True Ending

[ɆxⱣɍømɨ]

I have not played in a series of games "nier", but have heard hundreds of messages "The game must be played several times to understand what is happening."

Sounds very cringed for 2021.
How many dialogues and gameplay, as a percentage, will be repeated when replaying?
Maybe it's easier to watch the ending on YouTube if only the 10-minute video is different there?

[DeadM00n]

Replicant is kinda niche game. It has a great story and uses unique means of videogames to tell it, but it begins slowly, doesn't give you anything what could catch you (at least on purpose) and overall has a lot of walking around the map and farming quests. Imo in many aspects its even closer to the original drakengard rather than to automata. So, if you want to get into nier series, maaaybe it's better to start with the second one, though many nier fans will eat me alive for this advice

[shadow2stealth]

You are probably better off just YouTubing the other endings. Anyone who says replaying is not cringy is either lying to you or lying to themselves...at least up until Ending C.

While you can skip "most" cutscenes, there will be new areas where you have to skip per line in dialogue, PLUS you will be facing the same dozen bosses over & over which means waiting for boss battle dialogues to play out before you it will even let you damage the boss (since you'll probably be over powered & it stops you from damaging a boss too much or just keeps reviving him)

If you got that kind of time to burn, by all means.

[Mako]

Im interested in hearing why replaying is cringed in 2021 in particular. A year when most popular games are all about having 100 similar objectives on the map.

Funny enough there is some misinformation in the answers above
1. There is no true ending. A is an ending from protagonist perspective, B is the same ending from shades perspective. C and D is countinuation of those. E is yet another continuation.
2. You dont need to replay the whole story. The replayed part is second part of the story. It takes 4-5 hours to beat again watching all cutscenes.
3. First replay (for ending B) changes and adds a lot of scenes. And even outside of cutcenes it gives you more story because you (player you, not Nier) can now understand what shades say. You should not skip this because it really gives a different perspective to the whole story.
4. Second replay (for both C and D) adds very little (in original 2010 it didnt add anything at all) and you can just watch those endings on youtube if you feel like it.
5. Ending E is new content (takes about 1 hour) but you need to get D and then play first 3 hours of the game again. Can also be watched somewhere with no issues. Or find a save that starts this section.

[Senki]

Honestly I love everything about the story but I hate almost everything about the gameplay so I can't push myself to beat it again. It's way too repetitive and the enemies aren't that interesting to fight

[Foulcher]

I have not finished PC version yet but in my memories (from PS3 so more longer loading screens) reaching ending B was very fast because you are more powerful and because you know the game.

[Doctor Dementor]

''Sounds very cringed for 2021'' is the most cringiest thing i heard in 2021 from someone talking about replayability in 2021

[G3Main]

Originally posted by shadow2stealth:

You are probably better off just YouTubing the other endings. Anyone who says replaying is not cringy is either lying to you or lying to themselves...at least up until Ending C.

While you can skip "most" cutscenes, there will be new areas where you have to skip per line in dialogue, PLUS you will be facing the same dozen bosses over & over which means waiting for boss battle dialogues to play out before you it will even let you damage the boss (since you'll probably be over powered & it stops you from damaging a boss too much or just keeps reviving him)

If you got that kind of time to burn, by all means.

This, just got 100% and gotta say replaying the time-skip several times got old FAST save for the Mermaid boss, imo, the best arc in the game/remake

Gameplay gets repetitive and boring fast and HARD mode just makes enemies damage sponges. Don't be an absolute madman and go for 100%, Toylogic really want the game to feel authentic to the original with regard to grinding for weapons and it really shows.

Its an alright story, imo, Automata is still the better narrative especially cause Replicants plot is bogged down by the fact that they HAVE to make Devola and Popola mindnumbingly stupid and Weiss himself when he learns the truth in order to make it a tragedy