What I love about this scene is it brings a humanizing quality to the classic anime sacrifice. Too often the big hero goes in dying with a grin on his face, not letting you feel his sacrifice. In this case its very obvious that he didn't want to do it, but had to. I think thats really what makes the scene powerful in the end. That and of course the phenomenal job they did of building up the characters.
He did want to make the sacrifice though, he was almost eager to while most classic anime sacrifices has no underlying motive than to die for someone else. All he had done up until this point was destroy things with his power however he saw this as an opportunity to finally do something with his powers he thought of as a curse for a good cause. although he was sad that he wouldnt be able to be with the people who improved his quality of life, i dont think he regretted or felt like he didnt want to do it at all.
***AUTOMATA SPOILERS*** I first met Emil in Automata had no idea what his story was but after beating it and getting all the endings I watched a Nier gestalt "movie" since I can't play the game and now he's one of my favorite characters ever. Love his entire story and his character just seems so real if that makes sense. This scene was so sad but I'm glad he made it.
this game has one of the best stories in all of gaming. its extremely underrated. i love how the player can connect with the characters to the point of feeling sad at there death. it sucks that there aren't more games that use this kinda of character development
***** Well,when the anti-hero who has done screwed up things and has had a lot of character development has a shocking and emotional death,it proceeds to hit a homerun and continue by flying straight out of the stadium.basically I'm saying its sad as all hell.
***** I guess it's a different type of character. I can't say much about the Drakengard series but in Nier they are immensely flawed people that you sympathize with and root for. You want to see them get to a better place, which makes their deaths all the more tragic :(
@@froztbytes No, Nier:Automata confirms it's the real Emil who just lost his memory of who he is due to having cloned himself countless times. He remembers who he is and retrieves his memories at the end of Automata.
@@RickGrimes807 no since in the lore his decapetated head landed in the desert and he managed to reconstruct his old body back.. Or you can show me your source that you are getting this info from.
@@AB-jt4rs The one that sells you junk is indeed the "original" Emil, and you may help that one remember more than his clones, but there's still large parts of his memory that he will never get back. Think of it like this: pre-cloning Emil was like a hat filled with a bunch of notes. Scribbled on those notes is a memory. Each time he cloned himself, a note went flying out of the hat and into another one. The copy got some of the original's memories but the original lost those memories in the process. Not one of his clones is truly the whole original, and even though the original has lost many memories, does that mean neither the original nor the clones qualify as being the same as "fully original"? If they possess the memories that "matter", is that all that's needed for them to be who you want them to be? Consider the entire storyline (both in-game and in out-of-game material) of 9S. Every time 9S is killed, a factory-reset version of his personality is uploaded to a new 9S body. Is that still the same 9S? Some would argue it's not, because the experiences that followed up to his demise are gone. To the factory-reset backup version, it's like those things never happened. Despite this, 9S is still able to remember the most important thing: the truth behind 2B. Why? Due to how much it had happened to him. So does a reset backup still qualify as the original? That's up to you to decide. I suppose the thing to take away from this is that important memories and experiences transcend time and space. Despite all of the cloning, memory loss, and THOUSANDS of years that passed, the "original" Emil still remembered the most important thing: Kaine. Just like how 9S still remembers what 2B has done to him, even if he doesn't actually know it.
@@spartan456 it doesn't matter, all humans in Gestalt/Replicant are clones. The shades are what were humans....lol...and then doesn't matter because in the ending E of Automata, mankind is extinct lol. Oh Taro!
It's really sad and ironic that, at the end of all this, Emil is the only surviving member of the party left in Automata. All the desperation, all the pain that he had to go through, he still did it even though it was pointless... all because this was the world his friend tried to save.
@@Arausito They survive in ending E of Nier, but eventually die as all humanity goes extinct because Replicant NieR killed Gestalt NieR (the Shadowlord).
Lars nope it's real he just made a new body cause his head survived but he lost his memories due to *************SPOILERS*********** Him splitting his body apart multiple time in Nier Automata which also the reason why the androids execist in the first and later in they find Emil again but a bike and with no memories of who he was due to the splitting but he does get his memories back thanks to who ever the 3 characters u pick to help him oh and it is the real him thanks to looking the game giving us the 2nd Emil's data base which tells us the Emil on the bike is the original one
Idk why it matters if he survived. He might have lived, but he was left all alone for over 5000 years in an empty world, left to fend for himself. I wouldn't call that fine. It's like when you're given the option to kill/wipe pascal's memories, he clearly wasn't fine after losing everything he held near and dear to him.
Being transformed into a magical weapon gives you an immortal form and causes untold suffering? Who could have seen that coming? On a potentially unrelated note, who wants contracts?
Late to the party but yeah it is. It’s also used in some of the coliseum later battles when the robots you’re killing are begging for their lives and the lives of the loved ones. Pretty agonising. Never felt guilty for playing a game how it’s meant to be played before. Feels bad man.
My eyes watered a little bit when watching this and I haven't even played this game, this vid just popped in recommendations. Writing must be really good when I care for character I know for like 2 minutes.
