

This leads directly to a cutscene where the Divine Tree blooms a white flower opens up with Kaine caressing the young version of Nier, stating that, even if the world will end, they will cherish each other with the time they have left. With his help, Kaine defeats the Shade and starts remembering Nier. Kaine is eventually snapped out of the dream by Grimoire Weiss, another of her former allies. She gets flashbacks (in text form) of a horrific scenario where everything and everyone starts dissolving into dust. Kaine then has to fight some of the bosses she, Emil and Nier had to defeat all by her lonesome but is overwhelmed by the Shade creature they destroyed in the Aerie. Basically, Kaine is in the machine itself. After destroying the box, Kaine is transported to a totally new area again but, this time, it’s the virtual world of Nier: Automata. Kaine reaches an area with a floating box which supposedly contains the memories she had forgotten. The duo push on and eventually arrive in an area which looks suspiciously like the Copied City found in Nier: Automata. The Divine Tree creates copies of Kaine to kill her but, before she’s overwhelmed, Emil (assumed to be dead in the regular game) saves her in the nick of time. It turns out the Divine Tree is actually a machine and it’s revealed, because they killed the Shadowlord, the world cannot be saved anymore. She takes out the robots and enters the Tree to see what the heck is happening. Kaine goes to investigate and sees robots emerging from the Divine Tree. After rescuing him, the man tells Kaine they’ve lost all contact with the community in the Forest of Myth. Kaine decides to go visit Yonah to see how she’s doing but gets distracted when she encounters someone being attacked by a lot of Shades. The game then continues a few days after the events of Ending D. However, once you fight the Aerie boss for a second time once more and get the cutscene of Kaine nearly dying, she wakes up seemingly from a dream. This also leads to all your save data being deleted, which makes sense because you did sacrifice Nier to save her, right?Īfter getting Ending D, restarting the game has you playing as Nier as a young boy once again, going through the story as if nothing happened. The latter choice leads to Ending D, with Yonah, Nier’s sister, thinking Kaine defeated the Shadowlord to rescue her. He is then given a choice to either kill Kaine to end her suffering or sacrifice his very existence in order for her to recover fully. The protagonist, who I’ll be calling Nier because that’s how I named him, defeats the Shadowlord but Kaine, Nier’s lingerie wearing badass companion, goes berserk and he has no choice but to take her down. Let’s go start with the game’s 4th ending, Ending D. So I suggest you only read on if you know what’s going to happen in all of the endings… or you don’t care. Okay, since I will be talking about a huge segment of Nier Replicant’s story as well as a couple of the endings, I will be putting up the obligatory SPOILER warning now. I kind of wish I just looked it up on YouTube because, in all honesty, it wasn’t worth the trouble.

Yes, I managed to get Ending E, which can only get obtained by playing through Nier Replicant’s main campaign at least 3 times! What I did do, though, is get all 5 endings, even the new ending specifically created for Nier Replicant’s re-release.

Unlike Nier: Automata, I haven’t gotten all the trophies available nor have I upgraded all my weapons to their maximum level.
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However, I have recently reached a point where I can safely say I’m officially done with Nier Replicant.
