Subscribe for more! ⇨ / @bossfightdatabase ☆ New ending E which was added to the NieR Replicant remake. BFD, Boss Fight Database. Nier Replicant Ending E.
Ending E explained: This ending was novelized back when the original game first released in 2010, so it’s been around for a while. It’s most hopeful outcome for the characters. In every ending, humanity is doomed. Though Nier guaranteed its extinction by killing the Shadowlord, Project Gestalt failed the moment Replicants gained sentience and Shades began relapsing. Androids like Devola and Popola had been struggling for centuries to resolve this flaw and bring the project to completion, which is what caused the Shadowlord to begin his rampage. He’d realized that to “save” his Yonah, he could not continue to wait for a day that would never come. Following Replicant’s Ending D, the Memory Tree supercomputer is discovered by the alien machine network several thousand years later. The Tree’s comprehensive data on humanity is what causes the machine network to plan its own evolution. This kickstarts the main conflict of Automata. The buried data on Nier (the protagonist) SPECIFICALLY is used in part to create Adam and Eve. This is even hinted at in the English Replicant release, as Adult Nier is performed by Ray Chase, Eve’s English voice actor. In Replicant’s Ending E, the Memory Tree’s network administrators (the twins) reveal to Kainé that despite the player’s choice to erase Nier in Ending D, the Tree’s recorded memories of him still exist, locked away. The Tree not only records all human memory, but Replicant memory as well. Kainé enters her own recorded memory and forces all Nier’s data - his entire existence - to be “recovered”. A large Lunar Tear (this is confirmed in the script that came with the White Snow edition) blooms. Within, Kainé holds Nier, reborn at the age you, the player, began his journey. There’s not much to decode or decipher regarding the Drakengard/Nier universe. The ending functions largely as metaphor for its intended message - that no matter how bleak or doomed the world may be, life is precious. Although humanity and Replicants will soon fade into extinction, Kainé and Nier’s love, and the love of their family and friends, is meaningful. Their lives are meaningful. A massive Lunar Tear, a flower known for its rarity and beauty, blossoms for them, because they have found something in each other equally rare and equally beautiful. Something equally deserving of such value.
It interesting to know that Ending E introducing this memory tree basically gives us the source on how the Machine Network and the androids knew about humanity, since by Automata, they've already died thousands of year prior. Does that imply that resistance android like Anemone and Jackass were also created from this tree when the aliens start to invade or was the Machine Network also responsible for them like with YoRHa?
@@filchun6531 No, people just mistakenly attribute the flower as being the big bad when it was just a single failed attempt by the gods to kill humanity in 3 before settling on using red eye disease and watchers. This flower isn't even the same flower, the novel straight up calls it a lunar tear made by mixing plant with machine.
FF14 players who also a fan of drakengard shits there pants on nier automata collab because the flower appeared on there. And its found canon to what happened to 2b and 9s ressurection
@@OsnosisBones Back when the ending E was originally novelized shortly after NieR's release, Drakengard 3 wasn't even a twinkle in Taro's eye yet. Likewise, a few years back - no one expected a joke ending from Drakengard 1 to spawn an entire sister franchise. My point is, Taro likes to take things from the previous entries and recontextualizes as plot hooks for the follow-ups. And after Drakengard 3 it's hard to look at "Giant Monochrome Flower" the same way, even if the original intent back in Grimoir Nier might have been different. Plus other shit that was introduced into canon since original NieR, like the weird causal bootstrap paradox thing Drakengard and NieR universes share, with magic invading NieR's world from Drakengard world, only for NieR's world to seed magic, dragons and etcetera into Drakengard's world, by dumping Cathedral City on their collective ass in the first place, and Accord's timeline hopping shenanigans - make entire shebang becomes that much more complicated and difficult to take at face value with decade old interviews.
@@TheKain202 Even with regard to 3, the flower isn't meant to be fully monochrome like the one here. Its description in the canon novel version of the book exclusive drakengard3 ending has several divergent aspects, and it's even referred to as 'the black flower' due to both its nature and the darker highlights of it at certain spots. Even the game version of the flower doesn't look exactly like the flower here, nor was it fully monochrome outside of the ending where everything was monochrome. (Plus the flower everyone knows of from the game was killed in the book ending, and while there is technically a main body it is not even remotely a flower, nor can it do anything since it's still sealed away in the cathedral). Unless Taro expressly says he's changed his mind, it's safe to assume the giant flower born from kaines' thoughts is still a partly robotic lunar tear.
@Zero Tsu because in replicant also the humanity will going to extent even after saved nier they are all going to be dead anyway. Thanks have nice day too 😊
@@GenMars the flower already existed when the events that led to Nier happened, this whole game is about the presence of the flower coming to our world with the queen beast
A lot of people here think that flower is the same one in Drakengard 3 but it looks a lot more like a lunar tear. “I hear a song” line definitely implies something but I truly think that giant flower isn’t the same one as the flower of destruction.
It’s true luna tears and the flower of destruction are two entirely different things, everybody whose played nier knows the Black scrawl was the final conclusion to humanity which was obviously caused by the events that took place in replicant, and that huge flower literally looks identical to niers symbolic Luna tear flower in ending D
@@yuliy6829 Isn't the red dragon mentioned by the memory tree? Accord pops up in a letter from Yonah. Nier might not be a direct continuation of the Drakengard story but they do seem to exist in the same timeline.
I've been going through health problems for months, and Kaine at 0:50 gives the motivational speech i needed to go on. Days ago i could finally get to this ending and didn't expect to be that emotional and optimistic despite knowing about the lore.