There's a remaster of the game coming soon, I'd highly recommend it unless they somehow royally screw it up. The gaemplay is absolutely outdated, but in story, characters and music it's top tier.
Emiles story wasn't cliche. A cliche for someone like Emile is to have a happy ending and turn back to normal. Not for a 10 year old to have to sacrifice his life to save his friends.
and then turn back just to rip himself to shreads to create his copies to try and protect the world his friends loved and end up as a shard of who he was, wishing for death.
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime But he was, in The Stone Flower it can be inferred that both he and Halua were 10 years old when Snow-White started. He has been an immortal 10 year old since 2026. By the time the events of NieR roll around, he is still a 10 year old boy. That's why his mansion is black and white; Emil never ages.
That delivery of that last line was breathtaking, you can feel the brave face he was wearing slowly deteriorating as he talked and that last line the way he said die with that little crack god I tear up
'I'm... scared... I don't want to die...' God fucking dammit. Every single time I watch this scene, I tear up. I felt SO bad for Emil throughout the game, his backstory was as tragic as they can get, and then..h..he just DIES?! HAUABHSBGSVGSBGAVGGAAVGAVGVVVSHBAHBAHBYA CCCCOMEEE BAAACK!!!!!! But the scream at the end is hilarious tbh
It's a bittersweet fate though. After all those clones, he begins to forget Nier and Kaine little by little. Not only that, he's technically the last human to ever exist at the time of Automata.
And I named my save file "Nier", and it was even fucking sadder. Like, he named Weiss and Kaine, and the last person he mentions right before admitting he is scared and doesn't want to die is Nier.. God damn you Taro, you brilliant, sadistic, cruel madman.
Not really, more than anything, its deserved. When you think of it a certain way, Emil was the only character from NieR that did not actually deserve to die, considering he's the only one who ever showed any kind of remorse over the slaughter of Shades, making him at least self aware compared to Nier. Besides that, his sacrifice was unwarranted, he did it out of self-loathing more than anything, because all his life he's lived in shame of being a weapon and therefore tries to make up for it by helping others, even if it means harming himself, but deep down he doesn't want to sacrifice himself to that extent, hence the "I'm scared... I don't want to... die...". Him living post Ending B is actually best for his character, because his salvation comes out of a karmic retribution and not an asspull from the narrative. In other words, since his sacrifice was not deserved and his character did not fully accept the decision he made, he was given a second chance. This is why he survives and not, say, King of Facade.
@2:51 "I want to see all of you again... Just one more time" @The end of "Emil's Determination" in NieR: Automata: "I'm so glad I got to see everyone... one last time..."
I can't wait... i buy this week Nier Gestalt for my Xbox360. :D I watched a Playtrough and was blown away from the story. I played Nier Automata but Gestalt/Replicant is on another level of suffering.
All of them are only loosely related though. NieR was made off of a sorta-joke ending in iirc the original Drakengard, while NieR predates Automata by a LOT and so you'll see references and know one of the bigger twist in Automata going in, but that's about it. By and large NieR and NieR: Automata are self-contained stories.
"For so long, all I could do was destroy. But now I have a chance to save something." Bye Emil. See you in NIER Automata where you destroy the world in your ending.
I'm pretty sure ending y is when you don't stop the self destruct. If you stop it by shooting the one that's left as it tries to self destruct you can stop it and not get ending y but get the ending to the quest
"For so long I've only destroyed things , now I have a chance to save something" starts to descend. Or "please....I.....dont.....want....to.....die" that shit gets me , such a noble sacrifice.
I cried for devola, I cried for Devola and Popola, I cried for Emil, I cried for the shadow lord, then I played it again and cried for Gretel, then I cried for Kalil, then I cried for Fyra, I cried for Roc, I cried for Weiss, I was ecstatic to find out that Emil survived. Then, I cried for Kaine again, I cried for Nier and finally, I cried for poor sweet Yonah, because despite everything I've done, I could not truly save her......
"... I don't want to... Die.." And it was at that moment that I bursted out in tears, crying my eyes to the point that they felt dry. There are many good games out there that give me feels, but very few of them bring me to the point of almost crying.... NieR is one of the very small minority of games that DID make me cry. The only other five games that actually brought me to tears were the Visual novel Higurashi, Persona 3, Shin Megami tensei 4, Tales of Xillia, and most recently, the visual novel Angles with scaly wings (mostly because of Anna's good ending).
Tokusatsu Keyblade Gow 3 doms death , that crushed my soul that first time I saw it in 2013. "Never thought it would end like this , huh marie" "Dom Nooooooooo" Mad world starts to play when doms goes up in flames. Dom.....dom didn't make it.... Someone's gonna pay , someone's gonna fucking pay. When they use to make actual games.
RandomGuy, I was mostly referring to a few emotional moments in Tales of Xillia 2 specifically. I probably should have elaborated that I was talking about Tales of Xillia as a whole when mentioning it and not just the first game. Sorry about that.
While I owned a PS3 I sadly never heard of NieR, not until I started playing NieR:Automata on Steam a few days ago. Now I'm halfway through route B, just finished Emil's lunar tear quest, wanted some of the backstory of the character, and I'm sitting here crying like a little bitch knowing what he went through to give me that fucking flower. God damn I need to get a PS3 again so I can play this.
