Is the sad song the one with the boy singing? That's Sacrifice, and I think the singer is from the Tokyo Boys Choir. They're listed in the credits. If you like the village song then be on the lookout for a certain quest. One of them changes the way that song is performed and it's the only time in the game you can hear it. Otherwise you have to get it off the soundtrack or something.
I don't really feel like putting forth the effort to 100% this game,
so what quests should I absolutely finish before doing the bit with the vapor moss and moving on to Part Two?
i'd recommend
the Lighthouse Woman series
A Dog Astray
the Fisherman's Gambit series
The Ballad of the Twins
A Belated Letter
The New Merchant in Town
all of Yonah's quests
those are ones i remember being especially good for one reason or another
It's easier now, because at first all the guides gave the wrong information for the flowers. When I did it they couldn't even tell me that you have to cross-breed for one type of flower and then that's what you use with a different one. At first they just said it was a cross-breed. It will take forever though. Even with changing the time it'll take you at least half an hour.
It really doesn't make a difference, they're practically the same. The 360 was the lead console however so the PS3 may have some framerate drops. It's really personal preference though.
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NG+ might help you understand more? Probably not though. At least now you get to go for my favorite ending. I think Ending B is much better than any of the others.
You haven't beaten Nier until you've played the NG+.
Consider ending A the intermission.
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Okay I think I've gotten some stuff
Devola and Popola are androids, everyones a replicant (HURR DURR BLADE RUNNER), and I know Kaine's a hermaphrodite possessed by a demon because that was spoiled for me a long time ago
You also fought...yourself, right? Like, the "real" you was the shadowlord or whatev's?
are you serious I have to beat half of the game ALL OVER AGAIN
what the fuck
also oh great I get to go through the hidden temple for the fifteenth fucking time again
because seriously man that place is SUCH A BLAST, I'm really glad I have to go through that stupid bullshit again
Yes, but you can just run through the dungeons now. If you haven't done so yet upgrade the phoenix spear to the strongest it can get. It's the best weapon in the game. Then you can blitz through most dungeons with a jumping dive. Also all the quests you did stay done, so you don't even have to bother with those.
Do not skip any cutscenes though. Not until the third playthrough.
Devola and Popola are androids, everyones a replicant (HURR DURR BLADE RUNNER), and I know Kaine's a hermaphrodite possessed by a demon because that was spoiled for me a long time ago
You also fought...yourself, right? Like, the "real" you was the shadowlord or whatev's?
more or less, yeah
most of the game's backstory is only hinted at, but enough playthroughs eventually let you get the full picture
After the events of Drakengard's Ending E, the authorities took down Caim's and Angelus's corpses and began to study them. Shortly afterward, Caim and Angelus apparently got so pissed at dying in such a cheap way that their anger ended the world. Caim's rage took the form of "white chlorification," which is a fancy way of saying that people started crumbling into salt, and Angelus's anger became a sort of Rage virus, turning people who didn't get salted into mindless killing machines called Legion. Shortly after, the viruses broke through the quarantine zone (called the Wall of Jericho in the Grimoire Noir load screens) and started fucking up the world at large.
However, the studies on their bodies also resulted in a sort of Magitek, which world leaders tried to use to counteract the viruses. Superweapons like Emil and his sister were made to try and fight back the Legion, but there was no cure for the white chlorification. Eventually, they took the last resort of separating the bodies and souls of the survivors, to reunite them with copy bodies, or Replicants, when the viruses died out. Popola and Devola were made to watch over each iteration of Replicants as they were constructed. Grimoir Noir and Grimoire Weiss were created as a two-part executable; when they combined, all of the Shades would be reunited with the Replicants en masse, hence the name "Project Gestalt."
Buuut, something got fucked up. A flaw in the original Replicant, Yonah, caused them to spontaneously gain intelligence, requiring that a large section of the world be cordoned off to let the host bodies live like actual people. The original Shade, Nier, also had some kind of defect which would make Shades flip their shit and start attacking their surroundings mindlessly. Furthermore, when a Shade possessed a Replicant, there was the chance of a sort of compatibility error occurring between the two individuals, which resulted in the Black Scrawl. The Scrawl would cause intense pain in the Replicant and eventually overwrite both personalities entirely.
