You mean rerecorded. Recasted implies changing the actors

It’s the same actors

@@__dane__ are they all the same I thought the voice for the protagonists was different

@@hoppie4263 yes im pretty sure everyone came back

@@DeathNoteLover13FTW the person that voiced the the protagonist has a KZfaq channel and he streamed the game it sounded like it was his first time voicing the character based on stuff he talked about on stream

Reshade for the rescue haha

Old game looked like ass no nostalgia would ever make me think differently

@@Simplystimulatingthe characters look ugly but the world has a nice look to it, especially the larger natural scenes. Modern graphics with the older environmental art style would be nice

I know besides everything looking like it was modeled on Windows 98 i thought the og game looked good

I prefer the other’s color tone, I guess. It looks warmer and more surreal.

@@haihuynh8772 it was during an era where every game has that piss and poo colour filter.

@@hukesama8389 Which has its charms. Still does now, as it serves to convey the vibes of a post-apocalyptic world. Makes everything dirty so they feel more human and less outlandish.

@@haihuynh8772 the remake is definitely more refined looking but the original does have its charms and uniqueness even if looks bad to some. I like both for different reasons tbh

I like Kaine's look in the OG, she fits the voice acting The new look looks like Drakengard 3 Zero vr 2.0, all beauty and no spunk

I dunno about that, the originals technicals were down to cavias inexperience with HD development in the 7th gen more than anything whereas automata looks like what they were going for. Cant say that the broken depth of field in most shots and extreme low res textures were some grand creative vision...its the drakengard effect where the game was unintentionally poor yet for fans somewhat contributed to the atmophere. Totally get it but it wasnt intentional at all

@@MrInuhanyou123 Intention doesn't matter as much as the end result. The old nier's lighting might have been a result of the dev's inexperience, but it coincidentally fit the tone of the game very well, more than the new lighting anyway.

@@master2497 people use authorial intent whenever its convenient and discard it whenever its inconvenient. I think the divergent looks between releases are notable but not in an inferior versus superior kind of way, atleast not in terms of pure art direction. One thing i will say is objectively better in this release is young niers design. The original ps3 young nier looked absolutely ridiculous, especially with those random 3 hair spikes jutting out of the side of his head lmao. He looked like a yugioh character in a game where everyone else had normal hairstyles

@@MrInuhanyou123 I honestly don't care about authorial intent here. I just know which one I personally think is more interesting. If the new version was what they originally envisioned for the game to look like, good for them. That doesn't change the fact that I think I prefer the older look better. Though I do agree that young Nier's hair is certainly much improved in the new version.

i feel meh about it. replicant still as devoid of color but this time its on the brown ish scale instead of black

Oh God not this shit again 😒

Yeah? The ugly lighting where you can't see shit? Totally preferable. Can't believe Replicant let's you make out your surroundings.

Same hahaha

@@deus_nsf ENB filters to the rescue

Could be because what ??

daddy

Papa Nier, pls.

I like bro nier's design a lot but father daughter story is way more touching

Big brother nier makes way more damn sense story wise and design wise imo. No interest in the painfully insecure styling that is old man nier.

Nier oniichan Seems legit tho

actually... the dub is not the same as the original, however they did bring back many of the same voice actors to redo the voice acting. so you won't even notice they that did new voice acting.

@@WednesdayMan as bonus, the new content features pascal, 2B and 9S!! for all the languages

His head and clothes are much cleaner, making him look more cartoonish. This is what he looks like without his robe btw: imgur.com/a/QJoLe6I

Not gonna say anything

@@bleuwolf123 you literally just did 💀

Papa Nier is best Nier

@@SuccessfulMentality94 anything i said would've been a spoiler. If he played the original Nier, then he would just know off the bat

@@bleuwolf123 that’s why instead of saying “not gonna say anything” just don’t say anything

It's the same exact game so there's no point in making it yet again. What they could do though is like add an update or dlc so that you play as Papa Nier for the story instead for those who want to play as him.

i believe they confirmed you will be able to pick between playing Gestalt or normal versions of the game

@@Noble17712 Papa Nier's only in the DLC portion like the original Replicant :( But that takes a huge amount of effort out of the mod teams hands!

They said if the game sold half as well as Automata, then they would consider adding him which is nice. It would be cool if later on they released a goty version of the game, which has both the Father dlc and the Brother in one package. And had alternate art with the Father that said, NieR Gestalt 1.22 instead :)

Only reason to have papa nier is for nostalgia, the has always meant to be played as the brother so i dont see the point of having another version. I wouldnt hace proble if its just a skin and maybe changes some dialog.