@@Aliens1337 Seriously what's up with the hate for Drakengard 2, yeah it is inferior story and character wise and not made by Yoko Taro but it is still perfectly serviceable with a lot of epic moments such as Caim's return more murderous than ever.
Man. When I got to Kainé's rant on my own, unspoiled, while that music played, and heard the shakiness in her voice in the first half? That got to me harder than any other part of the game. This game, man.
@@swagrat4403 Yeah, her rant was an entire mood. The way Nier just sacrifices his own existence without her input and then has the nerve to tell her not to come back for him really made me mad.
Never have I been so fucking happy to see permanently erased save data being restored like this. LIKE FUCKING THANK YOU FOR THIS GODDAMN ENDING!!! FINALLY!!!
The novella isn't very child-friendly. There's one key difference between Papa Nier and Brother Nier that was on the novella: Brother Nier (Replicant) had to prostitute himself at some point the year prior the game started to gain money. An old man from the coastline village basically raped him and Brother Nier got his revenge by killing him during a shade hunt and said that the shades had killed him. One key quote from this short story is that Brother Nier said that "killing humans doesn't feel different from killing shades".
Kira Buckland voices the Girl, who looks like a young version of 2B, and Kyle McCarley voices the Boy, who looks like a younger version of 9S. I was hoping the Girl would look more like A2, but Kainé holds that spot for her recklessness and spontaneous emotional outburst.
@@kraosdadafusfus8034 but replicant definitely will die because of black srcawl.haha. yoko taro right now making a new game, maybe this flower is hint for drakengard remaster.
I'm really hopeful that with this ending we get another Nier title that acts as a direct sequel to this games ending. Truly the futures may melt together in the best way possible.
This has been my favourite game since the original 2010 release. I had speculated since its announcement that due to papa nier being dropped it this specifically being RepliCant and not Gestalt, that players would be presented with an opportunity to restore their save data for ending E, because that was the story that was already written. I had the same height of expectations for the rest ofnending Es content. Its perfect. They hit the nail on the head. Theres nothing i woukd change, only add. I didnt expect to wait 11 years to see Kainé get her happy ending, i didnt expect to *see* it at all, but i unapologetically wept. If youre familiar with the story and the messages conveyed here, youll be hard pressed to find a better ending. A perfect culmination of the story.
0:37 when they mention about the possible future blending in their time,the light and the song. It make me think about the ending D of drakengard 3,the goddess literally went from Zero to Hero.
So, happy ending or will they all die horribly? Lunar tear or flower of destruction? Does that song have some king of lyrics or a remix? *Discover this and more next time!!*
I was spending so much time to decide if I would wait to watch it when I beat it or just watch on TH-cam just to find out it’s an ending I already read haha
You can't fully understand these stories without referencing outside material, anyone who says otherwise is lying lol. That said its a wild ride and I love the hell out of it, Replicant and Automata are incredible.
As someone who's been a fan of Nier games for a while, I'm lost too. Story is deep and amazing though, convoluted as shit and very interperative if you're into that. Me personally I find those the best if done right. Metal Gear is another example of that style of story telling.
@@MrKing-qd7gi I feel like if you piece together all of the lore out there that exists, whether ingame or not, you can make a fairly clear picture of what's going on with of course still some speculation thrown in. It's pretty fascinating.
Me seeing the flower bud coming out of the ground: A seed? The other seed I know was real bad news. Me seeing that it's actually a flower: WHAT HAVE WE DONE!?
Biggest question: How did all this instigate the Aliens invasion of Earth along with the machines or really any of the main focal points with the events of Automata?
This ending was told back when the original game came out, in the Grimoire Nier book. Automata wasn't a thing back then, so it doesn't have any connection to it.
the ending shows hope, but honestly i think we all know is a vague hope, like ending e of automata.... yoko taro is so evil that he makes you doubt even a slight posibility of all turning out for the good..... brilliant
Well, the good part is that they're all alive and get to live out the rest of their lives together. The bad part is that the black scrawl will eventually kill every Replicant. Every shade has died out by Nier Automata, suggesting that humanity is well and truly forever gone due to our actions in Replicant. Honestly, everything is kind of fucked, the only happy part of this ending is that they all get to be together before the end.
There are 3 save slots so selectively save to be efficient you need to beat the bitch 3 times on the 3rd one go through and save to two slots run c then reset the save to do d then go through to do e
Whaaat... is going on? Lol Also, is that the save files that were lost in ending D? Also, that giant Flower may be Lunar Tear, but it makes me think of Zero's Eyeflower in Drakengard 3
_I hear a song...._ *giant flower appears* _OH no no no no NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONO NOT AGAIN NOOOOOOOOOOOO_ *it's just naked nier* phew....got me there for a second you bastards
One thing that I don't understand about this ending is that this Nier Kaine saved is the Nier from 5 years before or the Nier which fought the Shadowlord, yes it is obvious it is the young Nier but save that is restored is five years later Nier
Gonna be a little speculative here and say that it's an android situation. Nier has a new Replicant body (there were multiple generations of Nier and Kaine replicants before our Nier and Kaine) and his memories were just transfered over. His body may be different, but his mind and memories are all the same.