After a thousand years of fuck-all happening, the Shadowlord, Nier, got pissed enough to take things into his own hands. Popola and Devola facilitated things as best they could, leading you on a series of snipe hunts in hope that you would get killed and leave Yonah's Replicant unguarded, but your strength and the twins' hesitation to actually kill you outright let you get too far. So you killed Nier, who, by the way, was the template upon which other Shades are based, and Grimoire Noir, which was the only way to reunite Shades and Replicants. Oh, and you killed the twins, who are responsible for creating more Replicants. Replicants can't reproduce on their own.
So, you got your daughter, at the expense of killing the original humans, their host bodies, and any way of uniting the two, dooming the world to slowly rot into a wasteland devoid of life or hope.
and are you serious? really? that's how the game ties in? are you fucking kidding me?
yeah, that part is ironclad
there's the Forest of Myth's line about "a red dragon" falling from the sky, and the old man in the library mentions a calamity which turned people into salt many years ago
the DLC all but names Caim and Angelus as the culprits
while Drakengard was about hatred and the worst in human beings, Nier is a game about love and good intentions, and the ways in which people can hurt one another even when they're at their best
ultimately, it's a game about futility
the New Game+ will only drive this home further, believe me
and are you serious? really? that's how the game ties in? are you fucking kidding me?
yeah, that part is ironclad
there's the Forest of Myth's line about "a red dragon" falling from the sky, and the old man in the library mentions a calamity which turned people into salt many years ago
the DLC all but names Caim and Angelus as the culprits
while Drakengard was about hatred and the worst in human beings, Nier is a game about love and good intentions, and the ways in which people can hurt one another even when they're at their best
ultimately, it's a game about futility
the New Game+ will only drive this home further, believe me
I caught the first part, actually
And yeah I'm already sensing from what little I've played of the second playthrough that to be the case
also
the things like the shade that's the little girl's friend or the harmless shade in the library that you have to kill
hey is the shade that infected Kaine Caim? because well
and are you serious? really? that's how the game ties in? are you fucking kidding me?
yeah, that part is ironclad
there's the Forest of Myth's line about "a red dragon" falling from the sky, and the old man in the library mentions a calamity which turned people into salt many years ago
the DLC all but names Caim and Angelus as the culprits
while Drakengard was about hatred and the worst in human beings, Nier is a game about love and good intentions, and the ways in which people can hurt one another even when they're at their best
ultimately, it's a game about futility
the New Game+ will only drive this home further, believe me
I caught the first part, actually
And yeah I'm already sensing from what little I've played of the second playthrough that to be the case
also
the things like the shade that's the little girl's friend or the harmless shade in the library that you have to kill
hey is the shade that infected Kaine Caim? because well
he's a crazy psychopath bent on killing stuff
ahahaha, i thought that too
but bear in mind that most of Caim's personality in that LP was from The Dark Id, in the actual game he's more like a cipher who doesn't seem to take nearly that much glee in murder
odds are that Tyrann was just some psychopathic nut who found a good host at a good time
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUsS0qnbhtc
Also, having glanced at a Replicant teaser, I think Gestalt fits the game's atmosphere more.
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Ultimate Weapon is the runner up. The action version of it is so freaking kickass.
I love Incomplete Stone as well, though I prefer the non-action version, which sadly isn't on the soundtrack.
the Lighthouse Woman series
A Dog Astray
the Fisherman's Gambit series
The Ballad of the Twins
A Belated Letter
The New Merchant in Town
all of Yonah's quests
those are ones i remember being especially good for one reason or another
how the fuck do you do that pink seeds quest
also I have to fight a shade in the southern plains that ain't spawning for me, what the fuck
argh no jesus, not the pink seeds quest
anything but the fucking pink seeds quest
it's time-consuming torture that requires you to cross-breed different flowers and pray the RNG favors you
as for the shade spawns, the types of shades which appear differ depending on the weather, and the strongest ones show up when it's cloudy
if a shade's not spawning, keep re-entering the plains until the sky changes
really? because gameFAQs makes it sound really, really easy
but it's the only quest that i never finished, because i was adamant about staying away from that mechanic
Should I get the PS3 or 360 version?