@@mainkilla ? 💀

based. we need manly dad men back

finally a comment that captures how I feel ... i was getting sick from reading dozens of discussions of masculinity vs femininity, west vs japan etc... that was never what I was interested in (the point for me), the adult character is interesting because its different to play it that way.... its different to face all these challenges with a man who is old enough to be a father and all those scenes where kids run around give the idea of who you play and what your character possible thinks in his head ... it makes everything you experience in the game different... honestly this is what was making this game so much more appealing for me back in the day, at least for me. In a world where anime boys and girls wield ultra-greatswords, overcome obstacles with little effort and are over-fantasized and over-sexualized, to finally play a more mature character was a breath of fresh air for me. Finally something I can relate to damn it. For this reason the ps3 version will have a unique appeal to it. It's pretty bad we are forced to play a boy character without the ability to switch and choose what we would rather like to experience.

@@retryhikaru184 Exactly. I also think that the brother MC looks kinda bland and generic. The older one has a way more interesting character design imo.

hell fucking no.

Hell yeah

Same story

@tom gu nier is def not a shounen anything lol. Appearance aside the personality is what matters. Oversaturation of teens or sad dads should mean nothing

@tom gu because kaine and nier in a sequel novel are implied to have had feelings for each other or at least kaine did by the end as the book is from her perspective, spoilers for ending c right here why else would he literally erase himself from history to save a girl he's been traveling with over raising his daughter?

@@soularth Because it could be the morally right thing to do?

@@insertname7325 is it the morally right thing to sacrifice your entire existence and the memories of your friends, thereby also leaving your very own daughter who can't live alone by herself without any family, just to save someone that you travelled with for some time from something which was inevitably going to happen?

you can always play NieR: Gestalt for PS3, it's not going anywhere

@@KonniWynn I know lol. I'm ganna get Emulator for Nier Gestalt and buy the Nier Replicant on steam

I think it has a lot to do with the way the video was rendered. Even the black screens in the new trailer look more greyish, whereas the original is darker overall.

With regard to Kaine's 'new' face shape. It's to make her look more like A2 to tie into the fact that her clone mind was taken from 'a girl who liked to pick flowers with her Grandmother'.

the old kaine look like gothic lmao..honestly i like this new vers kaine

I swear y'all haven't even played the game read how she was described in route B

@@mainkilla or the entire human race lol

@@mainkilla I'm training to look like this man

They just make it look correct to the original artwork.

I actually agree. I find the more imperfect facial features a lot more charming.

so ur saying bad model > good model because hurr durr more memorable damn the internet loves to complains

@@milk-el8vq Don't know what to tell ya. People love what they love, frankly.

it was never one to begin with

Yeah, the older one seemed sooooo much darker/intense with its lighting.

So I'm not the only one..

Yeah. Everyone looks like a Barbie doll. Automata gets a pass because everyone’s an android with supernatural powers. Not Gestalt.

@@haihuynh8772bro people are clean in gestalt the graphics are just bad the world isnt in the best state but they can still bathe and shit lmao

@@milk-el8vq Cool, this isn’t about people’s hygiene.

Yes, I too want Papa Nier to be playable for the story and not just the DLC level.

Things were looking metalic like that because it was a new technology, so they wanted to use it to show how cool it was

I actually got a little confused at the beginning too 😂

Yeah I was struggling then and is it just me but does the left side just look more blander than the right? I don't know but my eye was just drawn to the right as far more visually exciting.

@@sanictheedgehog Actually having started this series with NieR Automata I have to say that the older bloke is far more appealing to me as an MC than some rather bland bishonen character. I admittedly never even knew this game existed when it first came out and I regret it because the dad seems a lot more cooler to me coming from Japan than the cookie cutter pretty boys they usually have.

@Caio Coelho And yet you cared enough to reply to me.

