I know you probably won't see this comment since you're inactive on RUclips now, but I just wanted to say thank you. Your channel was one of the reasons I originally picked up NieR Automata, a game that impacted me so deeply that it is, without question, my favorite game. Playing through the original NieR in 2019 was also a fantastic experience and in 2020 I picked up Atelier Ryza due to your enthusiasm for the Atelier series. That game is very special to me as well, and Ryza 2 came out shortly after my grandmother passed away in January of this year, so having that game to distract me from grief was such a wonderful blessing. I'm really grateful to you for making content centered around the games you love. You really added a lot to my life by doing that and I just wanted to let you know it's appreciated. Even if you never post anything again, I'm really thankful for the content you did make and that I can revisit it now. I hope all your current endeavors are going well and that you'll have great success in life. :) Thank you, Valkyrie Aurora! God bless you always! :)
So, a year since Automata's release, huh? That means it's been a year since I added Automata's soundtrack to my daily playlist, and I still don't get tired of it.
Vague hope (cold rain)?!?!? Damn I was sure it would be on here. Probably cause ya boy was tearing up while reading 9s's death text and hearing the song
God, when I first heard "Mourning" play doing that one foreshadow and a half sidequest. It legit creeped me the fuck out. It's such an eary song and I love it...
My personnal ranking would be : 1) A Beautiful Song - sounds like the last words of Simone.Very tragic, a singer's last play before she dies on the scene. And DAMN it feels so smooth during the fight. 2) Bipolar Nightmare - Love how well it's used in route C, when you're jumping from the perspectives of the frantic anger and hysteria of 9S, and the bitterness and hopefulness of A2. Also the fact that you're fighting Ko-shi and Ro-shi, so Confucius and Laozi, who have opposed philosophies (confucianism and taoism), one saying to follow strict rules, the other to "go with the flow". there's even the black/white opposition pattern (and the yin yang when they fuse together). So the title is very clever in that sense. Love how they played with the duality of that fight. 3) Song of the Ancients / Atonement - really felt like a last sacrifice for Popola and Devola, and you never go wrong with SotA. 4) Dependant Weakling - for the same reasons that you said. And because Eve is a good cinammon roll that didn't deserve this shit 5) Birth of a Wish - every version of it cool as hell and feels like powerful hope. also BEC O M E A S G O D S 6) Memories of Dust - just love the instrumental and J'Nique Nicole voice. It sounds so good !! 7) Grandma / Destruction : just. the scene with 9s and the 2B models. god that hurt. 8) End of the Unknown - Goth loli and shota and semi-nude guys fighting on the dance floor ? sign me up 9) Amusment Park - LET THE HAPPY ROBOTS PARTY AND BE HAPPY DON'T HURT THEM YOU MONSTER 10) Copied City - Usually Im not into piano but this one sold me.
10. Amusement Park 09. Emil Despair 08. Kaine - Playing as 9S visiting that cave! 07. Birth of a Wish: Left me shell shocked during the become as gods scenario. 06. Song of the Ancients 05. City Ruins - Rays of Light 04. Peaceful Sleep: Nostalgia for other games :) 03. A Beautiful Song: Amazing boss fight 02. End of the Unknown - A Nier:Automata 'Victoria's Secret' fashion show with this playing in the background! Oh and Adam & Even are so slick. 01. Bipolar Nightmare - Desperation, Struggle, Futility. Yet you keep marching forward. I will never get tired of this. Overall. I'd add every Nier:Automata soundtrack here. They're all just amazing.
I loved reading this but my favorite is Rays of Hope ... God I love how heavenly it sounds!! it's like humanity will go or went to a better place, I mean good humans of course :)
My favourite is "Peaceful Sleep". That song made me put the controller down and just listen to it. I also loved how talking to Anemone added vocals to the song. That voice calmed me so much. My second favourite is "End of the World". Nier Automata is my first Yoko Taro game, I didn't really know that I had to *sacrifice *that*. After a while, I gave up doing Ending E on my own and accepted the *help*. Boy, when I heard the choir chorus, it felt like everyone is helping me and cheering me on. I have not experienced anything like this from a game.
