As someone who've played both Gestalt and Replicant, it's so sad to see that Emil's biggest fear came true in Automata: Having to die alone without his friends around
Rowan Atkinson Emil is Mikhail who is Seere, who all suffer in canon from the same thing: eternal life while everyone dies around them, upholding the duty to keep the world safe in the absence of heroes.
Pretty sure Mikhail is dead and so is humanity according to his diary. Even sealing off the flower doesn't prevent humanity's destruction in this multiverse.
Deity Light Mikhail does die, but seemingly not of natural causes, and he lives long enough to see everything come full circle back to NieR again in the D branch timeline. That's a long time. That's a long time to suffer.
Though apparently Mikhail never QUITE breaks down over the years. And Emil... Technically doesn't, too. At least one of his many clones doesn't... Actually, never quite clear. If these are all clones, where's the original? Or does he clone by splitting himself, and so there is no "original" anymore?
Julie Ann Taylor. She also did Emil's voice in NieR: Gestalt/Replicant It's very easy to hear how much dedication and emotion she put into her role in both Gestalt/Replicant and Automata and I have a newfound respect for her as a voice actress.
@@CM-hx5dp NieR Killed all humanity, destroyed the Replicants future and has the fault of destroying any human hope to survive, both are such a motherfckers
@@CM-hx5dp D&P and Shadowlord already purified the meso during the Nier Replicant time and was safe to return the gestalts to their respective replicants, but then the World Ender came with a rebel Grimoire Weiss and condemned humanity to save his sister, replicant Yonah.
honestly still kinda sorta assume the aliens have terrestrial origins, like emil, to avoid being lonely made a bunch of kinda-emils, then maybe robots too, and the robots killed off the aliens, and the remnants of the gestalt program became yorha, and they've been fighting ever since.
@Keith Elliot If you complete the quest of that Scientist Machine, the one close to Pascal's village, he builds a tower that goes to Mars, if you buy what he gets from him you'll see that there's a alien head item that resembles the corpses we saw in that spaceship where we fight against Adam and Eve.
When you realize just how truly bad ass and sad emil is. He pretty much stood alone and repelled and entire invading alien force and scared them to the point they realized copying him was thier only option.
What makes this even more incredible is that this entire boss fight is just ONE head.the fact when he self destructs it pretty much fucks the planet says alot. He held his own against an enemy that had better technology/weaponry and put the fear of god so deep into them that if someone asked what the most terrifying thing they'd ever laid eyes on the tell you this. A head with a face on it
To be fair, he *was* the ultimate endgame of a millennia-long arms race between humanity and _GOD HIMSELF_ over two separate universes. So an entire invading alien race having the shit kicked out of them by just Emil and only being saved from certain doom by creating imperfect copies of him (who ultimately ended up killing the aliens anyway) isn't exactly unexpected. The only problem is that he was still human, and in Nier that means you're going to suffer far more than your fair share. And goddamn, did he suffer...
@@fg009letyrds8 ??????????????????? what the heck do you expect someone in his situation to say: sorry that i was an orphan so that i was an ideal test subject for scientists to experiment on and made me a freaking immortal doomsday weapon as a child as a result so that i am literally unable to age and die or make a whole lot of meaningful connections because my destructive nature puts people at risk and possibly see me as a freak???
Uh, that's not how i remembered it. Emil split himself into millions of clones but even they couldn't hold the aliens off, and the aliens started making machines at the very beginning of the war to do most of the work for them. Emil couldn't beat the aliens and he himself says he fought as hard as he could but lost a lot of friends. The androids were eventually driven off Earth and we know how that ended.
Yeah, it was a joke ending that spun off another game, which then had an indirect(?) sequel. Ending Y could never do that, so I deem Drakengard 1 Ending E the most Yoko Taro ending
So some people might say it's lazy to re-use the design of an old boss, but honestly this is genuinely interesting. Because the implication here is that Emil's clones are what ALL the robots are based on universally, which is why so many of the strongest ones are essentially giant balls. Because that's what Emil's base form is.
lunerblade13 I find that really funny, if the machiens were made in the image of Emil. Because the androids were made in the image of humans. And Emil used to be human. One and the same
@@aldm3232 there's actually no real difference between them except visually, the machine cores are what composes the "soul" of the machines AND the androids, the androids actually being created with the cores from machines.
@@akiraowl2568 but well... you kind of missed on the incredible emotional moment of asking other players to help you and them giving up their data for you.
I was doing a pretty decent job of containing myself up until Emil mentioned Kaine. After that - waterworks in full force. Also, more superb acting from Emil's VA, Julie Ann Taylor. So emotional.
The world was doomed the moment Caim and Angelus are shot down over Tokyo. Everything done to try and save humanity from the white chlorination syndrome was just delaying the inevitable extinction. The gestalt process was faulty and yet they proceeded with it in hopes of finding the cause and cure for the relapses later. They never did, and once the replicants started gaining sentience the pace of relapses intensified, which forced Devola and Popola to initiate forced reinsertion of gestalts into replicant bodies. But even had this been successful, humanity would have died out anyway because... replicants couldn't reproduce. They were all infertile.
the replicants are only infertile while the gestalts are outside their original bodies, once both the gestalt and replicants merge, they become full human and fertile the gestalt plan was a pretty good plan, the whole idea was that humans would seperate their bodies and souls in order to prevent the WCS, using the replicants while they were still mindless to clean the world of Maso, and then once that was done, merge gestalt and replicant and rebuild the world, the only kink in that was the replicants developing a consciousness, which ultimately doomed them all but even grimoire nier had that whole line on kaine being posessed by a gestalt that wasnt her own, and that the gestalt-replicant project could go in a new direction because of that
I would have just started a race war anyway. Shades vs Replicants would have just turned to Shades vs Humans. There were no baby replicants, but there were baby shades, who would have grew up into dangerous monsters. Can someone explain to me something. Was Kaine human when she still had her shade form by the end, or was that a failed transfusion of any kind. She's the only one so it's quite unclear if it would have been successful or not because she does go berserk anyway.