Well the events within nier automata takes place in 11,945 so (depending if you're playing Nier Gestal which ends in 3366 or Nier Replicant which ends in 3470) it's actually it's just 8579 to 8475
He's actually quite close to 10,000 years old, just not over. 9929 years, to be precise. He was born in 2016- this is inferred from the short story 'The Stone Flower'. He and his twin sister were mentioned to be 10 years old in 2026, during Project Gestalt's (I believe it commenced around 2010-2014) early days.
even now... even knowing what i know.... even knowing how it ends..... It still hurts revisiting this moment, as well as a few others in Yoko Taro's... It still feels like an absolute and irrefutable tragedy, like watching the death of an actual friend... it is still upsetting... and i still have to put up effort not to shed tears over it.. I suppose it only shows how well fleshed out and real game characters can feel if you truely pour time, effort and care into them. It all feels so human, so alive, and that is why moments like this hurt so much more than it would anywhere else...
I'll be honest. The FF7 Aeris death scene never really worked for me, because I never really bought the romance between her and Cloud (which has kinda been retconned away with Crisis Core anyway). When you take out the "she's the first person you meet and she was nice" aspect of it, the romance subplot and shock factor is about all they had going for them on that one. This one inversely hits me a lot harder because Emil was an incredibly vital character to the plot and his death is not only tragic when you consider all the other awful things he had to suffer throughout the plot (making you really want him to get that happy ending he deserves) and it takes place right after Devola and Popola betray you (who have been some of the kindest people to you in the whole game). You're already emotionally vulnerable when this one happens and things just keep getting worse from this point.
The Happy Ending I want from NieR which to this day remains a dream: Emil gets married to Yonah, Kaine becomes Yonah's mother, and Weiss more or less becomes a part of the family. And the dialogue that could have would make anyone laugh.
For some reason I can't stop watching this scene even though it makes me sad. The script and voice acting for this make it even better because of how real of a reaction it seems to be and also there wasn't any corny dialogue. Or bad voice acting with no emotion.
Emil is my favorite character in this game. He was the most innocent and selfless. Personally, I never really cared for Nier or Yonah. I thought they were too absorbed with themselves and their desires in a way that I can't really connect with them or appreciate them as heroes or innocents. Emil and Kaine felt more developed. Even Shadowlord and his daughter, even though their screen time was extremely limited.
Just finished this game for the first time, I'm here because in all my years of gaming I've never been on the brink of tears during a cutscene... The voice actor for Emil was brilliant
Oh good. I was just starting to think I was feeling too happy right now. Good thing this video popped up on my suggests list to slap me with a FUCKING FACE FULL OF SADNESS!
All that suffering, just to live on for millennia, before ultimately getting hacked into little pieces by A2 then blowing yourself (and the planet) up. Bravo Yoko Taro.
Yes play it. Would you cry if your family died? Yes of course you would. Hundreds of strangers die everyday. Do you feel sad? No you don't. Same logic applies. When this game becomes a part of you, you will automatically tear up.
ALL ABOARD THE FEELS TRAIN! Leaving in 1 minute! I wonder when... You had just passed by through me. I wonder how... Could your visages fade so quickly. I wonder when... Did I start to give up and forget I wonder how... Could you leave me here on my own but... You're still here with me. His voice from right within would shout: "Do not let go! Live on. Get up! KEEP GOING!" You're still here with me. Her voice from right within would whisper: "I'm with you. Can't you see?" That's right... Your words live in me...
The remake got so much right, but two lines of dialogue in the original version were so much better. Kaine's retort to Hook when it pretends to be her Grandma ("...bitch ass chest..." just doesn't sound right) and the way Emil's voice cracks ever so slightly at the end of this scene are damn near deal breakers for me. He just sounds so pathetic in his final breath here, which sells his sacrifice even more knowing that he's practically a god.
Even though I played up to this part and cried I still get a small lump in my throat. One of the most saddest parts in any game that I have ever played.
Honestly putting aside my feelings about Father nier, I feel like this cutscene works a lot better than the newer one. If only for the fact that whenever Emil says that I want to see everyone again, it's much more subdued and anguished. Absolutely heartbreaking
danny lolo Some versions/copies of Emil dies in Automata not all of them. See the story of "Emil heads" weapon, it talks about what happens after Nier Automata , around 500 years after the game events.
@@Zouse00 a bit late but all these copies can be considered originals Easiest way to explain is that it's like a biological cell splitting in 2 both ar originals
What I love about this scene is it brings a humanizing quality to the classic anime sacrifice. Too often the big hero goes in dying with a grin on his face, not letting you feel his sacrifice. In this case its very obvious that he didn't want to do it, but had to. I think thats really what makes the scene powerful in the end. That and of course the phenomenal job they did of building up the characters.
Yeah. I mean, it's always "Haha! Smile in the face of death"
In this it's No...no..." and crying.
The Irony about the "Smile in the face of death" troupe in this case is that Emil permenantly has a smile on his face.