Anthony Tan I am also new to NieR, and I was so frustrated until I accepted the help too. It felt so nice seeing those messages pop up and it was so uplifting to be honest.
Peaceful Sleep is also definitely my fav, I love fishing while listening to this song, I just want an excuse to listen to the song and relax without realising I became really rich from fishing XD
My list (Spoiler Alert): 1) Kaine (Salvation) - cop out since it's from a prior Nier game, but it encapsulates the feelings that 9S had for 2B perfectly. Even better, it played in one of the most beautiful if simplistic stages of the game. 2) City Ruins (Ray of Light) - same reason as you. Never got tired of it, and always love listening to the song. Whenever I'm mindlessly grinding on a game, I'll play it on a loop. 3) Amusement Park - it has such a haunting yet beautiful tone to it, and in my opinion was a flawless match for the amusement park in-game. 4) Song of the Ancients - Devola and Popola deserved better. 5) Wretched Weaponry - the mechanical sound combined with the vocals made it a pleasant song to listen to while exploring the factory. 6) Vague Hope (Cold Rain) - I feel like this song was just an amazing song that would've done well at any of the emotional points in the game. Also learning it on piano, so it's that good. 7) Birth of a Wish - BECOME AS GODS! THIS CANNOT CONTINUE! 8) Fortress of Lies - I hear this song, and I think of 6O. 6O was too good for this world. 9) Mourning - It absolutely gave me chills when I finished the quest where you investigate the murder of an android's best friend, and this song came on. I was terrified but mystified by the choir. 10) Peaceful Sleep - I ACTUALLY fell asleep listening to this song. It's such a restful-sounding song, like a break in the action so you can just kick back and enjoy the scenery.
My favorite is City Ruins Shade version. I think it plays when you’re A2. The vocals changes pitch to represent A2 rather than 2B. It has a bit of a more serious darker heavier tone than the original I remember how serious shit got when that one played.
It also plays for 9S too after that point in the game, representing how the status quo breaked hard and how lonely 9S must be feeling now that 2B is gone.
Some solid picks Sophie; it's not easy to narrow down favourites with such stellar competition. There's so many songs that get stuck in your head that you could make a decent argument for nearly any of the songs to be on a person's top ten list. Some of my personal favourites are: City Ruins (Shade) - For similar reasons that you liked Rays of Light, but I prefer this version. It brings back memories of when 2B and 9S were still together, which makes it all the sadder that they're not anymore. The naming convention of the two songs is also pretty heart breaking if you find 2B's flight unit... Forest Kingdom - Gives off a distinct _Ghost in the Shell_ vibe, which is a major win in my books. Just like how the music in _GitS_ gave off an impression of a marriage between machine and man, this song makes me think of a marriage between machines and nature. Grandma (Destruction) - This is a fantastic remix of the original from Nier. I love the heavy high tempo brass that was used in this version and having to destroy multiple 2B clones as 9S was pretty heart wrenching to do to cap everything off. Amusement Park - There's a real sense of childhood magic and wonder in the spirited tone of this song, like the machines have created their own version of Disneyland. The area is also one of my favourites in the game visually, so that probably has someething to do with it too. Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) - IMO this was the best part of the first playthrough, which is complemented excellently by this tension filled reprisal of an already fantastic song. Escaping the machine cult was such a thrilling ordeal, with their voices echoing in the background to remind you that you were not safe just yet. Also minor tangent, but *fuck* the room where you find the Engine Blade in, fuck it hard 😠.
My favorite song is amusement park. When I started playing the game, I didn't know anything about it, so entering the amusement park for the first time made me extremely uneasy. It was so different from anything up to that point. The song amplified the feeling of unease, because it was beautiful, but haunting at the same time. Hearing it still sends shivers down my spine.
One of my favorites was Possessed By a Disease, it's the one that plays in the factory when you fight the sphere goliath for the first time, it's pretty NieR-y with some GiTS vibes, shame not that much people talk about it though.
Can you talk about Your personal Nier experience with the game? maybe covering a virgin run of it and your thoughts during the game at first compared to say later playthroughs? That would be interesting.