I can’t tell if Kaine’s embrace at the end feels romantic or platonic or motherly, given the Nier she’s holding is the child version. I guess it’s up to anyone’s personal interpretation. Personally I never got the romantic vibes from the two (except ending c), so I’ll go with more platonic love and unfaltering loyalty on Kaine’s part
Because the Flower is behind every single event in the Taroverse. The Flower is the creator of the Intoners, which in turn resulted in the creation of the Cult of the Watchers, which led to the birth of the Red Eye Disease and the use of Seeds of Destruction, which led to the White Chlorination Syndrome, which makes humanity start Project Gestalt, which then fails and with the pass of millenia leads to a war between YoRHa and the Machine Lifeform Network, which leads to the Machines to start using the Logic Virus to replicate magic to create Seeds of Destruction and infect other worlds.
@@ZoeDickensBookotakunerdgirl101 The recent NieR raid in FFXIV explained that the Flower lives on despite being sealed twice. As long as someone has a fraction of its power and continues living, it'll continue to exist. However, this game and the XIV raids pointed out a terrifying truth: by merging with the Machine Network, that condition no longer is an issue. The Flower lives now inside the Network with no need of corporeal form unless the situation requires it.
It's not Nier's fault for killing SHADOWLORD. By the time Gestalt Yonah is dead, shadow lord doesn't want to live anyway and even stated he can't live without his Yonah and hes coming for her . So If Nier didn't kill shadowlord, SHADOWLORD WILL GRAB SOME RANDOM WEAPON TO COMMIT SUICIDE OR HES GOING TO KILL EVERYONE DOESNT MATTER ITS SHADE OR REPLICANT, THE WHOLE HUMANITY WILL DIED WITH HIS YONAH AND THEN HES GOING TO KILL HIMSELF.
honestly, it's quite clear that project gestalt was already a failure and humanity was doomed no matter what happened. The protagonist of Nier might have sped it up a bit, but Devola and Popola were really just trying to delay the inevitable.
Kainé - Weiss Edition A bit late but it's one variant of the "Kainé" songs. This version was exclusive included in the White Snow Collectors Edition and new arranged for the Remake. I can recommend all Kainé Remixes, there is also a Final Fantasy 14 Kainé Song thats really good.
If drakengard 4 happened it would not be in this NieR earth timeline it would in the world of midgar ether be far far after drakengard 1 ending A Or Drakengard ending E after caim left it behind I wonder what happened to that world when he left it hmm 🤔
@@eriqeashwaq692 Actually the Ending E of boss of DoD1 had "I. Hear. A. Sound" as the quote for the mission description,, if anything I feel like the "I hear a song" quote in THIS ending E is referencing DoD1, not DoD3-
If you watch ending D that flower symbolises nier when he sacrificed his existence for kaine, fast forward to ending E the story basically continues from ending D, when kanei finds out that nier did in fact exist and that he sacrificed himself for her, in a way she basically got her memories back of nier so goes to Save him bringing him back into existence and then after she saves him that huge flower is still the same flower that represents nier, Basically symbolising Niers rebirth/existence into the world again and that kanei cuddles him tight also symbolising that nier is someone very special to her
So, what is the so called "serious consequence" of Kaine that damned the entire planet? All I can see here is a girl in lovely love that can bucher her own memories to drag his beloved back to existence. What is so damned about this?
It's not so much what she did as what said beloved did in the first ending to the game. By slaying the Shadowlord, Nier unknowingly damned humanity (both Gestalts and Replicants) to extinction. But the point being made here (in the closest thing this game has to a good ending) is that despite all that, their lives are still precious, as fleeting as they may be. That life in general has meaning, even at the end of the world, and the love we share with each other makes it all worth it in said end.
@@Kyran1996 how did he damn humanity? I got all the endings, still i'm pretty confused. Also, where the hell weiss go? And grimore noire? Why did he help the shadow lord(is him in the prologue, am i right?)? What the hell was grimoire rubrum? I'm pretty intrigued in this saga, the problem sadly is that i don't have much time to discover the lore outside of the games and connect all the dots
@@dormin2749 The Shadowlord is the one keeping the remaining Gestalts from relapsing and when Replicant Nier killed him, all Gestalts will relapse and die out. To create Replicants, the Popola and Devola units need the genetic data of their corresponding Gestalts. Without their Gestalts, it will be impossible for them to create new Replicants.
@@dantecrailman8861 thank you. Well, seems he fucked up bad. One more thing: why Gestalt Yonah died when Replicant Yonah looked at the sun but the same thing does not happend whith tyrann when kaine goes around?
Huh? What are you talking about? The AI is voiced by Kira Buckland (The girl) and Kyle McCarley (The boy). The same VA's who voiced 2B and 9S in Automata. You can literally see their roles as this AI in the credits section.
@@arcflamearcanum7579 Huh, Good call. I wasn't paying attention to the cast list and to be honest I heard Sam and Eden Riegel more through that performance.
The sad fact is, this is not a happy end. With the flower of destruction in place. Humanity was doomed either way, whether from the black scrawl or from the influences of the Intoners . Its happy to see Kaine and Nier being together for a brief moment, but all of this will lead to humanities end. And for Emile, his despair of being immortal, and being a guardian to the world, is only just beginning. Yoko-Tato makes the big sad, and intricate, well written stories. And I like them. :>
It’s a lunar tear. Humanity is still going to go extinct because of the end of project gestalt, but this is still unambiguously a hopeful ending, not a portent of doom.
@@d3lvn How is it a hopeful ending? Humanity *will* go extinct after this, the moment shadowlord was killed, all hope for humanity died with him. There is no hope there, Nier along with Yonah and their friends will inevitably face the consequences of their actions, with everyone else relapsing. All replicants will die spon after and the gestalts will turn into monsters.
Ending E explained:
This ending was novelized back when the original game first released in 2010, so it’s been around for a while. It’s most hopeful outcome for the characters.