This fight was already pretty sad before playing Replicant, but after it's just something else, Emil remembering his friends never fails to make me cry and it's even more special if done with A2, she really is so much like Kainé here, even calling Emil "kid" and acting almost like a big sister figure
@@YumenoOasis wait what? I’m currently playing replicant how the fuck does it go from the 4 of them trying to save Nier’s sister to aliens ???? And shouldn’t Weiss still be around ???
How would he even pull a new series from this ending? Earth is fucking dead. Gone. The aliens are dead, humanity is dead, the machines are dead. The only thing that's still alive is probably the original Emil. What the hell is he gonna do? Fuck, man. Sorry, this ending just really depressed me. -.-
i think he'll go back into the past next and detail the early 21th century...the hamelin organization's fight against the Legion is an important part of history
Catherine J.G, Yoko Taro pulled the NieR series out of "AND THEN CAIM ENDS UP IN MODERN DAY TOKYO, KILLS THE QUEEN-BEAST THROUGH A RYTHM GAME AND THEN GETS SHOT TO DEATH BY THE JAPANESE ARMY". Do you still doubt his ability to make up the best stories out of stupid joke endings ?
+Syabri Except fan theory states Caim lives. I believe CLEMPS sums it up perfectly in his NieR lore video. The theory has a lot of solid backing to it given the situation in Drakengard's D ending as well as NieR's in-game and out-of-game lore. But yes, Taro is truly a legend at making compelling stories out of joke endings.
THE CENTPEDE BOSS MAKES SENSE NOW, Aliens would not have knowledge of this kinda shape but Emil would because of obviously the bug, so every robot IS based off ot Emil
I love Emil and it breaks my heart all the things he went through. Even the way he talks in this breaks my heart. A player could interpret this as an exposition dump, but having suffered and lived so long, telling us all his feelings isn't surprising.
MrInuhanyou123 I can see how some people would come to that conclusion, as A2, Kaine, and Zero all seem to be the same type of character: sexy, white-haired women with horrible pasts. It's not impossible, due to how the Dragonsphere views the soul as magic. Eve and Adam even have the Cult of the Watcher's runes on them, even though they seemingly have nothing to do with Manah and One's bloodline.
I wonder what the grotesqeries even want at this point? In Drakengard 1, their entire goal was human extinction yet that has already happend albeit not in the same timeline granted. I wonder are they aiming at the moon server to stop humanity from being reborn? Apparently there is still human cell geonomes and memories stored there which makes humanity being refashioned from that not 0%
@@RickGrimes807 Drakengard ending E, [E]nd of the Dragonsphere... ironically, he starts singing around 2:18, Manah sang the same song in the original drakengard.
I both love how you can hear the pain in his laughs, he’s laughing but it’s not because he finds things ironic that it turned out like this. He’s laughing because Emil always did try to remain cheerful no matter what. I guess he couldn’t bear to let Kainé see him sad.
During this whole fight, I’m crying cause of all the pain and losses that Emil had gone through. Emil is just a kid that was turned into a weapon. This battle has the ability to expand what he feels to the players and I love this game for it.
The first time you fight Emil in the cave outside his “house” you get the Emil heads weapon. If you read the full weapon story they are journal notes from Emil dating about 1000 years AFTER Automata’s events. Hinting that not only did the machines come back, but so did either 2B or A2 and the war is still going.
As someone who played the first Nier back than and was blown away by this game. (It changed my overall view on games & made me think twice about the overall generic grand sheme of the gaming world) It hit me so hard that i cried during the whole battle. The music didnt help with that and the whole thing at the end made me just so sad and frustrated how i cant change his fate or help him. Its just that Yokotaro has this special way/outlook about his storys and his way to tell their storys. R.I.P Weiss, R.I.P Kaine, R.I.P Nier, R.I.P Devola & Popola, R.I.P Yonah & R.I.P Emil ಥ_ಥ
@@X_I_A_N toyotaro and inafune were good friends..i wish after nier..the story of megaman legends come..because on meg legends something happens to humanity and only a few survive living in the moon...and on nier we know that there was no humanity anymore..but somehow they can be still alive in the moon?
I litterally cried when Emil "talks to Kiané" while telling something about Nier.. and it looks like because Emil became the super weapon, he is the only one who still remember Nier.. my heart broke at the end of this fight :'((
Compared to the Drakengard 1 endings with Furiae being resurrected as an angelic abomination, Angelus starting the war between the dragons and humanity, and God sending cherubs to devour all of mankind, this is more happier than what Caim and his “friends” went through.
I remember stumbling across this area way early in the game just because I noticed a huge chunk of the map that was being unused. From a distance, the sand obscured it enough that it looked like a pile of weird orbs. Then I saw Emil's face on one. Having already beaten all of Nier before Automata, I think this area was on my mind for most of my playthrough, wondering what it meant up until this sequence.
"this pain this desperation...you know nothing about it!!!" the pain of who fought alone and for years wars to protect a world...a world where no one of his friends is still alive...
@@RicoSeattle You mean the Same angelus that died because of the japanese air force on ending E which leads to the events of NieR? yeah, i don't think angelus is coming back.
Hope Messiah I know she and Caim died at the end of Drakengard, but I always figured that Yoko Taro could just come up with some excuse to bring her back, like, Japanese scientists retrieved a sample of her DNA after she was shot down by the fighter jets, and then they clone her. I would accept any ridiculous reason to bring her back.
Any time throughout the game where Emil speaks about Kaine and Nier I always get chills. It reminds me of when I first played NieR and it saddens me 'cause they all go through so much. This series is truly a masterpiece and hitting fans where it truly hurts. My poor child. . .
Emil cloned himself over 85 million times. Each replication he lost more and more of his memories but in each clone the feelings still remained. Imagine each of those feelings coming back together to form a mass, like a cancer, it must have been unbearable.
