All the endings are sad cause no matter what, humanity is doomed and all Replicants will die off

yonah still dies of the black whatever(yoko taro confirmed it).

​@@gon720 He actually regreted saying that, considering it best for the characters' future to be left up to the player's interpretation

not really satisfying since everyone can't reproduce and no more replicants can be made.

Sorry sunshine...but I'd rather go full Caim/Angelus on Kainé and Nier. She understood their words, yet you spared none, not even Kalil and Beepy (although I don't judge her fof the Heap, I didn't like the Gestalts from there nor the ones under Gretel). And the Shadowlord was Nier himself...yet the replicant treated him like any other mindless Shade. The hypocrisy... Let the world... buuuuuurn ! Let the aliens, the machines and whatever androids that are created in this timeline have the our legacy. Our protagonists made humanity worthless by being its champions, like the ones in "Drakengard".

i´m confused if ending E screws automata or connect with it

@@ousamadave Ending E is the canon ending, after that is the stage play and Automata

@@ousamadave even after ending E, project Gestalt still seems to fail.

You´re wrong. The canon ending which leads to Autómata is ending E, and this ending just existed in a novel till the remaster. And for the one who writes something about project Gestalt failing, it obviously failed. After the dead of the Shadowlord, who was the original Gestalt, every Shade/Gestal turned crazy (relapsed) and the last replicant die of age some years later, because replicants aren´t fertile and the mist tree didn´t produce more replicants.

Is referencia of evangelion?

Exactly, lol f all that nonsense

i played all that and still came here lol it felt rewarding

@@makii4772 Jesus I hope you’re ok

But playing as Kaine was epic

Exactly. Replicant is a good game; but not good enough to replay it over and over to unlock additional endings. I'd rather they added more to the game and flesh out the entire story, without any of this BS.

I really like the aggressive compassion that kainé has “GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE NOW!”

@@Odeon1970 Nier is a special case because in ending E he was basically cloned from Kaine's memories into his younger body using the Tree of Memories, so he probally will die of age.

agreed

>he didn't see the drakengard 1 endings

@@anomitas it seems so,yeah.

One can tell the only Yoko taro game you played is nier

@@G0dgrave🤓

Automate only had 3 real endings ending A is basically the halfway point and all the other endings are joke endings. In reality only one of the endings felt definite and canon.

Not really, abcde are actual endings , the rest are just different types of game overs.

21 are jokes

For automata each playthrough was different. I get it tho cuz for the longest I only had ending a until I heard there were more

oh great now i hage to play automata 25 times again

Probably because you see the original NieR and Yonah's possible last moments together?

Me too I can’t watch it without crying

Nier waited 1500 years to get back his sister and it all crambles to dust at the last moment

I had the ending with the siblings both sets reunited

@@ohmissmoka4154 that’s the first ending

oh it does eventually becomes a Queen Beast after events of Nier Automata in the Final Fantasy 14 Raid finale called "Her Inflorescence" but was defeated and forced back into Nier Unvierse. Of course this is not the end as the FF14 Nier Raid was just the Seed of Destruction's early attempt of invading other worlds/realities to destroy Humanity after events of Nier Automata due to now having the power to create its own Legion using the Android Data it obtained from Nier Automata when it was the Red Girl (aka Logic Virus)

@@orrthehunter wait.... Red Girl you mean Mana???!!!

@@valravhknight1914 No she is just called Red Girl.

@@orrthehunter We don't exactly know if it was that, since novelization refers to the flower as a giant lunar tear rather than the one from Drakengard. HOWEVER both flowers could have a link with each others, so who knows.

@@kiraleshoth we will learn more about it as the weeks goes by since the Nier raid story is not over yet in FF14. The weekly quests are slowly revealing the bigger picture but the recent weekly quest revealed that 2B and 9S manage to make copies of their own data and store it into the Seed of Destruction during or after the events of Neir Automata so that everytime a Seed of Destruction seeks to destroy a world/reality using their new Legion army, a copy of 2B and 9S will be created as well to stop them.

When i finished ending B and saw the requirements for C, i went nope and searched for the endings on youtube lol

Yea, even with the new cutscenes and all that the gameplay is just not that good to replay the same areas without anything to spice it up. Automata was questionable with that decision too, but since that's a way better game overall I actually got through the whole thing.

So much is added such as lore about each boss you defeat

@@ShadowQrow Exactly. Automata was way better because you actually got new content to play through each time.

My dumbass redid all of part 2 again to get ending D to get to ending E 😅

Who the hellnis Clemps?