I been watching your videos for a while (while I never been here since the beginning) I would really like to appreciate how more confident and flourished your voice has become compared to yer earlier work! You have really let your personality shine and you deserve to be praised on how you matured for recordings
"End of the Unknown" is pretty much Keiichi Okabe taking his raw talent for making awesome Tekken soundtracks and mixing it into Automata. Pretty simple crossover, but it's a nice homage to both games. Speaking of which, let's not forget Yoko Taro having the even brighter idea (or approval) to make the boss fight a 2D side-scroller, much like actual fighters of the genre.
Vague Hope is my favorite. It was just what I needed after that bleak ending we got in D. The song is split into two verses, one melancholic, the other hopeful but bittersweet. I'd like to think the first half of the song was about coming into terms with tragedy, while the second half captures the will to continue struggling despite the meaninglessness of existence to find the light at the end of the tunnel. It worked beautifully into Ending A too (pretty much a theme of EVERY Nier track really, they always integrate perfectly with the feeling of the moment).
I completely agree, the track and all it’s versions are truly beautiful. Not to mention that the the song managed to peak its head in many of the game’s emotional moments whether it be from some sad side quest or in the main story. It’s simply amazing
Wretched Weaponry is my favourite song. I don't know why, I just really like the vocals and the melody. Other than that I love Forest Kingdom, Possessed by a Disease, War to War or Emil Despair, from songs that You didn't mentioned. No joke, I could put here the whole OST, it's that good. ;)
I’m one of the few people who ended up deleting all their save files at the end of the game so weight of the world brings back a lot of good (and bad) memories. also the part where the singer starts crying in the Japanese version gives me chills every time :,)
I only purchased automata recently and found your channel shortly after. I felt that the music used Automata pulled the tide of battle for my first play through as I thought, “oh yeah this reminds me of dark souls bring it on big fellas” but by the end of my play through I was playing through tears but the orchestral flow allowed me to finish my journey. I’m on the 3rd play-through right now and I can’t shake the emotion off and become desensitised to it unlike other emotional games I’ve played. I’ve never played any of Yako Toros games before automata but I’m looking forward to buying and playing Nier onwards.
Honestly I don't know how you even made this list. It would be so hard for me because all of these songs I love in their own special way. But if I had to pick a song I would say the Copied City theme is my fave. Edit: or maybe it's Salvation. Idk I can't decide 😣
Your list is pretty much what I listen to on my phone on a daily basis. This game's soundtrack is one of reasons why I never stop thinking about the game even though it's been a year already, and seeing someone still make videos on the it, goes to show how good it is. Keep up the amazing vids, Valk.
I just found this channel and totally love it, but i was sad to read about no more content will be here. Ty for all the videos about Nier/Drakengard my favourites so far, regards and i hope you have a wonderful day too
Voice of no return is definitely my favorite track from atuomata. It's so smooth and peaceful it puts me at ease and is just relaxing. Can't get tired of it. Edit: Can we also like, talk about wretched weaponry? that track is godly and so good, and the transitions from the official track is so good. And the instrument just goes with the ood of the factory and is just perfect. Can just listen to it anytime and be pumped.
Nice video! Would enjoy seeing more of these for the other games. Personally, Emil's boss theme hit me like a truck the first time I heard it. Poor fella :(
please talk about drakengard 1's music!! idk if anyone in the fandom really shares my thoughts, but i actually adore drakengard 1's score and id really love to know what you think!
I think it’s one of the best game soundtracks there is. Not the sort of thing I’d listen to on its own, but the music fits the game VERY well, and it’s so distinctive.