@@withoutname9575 Technically everything is Nier's fault. Well. Nier's or Popola's. I mean..she could've just LIED to him and told him that fusing with the Shadowlord will cure Yonah..
@@CidVeldoril she could but she can't, they're androids that programmed to "observe" not to interfere, they did interfere because they want to defend the Gestalt Project n the last bit of humanity that's left if they aren't programmed androids n already understand the grasp of freedom they're gonna go sentient, n things gonna end differently, like what u said "they can just tell Nier to fuse with edgelord" n tell everything instead of keeping things as secret, but if they do that theres no more endings or even automata timeline exist I mean u do know how bad r androids that r bound to their programmed for "saving mankind" that are already extinct in the 1st place (yorha commander that knew since the beginning before 9s) so, it is what it is
"The world my friend tried to save"? Nier and co weren't even trying to save the world, they were just trying to accomplish the selfish task of saving Yonah instead of listening to Devola and Popola who already warned them that they weren't even the original humans.
stealtheirmoola Alright, so I understand the confusion here. Basically, the true ending to Nier is found outside the game. Ending E, has the band reuniting, including Nier, who was revived somehow (can't remember ATM) and basically they go off in an attempt to stop the Black scrawl from killing all the Replicants, but obviously they fail.
You know around 2:11 the emil clones begin to sing very similar to manah from drakengard. Does that mean the watchers or the red eye disease possessed them too?
It's definitely a reference. Along with the Logic Virus that causes red eyes, and Eve's watcher emblem when he goes insane, there are hints the Watchers are still around.
I love how I am not subscribed to this channel and it says secret boss and I have just only began playing this game but already know this spoiler. Thank you, UA-cam.
4:35 "In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead".
This is so immensely sad. I cried so much when I got to this point. I realized I forgot to get ending Y later so I had to do it again and during the fight I noticed he said a line I didn't notice in the first fight and that broke my heart completely which ended in me crying even more than the first time.
I'll be honest. I wasn't crying on ending A,B,C,D or E I wasn't crying on cutscenes, i was really moved... But Emil, THIS GODDAMN EMIL bring me to tears. Damn emil.
The fact that there are two distinct dialogue provided by 2B and A2 (depends on who you do the quest with) is just very neat commitment to detail from the developer.. and yeah, the sad reminder of what Emil had gone through, all his despair until now, with the memory of his companions in NieR and the conclusion of this particular sidequest too would make an oasis of tears in that fateful desert :')
The part where they just start "singing" la-la-la-la over and over is fucking batshit in of itself because that's when you realize these things have REALLY given up and are just out for blood now.
Just heard Emil's sacrifice in the new NieR Automata episode and just had to come back to this video! Man this still brings back sad memories. RIP my homie Emil.
The sad part is the line “this is the world my friend tried to save” the same friend caused the end of the world once they killed the shadow lord, and he was the one to finish the mess that his friends started
Imagine suffering that much as a person and the main thing that keeps you going is keeping the memories of your friends alive. That's fucking brutal. Poor emil, he honestly is the living embodiment of why immortality can be a curse.
I have only watched the nier storyline vid of 6 hours and still feel absolutely devastated with replicants ending and all cast story's today i tought i was gonna do ending Y and E but i dont want to level all the weapons and farm. =( But also its a blessing since i can still play a bit more before everything goes
That the reason the clones corrupted was because of the watchers? The source of the magic of the original drakenguard, the maso, was particles of the watchers. Emil is an artificial one without a doubt.
@@maxentirunos you're kind of off base there, man. Emil was experimented on with the red maso from Angelus's corpse. All magic in the NieR world comes from red maso, whereas white maso was solely causing WCS and the Legion.
As bad as 2020 has been, it’s nothing compared to the countless years of immense pain and loss of self that Emil suffered. The very real human emotion and ability to make the player feel is what brings me back to this video time and time again. This ending is a true piece of art.
@@millly1 So what formula did your room temp IQ use to make you think replying to a 2 year-old comment on a gameplay video was the move to make on a Saturday night? If you ain’t got nothin nice to say, then keep them dsl’s sealed ya dork.
Mis respetos al que hizo la voz de emil, se siente todo ese dolor y angustia hasta cuando dice "este es el mundo que mis amigos intentaron salvar" hasta se nota como la voz se quiebra de la desesperación. Este juego es definitivamente hermoso la cantidad de detalles que tiene.
I think this was the real Emil that dies here. Calling himself a clone because of his fractured memories, but once he remembers his old friends I just can't help but feel like this is the conclusion to his long journey.
@@mariogameplays2144 Drakengard and nier series have a unique way of dividing lore.... the plot that cannon for emil is the ending when emil is thrown into the desert
As someone who've played both Gestalt and Replicant, it's so sad to see that Emil's biggest fear came true in Automata: Having to die alone without his friends around
Was a clone of him anyway the real him died during the machine attack on earth by the aliens
Well in a sense we became his friends, helping him find the flowers and such.
@@glowblack5235 Yokotaro said that the real Emil is still alive somewhere
@@glowblack5235 I doubt the real one knows they’re the real one, not that it matters. They lost themselves and I don’t think they could ever be found…
@@WDinATX is there even a true Emil? He splits himself so much that his memories aren’t mostly intact anymore. The Emil we knew is almost gone.
I see that the core theme of the NieR series is still that being Emil is eternal suffering
Rowan Atkinson Emil is Mikhail who is Seere, who all suffer in canon from the same thing: eternal life while everyone dies around them, upholding the duty to keep the world safe in the absence of heroes.
Pretty sure Mikhail is dead and so is humanity according to his diary. Even sealing off the flower doesn't prevent humanity's destruction in this multiverse.
Deity Light Mikhail does die, but seemingly not of natural causes, and he lives long enough to see everything come full circle back to NieR again in the D branch timeline. That's a long time. That's a long time to suffer.
