NieR is back on the channel after a false copyright claim hiatus! Which tracks should we hear that haven’t been featured yet?!

@areszeudion5153

9 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉

@AC_AZ20

9 ай бұрын

I'm not sure if we've heard Emil yet but let's run through the list

@kagi6421

9 ай бұрын

Ashes of Dreams/Yonah Piano version and Dispossession Strings version are absolutely incredible! would love to hear you cover them

@areszeudion5153

9 ай бұрын

@@AC_AZ20 we've heard Emil

@remnant518

9 ай бұрын

Personally, I would highly recommend something like Alien Manifestation or even Dependent Weakling. Those two are some of my favorite OST in all of Automata. Otherwise Song of the Ancients: Fate or Song of the Ancients: Atonement are both really good songs that are stuck on my head rent free 24/7.

I’m so happy my favorite game is still getting recognition to this day

@SMNtheNight

9 ай бұрын

Don't worry, this game will be talked about for years to come still. Even a sequel by the madman himself is extremely unlikely to supersede this generational feat of art.

@Josh72769

9 ай бұрын

And new players are still playing it

@princesspeach8570

8 ай бұрын

Me too 😭😭

@vast9467

6 ай бұрын

it’s not exactly unpopular

@implosive4778

6 ай бұрын

@@vast9467 exactly lol

I've always felt that this song was Keiichi Okabe at his peak, bringing us something that feels so foreign and alien and yet so primal.

This one has grown to be my one of favorite Nier tracks to listen to. Think you only hear it once in the game and it’s so underrated.

@theargawalathing

5 ай бұрын

Still, what a moment.

The best part of this song or rather a lot of the Nier songs is that they're synched to the actual battle. So when hits or movements occur it occurs on the beats (or during high points of the song), causing a fantatic visual and audio masterpiece. This song in particular happens during a boss fight!

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

Yea!!

@lilangelki

9 ай бұрын

​@MarcoMeatball thank you for the comment and the amazing videos sir! I'm a huge music fan (especially of Video game music) so I really appreciate and love your videos. Keep up the good work and thank you!

@mr.stuffdoer8483

9 ай бұрын

I can never remember when this one plays. Is it the dual boss where you’re ascending the tower?

@miguelalejandro8584

9 ай бұрын

​@@mr.stuffdoer8483 plays at the final boss of the become as gods section

@Acatia2

9 ай бұрын

I was getting Forest Kingdom vibes, but it made no sense with the boss encounter there. Maybe the access code facilities, but that'd be too common. I think you might be right.

Everyone should see the live version. The singer is so talented.

I always assumed this song was supposed to convey hopelessness and despair, but that was just because of what was happening in the game while the song was playing. Listening to it out of context and then looking back at what was happening, I can definitely see how it is meant to convey a sense of urgency and a desire to push on, even while everything you have ever known is falling apart.

First time I heard Possessed by Disease was actually a live performance. I think it had both Automata and Replicant songs. I am always impressed with the vocals of that song, along with Bipolar Nightmare.

This definitely not just my favourite song from Nier, but also my favourite boss battle. I remember how a big robot falls from the wall in front of you, and right after the vocals starts, the light out. You have to fight the whole battle in pure darkness with only the lights coming from the robot eye and the sparkles that your weapons creates when they hit the robot. It was such a fun battle, that i wish i can revive that moment again as if it was it the first time.

@FrizFroz

9 ай бұрын

I love, LOVE how the music swells once the lights cut out, leaving only the eerie red glow from the eye of the robot. It was such a cinematic experience.

The chanting is so mesmerising. It has that ancient slavic summoning ritual tone to it. I love it! 🙏

Music was the reason why I wanted to play NieR: Automata so much. Right now I have not been only left with one of the best Game OST's of all time but also such a masterpiece of a story. "The Tower" is my favourite OST, it belongs to one of the most beautiful locations I've ever seen in Video Games and this OST is the reason for that. We will never see another game like this (unless Yoko Taro decides to create another unique masterpiece). Hope we will see more Music Reaction from NieR: Automata because it just deserves to be praised.