Alex Carmean hah, nice catch, never looked at it that way
He did want to make the sacrifice though, he was almost eager to while most classic anime sacrifices has no underlying motive than to die for someone else. All he had done up until this point was destroy things with his power however he saw this as an opportunity to finally do something with his powers he thought of as a curse for a good cause. although he was sad that he wouldnt be able to be with the people who improved his quality of life, i dont think he regretted or felt like he didnt want to do it at all.
***AUTOMATA SPOILERS***
I first met Emil in Automata had no idea what his story was but after beating it and getting all the endings I watched a Nier gestalt "movie" since I can't play the game and now he's one of my favorite characters ever. Love his entire story and his character just seems so real if that makes sense. This scene was so sad but I'm glad he made it.
Emil: "I'm... scared... I don't want to die..."
Then he finally survived... alone...
Master Xehanort resistance camp reloads my dude
“I.... we did our best. In the rain, in the wind, in the storm, even as everyone died, we kept fighting! This eternal war... this eternal pain”
i don't think it was the original emil, one of his copies he makes
Kinda out of no where but did Emil reunite with Kaine after this or just alone until Nier Automata?
@@writemagic123 I think he actually reunites with Kaine in the side story when they make a new Nier
The sweetest little cinnamon that has ever rolled.
He's even sweeter in his Japanese voice
I had to laugh so much on this part. I dont want to ...die... Lmaooo, fuck you Em@il !
@@timurkral3781 Heartless af
@@jakublesko4847 wow lmfao
Emil died as he lived: a total bro.
BugPope wot
Blazer Hell How does that make him any less of a bro?
yep, he is alive, check ending B
real 🅱rodies schlurp other 🅱rodies' schmeat fr
*sees ending b*
GOD DAMN IT EMIL!
his staff drops just to hammer the emotional nail into your heart with one last swing.
rubberduckey111 or in my case wonder how the hell the metal thing survived something that destroyed everything else.
For me it served as hope.
Not unfounded as it turned out.
millardsglory seems your hope was right
this game has one of the best stories in all of gaming. its extremely underrated. i love how the player can connect with the characters to the point of feeling sad at there death. it sucks that there aren't more games that use this kinda of character development
***** Well,when the anti-hero who has done screwed up things and has had a lot of character development has a shocking and emotional death,it proceeds to hit a homerun and continue by flying straight out of the stadium.basically I'm saying its sad as all hell.
Donovan Holifield Well, at least will be a second NieR game, be glad with Yoko Taro!
***** I guess it's a different type of character. I can't say much about the Drakengard series but in Nier they are immensely flawed people that you sympathize with and root for. You want to see them get to a better place, which makes their deaths all the more tragic :(
Nearly everyone roots for the underdogs, just because an upset is more exciting than the same team/people winning again.
automata's story is really fucking great too
Oh, Emil came back alright.
As a head on a moped that zooms through old cities, selling junk to edgy robots.
lol
that's just a clone of him
@@froztbytes No, Nier:Automata confirms it's the real Emil who just lost his memory of who he is due to having cloned himself countless times. He remembers who he is and retrieves his memories at the end of Automata.
@@RickGrimes807 and Emil die after ending Y :v
@@theskywalker8416 yeah 😣
@@RickGrimes807 no since in the lore his decapetated head landed in the desert and he managed to reconstruct his old body back..
Or you can show me your source that you are getting this info from.
"DON'T WORRY... I'LL BE FINE."
[Comes back as giant centipede in sequel]
*insane clone centipede
Puberty is real
Those were just his clones!!
The real original emil is good
@@AB-jt4rs The one that sells you junk is indeed the "original" Emil, and you may help that one remember more than his clones, but there's still large parts of his memory that he will never get back. Think of it like this: pre-cloning Emil was like a hat filled with a bunch of notes. Scribbled on those notes is a memory. Each time he cloned himself, a note went flying out of the hat and into another one. The copy got some of the original's memories but the original lost those memories in the process.
Not one of his clones is truly the whole original, and even though the original has lost many memories, does that mean neither the original nor the clones qualify as being the same as "fully original"? If they possess the memories that "matter", is that all that's needed for them to be who you want them to be? Consider the entire storyline (both in-game and in out-of-game material) of 9S. Every time 9S is killed, a factory-reset version of his personality is uploaded to a new 9S body. Is that still the same 9S? Some would argue it's not, because the experiences that followed up to his demise are gone. To the factory-reset backup version, it's like those things never happened. Despite this, 9S is still able to remember the most important thing: the truth behind 2B. Why? Due to how much it had happened to him. So does a reset backup still qualify as the original? That's up to you to decide.
I suppose the thing to take away from this is that important memories and experiences transcend time and space. Despite all of the cloning, memory loss, and THOUSANDS of years that passed, the "original" Emil still remembered the most important thing: Kaine. Just like how 9S still remembers what 2B has done to him, even if he doesn't actually know it.
@@spartan456 it doesn't matter, all humans in Gestalt/Replicant are clones. The shades are what were humans....lol...and then doesn't matter because in the ending E of Automata, mankind is extinct lol. Oh Taro!
It's really sad and ironic that, at the end of all this, Emil is the only surviving member of the party left in Automata.