Though apparently Mikhail never QUITE breaks down over the years. And Emil... Technically doesn't, too. At least one of his many clones doesn't... Actually, never quite clear. If these are all clones, where's the original? Or does he clone by splitting himself, and so there is no "original" anymore?
The bike one is the original
NieR Automata
Fuck [Y]ou
I heard that with Nero's voice.
@@mikedanielespeja6128
* Blasts Silver Bullet in the background *
This comment will be a great weapon to torture a specific group of people. Thanks.
*YOU TAKE ME SERIOUSLY NOW!?*
@@Saint01_Arts of your power? Or your existence
"Because this is the world my friend tried to save"
The emotion behind that line. Whoever voiced Emil is phenomenal
Julie Ann Taylor.
She also did Emil's voice in NieR: Gestalt/Replicant
It's very easy to hear how much dedication and emotion she put into her role in both Gestalt/Replicant and Automata and I have a newfound respect for her as a voice actress.
@@TheFoxVampire its ironic since they kill the true hero
@@protocetus499 Eh the shadowlord had fucked off and stopped doing his job.
@@CM-hx5dp NieR Killed all humanity, destroyed the Replicants future and has the fault of destroying any human hope to survive, both are such a motherfckers
@@CM-hx5dp D&P and Shadowlord already purified the meso during the Nier Replicant time and was safe to return the gestalts to their respective replicants, but then the World Ender came with a rebel Grimoire Weiss and condemned humanity to save his sister, replicant Yonah.
"hey round thing are you ok?"
Yea he's fine
“hey round thing are you ok?”
“I dunno android thing, are you?”
Lol that was funny , I love A2's attitude.
@Tim Drake Robin Beyond It reminds me of Zero's, which makes me cry
He's always "fine"
Emil: "This is fine" (ABSOLUTE DESPAIR)
I did this as 2B, so I'm glad to see the differences as A2. "What in the goddamn...? Round thing! You okay!?" God, I love her.
A2 was my favorite from the three characters
I love when it's with A2 because she has kainés personality
@@garysmithfan1432 at end A2 didn't talk about his suffering
She reminds me so much of Jeanne from bayonetta
Reminds me of Kaine.........
The fact that he still remembers Kaine when he lose his own memory, losing himself in the process makes my heart shattered
And he remembered you too
What do you figure the aliens thought when they had to fight giant, multiplying, flying, lazer-shooting balls with creepy faces?
Catherine J.G "ok, let's just put machines to invade earth for us instead and go the fuck away from this thing"
Ilona
"Also, lol. Look at all these salt statues everywhere." - Random Alien pointing out the window of his ship.
XD
honestly still kinda sorta assume the aliens have terrestrial origins, like emil, to avoid being lonely made a bunch of kinda-emils, then maybe robots too, and the robots killed off the aliens, and the remnants of the gestalt program became yorha, and they've been fighting ever since.
@Keith Elliot If you complete the quest of that Scientist Machine, the one close to Pascal's village, he builds a tower that goes to Mars, if you buy what he gets from him you'll see that there's a alien head item that resembles the corpses we saw in that spaceship where we fight against Adam and Eve.
Catherine J.G that's why aliens won't visit us.
Also as someone who is aware of the events from the previous Nier, hearing him talk of Kaine really hit me.
Xoctins Omg he did ??? I CANT WAIT
Decim not only kaine you can see he mentions the protaganist of the first game.
Xoctins My chest immediately started hurting like someone kicked me there. That part hit me in my feels.
The1Azreen explicitly or what i didnt hear it
same. so sad -__-
When you realize just how truly bad ass and sad emil is. He pretty much stood alone and repelled and entire invading alien force and scared them to the point they realized copying him was thier only option.
What makes this even more incredible is that this entire boss fight is just ONE head.the fact when he self destructs it pretty much fucks the planet says alot. He held his own against an enemy that had better technology/weaponry and put the fear of god so deep into them that if someone asked what the most terrifying thing they'd ever laid eyes on the tell you this.
A head with a face on it
To be fair, he *was* the ultimate endgame of a millennia-long arms race between humanity and _GOD HIMSELF_ over two separate universes. So an entire invading alien race having the shit kicked out of them by just Emil and only being saved from certain doom by creating imperfect copies of him (who ultimately ended up killing the aliens anyway) isn't exactly unexpected. The only problem is that he was still human, and in Nier that means you're going to suffer far more than your fair share. And goddamn, did he suffer...
Well geez, it's like it's his FKING FAULT he was left alone to begin with. It's just Emil suffering the consequences of his stupidity.
@@fg009letyrds8 ??????????????????? what the heck do you expect someone in his situation to say: sorry that i was an orphan so that i was an ideal test subject for scientists to experiment on and made me a freaking immortal doomsday weapon as a child as a result so that i am literally unable to age and die or make a whole lot of meaningful connections because my destructive nature puts people at risk and possibly see me as a freak???
Uh, that's not how i remembered it. Emil split himself into millions of clones but even they couldn't hold the aliens off, and the aliens started making machines at the very beginning of the war to do most of the work for them. Emil couldn't beat the aliens and he himself says he fought as hard as he could but lost a lot of friends. The androids were eventually driven off Earth and we know how that ended.
I'm officially calling Ending Y as the most Yoko Taro ending
NieR:Automata
[Y]oko Taro ass Ending
Is that a jojo reference?
Nah, the Drakenguard 1 ending that somehow set´s up Nier is still the "most Yoko" ending.