A youtuber who made recap/analysis videos to Taros works

Dammit clemps

He set me on the path back to the original after giving up on Gestalt way too early, then beating Automata years later. What a journey

Probably not

It's absolutely not a hint

it’s not lmaoo but i’d love that

I hope so

Thats a great question lmao 😂

You get sent back to the title screen. I think...

*I just did it.* It just fast forwards the credits in black, and reverts you back to the title screen.

@@prot07ype87 Thank you.

@@acicon You're welcome, fellow Megaman Battle Network fan.

Yes everything goes back to where it was right before the ending C boss fight

@@GGIGamingINC Thanks!

So doing ending E gets my save back so saving Kaine isn’t too damaging? Also to do ending E do I have to play the entire game again or does playing after ending D take me immediately to Kaine?

@@vincenthawthorne9360 to get ending E you have to finish ending D save kainé but erase your existence then start a new game with a different name and when you and kainé finally kill hook the big shade in aerie ending E will start

@@garysmithfan1432 Ok so I called my sage NeiR. Should I name the new one Kainé?

That bullshit is worth tho

Play as Kaine tho

​@@b.b.s7545If Kainé was playable on route B,.then maybe...

Same voice actor yeah

I recognized the voice, was having a hard time connecting the dots. Crazy because final fantasy 15 is one of my favorites

now I want to play that over again

Because yoko taro wants you to suffer and feel emotional pain.that's why there are no happy endings

ending A and B is pretty happy imo Nier and Yonah back to their life, Nier Gestalt and Yonah together in void.

@@astrophel12 i mean, Ending C/D happens only some minutes after it, there is no escape

Ending E is a happy ending

@@astrophel12 ending A and B aren't not real endings, they are like prequel for C/D endings

They’re separate endings but tie into each other. So I guess you can say ending E is a sequel to ending D.

The whole drankengard nier story involves multiple timelines and endings and all sorts, so technically both endings (all endings really) are canon, but only 1 leads into Nier Automata (ending E) since it’s revealed there that humanity was extinct long before the events of the game take place. It’s a bit of a mess honestly. I know people really like these games but I feel like they’re a little too convoluted at times for their own good.

It's pretty simple. In ending D Nier erases himself from existence to save Kaine, so everyone forget him even his sister and Kaine. In ending E taking place some years later, Kaine traveling in Forests of Myth (that in fact was the giant machine to create replicants) and some simulations to bring Nier back to life and recover all memories of him. Aaaand a reference to Drakengard as a big ass flower in the end :D

@@Alex-zp1ry technically every ending leads to Automata. Because there is no humanity left to save and the sending to the moon happens by a far away devola and popola

The only ending that isn't connected or canon is Ending C, since Ending D replaces that decision. Every other ending just adds onto the last one. Ending B simply shows us the perspectives of the Gestalts (namely Shadowlord Nier and his Yonah), but it happens alongside Replicant Nier being reunited with his Yonah in Ending A. Ending C and D take place immediately after Kainé walks away in Ending A. Ending E picks up after Nier sacrificed his existence to save Kainé in Ending D and thus left her and Yonah thinking that she was the one who destroyed the Shadowlord to save Yonah, but a part of Kainé's subconscious still clings to the past we all experienced, so she sets out to restore it. So the only anomaly here is C, meaning there are really only two endings to choose from: C or E (or D if you ignore E, which was the case in the original game, but E still existed as the canon ending in the novella, "The Lost World"). A and B can lead into either one of them, but there are effectively two definitive endings in this game.

his name isn nier

@@lazyasternoons3829 isn't it canonically?

@@lazyasternoons3829 I mean the protagonist, but everyone call him nier since he doesn't really have a name

@@howmun233 The Drama CD calls him Nier as well

1.Its just a new weapon included in the V1.5 as a way for the developers to say thanks for playing 2.its because once you completed ending E you get your most recent save file back which was most likely outside the shadowlords castle.

@@mmcv9679 I'm saying why give it to me now that I'm done....

@@Kmangod just as a help in grinding platinum if you desire. Just did it myself and Kaine’s sword is a big help

@@dimasta9385 OK, I'm on PC and not PS5.

@@Kmangod I think Steam achievements are the same as on consoles

All Replicants die of a horrible death

You have to get Ending D, which requires that you've collected all weapons in the game and that you choose the second option when prompted after the final boss battle. After that, your saves are completely erased (which, if you've watched the above video, is symbolic of the protagonist having sacrificed his existence for Kainé) and you have to start a new game. Play up until the second encounter with the giant Shade in the Aerie and once you defeat it, the cutscene after going to check on Kainé while she's unconscious is where Route E will officially begin. If you're worried about not being able to go back to your previous saves because they were erased, just see Route E through to its end.