In every ending, humanity is doomed. Though Nier guaranteed its extinction by killing the Shadowlord, Project Gestalt failed the moment Replicants gained sentience and Shades began relapsing. Androids like Devola and Popola had been struggling for centuries to resolve this flaw and bring the project to completion, which is what caused the Shadowlord to begin his rampage. He’d realized that to “save” his Yonah, he could not continue to wait for a day that would never come.
Following Replicant’s Ending D, the Memory Tree supercomputer is discovered by the alien machine network several thousand years later. The Tree’s comprehensive data on humanity is what causes the machine network to plan its own evolution. This kickstarts the main conflict of Automata. The buried data on Nier (the protagonist) SPECIFICALLY is used in part to create Adam and Eve. This is even hinted at in the English Replicant release, as Adult Nier is performed by Ray Chase, Eve’s English voice actor.
In Replicant’s Ending E, the Memory Tree’s network administrators (the twins) reveal to Kainé that despite the player’s choice to erase Nier in Ending D, the Tree’s recorded memories of him still exist, locked away. The Tree not only records all human memory, but Replicant memory as well. Kainé enters her own recorded memory and forces all Nier’s data - his entire existence - to be “recovered”. A large Lunar Tear (this is confirmed in the script that came with the White Snow edition) blooms. Within, Kainé holds Nier, reborn at the age you, the player, began his journey.
There’s not much to decode or decipher regarding the Drakengard/Nier universe. The ending functions largely as metaphor for its intended message - that no matter how bleak or doomed the world may be, life is precious. Although humanity and Replicants will soon fade into extinction, Kainé and Nier’s love, and the love of their family and friends, is meaningful. Their lives are meaningful. A massive Lunar Tear, a flower known for its rarity and beauty, blossoms for them, because they have found something in each other equally rare and equally beautiful. Something equally deserving of such value.
Beautifully said
Until some Drakengard shit makes it's way to Nier again and the flower just becomes another bad augur.
It interesting to know that Ending E introducing this memory tree basically gives us the source on how the Machine Network and the androids knew about humanity, since by Automata, they've already died thousands of year prior. Does that imply that resistance android like Anemone and Jackass were also created from this tree when the aliens start to invade or was the Machine Network also responsible for them like with YoRHa?
I assume theyll make a an alien invasion prequel for automata ..
@@anomitas very said indeed man this is why I love games like this to me it's not a game but a meaningful life lesson and deep into our way of life
Bold of Yoko Taro to restore the save data he likes taking away from us
These are different times...
We all need each other...
Seems Yoko has had a recent change of heart...
thats good, imo...
@@Maverick.D. Let's just wait for Yokotaro next game to fuck us again lol
@@Meonium boom another secret secret ending, delete save file AGAIN lol
@@bboyxXlittleXx It all comes full circle.
Next game, he starts taking away save data from other SE games
I hope they remake the Drakengard games next so I can finally understand why everyone shits their pants whenever they see a flower.
I never played the game, but i think the white flower is like the main antagonist/protagonist in drakengard 3. I guess lol
@@filchun6531
No, people just mistakenly attribute the flower as being the big bad when it was just a single failed attempt by the gods to kill humanity in 3 before settling on using red eye disease and watchers.
This flower isn't even the same flower, the novel straight up calls it a lunar tear made by mixing plant with machine.
FF14 players who also a fan of drakengard shits there pants on nier automata collab because the flower appeared on there. And its found canon to what happened to 2b and 9s ressurection
@@OsnosisBones Back when the ending E was originally novelized shortly after NieR's release, Drakengard 3 wasn't even a twinkle in Taro's eye yet. Likewise, a few years back - no one expected a joke ending from Drakengard 1 to spawn an entire sister franchise.
My point is, Taro likes to take things from the previous entries and recontextualizes as plot hooks for the follow-ups. And after Drakengard 3 it's hard to look at "Giant Monochrome Flower" the same way, even if the original intent back in Grimoir Nier might have been different.
Plus other shit that was introduced into canon since original NieR, like the weird causal bootstrap paradox thing Drakengard and NieR universes share, with magic invading NieR's world from Drakengard world, only for NieR's world to seed magic, dragons and etcetera into Drakengard's world, by dumping Cathedral City on their collective ass in the first place, and Accord's timeline hopping shenanigans - make entire shebang becomes that much more complicated and difficult to take at face value with decade old interviews.
@@TheKain202
Even with regard to 3, the flower isn't meant to be fully monochrome like the one here. Its description in the canon novel version of the book exclusive drakengard3 ending has several divergent aspects, and it's even referred to as 'the black flower' due to both its nature and the darker highlights of it at certain spots.
Even the game version of the flower doesn't look exactly like the flower here, nor was it fully monochrome outside of the ending where everything was monochrome.
(Plus the flower everyone knows of from the game was killed in the book ending, and while there is technically a main body it is not even remotely a flower, nor can it do anything since it's still sealed away in the cathedral).
Unless Taro expressly says he's changed his mind, it's safe to assume the giant flower born from kaines' thoughts is still a partly robotic lunar tear.
Fun fact: originally, this ending suppose to be included in the original but it was cut and featured in extra material instead.
In Automata, does Kaine and Nier have a grave site? Since Automata is set in the future.
@@G0ddammitB0bBy69 If they do, it's probably long gone, since Automata takes place several thousands of years later.
I wished people saw this comment cause I see so many people being dumb right now
@@TheEmpressReborn you can see kaines shack on automata .. Maybe that is where she is buried.