Lets say Ending Y is the most Yoko Taro ending of Nier Automata
I guess thats what op meant anyways
Yeah, it was a joke ending that spun off another game, which then had an indirect(?) sequel. Ending Y could never do that, so I deem Drakengard 1 Ending E the most Yoko Taro ending
So some people might say it's lazy to re-use the design of an old boss, but honestly this is genuinely interesting. Because the implication here is that Emil's clones are what ALL the robots are based on universally, which is why so many of the strongest ones are essentially giant balls. Because that's what Emil's base form is.
that is the case. the aliens saw emil as a god to be feared and made machines to fight for them in his image.
lunerblade13 I find that really funny, if the machiens were made in the image of Emil. Because the androids were made in the image of humans. And Emil used to be human. One and the same
They think that one robot becomes god when his head fall and just become round thing like emil
@@FlowerEmblem It is even more ironic because of the fact that in the end, there isnt much difference between the machines and the androids
@@aldm3232 there's actually no real difference between them except visually, the machine cores are what composes the "soul" of the machines AND the androids, the androids actually being created with the cores from machines.
That laugh transforming in sobs at 3:13 broke me
That's when you know someone has truly broke. Isn't it?
Arcanium Dragon it’s the moment you finally accepted your fate, he fought back the tears for so long until now.
I realized water had began running out of my eyes when he did that.
The voice acting of Emil is freaking excellent.
I don't even remember much from Nier but those last few lines had so much emotion it was beautiful.
2:46 The voices of offline players trying to get ending E...
I know that all too well then I used my hot spot on the phone
@@akiraowl2568 le quitaste todo el sentido al final haciendo eso
@@akiraowl2568 but well... you kind of missed on the incredible emotional moment of asking other players to help you and them giving up their data for you.
@@dillonb9811 literally me too
Yeah it was expensive to update the game and go online for the network thing lol
I was doing a pretty decent job of containing myself up until Emil mentioned Kaine. After that - waterworks in full force.
Also, more superb acting from Emil's VA, Julie Ann Taylor. So emotional.
"Because this is the world my friend tried to save". Funny because Nier ended up dooming the world and the human race
kazameltis he tried , and failed
kazameltis to be fair, he didn't know what he did will doom the world.
The world was doomed the moment Caim and Angelus are shot down over Tokyo. Everything done to try and save humanity from the white chlorination syndrome was just delaying the inevitable extinction. The gestalt process was faulty and yet they proceeded with it in hopes of finding the cause and cure for the relapses later. They never did, and once the replicants started gaining sentience the pace of relapses intensified, which forced Devola and Popola to initiate forced reinsertion of gestalts into replicant bodies. But even had this been successful, humanity would have died out anyway because... replicants couldn't reproduce. They were all infertile.
the replicants are only infertile while the gestalts are outside their original bodies, once both the gestalt and replicants merge, they become full human and fertile
the gestalt plan was a pretty good plan, the whole idea was that humans would seperate their bodies and souls in order to prevent the WCS, using the replicants while they were still mindless to clean the world of Maso, and then once that was done, merge gestalt and replicant and rebuild the world, the only kink in that was the replicants developing a consciousness, which ultimately doomed them all
but even grimoire nier had that whole line on kaine being posessed by a gestalt that wasnt her own, and that the gestalt-replicant project could go in a new direction because of that
I would have just started a race war anyway. Shades vs Replicants would have just turned to Shades vs Humans. There were no baby replicants, but there were baby shades, who would have grew up into dangerous monsters.
Can someone explain to me something. Was Kaine human when she still had her shade form by the end, or was that a failed transfusion of any kind. She's the only one so it's quite unclear if it would have been successful or not because she does go berserk anyway.
“Isn’t that right, Kainé”
*That’s hit me really hard right here*
I got chills and teared up that part, it was just to brutal to handle
I broke tears when he mentioning Kaine
Welcome to the club
I wonder if he saw Kaine in A2? Her personality is based off her after all
@@rosaistired probably not, It was the same with 2B or 9S part.
I haven't seen Emil in this game before, but seeing my little Skeleton boy like this hurts.
looks like this hurt to everyone
Emil's whole life was really tragic...
"This pain, this sadness, this desperation! You know nothing about it!"
kainex4 (insert pein's face here) lolz
Emil is probably the only one who witnessed the whole end of humankind and lived a few thousand years after it.
Can i get your pfp??
@@eldarius237 He's also the only human since nier gestalt, though genetically modified
@@bluezgoldz technicaly it's not a human anymore
This fight was already pretty sad before playing Replicant, but after it's just something else, Emil remembering his friends never fails to make me cry and it's even more special if done with A2, she really is so much like Kainé here, even calling Emil "kid" and acting almost like a big sister figure
After neir replicant, this hits even harder.
I just finished replicant and haven't played automata, wtf happened to Emil?
Indeed it does
@@Kibaheart bruh, you HAVE to play Automata.
@@Kibaheart not even kidding, aliens invaded earth. (emil had to fight for years and years, hence the eternal war he mentions)
@@YumenoOasis wait what? I’m currently playing replicant how the fuck does it go from the 4 of them trying to save Nier’s sister to aliens ???? And shouldn’t Weiss still be around ???
You can hear the pain in his Voice. This with him talking about Kaine..damn
The English VA did an amazing job
Watch when in 2-10 years time Yoko Taro will spawn a new series from this ending.
Either this or ending L.
How would he even pull a new series from this ending? Earth is fucking dead. Gone. The aliens are dead, humanity is dead, the machines are dead. The only thing that's still alive is probably the original Emil. What the hell is he gonna do? Fuck, man.
Sorry, this ending just really depressed me. -.-
i think he'll go back into the past next and detail the early 21th century...the hamelin organization's fight against the Legion is an important part of history
Catherine J.G, Yoko Taro pulled the NieR series out of "AND THEN CAIM ENDS UP IN MODERN DAY TOKYO, KILLS THE QUEEN-BEAST THROUGH A RYTHM GAME AND THEN GETS SHOT TO DEATH BY THE JAPANESE ARMY".
Do you still doubt his ability to make up the best stories out of stupid joke endings ?
I-I don't think they're stupid. .//.//.
...Bat-shit insane, but stupid?
.....Okay yeah no, they are kinda stupid.
