freaking amazing :D

just started playing this a few days ago, love the music very calming and the world reminds me of ICO for some reason.

kinda wish they just stick to Nier Replicant instead of making Nier Gestalt just to suit westerners.

can't wait to finish this game and here this tribute songs :D

So we aren't getting another neir game?

They already did catch up though. They released a second album, "15 Nightmares," a while ago with music from the DLC, piano tracks, and even 8-bit remixes.

A third album is definitely awesome news though! I'll be getting it.

@Shinta
True. I didn't care for the DLC music, but the arrangements were really nice. And the 8-bit remix on More SQ was amazing. In fact, there's an interview here (http://www.originalsoundversion.com/sdcc-2011-square-enix-music-interview-with-izumi-tsukushi-and-akio-shiraishi/) with the music staff of Square Enix Japan talking about how the popularity of that 8-bit remix was an inspiration for this album, and that there is yet another (4th) NieR album in the works!

On my second playthrough. Such a good game.

The studio closed after making it I believe, sad.

Loved the game. Loved the soundtrack. Loved the metal remixed soundtrack. I'm sure I'll love this one as well.

@ flea

I agree. Nier is one of my favorite games this gen and that's largely because of how wonderful the father daugher dynamic to the story played out.

Besides, we got enough of the incest stuff from the Drakengard storyline.

With a remix by Sexy-Synthesizer, I'm sold!

Yeah the music really made a lot of the scenes.

@PrinceHeir

Gestalt was the original one. Replicant was made because they felt that the Japanese would respond better to a younger lead.

Personally, I think the story only works with father Nier, and that brother Nier was only eye candy and didn't fit the story at all.

Apologies, Cavia actually absorbed into Acquire (along with FeelPlus and Artoon), and were later merged into Marvelous - got that backwards. Point still stands, though, Cavia is still out there making... SOMETHING themselves - the merger was just like the Index merger that brought Atlus back into their parent company: Still independant but financially listed as part of Index/Marvelous for the shareholders.

I find it funny that people still think that Replicant is the original version. But those most likely the same people that complain about a game not including an audio track for a language they don't understand.

If you ever played Replicant, you'd know it was the original. Some of the dialogue, actions, etc. just make more sense with Replicant than Gestalt.

Why do people think Gestalt was the first? Have you played both games to compare them?

@kingbui

Keep in mind they are trying to "appeal" to the West. Saying the West version was the original gives it more appeal to the West in my opinion.

Also, yes I actually own Grimoire Nier. Were you able to understand any of it, or did you just look at the pretty pictures? In Grimoire Neir it says "In “NieR Gestalt”, he is thirty-eight (the story takes place in A.D. 3361), and Yonah is his daughter. In the planning stages, “the story of siblings” was the only idea, but taking into account the different markets for the platforms, “the story of a sturdy father fighting to protect her daughter” was born."

To me both stories make sense and I wasn't simply referring to the relationship between Neir and Yonah that made more sense in Replicant. I was referring to the dialogue choices, actions, etc. I can provide more reasons that Replicant is clearly the original.

I guess I'll add more information. First of all, what I already said about "Grimoire Nier" above is proof enough, but there was also an interview with the creator's: Director - Yoko Taro, Scenario Writer - Sawako Natori, and Novelist - Jun Eishima. It is a very long interview and they joke about young Nier prostituting himself for money, going into a little bit of detail about how Emil and Kaine both like Nier, but saying they didn't want to put too much emphasis on any of that because "'An older brother saving his sister' was the main theme we wanted to portray". It also included a part about them going into further detail about the meeting with Square-Enix USA asking them to just go with Gestalt.

Yoko: We somehow made it possible to release both “Replicant” and “Gestalt” at the same time, but there was a time when “Replicant” almost got called off.

Square Enix Promotion Staff: Something like that did happen.

Yoko: It took approximately 3 years for development, but during that time we were called to a meeting with America’s Square Enix to give a brief report on the game and its progress. Back then, we planned to release the two games earlier, so we were on a tight schedule. When we realized that during the meeting, those higher ups just reasoned “Can’t we just go with “Gestalt”? We could live with not releasing a special version in Japan, can’t we?” in english. (laughs)

-And what happened after that?

Yoko: The producer Satou, who was sitting by my side, just sort of looked at me with a “…what do we do now?” face, and I just stuck to my opinion that I really didn’t want this. (laughs) If we can’t make “Replicant”, our development team’s motivation will go down like crazy, and as a result even “Gestalt” will be released later!? Are
you okay with that!? Is what I threatened them with.

Square Enix Promotion Staff: That was pretty selfish.

Yoko: We planned to make a sibling story in the first place. Although back then “Replicant” was to be voiced in English, but there was some trouble with the voice actors.

Eishima: Now that’s news to me! If “Replicant” had English voices with subtitles, it might not have become such a topic of discussion.

Yoko: Then producer Satou said “Let’s just do it with Japanese voices” at the last moment on a whim…maybe it was a wise decision.(laughs) So he adjusted the voice actors.
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Of course, people will believe what they want to believe. As far as the story "carrying more weight", I wasn't trying to argue which carried more weight at all, since that is just preference.

I got nothing but praise for that game. Best tragic story in a game I've played in years. I say that knowing fully well the game had issues but the story more than made up for it's short comings.

-A little off the subject-
I made the mistake buying the DLC for this game after I finished all 4 endings >_<. Anyone that has finished this game with all 4 endings knows what that means...

nier, the deadly premonition of jrpgs. very good game!