They are but it’s a phone game

@@sonsique Nier Reincarnation?

@@simplygrandoffline Yep

@@sonsique still don't know how it's connected to Replicant or Automata

@@simplygrandoffline Reincarnation is a sequel to Automata, I haven’t played the game so I don’t know how it connects but I know it does

Yes

It’s the same voice actor 🙂 Which is kinda cool considering the voice of Nier is also the voice of Noctis from FFXV. 2 FF lead characters side by side. (Edit: totally wrong haha. Laura Bailey and Ali Hillis sound a lot a like though!)

@@marianix1591 Laura Bailey is Kaine’s voice actor. not Ali Hillis who voices Lightning. would’ve been cool if she did voice Kaine tho

Who voices Weiss

@@genesisspace5331 Liam O’Brian

@@herobxon9709 Liam O'Brian nailed it. He had me laughing a lot!

@@pattonrierson4319 yes it gets an update just wait until it drops

@@Afrojackfan whats the update about?

It only preserves Ending A, B, and C (if you played through C, which is identical to D except for the final decision) because D erases the save and E restores it, but the save D took place on was B or C. You can't have Ending D or E stamped on the save because D erases itself (Nier's existence) and E restores it in place of itself. Since you can't continue onward from D or E (which both take place after defeating the Shadowlord), the only one you could return to is Route B or C.

The Shadowlord and the Shade that was inhabiting Yonah's body were Nier's and Yonah's souls (the original Nier and Yonah we see at the beginning, also known as Gestalts or Shades). Since they both died, they reunited in what appears to be some sort of afterlife (in the sky/white void in Ending A and B). So the true human Nier (Shadowlord) and his Yonah are together in death and the Replicant Nier (who we play as) and his Yonah (who he spent the whole game trying to save) are together in life (though Yonah still has the Black Scrawl, since she can't be cured without a Gestalt).

No shame… so did I! Most people probably do as well.

i did the same thing, no patience to play again 4 times

Honestly i would’ve done the same if it werent for the fact that you get the Shade’s point of view during B playthrough

I'm six months late, but you have to play through the second half of the game again on the same save as Ending A to get Ending B. For C and D, you need to collect every weapon in the game. For Ending E, you have to play Ending D, which erases your previous saves, then start a new game and play up until the second fight with the giant Shade in the Aerie, after which the final route will pick up.

@@kyransawhill6650 Btw I've played through route A, B, and stopped at C. Is there a lot of gameplay for ending D and E or is it okay to watch them on yt. I kinda gave my ps account to a buddy and I can't exactly get it back rn that's why I can't play them unless I wait for a while till I get my account back.

@@aephyn_ 5 months late lol but there’s actually not very much gameplay for endings D and E. For ending D, you can just reload a safefile at the beginning of the shadow lords castle right before you completed ending C and instead of killing Kaine at the end for ending C, you just sacrifice yourself instead. That will give u ending D and start ending E. For ending E, you just need to play through the first 3-4 hours of the game, right until the big boss fight with Kaine in the Aery and when she ends up joining your team. It will then skip to some different gameplay and move on to ending E which takes about an hour max I’d say.

Um, the video shows in ending E they both live once Nier is brought back to life

@@robdobpol yes but what happens in the future. They both die?

@@connergalles7106 no they live their lives until they eventually die from natural causes or the black scrawl since it still exists

@@robdobpol does kaine knows that nier loves her ?

@@silverfay2902 considering Nier never revealed his feeling unless it was ending C, it would be best to assume she doesn’t know, the game does focus more on them as companions than romantic interests

thaaaaat's coz shades are essentially human souls and replicants are bodies that were made from shades (coz shades somehow carry DNA, that "black scrawl" disease of replicants is actually a line of DNA written in another alphabet) to be immune to the chlorination disease, buuuut replicants gained their own consciousness and there you have it! two niers! shades were supposed to fuse with replicants to form whole human beings so the human race won't go exinct! but it still did ahahahaha also shadowlord exist as eeeeh stabilizing presence to other shades, coz if replicants gain their own soul then shades go berserk shadowlord killed - everything goes to hell

Let me explain it in a simple way. A long time ago there was a sickness that they could not cure. So their solution was to seperate the souls from the human body and put them into a replica of their old body. The souls are actually the shades you have been fighting the whole game, and the humans that appear in the game are actually the replica bodies made (of replicants).