But still! Yes, I doubt Yoko Taro!
+Syabri Except fan theory states Caim lives. I believe CLEMPS sums it up perfectly in his NieR lore video. The theory has a lot of solid backing to it given the situation in Drakengard's D ending as well as NieR's in-game and out-of-game lore. But yes, Taro is truly a legend at making compelling stories out of joke endings.
I love the way it changes to Emil's original theme as the fight starts to end.(3:20) Also the voice crack at 4:12
ITS HIS SACRIFICE THEME
So he sacrificed himself to destroy something that he sacrificed himself to save?
probably cos his memories r all weird
you can stop the detonation. it leads to some really.... let's call it nice, dialogue.
+Mickaela Dianne And by "nice", I assume you mean "heartbreaking dialogue that will make you cry like a baby"
Whats the theme
THE CENTPEDE BOSS MAKES SENSE NOW, Aliens would not have knowledge of this kinda shape but Emil would because of obviously the bug, so every robot IS based off ot Emil
"Shut up already, kid!"
"I'm older than you!"
I just realize Emil is literally one of the oldest characters in the game this kid lost everything and got nothing in return
Isn't he the oldest at this time ?
@@addzay3135 he's the last human to remain
@@0salvation0 he's not a human anymore in the logic of nier's universe
@@addzay3135 maybe, but the creator said that himself
@@addzay3135 technically, around the same age as devol and popol
"This is the world my friend tried to save!"
1. He fucked it up
2. You blew it up
Key word "tried"
also didnt he mean kaine not Nier?
@@sekira4516 *she fucked it up
3 years ago and he comes back to reply. What a legend.
@@thegatorhator6822 I have dedication to the weirdest things
"All around me are familiar faces, worn out places, worn out faces"
...why does that sound so familiar?
Isn’t that from a song?
@@locke103
*I.HEAR.A.SOUND*
"because this is the world my friend tried to save" the delivery on that line is *incredible*, the way his voice breaks up at the end. oh wow.
I love Emil and it breaks my heart all the things he went through. Even the way he talks in this breaks my heart. A player could interpret this as an exposition dump, but having suffered and lived so long, telling us all his feelings isn't surprising.
A2, the Kainé of NieR: Automata. And Zero too.
ArdaBlock they never "died", just reborn to suffer again
ArdaBlock Seere/Mikhail/Emil, same dude.
From glorious dragon to the sentient weapon? Poor thing...isn't he suffered enough??
I don't think A2 fucks everything that walks, though...
A2's mind is based on "a girl who was raised by her grandmother"
A2 is definitely the reincarnation of Kaine
she's a robot, there are no reincarnations. She just talks rough cause she had a messed up life so far
What makes you think I was serious about this comment?
MrInuhanyou123 I can see how some people would come to that conclusion, as A2, Kaine, and Zero all seem to be the same type of character: sexy, white-haired women with horrible pasts. It's not impossible, due to how the Dragonsphere views the soul as magic. Eve and Adam even have the Cult of the Watcher's runes on them, even though they seemingly have nothing to do with Manah and One's bloodline.
I wonder what the grotesqeries even want at this point? In Drakengard 1, their entire goal was human extinction yet that has already happend albeit not in the same timeline granted. I wonder are they aiming at the moon server to stop humanity from being reborn? Apparently there is still human cell geonomes and memories stored there which makes humanity being refashioned from that not 0%
Emils suffering was caused by one thing...
That Goddamn Ending E........
What do you mean?
@@RickGrimes807 Drakengard ending E, [E]nd of the Dragonsphere... ironically, he starts singing around 2:18, Manah sang the same song in the original drakengard.
A FUCKING SCALIE WITH HIS FUCKTOY.
I both love how you can hear the pain in his laughs, he’s laughing but it’s not because he finds things ironic that it turned out like this. He’s laughing because Emil always did try to remain cheerful no matter what. I guess he couldn’t bear to let Kainé see him sad.
Oh my god, when the true theme song kicked in, I lost it. NIER fans know what I mean.
MercilessV HIT ME HARD.
MercilessV the fucking feels
During this whole fight, I’m crying cause of all the pain and losses that Emil had gone through. Emil is just a kid that was turned into a weapon. This battle has the ability to expand what he feels to the players and I love this game for it.
"Isn't that right, Kainé?" breaks my heart everytime
3:54. Now if only Emil or any other character had THAT power of persuasion, it could've ended the conflict war between Machines and Androids.
Speech 100
When a boss fight becomes harder than it really is because you can't see shit through your tears.
Literally a "Everything exploded, the end" ending.
The first time you fight Emil in the cave outside his “house” you get the Emil heads weapon. If you read the full weapon story they are journal notes from Emil dating about 1000 years AFTER Automata’s events. Hinting that not only did the machines come back, but so did either 2B or A2 and the war is still going.
This video got me into the NieR franchise and literally changed my life
As someone who played the first Nier back than and was blown away by this game. (It changed my overall view on games & made me think twice about the overall generic grand sheme of the gaming world)
It hit me so hard that i cried during the whole battle. The music didnt help with that and the whole thing at the end made me just so sad and frustrated how i cant change his fate or help him.
Its just that Yokotaro has this special way/outlook about his storys and his way to tell their storys.
R.I.P Weiss, R.I.P Kaine, R.I.P Nier, R.I.P Devola & Popola, R.I.P Yonah & R.I.P Emil
ಥ_ಥ
are you ok? man
Weiss lives on...
As a dlc collectable
Emil is alive but in unknown place..he cant die even if he wanted. I think he go to the aliens planet to put an end for good
@@RetroGamesMas the timeline still hasn't covered the land of dark, so maybe we'll see something there
@@X_I_A_N toyotaro and inafune were good friends..i wish after nier..the story of megaman legends come..because on meg legends something happens to humanity and only a few survive living in the moon...and on nier we know that there was no humanity anymore..but somehow they can be still alive in the moon?