Anyways FUCK the pink moonflower seeds quest, rust you were right goddamn
it was mostly me being a cock in a PSP thread
plus I haven't used that emoticon in like three months
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wait, I thought you were Rent
Uh
What?
the new game+ answers a whole lot of stuff
go for ending B
Play the NG+.
You haven't beaten Nier until you've played the NG+.
Consider ending A the intermission.
You also fought...yourself, right? Like, the "real" you was the shadowlord or whatev's?
Now watch as other things are given context
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what the fuck
also oh great I get to go through the hidden temple for the fifteenth fucking time again
because seriously man that place is SUCH A BLAST, I'm really glad I have to go through that stupid bullshit again
Yes, but you can just run through the dungeons now. If you haven't done so yet upgrade the phoenix spear to the strongest it can get. It's the best weapon in the game. Then you can blitz through most dungeons with a jumping dive. Also all the quests you did stay done, so you don't even have to bother with those.
Do not skip any cutscenes though. Not until the third playthrough.
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The game is awesome ignore my whining
well except for the hidden temple
that place is retarded
Also just to make this clear you don't play the game for the gameplay
I mean it's...okay...
The battle system is simplistic and easy though, very much like God of War (you might like it, therefore), but yeah
gameplay ain't the best this game has to offer
more or less, yeah
most of the game's backstory is only hinted at, but enough playthroughs eventually let you get the full picture
However, the studies on their bodies also resulted in a sort of Magitek, which world leaders tried to use to counteract the viruses. Superweapons like Emil and his sister were made to try and fight back the Legion, but there was no cure for the white chlorification. Eventually, they took the last resort of separating the bodies and souls of the survivors, to reunite them with copy bodies, or Replicants, when the viruses died out. Popola and Devola were made to watch over each iteration of Replicants as they were constructed. Grimoir Noir and Grimoire Weiss were created as a two-part executable; when they combined, all of the Shades would be reunited with the Replicants en masse, hence the name "Project Gestalt."
Buuut, something got fucked up. A flaw in the original Replicant, Yonah, caused them to spontaneously gain intelligence, requiring that a large section of the world be cordoned off to let the host bodies live like actual people. The original Shade, Nier, also had some kind of defect which would make Shades flip their shit and start attacking their surroundings mindlessly. Furthermore, when a Shade possessed a Replicant, there was the chance of a sort of compatibility error occurring between the two individuals, which resulted in the Black Scrawl. The Scrawl would cause intense pain in the Replicant and eventually overwrite both personalities entirely.
After a thousand years of fuck-all happening, the Shadowlord, Nier, got pissed enough to take things into his own hands. Popola and Devola facilitated things as best they could, leading you on a series of snipe hunts in hope that you would get killed and leave Yonah's Replicant unguarded, but your strength and the twins' hesitation to actually kill you outright let you get too far. So you killed Nier, who, by the way, was the template upon which other Shades are based, and Grimoire Noir, which was the only way to reunite Shades and Replicants. Oh, and you killed the twins, who are responsible for creating more Replicants. Replicants can't reproduce on their own.
So, you got your daughter, at the expense of killing the original humans, their host bodies, and any way of uniting the two, dooming the world to slowly rot into a wasteland devoid of life or hope.
Enjoy the New Game+!
you've pretty much been filled in on the really mind-blowing spoiler
all that you'll learn in the New Game+ are a few more details on the game's individual setpieces
so yeah, click away, but be warned that the text in that spoiler will be a real bummer
and are you serious? really? that's how the game ties in? are you fucking kidding me?
still though, better than drakengard 2
yeah, that part is ironclad
the DLC all but names Caim and Angelus as the culprits
while Drakengard was about hatred and the worst in human beings, Nier is a game about love and good intentions, and the ways in which people can hurt one another even when they're at their best
ultimately, it's a game about futility
the New Game+ will only drive this home further, believe me
I caught the first part, actually
And yeah I'm already sensing from what little I've played of the second playthrough that to be the case
also
hey is the shade that infected Kaine Caim? because well
he's a crazy psychopath bent on killing stuff
but bear in mind that most of Caim's personality in that LP was from The Dark Id, in the actual game he's more like a cipher who doesn't seem to take nearly that much glee in murder
odds are that Tyrann was just some psychopathic nut who found a good host at a good time