All the desperation, all the pain that he had to go through, he still did it even though it was pointless... all because this was the world his friend tried to save.
Malevolent Macaroni actually all of them survive according to the grimoire
Arausito Not into the timeline of automata.
@@Arausito They survive in ending E of Nier, but eventually die as all humanity goes extinct because Replicant NieR killed Gestalt NieR (the Shadowlord).
Everyday's a sale and every sale's a win tho
I appreciate this careful wording
"don't worry... I'll be fine"
NO YOU DON'T
WHY YOU GOTTA LIE TO US LIKE THIS
YOU'RE NOT FINE
YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE FINE AT ALL DAMMIT
Vei. Veitlark He did survived. Nier automata you still can see him. He didn't broke his promised.
Goh Wei Meng It is a copy eh, not the real him
Lars nope it's real he just made a new body cause his head survived but he lost his memories due to *************SPOILERS***********
Him splitting his body apart multiple time in Nier Automata which also the reason why the androids execist in the first and later in they find Emil again but a bike and with no memories of who he was due to the splitting but he does get his memories back thanks to who ever the 3 characters u pick to help him oh and it is the real him thanks to looking the game giving us the 2nd Emil's data base which tells us the Emil on the bike is the original one
tf you talking about
emil was alive even on nier gestalt/replicant
one of the endings shows him wandering (only with his head) in the desert
Idk why it matters if he survived. He might have lived, but he was left all alone for over 5000 years in an empty world, left to fend for himself. I wouldn't call that fine. It's like when you're given the option to kill/wipe pascal's memories, he clearly wasn't fine after losing everything he held near and dear to him.
*Spoiler Warning: Emil Survives*
*Spoiler Warning: He will wish he hadn't. . . .*
Perfectly stated, my friend.
being Emil is suffering
What wake me up inside.
Being transformed into a magical weapon gives you an immortal form and causes untold suffering?
Who could have seen that coming?
On a potentially unrelated note, who wants contracts?
Jackson Joestar spoiler warning it gets worse in automata
Had to double check if this was the same ost as the one in Nier Automata Emil Sidequest. I regret checking.
Is it?
TsunaXZ Yes, with some minor differences here and there with the one in Nier:Automata.
Late to the party but yeah it is. It’s also used in some of the coliseum later battles when the robots you’re killing are begging for their lives and the lives of the loved ones. Pretty agonising. Never felt guilty for playing a game how it’s meant to be played before. Feels bad man.
@@edo1974 fucking yoko taro.. gives you horde mode. makes you feel bad about beating horde mode.
Emil Despair - Sacrifice. I'm surprised no one had merged two songs to one just to make it painfully heart-wrenching to listen to.
My eyes watered a little bit when watching this and I haven't even played this game, this vid just popped in recommendations.
Writing must be really good when I care for character I know for like 2 minutes.
Go play NieR and NieR Automata. Now.
I cried too, and I remember when I first met him in-game ;(
Dont forget drakengard
There's a remaster of the game coming soon, I'd highly recommend it unless they somehow royally screw it up. The gaemplay is absolutely outdated, but in story, characters and music it's top tier.
@Harold Jenkins just hush if you don't know what I was talking about drakengard is the first in the series not nier
Emiles story wasn't cliche. A cliche for someone like Emile is to have a happy ending and turn back to normal.
Not for a 10 year old to have to sacrifice his life to save his friends.
and then turn back just to rip himself to shreads to create his copies to try and protect the world his friends loved and end up as a shard of who he was, wishing for death.
Fuck you
@@Alik_Odess Fuck you
He wasnt 10 years old though.
@@SciFiMangaGamesAnime But he was, in The Stone Flower it can be inferred that both he and Halua were 10 years old when Snow-White started. He has been an immortal 10 year old since 2026. By the time the events of NieR roll around, he is still a 10 year old boy. That's why his mansion is black and white; Emil never ages.
That delivery of that last line was breathtaking, you can feel the brave face he was wearing slowly deteriorating as he talked and that last line the way he said die with that little crack god I tear up
Yeah and you should hear it in Japanese, it's even more heartbreaking..
'I'm... scared... I don't want to die...'
God fucking dammit. Every single time I watch this scene, I tear up. I felt SO bad for Emil throughout the game, his backstory was as tragic as they can get, and then..h..he just DIES?!
HAUABHSBGSVGSBGAVGGAAVGAVGVVVSHBAHBAHBYA
CCCCOMEEE BAAACK!!!!!!
But the scream at the end is hilarious tbh
It's a bittersweet fate though. After all those clones, he begins to forget Nier and Kaine little by little. Not only that, he's technically the last human to ever exist at the time of Automata.
Nano506 was emil ever human, or was he just a replicant? plus its kinda Nier's fault humans went extinct since he killed the shadowlord and the shades
@@historiabyssus Yoko Taro wasn't involved in DoD2 but ye
Every day's a sale, every sales a win!