Can you upload the version where you stop the Emils from blowing up too?
poor Emil....
The Drakengard universe hates kids, what did you expect?
Actually you can get away from the blast, doesn't get ending Y, and still survive.
You slash the Emil head that's about to explode before it exploded.
Suzaku Darknight how do you even unlock this fight i cant even get emil to sale me fist weps from his store
eyonex keep playing buddy. he pops up when 'things begin to get weird'. Without spoiling too much.
I litterally cried when Emil "talks to Kiané" while telling something about Nier.. and it looks like because Emil became the super weapon, he is the only one who still remember Nier..
my heart broke at the end of this fight :'((
Damn you Yoko Taro. Follow up this heart-breaing moment with "rock falls, everybody dies".
unless you stop the detonation
Our happy ending, ladies and gentlemen.
???? : WTF...
Head[Y] battles
F you [Y]oko Taro
Compared to the Drakengard 1 endings with Furiae being resurrected as an angelic abomination, Angelus starting the war between the dragons and humanity, and God sending cherubs to devour all of mankind, this is more happier than what Caim and his “friends” went through.
@@ecel0209 [Y]oko Taro-ass ending
Here after finishing ending E in the Nier Replicant Remaster
ENDING Y
THAT'S JUST CALLED Y FOR THE FUN OF IT RIGHT?
nope. one for every letter
No. Because it makes you ask "Why?"
Ending Y for "wh[Y] can't Emil get a happy ending?"
love Zucchini's fate/stay night saber and rider stuff hahaha
@Underscorer More like *[Y]ou have doomed us all*
I remember stumbling across this area way early in the game just because I noticed a huge chunk of the map that was being unused. From a distance, the sand obscured it enough that it looked like a pile of weird orbs.
Then I saw Emil's face on one. Having already beaten all of Nier before Automata, I think this area was on my mind for most of my playthrough, wondering what it meant up until this sequence.
4:06 MY HEART 😭😭😭
lextehmex 😔😔😔
😭😭😭
0:38
Weiss and Kainé
I swear ever since Kaine and Weiss, there's been that duo, Zero and Mikhail were the same way.
"this pain this desperation...you know nothing about it!!!"
the pain of who fought alone and for years wars to protect a world...a world where no one of his friends is still alive...
2:18 Emil: La la la la la la... Me: Wait, Manah has sung that before... THE WATCHERS.
the heads reminded me of the nightmareinduceing giant babys so yeah perhaps.
Lol! That's right! I forgot. Speaking of Drakengard though, I would love to see Angelus come back in future Nier games. She is so fantastic.
When you fight Eve the mark of the watchers appears on him, so my theory is that they are behind the machines killing the aliens
@@RicoSeattle
You mean the Same angelus that died because of the japanese air force on ending E which leads to the events of NieR?
yeah, i don't think angelus is coming back.
Hope Messiah I know she and Caim died at the end of Drakengard, but I always figured that Yoko Taro could just come up with some excuse to bring her back, like, Japanese scientists retrieved a sample of her DNA after she was shot down by the fighter jets, and then they clone her.
I would accept any ridiculous reason to bring her back.
Any time throughout the game where Emil speaks about Kaine and Nier I always get chills. It reminds me of when I first played NieR and it saddens me 'cause they all go through so much. This series is truly a masterpiece and hitting fans where it truly hurts. My poor child. . .
“Even if it’s pointless, you still have to do it because this is the world my friend tried to save!” Why must you make me love you so much Emil?!
Omg... Kaine...
there no way that kaine there no way in hell THERE IS NO WAY IN HELL
topdog2007 Rumor has it that A2 carries the memories of Kaine...
i mean how i thought all gast where destoryed after the shadow king died aka other papa nier
Ending Y...the Y stands for Yoko Taro. Because the man plays a harp that is made from the metaphorical heart strings of his fans.
Emil cloned himself over 85 million times. Each replication he lost more and more of his memories but in each clone the feelings still remained. Imagine each of those feelings coming back together to form a mass, like a cancer, it must have been unbearable.
Well if you are want to know more
This is Nier's fault
@@withoutname9575 Technically everything is Nier's fault. Well. Nier's or Popola's. I mean..she could've just LIED to him and told him that fusing with the Shadowlord will cure Yonah..
@@CidVeldoril she could but she can't, they're androids that programmed to "observe" not to interfere, they did interfere because they want to defend the Gestalt Project n the last bit of humanity that's left
if they aren't programmed androids n already understand the grasp of freedom they're gonna go sentient, n things gonna end differently, like what u said "they can just tell Nier to fuse with edgelord" n tell everything instead of keeping things as secret, but if they do that theres no more endings or even automata timeline exist
I mean u do know how bad r androids that r bound to their programmed for "saving mankind" that are already extinct in the 1st place (yorha commander that knew since the beginning before 9s)
so, it is what it is
This fight with the music and dialogue...it gives you chills especially after playing replicant. This is an outright masterpiece.
I want To point that this is ending Y, as in y you do dis
no its the Yoko Taro ending.
Ending Y
[Y]oko Taro ass ending
"The world my friend tried to save"? Nier and co weren't even trying to save the world, they were just trying to accomplish the selfish task of saving Yonah instead of listening to Devola and Popola who already warned them that they weren't even the original humans.
agreed. if anything, he doomed the world just for the sake of his daughter.
stealtheirmoola
Alright, so I understand the confusion here. Basically, the true ending to Nier is found outside the game. Ending E, has the band reuniting, including Nier, who was revived somehow (can't remember ATM) and basically they go off in an attempt to stop the Black scrawl from killing all the Replicants, but obviously they fail.
at least 5 disscusions have been had about this and they answer all your questions. this question is getting really fucking annyoing
@@housemouseshorts And the award for the only immature, hostile and useless comment in this whole comment section goes to...:)
@@LightAndDarkMdness02 he revived because of the memory tree
You know around 2:11 the emil clones begin to sing very similar to manah from drakengard.
