Released by Square Enix in 2010 on the Playstation 3 and Xbox 360, Nier would be a spin-off game
to the Drakengard franchise.
Directed and written by Taro Yoko and Sawako Natori, both of whom created the original
Drakengard, the game was originally developed as a mirrored pair of games wherein the main
difference was the age of the main character, his relationship to the driving motivation,
and the year of events.
For story, the game features Nier, a middle-aged man with a daughter named Yonah, who is accompanied
on his journey by several supporting characters, but like the Drakengard series, the entire
story must be played multiple times in order to unlock a more complete ending.
For gameplay, the game is mainly an action RPG, though there are several bosses and dungeons
that borrow their gameplay style from a wide variety of gameplay genres.
The game takes place in a timeline spawned from the original Drakengard's fifth ending,
in which the main character and his dragon arrive in modern day earth and defeat a giant
monster before being tragically killed themselves.
The remnants of the bodies of the monster and the main character spawn a new fatal disease
that kills most of the world and ushers in a post-apocalyptic world that eventually becomes
the world of Nier.
The story only gets larger from here, so let's cut it down to size with a RECAPitation.
As the game begins, it is Summer 2049 and yet the world is blanketed with snow.
We see a struggling man named Nier is offered more power by a mysterious tome in exchange
for his soul.
At first, Nier refuses, as some shadowy creatures called shades encroach upon him, and after
defeating them he tends to his sickly daughter Yonah.
He warns Yonah not to touch the second book nearby her, though as more shades enter their
hideout, Nier is beaten back.
Desperate, he reaches out for the black book, and in a blast of power, he is able to repel
the shades and destroy their reinforcements.
However, as he returns to Yonah, he finds her illness has taken a turn for the worst.
As we pull away, 1,312 years have passed, and we find Nier is getting ready to set out,
as Yonah still has a sickly cough, and he is determined to find a cure.
The village they live in is a simple one, but it has a supportive community that helps
Nier out by paying him for odd jobs.
He comments that while things seem brighter, the world has been ravaged by a disease and
the population dwindles, while the Shades that roam outside only grow.
He is helped by the village twins Devola and Popola and shares with Yonah the legend of
the Lunar Tear which is a flower said to be able to grant any wish to anyone that can
find one.
After finding and destroying shades that are were dangerously close to the village, Nier
learns that Yonah learned from Popola where Lunar Tears actually used to grow and discovers
she left on her own for the Lost Shrine.
Finding and scaling the Shrine, Nier finds the place is riddled with Shades.
He finds her unconscious on the shrine itself which is protected by a mysterious tome and
two armored sentries.
Neir bashes at the barrier until it releases itself a strange book.
The tome hovers in place and begins talking in a self-important manner, and amused at
Nier's struggle it introduces itself as Grimoire Weiss.
He offerd to assist Nier with the magic barrier before him, and Nier accepts, but right as
it begins, it turns out it lost its memory when Nier broke the first barrier.
As Shades attack, Nier sees Weiss absorb the blood of his foes and regains some of his
memory, and more importantly magic ability.
With Neir able to borrow some magic power from Weiss, the duo defeat the two sentries,
and break the barrier freeing Yonah.
She wakes up and apologizes for the trouble caused, and after they escape the collapsing
shrine she explains she only wanted to find a Lunar Tear and get better so Nier wouldn't
have to worry.
However, she collapses as her condition worsens.
Weiss recognizes her disease as the Black Scrawl, which curses its victims with strange
black runes that eventually spread over their entire body.
Nier also knows its a fatal disease but he won't give up on Yonah.
Later on, Devola recognizes Weiss as the white book mentioned in the song of the Ancients
she often sings that can save people from the black disease caused by the black book.
Popola also recognizes the book and recalls the legend saying that when the black book
Grimoire Noir plunges the world into chaos, the white book Grimoire Weiss, will appear
with his Sealed Verses, vanquish Grimoire Noir and restore harmony to the world.
Nier suddenly feels hopeful that Noir must have caused the Black Scrawl and thus Weiss
can cure it with the right magic.
Weiss beleives there are more sealed verses in the shrines around the world, and notes
its awfully suspicious that the Shades and Verses seemed intrinsically linked.
Nier is now determined to restore power to Weiss so he can cure Yonah, and will kill
any Shades needed to find these verses.
Popola mentions the Aerie village is seeing a large collection of Shades recently, and
suggests it may be linked to another Shrine, so Nier and Weiss set off.
Climbing the cliff faces of Aerie vilage, the village chief is no help.
Rather as he leaves, he spots some Lunar Tear flowers and as he approaches he's halted by
a stern-faced young woman.
