So because of her intersex features, she was constantly abused and bullied as a child until her “Grandma” (who is not really her grandma but an old lady who adopted her) drove the bullies away and took care of her. Kaine’s replicant body had an error during creation and gave her male genitalia on a female body. When you realize the love of your life is the guy who you just kicked in the faceĭuring his adventures he also has Kaine, a cussing “underwear woman” (as Weiss calls her – or hussy in English lol) and Emil, a former experiment subject child whose eyes turn everything to stone. He just kinda follows orders from 2 androids, Devola and Popola (who were basically put in charge to watch over Replicants/the Gestalt project) and also does a bunch of menial tasks (aka in game side quests) for all the random replicants walking around town. He doesn’t understand that his “sister” is just the same “monster” he’s been killing that’s to be put into her “vessel” and is on the verge of turning herself. Replicant Nier doesn’t understand that shades are people, he just knows them as monsters. On top of this Replicant Nier ends up making a contract with Grimoire Weiss so now you basically got 2 Niers at odds with each other over imouto-chan. But instead somehow, his replicant body has the Gestalt soul of his sister Yonah who’s on the verge of relapsing which is why she has the black scrawl disease and is always “sick” as she’s awakened and not in put into her “vessel” for whatever plot reasons. Forever aloneĪnyway if that wasn’t confusing enough, Gestalt Nier is now the dark lord cause he made a contract with the Grimoir Noir, and has his replicant sister Yonah’s body ready for merging when it’s time. ( ^ω^) Also the original gestalts are supposed to be in cold sleep, so when they wake up and have no body to merge with they go around destroying shit like crazy. It would explain why when we play as Nier, a replicant, we only see them as monsters as well but when you defeat them blood spurts everywhere because essentially we’re just killing people. So now you basically got a bunch of Replicants living life “like normal” (except the fact they can’t reproduce) and killing “Shades” who are actually humans but appears as “monsters” to them. But unfortunately they didn’t really count on the fact that 1) the souls might “relapse” and turn into crazed monsters called Shades 2) the replicant bodies might form their own ideals/personalities and not want to give up their body to the gestalts because they just see them as “monsters”. So in a way it’s a way for humanity to “live on forever” or rather “be in a quarantine for like 10,000 years until the disease is gone from this earth” lol. And then the WCS spreads, salts people so they start project Gestalt where they separate the human souls and create “replicants” aka empty shells of bodies to eventually transfer the souls. The summary is that in one of the bad ends of Drakengard (Dragon Dragoon in Japanese) the protag Caim and his pet dragon get killed and his weapons and magic spells get spat out all over the place. Unfortunately, the Nier Replicant game itself does a very poor job of explaining why Project Gestalt was even created or what the goal of it was or why humanity was dying of this “black disease”. The best site that explains the details and background is the LP archive by DarkID. In order to make sense of where this game begins, one must scourge the internet for details about White Chlorination Syndrome aka the disease that turned everyone into piles of salt and spread faster than Covid19. As usual, big fat spoilers after the jump so if you plan to play the game please wait until after you finish before reading the review! I’ve always wanted to play this version as it’s a prequel to Nier Automata but it was only available on PS3 and who even has a PS3 anymore? Fortunately Automata’s popularity clearly inspired Yoko Taro to make this remake a reality and I’m glad I finally got a chance to play this title. Well because I appear to have sold my soul to Square Enix I had already pre-ordered the remake of Nier Replicant and it was finally released last week.
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