Fun fact for those who only played Automata - the crazy girl exploding is Popola
I see the word "exploding" and Megumin's profile in the reply section...coincidence maybe? O.o
Felfury woah shit
Just wanted to add, that's because you killed Devola too
@@liamoconnor7423 to add furthermore, the reason devola and popola sacrificed themselves in automata is directly linked to this event
E.M.I.L. stands for "Endless Misery Is Life"
Who else genuinely thought they heard their name when Emil says your name in the audio?
ProtosMerkabah same, it just pulls you in so well
TheDarkWall Even more, I used my actual name when I set the main character's name. Really tugged on my heart strings.
And I named my save file "Nier", and it was even fucking sadder. Like, he named Weiss and Kaine, and the last person he mentions right before admitting he is scared and doesn't want to die is Nier..
God damn you Taro, you brilliant, sadistic, cruel madman.
and then he lived in ending B making this tearjerker feel like a slap in the face.
+Drakon „Fool/Jester“ Minaka You besically described Metal Gear Solid IV.
As I've heard,yes. Yes I did.
Drakon Minaka Then you go watch automata optional fight and its depressing.
Seen it already. It was pretty sad.
Not really, more than anything, its deserved. When you think of it a certain way, Emil was the only character from NieR that did not actually deserve to die, considering he's the only one who ever showed any kind of remorse over the slaughter of Shades, making him at least self aware compared to Nier. Besides that, his sacrifice was unwarranted, he did it out of self-loathing more than anything, because all his life he's lived in shame of being a weapon and therefore tries to make up for it by helping others, even if it means harming himself, but deep down he doesn't want to sacrifice himself to that extent, hence the "I'm scared... I don't want to... die...".
Him living post Ending B is actually best for his character, because his salvation comes out of a karmic retribution and not an asspull from the narrative. In other words, since his sacrifice was not deserved and his character did not fully accept the decision he made, he was given a second chance. This is why he survives and not, say, King of Facade.
@2:51 "I want to see all of you again... Just one more time"
@The end of "Emil's Determination" in NieR: Automata: "I'm so glad I got to see everyone... one last time..."
When you only played Automata. And suddenly you realize there's five other games and like 30 different endings in the series
hype for replicant remaster. just got finished with ending E on automata
I can't wait... i buy this week Nier Gestalt for my Xbox360. :D
I watched a Playtrough and was blown away from the story.
I played Nier Automata but Gestalt/Replicant is on another level of suffering.
All of them are only loosely related though. NieR was made off of a sorta-joke ending in iirc the original Drakengard, while NieR predates Automata by a LOT and so you'll see references and know one of the bigger twist in Automata going in, but that's about it. By and large NieR and NieR: Automata are self-contained stories.
Wow, this is by far the saddest scene I've seen in video game history,.
A child having this much suffering and ultimately sacrificing himself..
one of the best games I ever played ... and I still get goosebumps watching this and listening to the music
Rest in peace, Emil. You'll see your friends again!
Well, not everyone..
This aged very poorly.
@@FragolinaGolosina Yes, everyone. They brought Nier back in the book ending.
Oh god.
"For so long, all I could do was destroy. But now I have a chance to save something."
Bye Emil. See you in NIER Automata where you destroy the world in your ending.
huh? didn't he just become a glorified vending machine on wheels?
FroztByte Gamer
This is Spoiler
Emil is the secret Boss of Ending [Y] N:A
he also created an army and fought off the aliens for a time till he lost all his friends and stopped all "biological activity".
I'm pretty sure ending y is when you don't stop the self destruct. If you stop it by shooting the one that's left as it tries to self destruct you can stop it and not get ending y but get the ending to the quest
@@froztbytes Emil is a super boss and when you kill him he blows up the earth
"For so long I've only destroyed things , now I have a chance to save something" starts to descend.
Or "please....I.....dont.....want....to.....die" that shit gets me , such a noble sacrifice.
I can practically hear half the fandom wailing in the distance...
Nico is in for some heartbreak when he gets this far
every days a sale,
every sales a win!!
dammit that was really funny
I cried for devola, I cried for Devola and Popola, I cried for Emil, I cried for the shadow lord, then I played it again and cried for Gretel, then I cried for Kalil, then I cried for Fyra, I cried for Roc, I cried for Weiss, I was ecstatic to find out that Emil survived. Then, I cried for Kaine again, I cried for Nier and finally, I cried for poor sweet Yonah, because despite everything I've done, I could not truly save her......
"... I don't want to... Die.."
And it was at that moment that I bursted out in tears, crying my eyes to the point that they felt dry.
There are many good games out there that give me feels, but very few of them bring me to the point of almost crying.... NieR is one of the very small minority of games that DID make me cry.
The only other five games that actually brought me to tears were the Visual novel Higurashi, Persona 3, Shin Megami tensei 4, Tales of Xillia, and most recently, the visual novel Angles with scaly wings (mostly because of Anna's good ending).
찐따새끼 오타쿠게임들만 골라서 좋아하네
Tokusatsu Keyblade Gow 3 doms death , that crushed my soul that first time I saw it in 2013. "Never thought it would end like this , huh marie"
"Dom Nooooooooo"
Mad world starts to play when doms goes up in flames.
Dom.....dom didn't make it....
Someone's gonna pay , someone's gonna fucking pay.
When they use to make actual games.