They see some dark energy about her and wonder if she's a shade, and she further surprises
them by also being able to weild magic alongside deadly dual blades.
They clash, but their fight is interupted as a gigantic lizard-like Shade comes in.
It turns out this beast is what the foul-mouthed woman was really aiming for as they form an
uneasy alliance to take on the monster.
Staggering the monster, it pulls back for now as the woman collapses, and Weiss notices
she's been possessed by a shade and is only half-human.
Figuring thats better than all-Shade, Nier nurses her back to health, and while she introduces
herself as Kaine, she warns them that the giant Shade is her prey and to stay out of
her way.
Returning back to the village himself, it's clear to Nier he must get stronger given this
last encounter, so after losing patience with fishing, he journeys to strenghten his weapons,
by assisting a blacksmith outside an old military base.
After fighting off the robots still active within after centuries of abandonment, inlcuding
one large security robot that dislikes smoke , they leave the mechanical Link to the Past,
earn a new Sealed Verse and move on.
Returning to Aerie, they find Kaine and chose to help her fight the giant Shade, with their
new magic greatly helping.
The villagers however, don't like Kaine's half-human nature and blame her for attracting
the Shades here and destroying the village.
It turns out Kaine is fighting to avenge her grandmother, and pushes herself to fight the
Shade.
As Neir and Weiss finally kill the shade, they rush to Kaine and urge her to come back
from the brink of death, praising her fighting power and saying she can live for more than
revenge now.
Stating themselves friends now, Nier asks her to join his quest, and Kaine accepts,
joining the group.
Learning that Yonah has the black scrawl, she mentions she knows the King of Facade,
a desert city, had the same disease, and they can see if they found some way of treating
it as well.
Fighting past the wolves, scorpions, and sandstorms of the desert, they make it to Facade.
Kaine explains she once saved a kid from Facade from wolves, and ever since she's been welcomed
in.
Otherwise, they speak a strange language and operate on an exceedingly rules-based society.
Within, Nier helps up a mute girl named Fyra, who repays the favor by guiding them through
the city and eventually leading them to the king's manor.
Unfortunately, she explains the old king died to the black scrawl and the prince now lives
within.
As it turns out, Fyra was the one saved by Kaine years ago, and they now hear the Prince
has gone missing in a nearby temple, but the rules of the city prevent the guards from
searching for him.
Kaine leverages the favor owed by the city to allow herself and Nier to look for the
Prince, and Fyra disregards the city's rules to come along as their guide.
Finding the Barren temple, they find themselves subject to the temple's rules and magic.
While they do find the prince, its only before he violates one of the rules and is taken
away by the temple.
Kaine falters as well, and Nier must navigate the bullet hell by himself.
Mastering the puzzles and overcoming the traps with courage and wisdom, Nier frees the Prince
who almost met with a terrible fate, who finds his precious mask, and hovers it proudly above
his head.
As he returns to his people, he recalls the motto of his father, "The rules do not exist
to bind you, they exist so you may know your freedoms" and is prepared to lead his city
into prosperity as the new King.
He asks them what they want in return, but Nier turns down anything for the moment, asking
instead they make a new rule that allows the people to change a rule by voting if they
don't like another rule.
He also asks if they ever learned anything about the black scrawl that claimed the old
king, but unfortunately nothing they tried worked.
While he earns a new Sacred Verse from this trial, it seems he must collect the rest to
cure Yonah.
The new king thanks Fyra as well, and asks Nier to visit again in the future as friends,
as he will never forget the help rendered by him.
That night he returns home and has a strange dream about encountering a boy speaking of
a Sealed Verse and the Forest of Myth, and strangely after he wakes up, it turns out
Yonah had the same dream too.
He asks Popola about the Forest of Myth, and she shares she just got a strange and forboding
letter from the mayor of the Forest of Myth, who are normally bright and upbeat people.
Sensing he must go there for a sealed verse anyway, Nier offers to check things out.
Traveling north to the village, he finds things eerily quiet.
As he approaches the disturbed mayor, they notice a strange meta reality is now narrating
everything they think, see and do... in the game that is.
The man explains this is the effect of the Deathdream, causing anyone cursed with it
to fall asleep and live within their own dream world forever.
It's highly contagious, spread by spoken words from person to person, and now Nier has fallen
victim just by hearing of it and is absorbed into the mayor's dream.
Nier and Weiss now wander the text-based adventure dream dungeon, solving riddles and using the
power of words to undo the seal of the curse from the inside.
Gaining a sealed verse, they return home and Yonah now informs Nier she's received word
from her pen pal that he's sick and needs help, and asks Nier to help him.
