoubtedly Yoko's best game so far. The reason for that is simply that, while D1 has a lot of interesting IDEAS and concepts, it mostly is not actually that well-written per se. It dives a bit too far into its own nihilism but doesn't necessarily have that much substance to compensate, most of it is just the character concepts like Caim being a statement on the questionable nature of heroism, but they're not exactly complex or do much to get sympathy from the audience. About the closest thing is Caim's pitch-black charisma. It's interesting and the novelty of its bleakness can't be denied but if it was the only thing Yoko had done, or all he ever did I wouldn't hold him in anywhere near the same regard as I do presently. NieR on the other hand keeps the weird stuff, the extremely dark events, the subversions, but it adds a lot of warmth and love into the story. It's a story centered ENTIRELY on love, in fact. The characters are much more sympathetic, while being interesting in both concept and execution. It's not really just the main characters ever, a lot of the NPC's you run into are genuinely good people too as you pointed out. It has a way more positive view of humanity than Drakengard does. This means you are a lot more invested in the story because you care more about the people the horrible things are happening to. Not to mention that the game has a lot more levity in general, a lot of the jokes in it hit home and much of the banter between Weiss, NieR, Kainé and Emil puts a smile on your face if it isn't making you laugh outright. This is also helped immensely by the mostly great script and voice-acting. There are some more cheesy lines and melodramatic moments but it's far better than the scripts in most JRPG's, except the greats like FFXII and Vagrant Story.

I remember when I had that Weiss Pod skin in Automata, I just thought "Hahah, book go brrr brrr". Had no idea the weight that book carried

The guys over at Super Best Friends gave you shout out this week on their podcast. Hope that helps spread the word about the good work you're doing on this channel.

Damn I was waiting for this Thanks for giving me my needed Clemps fix

You know, on the subject of Brother Nier over Father Nier. Would it be nice, if they ever decide to remaster Nier, that they would give you the option to choose to play as either Brother Nier or Father Nier. Because, I kinda really like the idea of the brother being Nier Jr. and the Father being Nier Sr. That the life of this family of a single Father, brother, and sister being destroyed by the apocalypse, and either the Father or Brother sacrifices himself to protect the rest. Maybe have the Shadowlord be the one you didn't pick, so it's always the Father vs the Son. Would that add to the tragedy of the story?

Always thought that Caim may have been Red eyes trying to rescue Angelus as they had a fascination with her.

Love your content dude, have a nice year :D

I don't think that brother Nier's side journey of getting buggered by butt pirates should be seen as making brother Nier "canon," but rather an extension of Yoko Taro's original reason for introducing brother Nier to replace father Nier in the first place. Namely, mocking the Japanese sister complex and the Oni-chan trope that pervades JRPGs. I hope Clemps still checks out these comments since I agree father Nier is the much better character.

you mentioned Flyff I'm legit crying right now so many people don't even know the cute little world of Flyff and here you are mentioning it ughhhhhhhhh my heart

I love how lewd you are, Clemps.

I'm happy we got Gestalt because young brother's cockatoo bird hairdo would have broken the immersion for me.

This time the game has some spooky aspect ratio fuckery and not Clemps. How the tables have turned.

I'm glad Replicant was remade

AAAHH! The wait is finally over! Haven't started the video but holy shit Thank You!! Already feel it in my bones that I'll love this analysis you took so much time to work on! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!

Your summaries of the previous Taro games was a big part in me picking up a refurbished PS3 today and I was lucky enough to find a relatively unscathed copy of Nier for cheap the other week. After I play the fuck out of it I look forward to coming back and watching this series.

been waiting so long for this! thank you and keep up the great work!

You're getting extremely good at editing and making well timed cuts. Amazing video!

I come back to your analysis videos from time to time whenever I'm bored because they're just so good.

Can say you are getting a lot better at video making. Will be waiting on the next part.

I just discover your channel yesterday, and had binge watch your analyse/review vids I really enjoy it I hope you do more of it, keep up the good work clemps

Just wanted to drop in idk if i ever commented but ive been watching your vids for 3 years now and youre just awesome, this was the first one so i wanted to leave this here. Luv ya clemps

25 minutes of pure enjoyment and suffering, especially suffering These type of videos are amazing haha

Still one of my favorite video- series of yours. You really had developed your own style at that point and found a good way between summarizing the plot and telling us your own thoughts about Nier and its universe. I will never play NIER as a game, but I will always love to hear your voice telling me, why you love it so much :D.

Back here once again after finishing the Replicant version upgrade after having played the original 3 years ago. Thanks for making these Clemps.

I T ' S H E R E B A B Y

you putting out this video NOW genuinely surprised me, thank you clemps I wish a wonderful holiday season to you and your loved ones ^^

One of the most underrated games ever. Great videos.

If Caim survive that missile i would flip

Rewatching as a quick refresher ahead of the Nier Replicant 1.22!

Imagine if there was a Nier or Drakengard game where Caim is the main character in the modern world.

Man, now I want to go and play this game again and get past the ending that stopped me the first time haha. Thank you for all the great content, can't wait for more!

Btw dude i love your videos. These uploads are right on time for automata and your really saving everyone a lot of hours of bad gameplay.

Yoko Taro is such a bizarre genius. All the complex backstory and deep mysteries covered in most of this video and it's basically non existent in the game itself. Hell, if it wasn't for fan translations we still wouldn't know most of this stuff and yet still there's so much I can't wait to see you cover in the second half. The complex worlds and stories he creates are seriously unmatched. Great video as ever dude, when you said it'd drop before the end of the year, you delivered just in the time, can't wait for part 2!

YES, finaly. Damn such a good video. Cant wait for part 2!