"Tales of Xillia"
I'm sorry, what? Am I not remembering something from that game, because I don't remember any really emotional moments.
RandomGuy, I was mostly referring to a few emotional moments in Tales of Xillia 2 specifically. I probably should have elaborated that I was talking about Tales of Xillia as a whole when mentioning it and not just the first game. Sorry about that.
@@tokusatsukeyblade797 Ahh yeah, the second game is definitely a lot more emotional than the first, especially with most of the endings.
Automata spoiler:
The fact that I felt like meeting an old friend once I saw him in Automata proves how much of a master piece this game really is
"I don't to... die..." It kills me every time I listen to how his voice shrivels down into his last squeak of a breath...
Emil is such a sweet smol little potato.
While I owned a PS3 I sadly never heard of NieR, not until I started playing NieR:Automata on Steam a few days ago. Now I'm halfway through route B, just finished Emil's lunar tear quest, wanted some of the backstory of the character, and I'm sitting here crying like a little bitch knowing what he went through to give me that fucking flower.
God damn I need to get a PS3 again so I can play this.
i'm actually working to buy a ps3 at the moment so i can use an emulator to play them on PC, a pre owned PS3 goes for about 120 usd
Theres gonna be a remaster for steam so keep your money
Even after 10 000 years, you're still the bro!
Well the events within nier automata takes place in 11,945
so (depending if you're playing Nier Gestal which ends in 3366 or Nier Replicant which ends in 3470) it's actually it's just 8579 to 8475
@@froztbytes The original Emil lived in the 2000s with his sister when he was first used as a lab experiment and then turned into a weapon.
He's actually quite close to 10,000 years old, just not over. 9929 years, to be precise. He was born in 2016- this is inferred from the short story 'The Stone Flower'. He and his twin sister were mentioned to be 10 years old in 2026, during Project Gestalt's (I believe it commenced around 2010-2014) early days.
*this makes things in NieR: Automata so much more depressing. damn you, Yoko Taro.*
It’s hard for me to cry at any sort of media, so the fact that I cry every time I rewatch this cutscene really says a lot
God I can't wait to suffer through this in the remastered version.
even now... even knowing what i know.... even knowing how it ends..... It still hurts revisiting this moment, as well as a few others in Yoko Taro's... It still feels like an absolute and irrefutable tragedy, like watching the death of an actual friend... it is still upsetting... and i still have to put up effort not to shed tears over it.. I suppose it only shows how well fleshed out and real game characters can feel if you truely pour time, effort and care into them. It all feels so human, so alive, and that is why moments like this hurt so much more than it would anywhere else...
Truly sadder than final fantasy 7 death scene
there's nothing sadder than ff7 scene
but this totally seconds that
I'll be honest. The FF7 Aeris death scene never really worked for me, because I never really bought the romance between her and Cloud (which has kinda been retconned away with Crisis Core anyway). When you take out the "she's the first person you meet and she was nice" aspect of it, the romance subplot and shock factor is about all they had going for them on that one.
This one inversely hits me a lot harder because Emil was an incredibly vital character to the plot and his death is not only tragic when you consider all the other awful things he had to suffer throughout the plot (making you really want him to get that happy ending he deserves) and it takes place right after Devola and Popola betray you (who have been some of the kindest people to you in the whole game). You're already emotionally vulnerable when this one happens and things just keep getting worse from this point.
The Happy Ending I want from NieR which to this day remains a dream: Emil gets married to Yonah, Kaine becomes Yonah's mother, and Weiss more or less becomes a part of the family. And the dialogue that could have would make anyone laugh.
justin rangel i dunno, I never thought the scene was sad... Was more "oh she died..." there are scenes way sadder than that in less known games
Lorekeeper Ronan Well i might be wrong but isn't Emil gay?
For some reason I can't stop watching this scene even though it makes me sad. The script and voice acting for this make it even better because of how real of a reaction it seems to be and also there wasn't any corny dialogue. Or bad voice acting with no emotion.
Emil is just a perfect character.
IM CRYING
NOT PHYSICALLY, I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO CRY FOR A MONTH
BUT MY HEART A C H E S
A MEAL!
I DONT WANT TWO PIE!
lol
Lmao wtf 😂
You ruined the mood
can't wait to cry to this in 1440p.
The first time I saw this scene I legitimacy cried. This time was no different
EMIL noooooo , I cried a lot for emil's noble sacrifice
if you play the game a second time you learn that Emil survives! Wooo!
Cree Johnson spoiler dude!
Cree Johnson yea and he is in nier automata
no he isn't
that's his clone pham
Cirno Chirumo nope, it is him
i cried when it happened and now i'm watching this and crying again
Emil is my favorite character in this game. He was the most innocent and selfless. Personally, I never really cared for Nier or Yonah. I thought they were too absorbed with themselves and their desires in a way that I can't really connect with them or appreciate them as heroes or innocents. Emil and Kaine felt more developed. Even Shadowlord and his daughter, even though their screen time was extremely limited.
Ohhhh THAT'S why Karol's voice always sounded so familiar to me. 12 years and never did place it or look it up.
The goddamn music, the music does at least 50% of the heart stabbing alone!