Reluctant to help a boy friendly to his daughter, Nier agrees anyway and heads south.
As they approach the mansion, things seem strangely gray and haunted as the pre-rendered
camera angles impart a tingling Resident malice in Weiss and Nier.
Moving past shifting paintings and oddly life-like statues, they find matching keys to matching
locked doors, and discover a young blindfolded boy.
He introduces himself as Emil, but doesn't know any Yonah or sending of any letter.
It is true his is cursed though, as he has a petrifying gaze and thus remains blindfolded
at all times, but remarks his butler may know about the letter.
Handing Nier a STARs key, they find the butler who explains he wanted to help emil and sent
one to Nier asking for help after hearing of his exploits.
However, Yonah was the one who answered instead.
He asks Nier to clear out the shades in an area where the cure for emil's blindness can
be found.
Emil hears this request and insists he comes along, stating he can help by petrifying enemies,
which indeed turns out to be useful and powerful.
Entering the library where they beleive the cure is, a new strange tome jumps out and
begins attacking.
Kaine arrives and renders help to destroy it, but the strange tome indeed holds a clue
to nullifying Emil's curse.
Emil apologizes for the trouble, but Kaine comforts him, revealing she is part shade,
and like him, should accept their uniqueness as a strength, not a curse.
The strange book also held the last Sealed Verse they were looking for, and now all they
need to do is fine Grimoire Noir and defeat it.
Bidding farewell to Emil for now, they now return to their village where Yonah is losing
her fight against the disease.
They are surprised to find Emil now collapsing at the gate of the village, warning everyone
that a horde of Shade are storming the village.
There's no time to prepare as the Shade beat down the gates and march in, backed up by
a colossal shade that flanks the village, allowing no escape.
Nier does his best against the giant, attempting to rip it apart limb by limb, but the foe
has terrifying regenerative abilities.
Kaine now comes in to lend aid, but the monster is merely slowed in its march to the library
where many villagers, including Yonah are holed up.
Pouring everything he's got and every magic spell he knows, the trio manage to fell the
monster but now he hears Yonah cry out from inside.
He rushes in to find the library overrun with more shade, but Emil is doing his best to
fight and defend everyone.
They back him up and deal with the mob, but now a miniture version of the monster outside
slithers in and knocks Emil aside.
Just as they succeed in knocking back this new threat, they prepare to seal it in the
basement of the library, when suddenly from the shadows of blood scattered on the floor,
Nier is pierced from behind in the shoulder.
A shadowy dark man steps out and flies about, snatching Yonah and wielding a Grimoire of
his own.
The Shades all bend a knee to this new man, who uses his magic to electricute both Nier
and Weiss.
Weiss whites out and finds himself talking to the other grimoire, who introduces himself
as Grimoire Noir, explaining they are the same and both serve a higher purpose.
He reveals they were made to serve the Shadowlord and are to fuse and set free the Shades of
the world.
In fact, his encounter with Nier, and their quest to collect the Sealed Verse were all
set in motion by the Shadowlord himself.
Weiss snaps to his senses, choosing to reject Noirs claims and stand and figth by the groups,
whom he accepts as friends.
Noir lets loose a piercing glob of darkness to Weiss, and Nier leaps in to shield the
tome, getting run through, and collapsing from the wound.
As the Shadowlord and Noir now fly off with Yonah, Noir states that Weiss will understand
in time, and that depsite how things seems, all things will return to them.
With Nier down, there is still the large Shade Kaine was holding back until now in the basement,
as she admits she can't hold it off any longer and this fight is lost.
She urges Emil to petrify her as a way to keep this door sealed, and there are no more
options to fight and win anymore.
Emil is reluctant, but complies, and as she petrifies over, she urges them all to get
stronger without her, as Nier swears to save her and Yonah.
Five years now pass since that fateful day, as we see the Shade are now stronger in daylight
and even now wielding arms and armor.
However, Nier is alive as well, and stronger than before, now wielding even greatswords
with ease.
He reflects that all searches in the past years have been fruitless, and between the
Black Scrawl and empowered Shades the world population is quickly dwindling.
Still, every day Nier holds onto hope for finding the Shadowlord with every shade he
kills.
As he hears of the old world falling to some calamity and turning cities into metropolises
of salt, he can't help but note its so strange that Popola hasn't seem to have aged a day
after all these years.
She dismisses the claim and instead hands him a letter from Emil saying the clue to
curing petrification they found earlier has pointed him to something that can maybe also
help Kaine, and he wants Nier to come visit him.
Emil shows them documents from over 1300 years ago from the year 2026, in which some group
created an archive room beneath the mansion containing ways to control or cancel all forms
of magic, including petrification.
