

In many ways, I was always bound to love Replicant - flaws and all - but I was still underprepared for the emotional highs and lows of the completion experience.

Another, more gratifying element of this catharsis is earned in terms of a sprawling narrative that unravels like a spool, gradually rewarding you each time the credits roll. Part of this catharsis is earned through the tedium and exhaustion of unfortunate aspects of outdated game design. NieR Replicant earns a kind of catharsis that I don’t often encounter in games. Replicant isn’t the masterpiece of Automata, nor was I expecting it to be, but you would be forgiven for periodically thinking so at pivotal emotional moments throughout the story. Replicant is also laced with some impressively designed narrative payoffs that I suspect will age like fine wine as I sip on its memory over time. It is tedious and exhausting, it is the definition of repetitive, and it feels in many places like the proverbial first draft of what inevitably became NieR: Automata. In that regard, NieR Replicant is something I will forever cherish. When a video game makes me cry, I can’t help but forever cherish it.
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We will also immediately be dropping “ver.1.22474487139… ” when referring to the game’s elaborate title, because, to cite Julie Muncy’s PC Gamer review, “good lord.” It is Flora’s recommendation that you listen to “ Song of the Ancients / Fate ” from the NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… soundtrack while reading this article.
