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Replicant here though has a more straight forward story

At least so far

Oh yeah definitely

as someone who never played any other Nier games I thought the story was pretty straight forward

Replicant is my second Nier game

i tried replicant and the gameplay was similar enough that i didn't even want to bother continuing

I know a bit about Drakengaard and all that but that's about it

I fully get you, the gameplay isn't my favorite here

Huh

this is what i meant by confusing. you can understand what's going on but it isn't enjoyable imo

and you definitely feel like you're thrown into the middle of a story rather than a beginning, at least from what i remember

True mainly cuz the main exposition starts at the final route

They don’t really explain how we got there up until the near end

I still have no idea how this connects to Automata

Shades aren't a thing in Automata and the bots here are so basic

very very loosely from what i know lol

Ah so the same thing with Drakengaard to this

just a same universe type of connection

Yeah well it isn’t connected that much

my favorite part of nier is when a boss throws the square enix building at you

in ffxiv

Its just that replicant and automata take place on earth whilst the

“program” for replicants iirc failed and that led to the extinction of the human race

 

automata was definitely a solid experience, but i was NOT vibing with the main gameplay at all(the little changed up battles and bullethell segments were sick as hell though) and story is one of my biggest things about games and i didn't particularly enjoy it so my experience was pretty soured. even after all that though, there is nothing that will stop me from listening to this on repeat for 10 hours 💀

The thing with replicant is that the story is kinda uhh

Idk how to explain it without spoiling the game

Say it

||Alright you know the shades right ?. Well turns out those shades are the souls of the humans, those humans underwent this stupid project called “gestalt” the shades are the human souls called the gestalts and the human bodies are the replicants. These replicants were engineered as part of the project. To save humanity, their souls were split and stored but iirc they weren’t stored properly or smth which caused them to seep outside and become the shades you know. The “humans” and you the character are all replicants of your human soul. Once the project was complete, wiess and the other book (i forgot its name) were meant to be used as the catalyst to rejoin the gestalts and their replicants back into a full human being. So basically the story revolves around you the replicant of the shadow lord, trying to save your sister from the black scrawl but it turns out that its her gestalt that had relapsed causing her to develop the disease
You know how in the beginning of the game you touch a book and now its like 1000 years later ? Its devola and popola who were put incharge of monitoring these replicants the “humans” who split your gestalt from your body so your replicant could live long enough to find a cure for your sister||

So

all the while the shadow lord is the real big brother and you’re just there to help cure his sister (or your sister) thats why devola and popola kept directing you to places so you could find wiess (because you’re the only one compatible with the book, theres lore reasons to this dating WAYYYYYYYY back before nier and his sisters city got destroyed)

 

If you dont get it then uhh maybe use google, im not the best at explaining stuff

All this bs iirc came started from the white chlorination syndrome from the ending of drakengard 1

 

I figured the thing with the Shades pretty early. Before you get Weiss in that tower thing, the small Shades didn't hit you at all despite standing right in front of them. Made me thing they are human somehow and are children

 

I still murdered them tho

Yeah the ||shades unfortunately are humans that have been stripped of their souls, you remember the tree with those dreams before the timeskip yeah ? Thats where devola and popola store replicant data and make new ones