They see some mention of test subjects 6 and 7, and warning labels on the facility entrance.
Entering the isometric view of the facility, they find Shade everywhere, amd more mention
of Number 6 and the Gestalt project.
Strangly, something pains Emil the deeper they enter the facility, and they find not
only was this facility made to create bio-organic weapons but they diguised its location by
building a mansion on top of it.
Shockinginly, they see pictures of two children and one looks exactly like Emil, but Emil
struggles to remember anything despite learning he's a living weapon.
When they enter the core of the facility, they see a grotesque figure chained to a wall,
and suddenly Emil recalls everything.
He mentions how he and group of kids all started as normal childern but they were brought here
to be turned into weapons.
They were subjected to magic experimentation to create the perfect living weapon, and did
so with number 6, Emil's sister, but they lost control of number 6, and so made number
7, Emil, as a weapon to petrify and seal number 6.
Nier still considers Emil a friend, but suddenly number 6 stirs from its long sleep.
Emil announces he plans to be use hsi sister's power to lift his petrification curse, but
warns them that if she swallows him up and Emil is lost or tries to hurt them , then
they must kill him.
Number 6 indeed crashes down and swallows Emil, so Nier and Wiess hurry to free him.
She is immune to all physical damage, and so must use their powerful magic to combat
her.
Within, Emill sees his sister thank them for ending her, as her power now begins flowing
into him.
However, the transformation now warps hims into a similar looking skeletal monster as
her, despite full control over his abilities now.
Weeping at his horriying visage now, Emil feels ashamed, but Nier comforts his friend
understanding his plight and still here for him, no matter what.
Accepting of his body now, Emil rejoins the group and they travel back to Kaine now, where
Emil is easily able to lift the curse and free her.
Unfortunately, this frees the monster from before, but Nier and Emil are much stronger
from these past five years, and they are easily able to definitively crush their foe.
Kaine comes to, and is able to recognize all her friends, even Emil, to his relief.
She's briefed on what's happened these past 5 years, but Devola and Popola inform them
that despite saving the village, the villagers are fearful of Emil and Kaine and wish to
have them leave immediately, which infuriates Nier.
After he vents and cools down, Popola says that she learned that the Shadowlord Is somehow
connected to the Lost Shrine that Grimoire Weiss was discovered in originally.
The group returns to where it all began, and find a new general of darkness there.
Combating it, they find it much stronger than the previous sentries, and during the fight,
one of its weapons gets flung loose and it impales Kaine.
Quickly killing the monster, they rush to her side, but she instead warns them to stay
back.
Dark script starts crawling around her, and suddenly the shade within her takes control,
and the group must fend of Shade Kaine's frenzied attacks.
Quelling the shade, Kaine returns to normal, but she's reluctant to stay with them given
this constant threat.
They resolve to stick with her despite her Shade side, and at this time they find a new
stone relic and a magic barrier behind it.
Picking it up, they return it to Popola, who believes it to be one part of a cipher key
that can unlock the way to the Shadowlord.
With clues on where to find the next few, they return to familiar sites and even hear
some familiar tales.
Returning to Facade they meet the king, who's more grown up, and are in time to witness
his marriage to Fyra.
Right at the height of the ceremony when the newly weds have sealed their union, a wolf-like
shade storms in and assaults Fyra, with a pack of desert wolves behind it.
They drive the wolves away but they see its too late to save Fyra, who dies in the arms
of the king moments after becoming his queen.
In his grief, he swears death to all wolves and and must be talked down in his solo call
to arms.
Volunteering to charge into the literal wolves' den the group is ready to avenge Fyra alongside
the King and the Men of the Mask.
As the king succeeds in slaying the beast that murdered his wife, they recover the last
bit of the key to the Shadowlord, and they prepare to engage him next.
As they seek Popola for any last words of wisdom, Wiess finds it awfully suspicious
that the pieces of the key to the Shadowlord were so easily found and assemblemed.
After Devola and Popola give a hesistant well-wishing on his final journey to rescue Yonah, they
return to the lost shrine and the way forward is opened for them.
Beyond is a surprising idyllic palace, wherein they learn humans long ago died of the black
disease, but learned to survive by separating their souls from their bodies, and residing
in corresponding shells.
Beyond, they are shocked to find Devola and Popola before them, urging Nier to turn back
and give up on rescuing Yonah.
They turn out to be powerful mages, who have lived for hundred of years, and were hoping
Nier wouldn't get so close to the truth.
As it turns out, the Sealed Verses came from the twins in the first place, and whom merely
loaned a small portion of the power out to Weiss.