@trevorveillette8415

9 ай бұрын

The tower is also my favorite song. I just feel that it encapsulates everything that automata is minus the epic flare. I also think that of all the songs, it portrays 2Bs character the most, particularly her suffering. It sounds contemplative and sorrowful before the piano/bass kicks in, as if she regrets her actions. The background sound creates this feeling of a void, an emotional void. Like she's near the feeling of emotional emptiness/loss similar to the feeling of losing a loved one which the song mourning is directly about. Then nicoles vocals kick in and it sounds like a cry for help. Similar to how in a beautiful song, emi is the voice of innocence and sadness, the choir was bouvoirs madness, and then Nicole was her cry for help, then sinks back into the choir of madness. Nicole in this song is 2B crying for help. Then the piano and bass kick in and it feels like heavy steps. Sinful steps. Very difficult to take steps, as if she's limping forward. So I perceive this powerful striking base as 2Bs life of moving forward in sadness and despair but hoping for 9S happiness and their salvation, so she keeps limping forward towards the light. She said it best, days with him were like rays of light. My overall mental image I have during this song is 2B in a white void like the towers environment, kneeling down with 9S corpse in her arms with blood everywhere and her sword in his stomach, she's crying uncontrollably. Then a light shines far off in the distance, and she finds hope and comfort in that light. She puts his corpse down and starts limping forward. As she's moving towards the light she's struck with visions all around her of the past times she's murdered 9S, she's crying as she limps and bleeds in this white void. She reaches out and touches the light, it reveals itself to be 9S. He smiles, she feels relief and comfort that he's safe. She blinks once and there she is, holding 9S hand as he passes away, blood everywhere and her sword in his chest. The shock and horror of her actions make her scream. She cries and cries again, but notices a light shining in the distance. Repeat the cycle for each time she's killed 9S. The never ending spiral of life and death. Her curse and her punishment. You don't play as 2B during the time this song plays, but it feels so much more descriptive of her than 9S or A2 or the machines.

@Margonxp

9 ай бұрын

@@trevorveillette8415 I love your interpretation of this song.

@janfreitag1633

8 ай бұрын

The music in Square Enix' franchises is usually top tier, and automata is no exception to that. I love how much effort they put into everything, especially the music :)

@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943

11 күн бұрын

I bought this game not even knowing what it was about. On a whim.

Oh man I still remember how I felt the first time hearing this song in the NieR Automata reveal trailer. I watched it so many times just to listen to this song. Never heard anything like before but it was so immediately captivating. The melody and instrumentation is wonderful, but it's the chanting that always stuck with me. Simultaneously sounding both so human and inhuman. Without any words it makes me feel this innate fear and pain and sorrow for things broken and lost, and hope and excitement and wonder and joy for things found and made. It touches all these emotions and thoughts we harbor but could never properly explain. I want to tear myself open and expose my soul and dance and cry and scream and laugh and be changed. And it's everything. It's just "and..." The human experience is never complete. I haven't heard this song in years, but now I have it on replay in Spotify and it still brings tears to my eyes.

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely

Nier Automata didn't win best 2017 OST for nothing, it's just out of this world, it changed my life.

It’s so primal! Another NieR song I love that has this chanting intensity is Blue Bird.

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

Oh YA

Getting massive Ghost in the Shell (1995) OST vibes, "Making of cyborg" theme in particular. Ahhhh, shivers! Oh, gotta take the opportunity and reccomend you a couple of OST, you're gonna love it! - Othercide OST - Soulswap // by Solitaris - Paradise Killer OST: Paradise (Stay Forever) - Ruiner Soundtrack : Ruin // by Zamilska

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

One of those is already recorded 🤣🤣

@user-uo9qh2wm3i

9 ай бұрын

​@@MarcoMeatballCool, can't wait to see!! May I recommend another bangers then? No more heroes OST - Pleather for breakfast (Bad Girl theme) Drakengard 3 OST - Two's song Not begging you to make a video (but it would be amazing of course), just hope you like it❤ ❤❤

This is one of my favourite tracks from Automata. I’ve always loved how the powerful Enka like vocals, are almost used as an instrument themselves. This track was dynamically used in game to a great effect too, one of Automata’s best boss fights in terms of spectacle.