@@_QWWQ_ that’s what I like to think as well. I wish they were buried beside Kaine’s shack. At least she died with the people she cherished.
This ending made the entire game worth it. I'm just in love with how this story ends.
@@eriqeashwaq692 I 100% agree.
@Zero Tsu because in replicant also the humanity will going to extent even after saved nier they are all going to be dead anyway. Thanks have nice day too 😊
Me, who is familiar with the Drakengard series and sees a giant white flower sprouting from the ground: Ah shit, here we go again.
PTSD at its finest
Yeah reminds me of Drakengard 3 0 Zero needs to come back
Bro, I thought they're gonna unleash hell right then and there.
Ya i want dragon companion
Me who also familiar with Drakengard, "Did the female AI just say 'I hear a song'? That's doesn't bode well either."
Nier/Automata fans: "awww flowers. Pretty symbolism"
Drakengard fans: "owhhh flowers. F*ck"
haha
So...this is how zero was born?
Yup 🤣🤣🤣
@@DDespicable wth are you talking about? By this time Zero has been dead for centuries,and she isnt even from this world🤦♂️
@@GenMars the flower already existed when the events that led to Nier happened, this whole game is about the presence of the flower coming to our world with the queen beast
These gender reveal parties are getting out of hand.
"our baby is gonna be...
*AN INTONER"*
California right now be like: 👁👄👁
A lot of people here think that flower is the same one in Drakengard 3 but it looks a lot more like a lunar tear. “I hear a song” line definitely implies something but I truly think that giant flower isn’t the same one as the flower of destruction.
It’s true luna tears and the flower of destruction are two entirely different things, everybody whose played nier knows the Black scrawl was the final conclusion to humanity which was obviously caused by the events that took place in replicant, and that huge flower literally looks identical to niers symbolic Luna tear flower in ending D
But again each for their own interpretations and I respect all point of views 😄
confirmed to be lunar tear from the script book and taro already said lunar tears and the flower from dg3 have nothing in common
@@BaalSilverwing THANK YOU!
@@yuliy6829 Isn't the red dragon mentioned by the memory tree? Accord pops up in a letter from Yonah. Nier might not be a direct continuation of the Drakengard story but they do seem to exist in the same timeline.
I've been going through health problems for months, and Kaine at 0:50 gives the motivational speech i needed to go on. Days ago i could finally get to this ending and didn't expect to be that emotional and optimistic despite knowing about the lore.
We really need a Drakengard 1&3 remakes now.
Yeah no matter if 1 is outdated willing to play same with 3
Yes i want male main character and female dragon companion
@av latta meguca (Nowe voice) but WHY?
@av latta meguca 2 never existed. There are only 2 Dragon Dragoon games
@@Aliens1337 Seriously what's up with the hate for Drakengard 2, yeah it is inferior story and character wise and not made by Yoko Taro but it is still perfectly serviceable with a lot of epic moments such as Caim's return more murderous than ever.
Man. When I got to Kainé's rant on my own, unspoiled, while that music played, and heard the shakiness in her voice in the first half? That got to me harder than any other part of the game.
This game, man.
Same. Her voice actress did an amazing job with this rant. Even now when I watch it I get a knot in my throat. It’s beautiful
@@swagrat4403 Yeah, her rant was an entire mood. The way Nier just sacrifices his own existence without her input and then has the nerve to tell her not to come back for him really made me mad.
Never have I been so fucking happy to see permanently erased save data being restored like this.
LIKE FUCKING THANK YOU FOR THIS GODDAMN ENDING!!! FINALLY!!!
I knew of Nier's ending E through manga pages, so in a way was glad to finally see it in-game. Then I see the flower and found myself very depressed.
Imagine if papa nier instead the boy. I would be feel uncomfortable for this ending.
that is pretty much what happened in the novella lol
The novella isn't very child-friendly.
There's one key difference between Papa Nier and Brother Nier that was on the novella: Brother Nier (Replicant) had to prostitute himself at some point the year prior the game started to gain money. An old man from the coastline village basically raped him and Brother Nier got his revenge by killing him during a shade hunt and said that the shades had killed him. One key quote from this short story is that Brother Nier said that "killing humans doesn't feel different from killing shades".
@@thatoneeco wtf
@@thatoneeco oh welp
@@thatoneeco Oh man thats dark.
Me : *completes ending E*
Also Me after seeing that flower : Shit, not now. MIKHAIL!? YOU DIDN'T KILL THAT DAMN FLOWER
Kira Buckland voices the Girl, who looks like a young version of 2B, and Kyle McCarley voices the Boy, who looks like a younger version of 9S.
I was hoping the Girl would look more like A2, but Kainé holds that spot for her recklessness and spontaneous emotional outburst.
As soon as that white flower started to open, I picked up the controller thinking a boss would appear from it
Ah, trauma.
after 11 years finally we get ultimate happy ending
With hear asong and that giant flower thing. I cannot say this is happy ending. Haha
@@razgrizdemon2455 I hope Replicants are immune to Watcher magic, or we may get Intoners.
@@kraosdadafusfus8034 but replicant definitely will die because of black srcawl.haha. yoko taro right now making a new game, maybe this flower is hint for drakengard remaster.
but humanity's still dead
nier wiped them out
MANKIND IS STILL EXTINCT
Happy ending
Yet everyone death in the end
Now I have to wait for the Clemps analysis video
Let's dance boy's starts playing💃🏻🧤
Seeing Kaine give Rook an absolute beat down made my day
I'm really hopeful that with this ending we get another Nier title that acts as a direct sequel to this games ending. Truly the futures may melt together in the best way possible.