Just finished this game for the first time, I'm here because in all my years of gaming I've never been on the brink of tears during a cutscene... The voice actor for Emil was brilliant
Oh good. I was just starting to think I was feeling too happy right now. Good thing this video popped up on my suggests list to slap me with a FUCKING FACE FULL OF SADNESS!
The thing I hate about this scene is that this all could've been avoided if Emil just made an empty bubble in front of them LMAO
All that suffering, just to live on for millennia, before ultimately getting hacked into little pieces by A2 then blowing yourself (and the planet) up.
Bravo Yoko Taro.
This still brings me to tears, and I'm a hard guy to break
The book deserve the oscar no doubt
I haven't played this game but here I am crying my eyes out T^T *sobs uncontrollably*
1:49 Im gonna be fine, don't worry...
Emmm, of course you are gonna be fine, he he he....*stars crying*
*every day’s a sale, every sale’s a win*
Yes play it. Would you cry if your family died? Yes of course you would. Hundreds of strangers die everyday. Do you feel sad? No you don't. Same logic applies. When this game becomes a part of you, you will automatically tear up.
Gave his life up for others, only ending up as the last one to survive. Damn im tearing up.
At least at the very end, he got to see his friends one last time, as he hoped he would.
Cried soo damn hard here. I will never forget this game
Never even played this & this is the most emotional scene in gaming
ALL ABOARD THE FEELS TRAIN!
Leaving in 1 minute!
I wonder when...
You had just passed by through me.
I wonder how...
Could your visages fade so quickly.
I wonder when...
Did I start to give up and forget
I wonder how...
Could you leave me here on my own but...
You're still here with me.
His voice from right within would shout:
"Do not let go! Live on. Get up! KEEP GOING!"
You're still here with me.
Her voice from right within would whisper:
"I'm with you. Can't you see?"
That's right... Your words live in me...
emil doesnt deserve this.
Holy shit I've never played this game but the fucking feels from this scene bro
tears....what an emotional scene
I have never played this game, and still I feel for this character! Dammit Emile!
The remake got so much right, but two lines of dialogue in the original version were so much better. Kaine's retort to Hook when it pretends to be her Grandma ("...bitch ass chest..." just doesn't sound right) and the way Emil's voice cracks ever so slightly at the end of this scene are damn near deal breakers for me. He just sounds so pathetic in his final breath here, which sells his sacrifice even more knowing that he's practically a god.
Aaaaand then he comes back in Automata as a hyper-annoying guy who sells plug-in chips.
And random stuff
@@withoutname9575 Like Type 3 weapons with hyper-depressing weapon stories
And make the most rare achievement in the game fucking ending y
And then he fucking dies!
Notice how they saved the good cgi for this scene kind of like the opening to Drakengard 3.
Every day's a sale, every sale's a win!
I'm back here after Nier Replicant 2020 Teaser. Here we go...
2019 and i'm still crying to this scene T.T
CRY!!! NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
I remember yelling NO!!! when I was playing this. Because when you hear that song at 0:36 you know someone is going to die.
He fixes his body, and ends up with 6 cool new arms!
**Mars Attacks theme slowly rises in the backgroumd**
"I'll be fine"
Me after playing Automata before Gestalt: no you won't, Emil...damn it no you won't...DAMN IT!
Even though I played up to this part and cried I still get a small lump in my throat. One of the most saddest parts in any game that I have ever played.
GREAT, now we get to see this in 4k :'(
...And then it gets worse.
"Oh...hey! There you are... I'm so glad...I got to see you all again..."
This scene still makes me sad, and laugh maniacally at the implosion.
Honestly putting aside my feelings about Father nier, I feel like this cutscene works a lot better than the newer one. If only for the fact that whenever Emil says that I want to see everyone again, it's much more subdued and anguished. Absolutely heartbreaking
Emil only mentions Kaine and Weiss, do we ever get to hear Nier’s name spoken in dialogue ever?
Nope, because you can name him.
Oh that was a tear jerker all right. Oh my God, that was so sad
rip again Emil in Nier Automata
danny lolo Some versions/copies of Emil dies in Automata not all of them.
See the story of "Emil heads" weapon, it talks about what happens after Nier Automata , around 500 years after the game events.
@@Zouse00 a bit late but all these copies can be considered originals
Easiest way to explain is that it's like a biological cell splitting in 2 both ar originals
Everyday a sell!
Every sell's a win!
Everyday is great when u're me!
All he could do was destroy... but he felt he finally had a chance to save somthing that meant more than anything to him.
If this scene went on for a like a second longer I was gonna tear. And I never tear at anything in a game or movie. thats how awesome Nier is.
Everytime I wa h this cutscene I always cry.... Yoko taro’s broken me
I'm not crying...you're crying...
At 0:47 ish or somewhere there. The melody is the same as the one in Emil Despair soundtrack from Automata.
Yep emil despair,emil sacrifice and emil karma are the same song with different instruments!
many ost from automata are in nier replicant 1st so yes you'll hear many songs similar
No one can replace 2B ❤️
Emil is the sweetest little gay skeleton and I can't wait to see him in the remaster 🥺💖