Does that mean the watchers or the red eye disease possessed them too?
It's definitely a reference. Along with the Logic Virus that causes red eyes, and Eve's watcher emblem when he goes insane, there are hints the Watchers are still around.
@@IdJustLikeToInterjectFrAMoment Logic Virus is an evolution of Red Eye. An invasion
I love A2, shes the coolest charakter in this game
Emil is why the Aliens created the Machines and it's apparently responsible for some of the Machines sentience. He lived around 9000 years.
"emil.exe has stopped working."
I love how I am not subscribed to this channel and it says secret boss and I have just only began playing this game but already know this spoiler. Thank you, UA-cam.
Oh Emil. My heart after I got this ending I died. He loved Kaine and Nier. Just god
I know right?! It’s more painful when he starts breaking down while laughing because how much he misses them!
Lol well he deserves it for dooming humanity lolololol
4:35 "In one of the countless billions of galaxies in the universe lies a medium-sized star, and one of its satellites, a green and insignificant planet, is now dead".
This is so immensely sad. I cried so much when I got to this point. I realized I forgot to get ending Y later so I had to do it again and during the fight I noticed he said a line I didn't notice in the first fight and that broke my heart completely which ended in me crying even more than the first time.
Just how endless are the invaders that Emil can't stop them with all these powers that he has.
the voice acting and the music gives me shivers all over my body
5 years later and this still hits. The voice acting is simply beautiful
I'll be honest.
I wasn't crying on ending A,B,C,D or E
I wasn't crying on cutscenes, i was really moved...
But Emil, THIS GODDAMN EMIL bring me to tears.
Damn emil.
The fact that there are two distinct dialogue provided by 2B and A2 (depends on who you do the quest with) is just very neat commitment to detail from the developer.. and yeah, the sad reminder of what Emil had gone through, all his despair until now, with the memory of his companions in NieR and the conclusion of this particular sidequest too would make an oasis of tears in that fateful desert :')
every time i hear the "magic" line it gives me absolute chills
When emil mentioned kaine’s name, my eyes start to tears
So refreshing to have all the time in the world to read Emil´s lines, without having to avoid those laser death beams.
The part where they just start "singing" la-la-la-la over and over is fucking batshit in of itself because that's when you realize these things have REALLY given up and are just out for blood now.
I originally fought this boss before I had even played Replicant. It hits totally different now.
every single time i watch this i swear someone starts cutting onions
Those damn onion ninjas
Just heard Emil's sacrifice in the new NieR Automata episode and just had to come back to this video! Man this still brings back sad memories. RIP my homie Emil.
The sad part is the line “this is the world my friend tried to save” the same friend caused the end of the world once they killed the shadow lord, and he was the one to finish the mess that his friends started
He had a hand in it, so it's also his fault. He's just suffering the consequences of his actions.
Nier is Eren yagar who only cares about his friend
Imagine suffering that much as a person and the main thing that keeps you going is keeping the memories of your friends alive. That's fucking brutal. Poor emil, he honestly is the living embodiment of why immortality can be a curse.
I have only watched the nier storyline vid of 6 hours and still feel absolutely devastated with replicants ending and all cast story's today i tought i was gonna do ending Y and E but i dont want to level all the weapons and farm. =(
But also its a blessing since i can still play a bit more before everything goes
I... I can't even _begin_ to imagine the horrific implications behind 2:11
That the reason the clones corrupted was because of the watchers? The source of the magic of the original drakenguard, the maso, was particles of the watchers. Emil is an artificial one without a doubt.
@@maxentirunos you're kind of off base there, man. Emil was experimented on with the red maso from Angelus's corpse. All magic in the NieR world comes from red maso, whereas white maso was solely causing WCS and the Legion.
@@lolrus5555 red eyes is just because of platinum games studio but for the lalala it's the Watchers
As bad as 2020 has been, it’s nothing compared to the countless years of immense pain and loss of self that Emil suffered.
The very real human emotion and ability to make the player feel is what brings me back to this video time and time again. This ending is a true piece of art.
Bruh never compare real life with a game again please.
@@millly1 So what formula did your room temp IQ use to make you think replying to a 2 year-old comment on a gameplay video was the move to make on a Saturday night?
If you ain’t got nothin nice to say, then keep them dsl’s sealed ya dork.
"-Proposal: Evade
-It's not that easy, you dumbass!"
A2 showing her inner Kaine.
Mis respetos al que hizo la voz de emil, se siente todo ese dolor y angustia hasta cuando dice "este es el mundo que mis amigos intentaron salvar" hasta se nota como la voz se quiebra de la desesperación.
Este juego es definitivamente hermoso la cantidad de detalles que tiene.
The moment Emil became one of my favorite characters out of all the games I've ever played.
EL MEJOR DOBLAJE QUE VI EN MI VIDA, dios mio esa voz de emil te parte en mil trozos, y mas si saben el porque de esas palabras
Who's here after Replicant Ending E? ;)
My heart did and still does break when Emil talks about Kaine and Nier. :,(
"This is the world my friend tried to save" Just beat Ending E on Nier Replicant and this finally makes sense
Fucking hate this boss fight where I can't even fight with him because of the constant tears
“Isn’t that right Kaine!” Always strikes me hard
i never played the original, and even i felt that. just the way that line was delivered did it.
Now play nier replicant and cry more
I think this was the real Emil that dies here. Calling himself a clone because of his fractured memories, but once he remembers his old friends I just can't help but feel like this is the conclusion to his long journey.
Emil was alive in ending e so how could this be real Emil?
@@mariogameplays2144 Drakengard and nier series have a unique way of dividing lore.... the plot that cannon for emil is the ending when emil is thrown into the desert
You should watch Drakengard 3 ending or drakengard 1 ending
They make the plot into pieces (they put 1plot for every 1ending)
And so nier too