@MRGI0RGI0

9 ай бұрын

Nami Nakagawa (the vocalist) is one the most versatile singer I know ! she slayed that track

@sansidotti

9 ай бұрын

​@@MRGI0RGI0And she's sung for many Drakenier tracks! She really slays them all!

@TarundiMC

9 ай бұрын

@@MRGI0RGI0 Oooh thanks for that name! I knew of Emi Evans and J'nique Nicole, but it didn't sound like either of them

@dewaeryadi7776

2 ай бұрын

this is not enka, its called min'yo, far older genre of japanese traditional music, for example like yanato planting song from sakuna of rice and ruins game

I remember the first time I heard this one. It completely stole my attention and brought me into this trance like place. Yes, 'trance' is the right word. It was synced to the battle also in a way that made it almost... palpable. Also, the vocal range of that singer is insane. This piece and the high pitched chanting especially also instantly reminded me of 'Making of a Cyborg' by Kenji Kawai of the original GITS. There are quite a few overlapping themes, characteristics and pieces of imagery between Nier Automata and GITS, 2B and the Major. It's pretty much of the same vein. Of 'Making of a Cyborg' is a song of 'birth', maybe this is a song of... 'rebirth'? Rediscovery of one's resolve? Anyway, appreciate the analysis. It's making me really want to revisit the series.

I’m glad you’re still on the way to reviewing the Nier songs because I really like your insight with them. It gives more feelings to the songs that I didn’t feel at first

Copy/paste this: SEP E3 2017 Day 3 - NieR in Concert: "A Deprival in White, A Revival in Black" - Highlights into the YT search bar and one of the few existing vids of this song being performed live by the original vocalist shall appear, along with several other favorites from Replicant/Automata. The performance of this song in particular is just breathtaking. As a singer I'm sure you will appreciate it. I've never played these games, only watched them, but, as a musician and a human being, I was a blubbering mess of gooey, salty tears by the end of this 40 minutes of bliss. Enjoy, Double M.

Throughout my time playing video games that have existentialism as a theme in them, I noticed how a lot of the chanting in the songs just feel as though it's some kind of twisted and dark prayer (a ritual of sorts dedicated to the end of everything and a climax to a long and grueling story set on a stage where the fate of the world hangs in the balance). Like a longing to break a cycle of samsara/repetitiveness (which is evident in the multiple endings in the NieR universe) and that's why I personally feel like there's lots of spiritual symbolism & vibes coming from the music. All ends bring new beginnings I guess. 🤔

There's a game called solstice on the NES, you need to check out the title screen music, it's crazy what the composer was able to accomplish with an 8bit sound board.

Couldn't listen to this piece without the constant: BECOME AS GODS! BECOME AS GODS! BECOME AS GODS!

Recently came upon your channel and have been loving your reviews. This one in particular feels like being trapped in a sickly stupor. Like when anxiety is just about to grip your mind before a panic attack or how your mind deteriorates during mental illness. The chant really drives that home for me.

You've reacted to Grandma from NieR Gestalt, I think it would be cool to listen to the updated/reimagining found in NieR Automata, Grandma (Destruction), and see how the track has evolved between the games

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

Ya!

Ah yes my favorite depression and existential crisis generator

Great video, Marco! This is one of my favorite tracks of the game and I knew I had to watch it immediately.

My favourite track from this game!!! Can't believe you covered this

If ya like Nier music the song Star Descent in the Stellar Blade demo is amazing and gives off huge Nier music vibes. (Can be found on youtuber the whole Stellar blade Demo ost is on there but Star Descent is my fav track, i have listened to it SOOOOO much)

I absolutely will not spoil the sequence that this track accompanies, but I think you nailed down the primal, unrestrained sound it's going for. It helps score a boiling point in the narrative so perfectly, definitely one of my favorites. I'd love to hear you talk about The Incomplete Stone from NieR: Replicant as well.

This song was used in the first action trailer for the game, and hearing it affected me so deeply that I spent the entire beginning of my playthrough just WAITING for it to show up. Absolutely in my top five pieces from Automata's soundtrack!