Nier Automata is a Sequel, as it turns out everything was pointless and humanity went extinct.
@@Nash-AC it wasn't pointless it was this that killed humakind
This has been my favourite game since the original 2010 release.
I had speculated since its announcement that due to papa nier being dropped it this specifically being RepliCant and not Gestalt, that players would be presented with an opportunity to restore their save data for ending E, because that was the story that was already written. I had the same height of expectations for the rest ofnending Es content.
Its perfect. They hit the nail on the head. Theres nothing i woukd change, only add. I didnt expect to wait 11 years to see Kainé get her happy ending, i didnt expect to *see* it at all, but i unapologetically wept.
If youre familiar with the story and the messages conveyed here, youll be hard pressed to find a better ending. A perfect culmination of the story.
0:37 when they mention about the possible future blending in their time,the light and the song. It make me think about the ending D of drakengard 3,the goddess literally went from Zero to Hero.
So, happy ending or will they all die horribly? Lunar tear or flower of destruction?
Does that song have some king of lyrics or a remix?
*Discover this and more next time!!*
best girl, best ending
I was spending so much time to decide if I would wait to watch it when I beat it or just watch on TH-cam just to find out it’s an ending I already read haha
As a person whose never played a Nier game. I'm lost af but it looks cool
don't worry we don't get it either
But it hurts though on the inside
You can't fully understand these stories without referencing outside material, anyone who says otherwise is lying lol. That said its a wild ride and I love the hell out of it, Replicant and Automata are incredible.
As someone who's been a fan of Nier games for a while, I'm lost too. Story is deep and amazing though, convoluted as shit and very interperative if you're into that. Me personally I find those the best if done right. Metal Gear is another example of that style of story telling.
@@MrKing-qd7gi I feel like if you piece together all of the lore out there that exists, whether ingame or not, you can make a fairly clear picture of what's going on with of course still some speculation thrown in. It's pretty fascinating.
Thank u for this ending 😭😭😭😭💜💜💜
Thank you, Yoko Taro.
finally the ending i hoped for in the original.
Me seeing the flower bud coming out of the ground: A seed? The other seed I know was real bad news.
Me seeing that it's actually a flower: WHAT HAVE WE DONE!?
Biggest question: How did all this instigate the Aliens invasion of Earth along with the machines or really any of the main focal points with the events of Automata?
Ah details details details don’t worry about it
This ending was told back when the original game came out, in the Grimoire Nier book. Automata wasn't a thing back then, so it doesn't have any connection to it.
@@FaylenTheFluffy one of many interpretations of the story I love it
the alien invasion was just a random event happened that lead to automata, stupid aliens didnt even realize they were attacking an empty planet
@@FaylenTheFluffy ending E is the canonical ending taro has said it himself
So what happens if you just say no instead?
the ending shows hope, but honestly i think we all know is a vague hope, like ending e of automata.... yoko taro is so evil that he makes you doubt even a slight posibility of all turning out for the good..... brilliant
Well, the good part is that they're all alive and get to live out the rest of their lives together. The bad part is that the black scrawl will eventually kill every Replicant. Every shade has died out by Nier Automata, suggesting that humanity is well and truly forever gone due to our actions in Replicant. Honestly, everything is kind of fucked, the only happy part of this ending is that they all get to be together before the end.
Remembering this ending made me feel better after finishing Oyasumi, Punpun
Do we get something like chapter select to do all achivements cause i dont want to farm all that mats before finishing the story
There are 3 save slots so selectively save to be efficient you need to beat the bitch 3 times on the 3rd one go through and save to two slots run c then reset the save to do d then go through to do e
What happens if you don't record your save file? Does it just fade to white and resets to a checkpoint or is there an extra scene?
Good question.
Don't you have to save at the end of each run? So technically, it's not possible to get to Ending E without a save file.
Well as long as a giant woman doesn't come out of that flower ...
كل ما اشوف هذا النهاية تجيني قشعريرة بشكل عجيب والله شي اسطوري
تعديل 7/15: مرت سنة والى الان النهاية الرهيبة ذي ما طلعت من بالي
ما ادري ليش كاتب التعليق بالعربي ومتوقع احد بيعطيك وجة بس حياك
@@gigachad622 انت عطيتني وجه 🙃
Flower? Check! Someone brought up a song? Check! Shit, all we needed was bells in the BGM and we’d have Drakengard PTSD bingo
Kaine is my spirit animal.
Whaaat... is going on? Lol
Also, is that the save files that were lost in ending D? Also, that giant Flower may be Lunar Tear, but it makes me think of Zero's Eyeflower in Drakengard 3
I believe it is Zero's flower
@@-Cetus- yeah it is definitely Zero's flower
Drakengard remake or new one confirmed
Someone mentioning about hear "a song" and then a giant flower that looks like the one at Ending D of Draken 3? It's definitely The Flower.
@@-Cetus- :0
it just when i saw the flower on the ending E always remembering Drakengard 3
1:23 that harsh words are somehow adorable for me
The ending so painful because erasing memories...
If taro ever decides to make a connecting game between nier and automata this ending and even the original are going to be even more sad 😂😭
It's possible ending E of this game is essentially doing the same as ending E of Drakeingard. Hoping to see the timelines truly melt together
The Watchers laughed! The Watchers *laugh.*
*Lalalalala, lalalalala!*
_I hear a song...._
*giant flower appears*
_OH no no no no NO NO NO NONONONONONONONONO NOT AGAIN NOOOOOOOOOOOO_
*it's just naked nier*
phew....got me there for a second you bastards
"Now how the heck are we going down from here?"