So basically the Shadowlord is the soul of nier, and the nier you play as for a majority of the game is his replicant body. And the Nier you play as who was protecting his sister in the very beginning is Nier before his sould and body were seperated.

The shadow lord is basically nier but in his gestalt form, like kaine when she put herself in berserk mode, the nier we control is the replicant and that can be found by reading already part of the story and documents in the game

Others already answered in detail, but in short: Shadowlord is Nier's soul. Plus, the Shade that was "possessing" Yonah's body (as the Replicant Nier and Kainé put it) was Yonah's soul, which Shadowlord Nier was trying to reunite with her body to make her whole again. But the bodies (Replicants) had developed minds and personalities (sentience) independent of their souls, which is what caused so many of them to be incompatible and require Grimoire Weiss and Grimoire Noir to exist in the hope of merging them. The reason Yonah's soul/Shade/Gestalt allowed herself to be destroyed by sunlight (thus joining Shadowlord Nier (the original Nier that we saw at the beginning of the game) in the afterlife) is that she could hear the voice of her Replicant inside her, as if she were a different person and her body wasn't hers anymore. Replicant Nier (the one we play as) didn't fully grasp this, of course, so he struck the Shadowlord down, but even if he did, he wouldn't have allowed him to take his version of Yonah from him, anyway, even if their bodies belonged to them in the first place. Still, the destruction of the Shadowlord also meant an end to humanity, as without him, Gestalts and Replicants could never be reunited and Replicants can't reproduce or be recreated without data from their Gestalts, so they have no future at that point. But Ending E makes that bitter end a little more bittersweet with Kainé's closing monologue. The point being that even after everything and at the end of the world, life is still a beautiful, meaningful thing and the people we love make what little time we have here worth it.

Yes

No. He's still the protagonist. To be the antagonist is to be the opposing force to the protagonist. The protagonist is the main character of the story, regardless of whether they're the one who saves the world or the one who ends it. If the story were played from the Shadowlord's perspective, yes, Replicant Nier would've been the antagonist. Replicant Nier (before anyone corrects me, I know that's just the placeholder name in side materials since his name in game is chosen by the player), is the one the game follows. Good or bad, he's the protagonist and shadowlord (Gestalt Nier) is the antagonist.

I am so late lol. It’s because you can only use 10 characters/letters in the name you pick and “Nier” is 4. So that is 4/10

@@luminette thank you! It's so obvious now that you said it, but I just couldn't figure it out when I was playing the game.

@@KaioKakarot of course! And dw lol, a lot of things in the game are symbolic so it makes sense to suspect everything

Da ball

Machine network, Kaine's data will be used for A2 who will used as the base for 2B, creation of logic virus from maso also know as the demonic element, 9s's and 2B's prototypes no. 2 and no. 9 who are later responsible for the creation of yorha(mainly no.9)

Butterfly effect, I guess

@@wanderingpaladin4927 But Nier already did what he did in that timeline. Erasing himself doesn't undo any of that. What does it even mean to erase oneself from existence (including from the memories of others)? How does one even go about doing such a thing? Telling Kaine's spirit "Yes, I'll erase myself to save her" doesn't explain anything about how or why that actually saves her. Is the whole world in Nier just a computer simulation?

@@leos8813 That's....an interesting theory

It's always been left open to interpretation as far as I know. But all the replicants in Nier are essentially robots, and they're all tied into the same control system. I always thought of it as Kaine's hard drive is completely fucked. So we're going to rip out Nier's, format it and copy over Kaine's data before installing it in Kaine. The system wipes clean everyone's memories, or creates fake ones to fill in the gaps, of Nier so no-one gets confused afterwards. It's far from perfect though, so all the replicants who knew Nier will probably have some faint inkling that something's wrong.

dont try to overthink, just to create needless drama.

Because she knew she didn't have much time before having a relapse and she didn't want to hurt them

Read the description

You gotta play again to get the rest of them

@@musicmaster632 Yeah, srry I realized that after lol! B,C,D and E are great! :D

@@musicmaster632WHAT ENDING A IS THE HAPPY ENDING, WHY WOULD YOU BE DISAPPOINTED

@@cutiepie6796 ending A aren't exactly ending, its like a prequel for ending B,C,D

@@Kakizaki1707 THE OTHER ENDINGS ARE TO SAD

Route b is his perspective

@@chadshinobi69 No I meant when he wins

if he wins automata would never happen since humans would be able to fuse w their replicants again