10 - Weight of the World: I really love this song! In my TOP 10, i put it in first but the Japanese Version, for being more "depressed", more "hopeless" - a type of environmental music that i like most and i think that it "talks" more to me. 9 - Fortress of Lies Maybe because i didn't used to think too much about this music, but although it has the perfect job to set the tone, i... didn't remember her? Although, when it plays, i always knows to where it's related. I don't know how to explain well. 8 - Song of the Ancients It's my third favorite music of Automata, i love so much this song and the moment where it plays the lyrics version when we are fighting along side Devola and Popola... It's like... A Big HUG from Taro and Okabe to Us. 7 - Beaufitul Song It's in my Second place from my TOP 10 and... This battle is ridiculous! It's my favorite boss battle of all the games that Yoko Taro had made so far, it's a big microcosm of everything he has done: You can see in this battle, elements from Drakengard 1, Drakengard 3, Nier and everything you're going to see in Automata. United to all of that: THE MUSIC! It's a real Opera that has been given it from Okabe to all of us. 6 - End of the Unknow OMG, this music isn't in my TOP 10 but i really love this SHIT! Fuck, it's so good! I agree and i have the same feeling - it's completetly different from almost everything that this sondtrack gives to the player, it has his rythm, almost feel like... it doesn't belong to that place... but at the same time, "talks" perfectly to the Alien "setting". 5 - Dependent Weakling I don't remember this music, honestly. I don't even know how to feel about it... Sorry. 4 - Bipolar Nightmare It's not in my TOP 10, but i LOVE THIS SHIT! I made some commentaries throughout the RUclips to give my theory about this song and i'm gonna give you this: The first moment that it plays in the game, it was when 2B and 9S realized that the sea revealed to them a "Golias Class" Machine, the "first" boss from the game that it was in the "demo". In that moment, they're scared and you can feel the anxiety during the battle and the horrible process of defeat that happen to them during that scene. Obviously, this music plays in other parts of the game, during side-quests and only the instrumental version in some minor fights, but, the next time we're going to hear it is when 9S and A2 are climbing the Tower. And during the climb: THEY'RE THE ENEMY. They are the agressive ones, they are climbing the Tower destroying everything in front of them - if we remember right, you can catch the lines of the Machine during the whole process: He's afraid of 9S and A2. The machine is very scared of them and that's why the music (I think it is, at least) is called BIPOLAR NIGHTMARE, it plays in two different instances, when we are afraid and the machines are agressive and then the other way around. AGAIN: Just a Theory. Some theory that i actually believe. 3 - Copied City I... don't remember? I don't know, maybe because i was too focused in Adam... in 9S... Motherfucker, give me back 9S! 2 - City Ruins It's in my third place. I ... LOVE SO MUCH! It doesn't get you tired, it sets the ton of the city, the world, the things you're about to do. I don't know, the vocals, the lyrics - which i don't understand, but... fuck! It's so depressed but at the same time, it's so lovely full of hope! 1 - The Tower It's not in my Top 10, but also, love it. Specially, it's a music that talks perfectly about how everything is about to ruin. Everything you've done is something false, you don't have any more relevant to this world and the moment which it has been marked on my brain for the rest of my life is the talk between 9S and A2. It's something so... "hopeless" and "okay, i give up. i don't want to be here anymore". I love your Top 10, i didn't remember some musics, i'm so sorry xD But it's a game which, like i say in some previous comment: Nier has 100 musics and everything is on Top 10 or something like that. Thank you so much for share this with us.
My favorite track is SOUND OF THE END. When Pascal finally stepped up and battles the other Goliath's in front of A2. It gets me hyped everytime listen.
Beautiful OST, beautiful list. Thanks for sharing your favorites! I'd add only one to it: Alien Manifestation. The strings, the bells, the subtle organ, all fleshing out pounding, adrenaline-inducing percussion. Gets me ready for battle every time! :D
i had chills the whole time you were talking about the tower, i just recently went back in order to get ending C and E, and i realized just how much that song foretold what was about to happen, and how the story was about to end, oh and R.I.P for all the saved data i deleted during the credits minigame...
A Beautiful Song is my personal favorite cause I just personally think it sounds like heartbreak. But Rays of Light is what I listen to all the time; it makes me think of lying in a forest, sunlight speckled through the leaves.
I think whats make A beautiful song so awesome was the really good placement, how its play when we see beaufoir, the surounding mood. and the name add more back story to the song, love your video btw !
I love the whole soundtrack, but my favorite song is Wretched Weaponry. It just gives me a somber, mysterious, and dreadful feeling all at the same time. Love your list and pretty much all of your vids. Please keep up the good work.
"The Tower" is exactly what the original NieR would have needed. While the "Memory" version of "Shadowlord's Castle" had the same, desperate feeling because of it's faint and slow vocals, the "Roar" version, which plays for most of the dungeon, is too upbeat and sounds just like any other battle songs from the game
god, i love this game so much!!! i never thought i would, but it gave me so many wonderful memories that i will cherish forever. i really enjoy your videos and i‘d love to see a video like this about the music of the other games.