Yay!! So happy you’re listening to Nier Automata music! Every track is amazing. Wonderful analysis as always 👍

"Urgency", he says. Urgency. I am torn between screaming at the top of my lungs....and a very hearty Chuckle.

Thank you for the interesting professional analysis. Always interesting to get an opinion or even expertise from not just a regular listener, but from a person with a professional musical background.

Thanks for making more NieR content, Marco! I really love this game's soundtrack and atmosphere

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

More to come!

YES! My favorite battle theme in the game! I'm so happy that it got analyzed!

I always wished you'd react to this song, my favorite in the soundtrack, you know it's just one singer, the live performance of this song is incredible.

It's always difficult to remove these songs from the context of the scenes they play accompaniment to in-game, yet the titles of NieR songs always provide context of their own. So, it's funny you mention this contemplation of life, and a need for reflection and understanding, then later perceiving a certain gumption and forward momentum. While I don't study music, everyone knows the NieR OST goes hard with the minor key, so I can't help but feel that the emotions these songs want to impart to listeners are always tumultuous, if not outright negative. The song begins at a neutral crossroad of sorts with a muted aimlessness, but then is compelled down a certain dark direction by gradual degrees of frustration. Further into the song, we get a brief midpoint of rest in overall tension with the brief solo vocals, which quickly rises back up into even more frustration that may even come off as self-loathing. That in mind, the opposition of the chanting choirs resembles a great and circuitous internal debate of sorts, where regret is abound, blame is thrown without conclusion, and a culmination into hysteria is inevitable. Ultimately, NieR doesn't dwell on the nuance of its lore. and focuses on the emotion. That said, the relation between the music and its vocal performance overall tells me that this song, more so than any theme Automata, embodies its succinct title. There is no specific disease the song points to, so it must be unease or 'dis-ease' general; caused by emotions so great, it can only dwindle and spiral down to tragic ends. It exhibits an undeniable strength of character, and a compelling bombast in the ideas of its composition, that I can't help but let the song carry me in its rhythm. IMO, this song has so muchness to it, it is easily the 'Shadowlord' of Automata, if that comparison makes any sense.

Hears chant *activates inner Gordon Ramsey* “IT’S F$&@ING RAW!”

The way this song hits in the actual game is just beautiful. For some reason, this song sends my brain towards 'Beyond the Bounds' from Zone of the Enders 2.

Up to today this song still manage to make me cry out of nowhere...beautiful

NIER MUSIC BABYYYY

I would love to hear your take on "The Tower" from the end of Nier Automata its one of my favorite tracks in the game. I love how the song feels so empty

This is why I fell in love with NieR and its music. The music alone is so good but add the vocals to the mix? mwaaah! 🎶

Yes, NIER!!

I remember when *Crumbling Lies* hit for the first time. That feeling I had at THAT moment....

NieR has some of the best music in all of gaming in my opinion

all the nier music is beautiful and really adds a certain beat to the senses wether calming or exciting.

such a fantastic track from NieR - thanks for your reaction!

This song is absolutely phenomenal and the feeling is so deeply imbedded 🌹 the singing is so authentic and I know she ( Nami Nakagawa) has mad training, I admire her so much and wish that I could be as versatile but I am still training lol- absolutely love this song and singer❤️ Nami Nakagawa is amazing 🤩

Nier concert is currently on tour with the original singers! Not sure where you’re at but there’s dates next year.

This was especially well used during the nier dark apocalypse event of ffxiv towards the buildup of fighting the false idol.

one of my favorite song from the ost.

One of my favourite pieces from Automata’s ost

Sir hear me out, you have to hear the soundtrack of "outward" is not a triple AAA game but besides being not very polished, it has one of the best soundtracks I ever heard it really has passion on it.

Lets goooo! NieR is one of my favorite series ever, and both of the games have some of the best game soundtracks ever.

Yes! We're back with more NieR! :D Thank you!

Just finished the game a week ago, amazing timing.

You should react to Birth of a wish especially the Become as gods version. Haunting and urgent at the same time. Watch with gameplay footage for added context. Outside of Nier there's the Mega Man Zero and ZX series tracks that deserves a full audio breakdown of all the tracks.