After a brief fight, they reveal they work for the Shadowlord, but Nier must face the
truth in order to know why.
Next, they find a classical ballroom, but the ghosts of people past now seem to turn
into powerful Shades and attack them, culminating into a giant armored boar that seems to regenerate
endlessly.
Unable to outdamage its healing, they have no choice but to run, but then they are helped
out by the King of Facade, here to help out his friends in need.
Alongside his royal guards, they stall the beast and buy time for Nier and friends to
move ahead, and once done, pour everything they have into killing this seemingly immortal
beast.
Landing the final blow, the king is mortally wounded himself, and slumping over, he's glad
to not only have helped out his friends, but to also soon be seeing Fyra in death again.
In the next room, they encounter the twins again, who reveal more about the truth of
things.
1300 years ago, humanity was on the brink of dying due to the black disease.
Among the many pursuits for a cure, project gestalt was founded, in which humans created
artifical shells called replicants that could survive the disease, and learned to separate
their own souls and put them in these replicant shells.
The problem is that unexpectedly, these replicants somehow became sentient on their own and became
the residents of the current world.
That is, Nier, Kaine, and everyone currently are all simply replicants.
As for the original humans, including the ones claimed by the black disease, they still
exist in this world, as Shades, so all this time, Nier and the other Replicants have been
fearing or killing the original humans who made them in the first place to save them
from the disease.
The twins as well as Nier are unique, as the Twins are android observers made for the task
for controlling the other replicants, and they need Nier's body as the original owner
wants it back now.
During this fight, Devola is killed, and in her grief, Popola cries out in an explosive
rage.
Emil shields them and begins to move them from Popola's fury, but she latches onto them,
determined to destroy them all.
Promising them everything will be fine, Emil bid farewell to his friends and sacrifices
himself to Popola's explosion, allowing his friends to press on.
With their magical energies clashing, Popola is annihilated as there is soon no trace left
of her or Emil.
Disheartend after losing another close friend so quickly, Nier is slapped to his feet by
Kaine, and in the next room they not only see Yonah at long last, but are confronted
by the Shadowlord himself and Grimoire Noir.
They clash, and Nier manages to edge out a win, but before he can deliver the final blow,
Yonah stands up and now runs towards her father.
However, to Nier's surprise, its not him, but instead the Shadowlord who is actually
the original Nier that he is a replicant of, and was the primary subject of the Gestalt
program.
As it turns out, this is the original Yonah's soul now residing in the current Yonah's body,
as per the gestalt program.
However, the original Yonah can feel Yonah's love for this Nier, and doesn't want to separate
them.
Stepping into the light, the original Yonah leaves Yonah's body, and in anguish, the Shadowlord
lashes out in rage at Nier.
As they fight this final duel, Wiess loses all of his strength and fades away, leaving
Nier to end the fight on his own.
With the Shadowlord now beaten down to his knees Nier barely hesitates as he cuts him
down once and for all.
Returning to Yonah, Weiss speaks up, explaining he lost his physical form and is only a voice
for now, but states Yonah is fine but needs Nier to call her back in order to awaken.
Recalling all the things Yonah loved in this world, including their love for each other,
Nier is overjoyed to see his daughter again at long last.
Opting to step away quietly, Kaine moves away, but Neir pauses her, inviting to stay with
himself and Yonah, but she declines and moves on.
Elswhere we see that beyond, the Original soul of Nier is also finally reunited with
his original Yonah at last too.
We also see elsewhere, the head of Emil has survived Popola's blast and now hops along
in search of his friends.
We see Kaine is fact struggling against the Black Scrawl and the Shade that has possessed
her, named Tyrann, as her body is beginning to break down and become a berserk shade . She
turns to Nier, to whom she's grown fond of, and asks him to kill her, and Tyrann even
offers Nier a choice to help save Kaine.
Tyrann can pin her down for a moment, in which case Nier can either mercy kill her as she
asked, or he can trade his existence for hers, which would make her a normal human but everyone
would lose memory of him forever as he would cease to exist.
As he defeats Kaine's shade, he now stands before the crucial choice, and despite losing
all he has gained so far and even the very save data of the game, Nier chooses to sacrifice
himself for Kaine, ending his entire existence.
As Kaine now wakes up, Yonah comes near to thank her for saving her from the Shadowlord,
and a confused Kaine only has glimpses of the memory of Nier.
Yonah remarks on how pretty the Lunar Tear flower is that she wears, and as they both
look to the bright sky, a real tear falls from Kaine's eyes as she feels like she found
something precious .
Nier has enjoyed the success of selling over 900 thousand copies worldwide.
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