Just out of curiosity, why were you never sprinting during the in-game footage as 2B? (I know why, I just want to hear someone else point it out for once)
My top 3 favorite songs did not make into the list... :( 3. Weight of the World／the End of YoRHa (it and ending E is why it's supreme) 2. Peaceful Sleep (when the vocal ends and only instrument remains, still bring tears to my eyes) 1. Isn't that right, Kaine? Even if it's pointless, you still have to do it! Because this is the world my friend tried to save!! (*cry*)
Excellent video as always. I agreed with your selections; it's hard to choose because all of the songs are so amazingly composed for each section of the game.
It's amazing how good this music alone is, but it becomes even better, when you think about how dynamically the songs are integrated into the gameplay and story! How vocals join in when you talk to Anemone in the Resistance Camp, or when you talk to Pascal in his village and of course the mindfuck that is "Become as Gods". Not to mention the amazing returning tracks from the original NIER, like Kaine's theme. Automata's Soundtrack is just stellar!
Woop!! Awesome list No.1 is one of my favourite pieces of music ive ever heard and its brought me out of dark times time and time again Only thing idve changed is to add war to war as a joint second with the city ruins due to how impactful it is to hear such a juxtaposing version of the peaceful tune youve heard all game. A strong sense of duty to protect this place takes over me, only thing thats effectedly quite so much is persona 3s music change towards its end
I'll disagree with you about being able to put #7 in any other game. It's titled "A Beautiful Song" for the obvious double entendre that it's a beautiful song but is sung by the tortured soul of Simone who was driven mad by desire for Beauty. The song itself carries so much impact not just because it sounds like, as you say, an epic battle, but also because the beautiful vocals and jarring instrumentals come together to embody the sad dichotomy of beauty, frustration, and pain that was within Simone. I don't believe the song carries as much power without its backstory.
I'm a loser who played Automata before the original Nier but when I finished the Gathering Keepsakes quest and heard Kaine Salvation for the first time I was utterly blown away. Even though I had no prior attachment to the song, it still stood out to me as a wonderful piece of music and was honestly the first time a song from a video game had brought me to tears. I understand why you didn't put it on the list since it was written for and primarily used in the previous game, but I hope I'm not the only series newcomer who was captivated by this song.
I only recently finished playing Nier: Automata yet it feels like it's been ages since I've played it. Watching your videos makes me wish I can play the game for the first time all over again. Thank you for being a hardcore fan and being excited about the game. It's really fun to hear the thoughts and opinions from another Nier fan!
Amazing video, seriously, all the songs in automata can get you're feels in a different way. Really agree with you on all of them but if you do say, a 'My Top 10 Nier Gestalt Soundtracks' video i'd like to suggest adding a couple that you wanted to put on the list but chose not to as honourable mentions. Love your content.
A lot of the NieR: Automata & NieR soundtracks will always be special to me since I starting playing Automata around the time where extremely desperate, tough times just happened, were happening for awhile. This game gave me so much a sense of hope and hopelessness that I felt I needed. Like transitioning from Vague Hope’s Cold Rain to Spring Rain Also, the most important thing to me is that it would always cause such profound frisson unlike no other and gave me life whenever I sang along with it.
bruh weight of the world in ending e made me cry like a baby. Fantastic soundtrack. I thought for sure that the amusement park theme would be on the list but i gotta agree with the placement of city ruins. Awesome video! Please do the other games too!
All 10 of these are amazing picks. I love that Bipolar Nightmare is your favorite battle theme. And one thing about Rays of Light, I think it also does a good job of not getting old because it changes every so often with the instrumental and vocals.
Weight of the world hit me sooooooo hard in the feels during the credit sequence, I legit shed tears when I was getting help from others during the credits and seeing their encouraging messages
I’m late here,but the very first time I heard A Beautiful Song I loved it so much I could not stop listening to it,especially the second half of the song when you can hear Nicole’s deep and powerful voice with the mysterious, ethereal choir in the background. It was so amazing and quite addictive to me. And that’s what makes NieR Automata’s soundtrack so good in my opinion. Emi Evans and J Nique Nicole are such talented, great singers,that it kind of saddens me that they’re often overlooked or don’t get more love. But anyway, I look forward to see what they’ll bring out next! Love this vid,btw.