One thing that I don't understand about this ending is that this Nier Kaine saved is the Nier from 5 years before or the Nier which fought the Shadowlord, yes it is obvious it is the young Nier but save that is restored is five years later Nier
Gonna be a little speculative here and say that it's an android situation. Nier has a new Replicant body (there were multiple generations of Nier and Kaine replicants before our Nier and Kaine) and his memories were just transfered over. His body may be different, but his mind and memories are all the same.
0:09 you can see a flower shaped sun
Ignore the giant Lunar Tear
The real trouble is that big pink flower in the "Kainè memory"
Wait which kaine memory
I saw the flower and immediately thought, “OH FUCK OH FUCK EVERYTHING IS SCREWED!” And then went “Oh… this is actually kinda wholesome.”
Thankfully, Taro has confirmed it’s not connected to the Watchers.
"I hear a song" Oh shit !
Boss music?
So...what exactly does the Lunar Tear mean?
I can’t tell if Kaine’s embrace at the end feels romantic or platonic or motherly, given the Nier she’s holding is the child version. I guess it’s up to anyone’s personal interpretation. Personally I never got the romantic vibes from the two (except ending c), so I’ll go with more platonic love and unfaltering loyalty on Kaine’s part
Im pretty sure it’s romantic.
Straight up romantic.
Why is the flower from Drakengard 3 on Nier Replicant WTF?!
Because the Flower is behind every single event in the Taroverse.
The Flower is the creator of the Intoners, which in turn resulted in the creation of the Cult of the Watchers, which led to the birth of the Red Eye Disease and the use of Seeds of Destruction, which led to the White Chlorination Syndrome, which makes humanity start Project Gestalt, which then fails and with the pass of millenia leads to a war between YoRHa and the Machine Lifeform Network, which leads to the Machines to start using the Logic Virus to replicate magic to create Seeds of Destruction and infect other worlds.
@@thatoneeco I was thinking that Zeros other dimension self is Kaine I think
@@ZoeDickensBookotakunerdgirl101 The recent NieR raid in FFXIV explained that the Flower lives on despite being sealed twice. As long as someone has a fraction of its power and continues living, it'll continue to exist. However, this game and the XIV raids pointed out a terrifying truth: by merging with the Machine Network, that condition no longer is an issue. The Flower lives now inside the Network with no need of corporeal form unless the situation requires it.
@@thatoneeco how do you stop it for good? Is there a way to do it?
@@thatoneeco so the ark at the end of automata had the effects of a seed of destruction?
Who else was reminded of Drakengard 3 when the giant flower appeared?
Error. There is something leaking from my eyes.
wha thappen if you put no recover??
FFS WHY A FLOWER?! WHY A FREAKING FLOWER!?!? THOSE THINGS ARE NEVER A GOOD SIGN IN ANY OF THESE GAMES!!!!
Yonah would be the older sibling or they would be around the same age
Yonah 15 Young Nier 16
What happen if you say no?
00:51 chills
It's not Nier's fault for killing SHADOWLORD. By the time Gestalt Yonah is dead, shadow lord doesn't want to live anyway and even stated he can't live without his Yonah and hes coming for her .
So If Nier didn't kill shadowlord, SHADOWLORD WILL GRAB SOME RANDOM WEAPON TO COMMIT SUICIDE OR HES GOING TO KILL EVERYONE DOESNT MATTER ITS SHADE OR REPLICANT, THE WHOLE HUMANITY WILL DIED WITH HIS YONAH AND THEN HES GOING TO KILL HIMSELF.
honestly, it's quite clear that project gestalt was already a failure and humanity was doomed no matter what happened. The protagonist of Nier might have sped it up a bit, but Devola and Popola were really just trying to delay the inevitable.
0:45 anybody know the back ground music?
It's truly masterpiece , please, tell me !!
it's Kaine OST, but I don't know which version it is
@@Joseph_the_Jorker I believe it's "Kaine: Escape" (which is pretty much just a sped up "Kaine: Salvation")
anybody know the name of the song that plays in this part?
Kainé - Weiss Edition
A bit late but it's one variant of the "Kainé" songs.
This version was exclusive included in the White Snow Collectors Edition and new arranged for the Remake.
I can recommend all Kainé Remixes, there is also a Final Fantasy 14 Kainé Song thats really good.
Please not a flower again! Please nooooo
what happen if you input a wrong name?
The game just say "incorrect name" ^^ and let you put the good one.
What happens if you choose no
Swearing makes it so much more impact full
Aint gana lie this is probably my favorite ending of any video game ever, the only grip i have is that its not the adult nier.
It’s so sad how we all know how this story ends :(
The Flower... ¿Zero?
Where is Weiss now?
I think he somehow used the last of his magic sacrificing himself to revive Nier.
this is literally linked to nier reincarnation
How will he even live when his Gestalt is destroyed?
So... drakengard 4?
@@remu_remu Or Drakengard 1, seeing as that's directly connected- 👉👈
If drakengard 4 happened it would not be in this NieR earth timeline it would in the world of midgar ether be far far after drakengard 1 ending A
Or
Drakengard ending E after caim left it behind I wonder what happened to that world when he left it hmm 🤔
Flower! :D
*Shoot it!*
NOT THE FUCKING FLOWER OH SHIT OH FUCK
Best written game of all time.
so who do the VAs of 2B/9S voice in this?
The Administrators you see disappearing in the beginning of this video.
