Frolicking through the world of NieR Replicant… in 4K!
NieR Replicant
Farewell To a Couple Hundred Gigs
There I was… Enjoying some cocoa and sifting through some video footage (as is tradition) when suddenly I reach a point where I can export a video! I went back to some more of the Skyrim footage, and fashioned together a small montage of crazy moments from one of the livestreams. Sadly this is another video without any animation, but I’m ok with going classic for this one! Then there was the NieR footage, and looking that over again I didn’t see much to really animate… so I finished that one up too! Two more videos added to the massive lineup!
My Journey Ends Just To Begin Again
I finished NieR Replicant… kinda, not really. I finished Ending A, and it was a real kick in the pants. This game is truly a masterpiece in knowing when to make you laugh and when to really feel. I’m really glad I decided to shelve Automata to finish this first. Now when I go back to playing it I’ll have a better idea of piecing the story together.
When you re-open your save after finishing the game, and you get through half an hour’s worth of recapping from the first playthrough you’re dropped off in your house where you’ll find the diary of NieR’s mother. Touching it takes you to a white room, where you’re seeing things from the perspective of Papa NieR. Every door you enter in this white realm is a chapter in the Mother’s diary. It’s very similar to Devil May Cry’s Bloody Palace; it drops you off in an area you’ve already cleared, and the purpose is to get through each chapter without dying. If you’re successful you’ll get a reward at the end of each chapter, like character costumes and weapons.
I do have to say that I can recommend this game to anyone that likes a good hack n slash. It’s beautiful, it has a very unique story, it’s funny, and you can grow watermelons in your own garden! Platinum did a wonderful job remastering it, and bringing it to PC! I look forward to playing this game again soon!
Saturday Night Open Thread
In tonight’s installment of things I did that no one is going to give a shit about: I made more progress in NieR Replicant! I figured I haven’t played it in awhile and popped in for a visit, did a couple sidequests and advanced the plot slightly. I just wanted a small fix of it tonight, cut loose a little after another work week.
Meanwhile, in the land of yesterday: I pieced together my animations and stills on the video project! I ran into a bit of a “problem” of sorts, fortunately it’s nothing a bit little animation and twisted imaginations can fix. I’ve decided to add an animated intro and outro to this particular video. I already have the intro fleshed out for the most part, and was going over the end with my video partner. I have two different ideas, and wrote two different ending scripts side by side (this is where the 4K monitor comes in handy). Oh well… I guess this means the blog will have to put up with more questionable imagery, but that’ll have to wait a day or two though. 😛 It’s my weekend, and I have other plans.
Open Thread!
Having A Bloody Good Time
After a long week of work I just haaaaad to break down and lost myself once more in the world of NieR Replicant. I completed a few sidequests, found a few more, and got my ass beaten by a giant shade to the point of putting the controller down and saying “fuck it”.
I’ll probably shelve it for now. I wanted to pick something else out from my library tomorrow, or possibly focus on my digital empire. :v
Saturday Night Open Thread
Just a couple nights ago I did a 4K recording test of NieR Replicant, all the while doing a private livestream of it to a couple friends just to see if I could make my computer explode. I’m quite happy to say that the magic smoke didn’t escape! I’ve really been hooked on this game, even played a bit more tonight! I’m thinking I’ll try and take a break from it this weekend, maybe play something else in my ever expanding library. I’ll pretty much have the place to myself tomorrow, that might mean taking over the couch to do some big screen playtime!
Work & Play
Did a little bit of work and a little bit of play tonight. I’ve been doing my best to complete at least one scene in SFM per night, and tonight I decided to play a little more NieR Replicant to end the evening. It gave me an excuse to break in the monitor a little more. 🙂
I talked about the game a little at work today with one of my work buds. He’s only played the northern console version, which is actually the same game, but with Papa NieR as the protagonist saving his daughter, instead of Brother NieR trying to save his younger sister.
Both games are pretty much the same, with only the lead character being the only main difference (and a slight change of dialogue). Replicant was originally exclusive to Japan, and Gestalt was marketed towards the Japanese XBox 360 (which wasn’t very popular in Japan) and was known as the main protagonist to the rest of the western world. This game has a really interesting history.
I’ve Done Some Growing Up
Played through more NieR Replicant today. Played through a bunch of quests, advanced on the main story and become the only character to age in game. In five game years time I’ve gone from being a young sword wielding child, to a young androgynous albino Raiden clone. I can already tell that I’m going to need to do a second playthrough of this… I’ve already missed some quests that I can’t go back to… not to mention there are some multi-choices I’d like to revisit. Games like these are practically designed to be replayed, which makes up for the lack of mods.
NieR has it’s share of silliness like quite a few other JRPG games, but when it gets serious it really gets serious when it tugs at the heart strings. There was a character I remembered seeing from NieR Automata called Emil, and he actually dates back to NieR (or NieR Replicant in this case). When you first encounter him he’s a young boy in NieR, and for some weird reason he remains so after you become a man… at least until you go on a quest where his body undergoes some changes — just as his sister did:
Emil allows himself to be eaten by his sister to obtain control of her powers, all in the pursuit to control his petrification ability so they can thaw out Kaine. Unfortunately, the pursuit of this knowledge lead to him looking like a smaller version of his sister.
I really like the characters, they’re all very well written. I think my fave out of all of them though has to be Kaine:
It’s rare to find a character that shares the same vocabulary as you.