@@y0ungApeks so what drakengard has alternative endings

that would be interesting ngl

The second playthrough has additional cutscenes throughout the game to show the shade's perspective, and you can understand what they are saying. It starts from Act 2, so it actually isn't that long at all. It's kind of integral to the point of the game, at first you only have the limited perspective of the protagonist, and you believe that what he is doing is just; but when you see the other side you realize that he could be considered the villain of the story - it's a matter of perspective. But I'll agree, doing it a third time for the choice was a bit much. The 5th 'playthrough' is very short and entirely different. Regarding the happy ending... there is a reason you see replicant Nier and Yonah happy as children and not adults. Her disease is incurable, and killing the shadowlord results in all shades eventually relapsing and all replicants getting the black scrawl.

wondering same actually, but I guess it just closes menu and asks you to try again

Just ends up doing the automata joke ending thing where the credits scroll quick and you get sent back to the title screen iirc

@@SHSLTrash ooo okay thank you :) sorry for the late reply I don’t have notifs on sowwy

Literally, seeing as Shades are human souls and the game ends with the main character destroying his (after countless others).

play for ending b at least because you get additional cutscenes and dialog from the shades and kaine on the second playthrough which changes the perspective of the game a little bit.

@@HorusHeretic I already know, there is a little additional story but the gameplay remains the same, to get the ending B game starting from the petrified Kaine, but I think that's enough for now I want to focus on other games first.

nah. not even close

why

No both are masterpieces tho

What's the point of this comment?

​@@joi0001automata destroys replicant in all aspects.

true humans are long gone,the human-looking beings that hanging around in this world are just replicas of the true humans. what left of the true humans is the shades, the mindless beings which still lingering in this world. all replicas were created for a certain purpose.

@@JonMow what are replicas? Where did they come from? Are they biological?

@@MrYjgh I think so, soul less clones incapable of reproduction.

@@toawing how are they made then?

@@MrYjgh Their clones from replicant data taken from the humans just before they were turned into shades. The process is overseen by androids like the twins and the ai you see in ending e, after the shadelords death the system stops working partly since there just isn't much point with the shades now on borrowed time. I think the base data survived and was part of what YoRHA protected as humanitys remains

Long story short, its not happy. They're sitting on a bomb (not literal), while Kaine says "I don't care that im going to die, as long as im with you". Look up the rest. Bittersweet, mostly bitter

@@user-hd7uw7yl8j What I mostly don't get is if it changes things in terms of Automata. I keep seeing conflicting views online that it might be a different timeline branch for different/new game sequels to follow Nier that don't necessarily lead into Automata and I'm trying to figure out what exactly changes now.

@@backlogrob8358 Yeah it weird. I personally believe it branches out to both Automata and Drakengard 3, and that Caim from D1 didn't go into a different dimension, but instead time traveled to the past (Tokyo). That would explain the loop in that regard and how there's a straight up new york like city in D3. If im right, the only question I have now is when did the cycle stop and allow the Automata timeline to exist. (Sorry if that sounds like gibberish)

@@user-hd7uw7yl8j I followed that better than most other internet commenters and video essays about the topic. But yea, I wish there was some sort of explained map/timeline of all these events because it really seems like this ending E sets up for some brand new stuff, not a simple additional explanation for things that already exist.

@@backlogrob8358 ending e was always in expanded media, humanity is still doomed, and automata will still happen. the difference is that Kaine fought and atoned to have a happy life while she can.

Facts, at least Automata did it way better. This game I really enjoyed the first play through. B play through was tolerable and C is making me dread this game now.

@@JonBlack413 I agree. I've just finished my first play-through with Ending A and I watched this for the rest 4 endings. It's enough for me and I will not play again. Story is not very interesting also. Bosses' attacks are simple, kind of repetitive...I played on Normal and decimated everything with the Whirlwind paralize + armor shredding magic and level 2 Phoenix...

@@MyJapaneseLifeif you don’t find the story interesting then i don’t know what to tell you lmao

Not a fan of Automata, eh?

@@randomguy6679 It’s ok it’s just one of the most overrated games of all time alongside Doom Eternal

@@youngkappakhan Im sorry, but that honor goes to Half Life 2.

@@randomguy6679 Half Life 2 is the only game I’ve ever played where I find something completely new to appreciate every time I play it despite playing it like 20 times. It’s a rare example of a mainstream game that actually earned its fanfare strictly on its own merits.

@@youngkappakhan Really? I feel like the opposite, I played it again a few months ago and I thought it was even worst and there were more things I noticed that bugged me about the game (the pointlessly long driving sequences, the bland characters that suck the main characters dick despite just meeting him [no need for character development or anything], and the really weak shooting mechanics [except for the gravity gun, that kicks ass])