All the Drakengard fans are talking about the flower but I haven't heard ONE mention the "I hear a song" quote at 0:44
Pure fuckin war flashbacks
@@eriqeashwaq692 Actually the Ending E of boss of DoD1 had "I. Hear. A. Sound" as the quote for the mission description,, if anything I feel like the "I hear a song" quote in THIS ending E is referencing DoD1, not DoD3-
Yoko taro is a genius 👏
I’m still confused
Well that timelines doomed now...
Always has been doomed, ever since the moment the Queen Beast from Drakengard fell into it.
Can someone explain to me what’s Happening.
Why is there a giant flower and is brother fucking dead?
If you watch ending D that flower symbolises nier when he sacrificed his existence for kaine, fast forward to ending E the story basically continues from ending D, when kanei finds out that nier did in fact exist and that he sacrificed himself for her, in a way she basically got her memories back of nier so goes to Save him bringing him back into existence and then after she saves him that huge flower is still the same flower that represents nier, Basically symbolising Niers rebirth/existence into the world again and that kanei cuddles him tight also symbolising that nier is someone very special to her
@@yuliy6829 awww that’s so cute now I was want to get ending e
also that giant flower is the bringer of worlds destruction in drakengard 3 and those AI heard the song
I personally think drakengard has got nothing to do with the nier series
@@yuliy6829 ya know man all this stuff sounds cool and all but I don’t exactly want to delete my saved data for ending e is there a way to get it back
what happens if you don't restore him lol
I guess you're just stuck in that white limbo, until you turn the game off.
You're given a fake ending, get booted back to the title screen and have to redo the entire dungeon.
gundam 00 ending...
So, what is the so called "serious consequence" of Kaine that damned the entire planet? All I can see here is a girl in lovely love that can bucher her own memories to drag his beloved back to existence. What is so damned about this?
It's not so much what she did as what said beloved did in the first ending to the game. By slaying the Shadowlord, Nier unknowingly damned humanity (both Gestalts and Replicants) to extinction. But the point being made here (in the closest thing this game has to a good ending) is that despite all that, their lives are still precious, as fleeting as they may be. That life in general has meaning, even at the end of the world, and the love we share with each other makes it all worth it in said end.
@@Kyran1996 how did he damn humanity? I got all the endings, still i'm pretty confused. Also, where the hell weiss go? And grimore noire? Why did he help the shadow lord(is him in the prologue, am i right?)? What the hell was grimoire rubrum? I'm pretty intrigued in this saga, the problem sadly is that i don't have much time to discover the lore outside of the games and connect all the dots
@@dormin2749 The Shadowlord is the one keeping the remaining Gestalts from relapsing and when Replicant Nier killed him, all Gestalts will relapse and die out. To create Replicants, the Popola and Devola units need the genetic data of their corresponding Gestalts. Without their Gestalts, it will be impossible for them to create new Replicants.
@@dantecrailman8861 thank you. Well, seems he fucked up bad.
One more thing: why Gestalt Yonah died when Replicant Yonah looked at the sun but the same thing does not happend whith tyrann when kaine goes around?
@@dormin2749 Gestalt Yonah willingly left her Replicant, Tyrann on the other hand doesn't, he loves torturing Kaine.
The Evangelion inspiration is STRONG
What happens if you choose to not revover neir right at the end?
I also wonder about this
I think I heard that It just boots you to the main menu
That moment you realize the AI is voiced by Sam and Eden Reigel, seems like the idea of siblings is still ever present here.
Huh? What are you talking about? The AI is voiced by Kira Buckland (The girl) and Kyle McCarley (The boy). The same VA's who voiced 2B and 9S in Automata. You can literally see their roles as this AI in the credits section.
@@arcflamearcanum7579 Huh, Good call. I wasn't paying attention to the cast list and to be honest I heard Sam and Eden Riegel more through that performance.
Drakengard playerd are getting PTSD
The sad fact is, this is not a happy end. With the flower of destruction in place. Humanity was doomed either way, whether from the black scrawl or from the influences of the Intoners . Its happy to see Kaine and Nier being together for a brief moment, but all of this will lead to humanities end. And for Emile, his despair of being immortal, and being a guardian to the world, is only just beginning.
Yoko-Tato makes the big sad, and intricate, well written stories. And I like them. :>
It’s a lunar tear. Humanity is still going to go extinct because of the end of project gestalt, but this is still unambiguously a hopeful ending, not a portent of doom.
@@d3lvn How is it a hopeful ending? Humanity *will* go extinct after this, the moment shadowlord was killed, all hope for humanity died with him.
There is no hope there, Nier along with Yonah and their friends will inevitably face the consequences of their actions, with everyone else relapsing. All replicants will die spon after and the gestalts will turn into monsters.
As person who has never touched a Nier game, can I just say:
...what?
why u here in 1st place?
@@lucas2mazini you are fey
@@bingchilling994 wtf?
I didn’t understand a thing... :’(
Not so secret nor new, it just wasn't included in Gestalt.
It was rewritten a little to put those nods to automata and the drakengard games, but yeah.
what happens if you don't choose to save nier as kaine??
Menu
@@anomitas you just return to the menu? no dialogue or anything?
@@miffyb9387 the credits scroll like a joke ending in automata and you are sent back to the forest of myth
@@strawhatdac thank you for the clarification! i was scared to press it as i didn't wanna lose my chance of getting my save back lol
Isn’t yonah older than this version of nier why didn’t his adult body come back 😅
Yea it was weird
Because young nier visited the tree, his "data" is copied then.