I've been waiting for this! So glad to see it up!!

I discovered your channel thanks to Two Best Friends Play. I must say I'm super impressed with your videos... your humor is right up my alley, boi! You deserve way more views, and I look forward to moar vidyas!

My brother by chance bought this game for me on xbox 360 when it came out as it said Square Enix on the front. I played it aged 16 and absolutely adored it but couldn't find anyone who knew about it or had even heard of it really. It was the first time playing a game which really changed how I thought stories could be told in the medium. I learnt about Drakengard much later when Automata was announced and came across your videos randomly one time. My God if this isn't one of the most interesting, thought provoking, beautifully depressing and just batshit insane pieces of media ever created. Although FFIX is my favourite game mainly for it's nostalgia, I find myself constantly trying to find out more and more about this series through every facet possible and for me it's one of the few series where I look forward to content for it outside of just games. I look forward to getting my hands on an English version of Grimoire Nier and just absorbing as much as I can from this series. Even to this day I don't find many people who've heard much about drakengard/nier outside of automata in my day to day life but I hope over time more and more people get into it. Nier is a strange example in particular where I didn't really love the gameplay but was SO completely absorbed by the story that I had to see more and more. The story was the bigger part which was something I had rarely experienced. Often with rpg's I find myself half listening to the story as they are so often pretty on the nose but the gameplay would keep me going. With Nier, I enjoyed the gameplay somewhat but I just wanted to see so much what happened next. It hooks you from the beginning. Not to mention the incredible music. Please excuse the boring rant :L I don't often comment on content but wanted to say how much I love your videos and explanations of the stories and find myself rewatching them incredibly often. I think you personally have managed to bring a good amount of new fans to the series which is quite the feat to be honest. Fantastic work Clempsy!

"I hope Autamata clarifies on what happens in the lore" *Yoko Taro laughing in Yoko Taro in the distance*

Yes! Can't overstate how long I've been waiting for this!

09:10 Are you sure it's from Grimmoire Nier? I couldn't find it and a while ago somebody told me it's a fan art made for a let's play that isn't official at all

Very cool Video. I loved the editing and the Final Fantasy 9 music in the background

Oh man, I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!

Glad to see your game analysing videos again Clemps ^^

Thank you Clemps! I just got ending E on the remake Nier. I watched your videos several times before hand and there were so many surprises even after. You are awesome sir thank you for piquing my interest!

Looking forward to Part 2, this one was great :)

Found this due to your recent Canuck adventures. Excited to watch the rest of the series.

Excellent video! I played through the game but that was a long time ago so it's been great to remember the events of the game! By the way, I liked your humor too!

5:47 OMG I LOVE YOU You mix Nier and Bayonetta, two of my favorite games

I'm so so hyped for Nier:Automata.

9:06 I will give you this Clemps, I never knew this, you had me launch myself of my chair out of shock and surprise.

Came back for the Nier: Replicant Announcement from yesterday evening/this morning. Ultra hype, glad I ended up playing through these two games.

Thank you for making this

eagerly waiting for part 2 i want to see what else i didnt know about this amazing game

Can't believe I have to wait until next year for the next part.

Good to see this finally come into fruition. Very much looking forward to the next part. Also Devola > Popola.

That opening is great goshdarn

Well good on you for releasing this but DAMN I'm gonna have to wait until I finish all 4 endings to see this. x_x

The old guy NieR gives me a very Ovan type impression with him having evil magic he can use and attempting to rescue a relative from it, which is interesting because he's also voiced by Jamieson Price.

How is this channel not popular? The commentary is solid, it had a good review of the game, the edits and jokes are good, so HOW?!

I truly thank you for leaving out a lot of side content that I got to experience in the remake

this was my Christmas present thx clemps

Here after just finishing the Replicant remaster and honestly was so excited my whole play through to watch this after 😍

Yessss boii, excited for this video. That NiER: AUTOMATA demo is amazing, so excited.

Can't wait for part 2!

@5:52 That Bayonetta insert made me cackle. I played the original Nier a while ago and just recently finished Automata, so I'm kind of on a Nier binge at the moment. :D

Coming back to this one now that the remake's out. Neat to see the similarities and differences between now and then

Looking forward to part 2!

Damn that ending was abrupt. Really excited for part 2!

I found your channel looking for information on the Drakengard/Nier series and I am really enjoying your videos, very entertaining and informative, keep up the great work!

fun and informative video good work m8

Been looking forward to this

Oh dear. The lust is on display for the alien cyborg chad

I read that the god people were forced to make a pact with was the Queen Beast, she didn't fully die and survived through her ashes. Forcing people who injested her remains to make a pact with her or die. So, in the end she took out humanity just like she wanted, she won.

looking forward to part 2

Love your videos Clemps

yesyesyesyesyes thank you, was waiting for this ever since i watched your Drakengard 1,2,3 Analysis :* merry xmax and happy new year in advance x)

I just found your channel and watched your drakengard vids and this one and they're great, very informative. Parts of the Drakengard vids and this vid had me laughing out loud. Great videos man. I love Yoko Taro games and your vids really help explain some of the shit I missed while being distracted by the giant babies falling from the sky and shit. Keep it up, can't wait for the next part of Nier and hopefully the Automata vid once it's out!

i prefer the calm nice apocalypse. makes sense that with less people there's less arguing on a larger scale and more resources. the open gate in the first half being closed in the second half is enough to show a change in the town and that apocalypse is gettin closer to home.

This three-part video analysis of Nier has become a classic for me.

Your videos are great! I just went through all of the Drakengard analysis videos you made and I'm going to watch this after I finish watching a Nier LP so I can make sure I understand everything. I wish I could play it myself. Someday, maybe!