Hey marco, big fan, maybe you can try to explain why alien manifestation is a kind of "remix" of shadowlord, people say they are similar but i never understood musically why that is.

This piece wakes me up more than any amount of caffiene, taurine, ginseng, or guarana ever will.

this one's so underrated in the game.

I think you listen to the Nier OSTs from the the collab they recently did with Nikke: Goddess of Victory. The language of the songs is French and chaotic, but they still sound similar to Nier's!

I have a doubt: I understand the vocalist of the Nier: Automata OST is Emiko Evans. But there is an official live with the seiyuu Yui Ishikawa (who voices not only 2B, but also Violet Evergarden, Mikasa Ackerman or Clorinde from Genshin) singing this song... This one we are listening to is Emi Evans, right?

i think emil sacrifice really sounds like the last segment of the 4.1 trailer.

love this song

Nier has some beautiful tracks

Copied city is one of the most underrated Nier songs. I would highly recommend.

What is this type of singing called? Only other thing i can remember that sounds similar is Ghost in the Shell. Maybe Akira too?

This track is SO underrated my god

nier/drakengard content? You know i gotta click on that ^__^ great video as always!

Nier Automata is still my favourite of all Nier titles... And music is one of the biggest reasons behind that.

You should check out Total War: Attila, the Huns theme/the main menu theme.

Let's gooo more nier

Ahhhhh i don't play nier but i have the most of her music album like (Replicant) (became as gods) (Re[IN]carnation) they're beautiful songs i recommend it Highly recommend ❤

Try vordt of the borreal valley next

@MarcoMeatball

9 ай бұрын

Watch the video 💪

You should really listen to "wretched weaponry" as well, also from NieR Automata

So I’m not sure if you’ll read this but if you need something to listen to then I’d suggest Divine Identify from a game called Shin Megami Tensei: Digital Devil Saga 2. The composer’s name is Shoji Meguro, and while the game it comes from is underrated to an unfair degree, it’s still to me at least a techno masterpiece that almost feels spiritual.

God. Yes.

Fuuudge! A New game to buy... Dang!

BECOME AS GODS BECOME AS GODS WE WILL ALL DIE AND BECOME AS GODS

In my opinion. The music in Nier is being sang by the machines.

i dont know where it comes that the visuals capture one emotionally - im pretty sure in games , anime, movies etc if they didnt have any musik in the background during for example a death scene of a favorable character, i for my end wouldnt be emotionally fixated at all to that scene - same with battle themes - the bosses will be harder if the music in the background stresses you out ( well positivly stresses you out - the theme is always part ofa boss fight in game and monser huner is pretty much a great example for that ) - like if you really have trouble with a fight just turn off bgm and suddenly you stay collected and can easily beat some strong bosses in games

The choral on this one kind of reminds me of the choral singers in Thomas Bergersen's One Million Voices... unfortunately as I don't know either languages I'm unsure if it's the same culture or not.... I always thought the Thomas Bergersen one was more of an African song though I could be wrong

@Saphirasfeuer

9 ай бұрын

The vocals in (most) nier songs aren't supposed to be any language but instead represent an alien language. :)

octopath traveller 2!!!!

Keiichi Okabe the GOAT

listen to for honor themes ahhhhh

Song of ancients / fate please

Please listen to the Deepwoken Verse 2 soundtrack

This has ar tonelico vibe in it, if they said this is an ar tonelico song, I might believe it

Nier had proved that we do not need to understand the words to enjoy music.

Music that does not say anything but speak volume

Hey marco! I dont know if you listened to it on any of your streams or not, but could you do a reaction of frostpunks "The Inevitable?" Its my second favorite track from the game, behind The City Must Survive. Frostpunk 2 is scheduled to come out 2024 as well, they've even released a teaser trailer!

@nishcheta885

9 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/qG1m2c1xptKYc84.htmlsi=fjglWiWzSIIb55AX This video has voice lines and audio effects included, to make it feel more like it does in game, three songs from The Last Autumn DLC

The one time I got a notification right and on time just _had_ to be from a NieR video! KZread knows too much 🫥

The best song in the whole game.