Same here. I heard about how great game it was but when I found out about this and it's technical experience it threw me off. I would not like running around with a character i'm not comfortable with

the original was trying to look conform to anime face shapes (daddy nier looks out of place in this context) given this version of the game is after automata, automata set the standards of how anime face proportions would look like in 3D, while still looking somewhat realistic. as added bonus, because the faces in this version dont look like anime, their faces can do more expressions. example: you can visually see how pissed kaine looks now.

automata player plays the original prequel: YOU CAN'T SHOOT MAGIC WHILE ATTACKING? YOU NEED TO STAND STILL TO SHOOT MAGIC ATTACKS? WHY IS THE CHARACTER'S RUNNING SO STIFF? NO ACCELERATION? WHERE'S THE Z-TARGETING OPTION ON NORMAL? (the lock-on option) WHY IS THE DODGE BUTTON IN AN AKWARD POSITION? I've seen some gameplay of the OG nier, and these are the problems. it's gonna suck if you cannot enjoy the story when you need to fight the controls. having picked the game up today, glad it plays a lot like automata.

The same reason the tower/big ben/empire state building differ between game versions. Localization

@@andersonrayregalia8378 its Yoka Taro we are talking about here. If he changed the eye color, it likely has nothing to do with localization.

@@andersonrayregalia8378 They're blue in the original Japanese version of the game, same with the brown eyes in the remake. You don't seem to know what localization is.

@@Schneeregen_ Oooo, did I piss you off? I'm sorry but my rational conjecture doesnt care about your feeling and not just mine but most

@@andersonrayregalia8378 No, I'm just saying that if something wasn't changed between regional versions of a game then it is not localization, and that you don't seem to know what that word means.

Yes, Yoko-san once explained it. It makes no sense that it happens on the same timeline because the prologue then makes no sense but it is a thing.

And in the Prologue Gestalt the year is 2049 while Replicant the year is 2053

Ikr. Kaine’s face seems to have some more emotion in the original. While some people don’t like the way her eyes pop out, I think it gives it her design some uniqueness and charm and more human-like even though it might be strange looking

I think it has to do with the lighting systems they are using, I'm assuming they are using some sort of global illumination which makes some scenes seem alot more natural but sacrifices some of the artistic integrity of some of the scenes

@@MemeticVirus I noticed some of the scenes in the new version are missing some of the affects in the old opening

yep, I already made a video comparing a cutscene between Gestalt and Replicant ver.1.22...

Also the gameplay is much cleaner lol

I thought that hansel and gretel looked better in the original. The shadowlords room too

context: the "Father" was the main character for Nier gestalt in the JP's Xbox 360 version and for US and EU, they had this character for all the versions. apparently it's to appeal to a more edgier audience. so the "Brother" was exclusive to the JP audience. until this version, where it was consistently Brother nier for the international release.

A que no hay comparación entre la musica amtigua de shadowlord y la de ahora? La de ahora no lleva casi nada de instrumentos, la anterior estaba cargada de ellos, mucha percusion, sonidos de fondo, el violin detras que nunca paraba, las otras voces que habian ademas en el coro... :""/ que decepción

No one knows what you're saying

@@CFEKOSMOS I wasn't speak for the people who know english, bro xD

@@CFEKOSMOS traslate: I miss the old theme of _the shadowlord_ drums and organs... I miss it and papa nier... Papa nier I miss you

@@CassyRiv Si? Que mal por tí.

The "original" was the XBox 360 version in Japan but was released as both Xbox 360 and PS3 world wide, while the remake is based on the Japanese PS3 version

I like both

It's because, if i recall, Daddy was made for American audiences. I personally prefer the dad and daughter relationship over the brother and sister one. To see a father's love persisting through his shade as well as his body is heartwarming to me.

@@atoli16 Yeah, I totes get it, it's just that the character was originally written as a younger person, unlike, for example, God of War where you straight up have that parent-kid relationship without Kratos being an awkward teen in a lot of cutscenes because it would cost them too much to redo some of them in Gestalt just for the western audience, so they just got a different character model and an english voice actor that sounds like a pops. Overall, what makes me not like the concept of Papa Nier is the assumption that most of the western audience prefer him over brother Nier. However, I lowkey find his existence kinda funny so I'm not actually mad

Agreed. Never understood the like for him. I mean i guess they made the right call with him if there's so many people worrying less a about the fact they are getting a verson they never played instead are like...."where's older nier!? Or i need "insert something wired" Also kinda comes across kinda ungrateful tbh.

I'm actually able to appreciate both versions of Nier. Don't really understand why people are so up and arms about which version is "superior" be it brother or father.

@@joonas4561 well I don't think either is superior because they are written in the exact same way as a character, however, I explain my reasons for disliking simply the existence of papa Nier in the comment above