I'm not a returning fan of the NieR games or Drakengard, but I played Automata. This game tore me to bits at the end of Route C/D. When you explained The Tower and how the song feels, I realized that that was how I felt when I walked in, too. I also put the controller down and started crying, and I cried like a baby because I picked 9S (Ending D) first. As much as I cried and yelled at my TV, the experience is worth it XD I'm seriously considering getting into Drakengard and the other previous NieR games, just because this was such a beautiful game by itself.
I think one aspect that manages to keep City Ruins fresh (as well as the other Automata songs) is the fact there's like _6 versions_ of most songs: quiet (vocals or no vocals), medium (vocals or no vocals), and dynamic (vocals or no vocals). City Ruins gets a whopping *24 versions* of its theme, since City Ruins - Shade and City Ruins - Ray of Light play later on in the game and they all have their own quiet/medium/dynamic/vocals variation too! Depending in which area you're in, the game slowly switches to one of the other versions and it keeps things from getting stale. Just... the amount of love and work put into this sound track is phenomenal!
This is a really good opinion piece. There is a strong consistency in your choices. Your choices articulated what you value in sound tracks very well. You did a good job conveying your taste in this video.
my top top top ten 10. song of the ancients 9.a beautiful song. 8. grandma 7. mourning 6. dependent weakling 5. vague hope (spring) 4. faltering prayer 3. the tower. 2. weight of the world 1. bipolar nightmare
I'm so happy you have The Tower as your #1! It has such a somber and unnerving vibe, and it shares some similarities with End Of The Unknown with how it uses certain instruments and melodies that sound completely different from anything else in the game. This entire game's soundtrack is spectacular, and ever since I started playing this game over half a year ago, I have spent so much time just listening it when I can! This has been the longest I've listened to a soundtrack without getting sick of any of the songs! One of my top favorites is Possessed By Disease. While I think it could've been used better in other parts of the game, it's really grown on me whenever I listened to the soundtrack in my free time. It sounds calm and slow, but also imposing, as if something beyond measure is near. then about a minute in, the entire song flares up, with increased use of instrumentals, and the loud vocal chants that sound nothing like any of the vocals in the game! It has a constant back-and-forth shift with this and just gives off such an intense feel, it's become a song that I just can't stop listening too.
City Ruins definitely tops my list but I was surprised not to see The Dark Colossus Destroys All on here. When Grün appeared with the same motive and urgency as Jack of Hearts in NieR Gestalt, to just wipe you all out in one fell swoop, and brought the same music track with it, wow. That was such an evocative moment. I went through so many emotions as that fight progressed, nostalgia, fear, excitement and relief amongst others. What a powerful piece in both games.
i havent given much thought into my own rankings, but its kind of subjective so who care not me. but i agreed with like, every point you made on each song and hearing you go in depth gave me things to mull over and appreciate all the more thank you sm, your youtube channel and tumblr are a gift
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"huhu gud song, me like".
Sophie you're a treasure.
pacsmile Right on the nail
I genuinely replayed that part so many times. I died. RIP me.
pacsmile lol that’s me when I was new to Nier Automata and Dark Souls 1,2, And 3 lol
Kaybe Vang I shit you not, Dark Souls 3 main menu music is the hardest boss, the only boss I didn't want to beat.
No Amusement Park, eh? Disliked, unsubscribed, flagged for abusive content, reported to the FBI.
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I knew you'd be here.
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I know you probably won't see this comment since you're inactive on RUclips now, but I just wanted to say thank you. Your channel was one of the reasons I originally picked up NieR Automata, a game that impacted me so deeply that it is, without question, my favorite game. Playing through the original NieR in 2019 was also a fantastic experience and in 2020 I picked up Atelier Ryza due to your enthusiasm for the Atelier series. That game is very special to me as well, and Ryza 2 came out shortly after my grandmother passed away in January of this year, so having that game to distract me from grief was such a wonderful blessing. I'm really grateful to you for making content centered around the games you love. You really added a lot to my life by doing that and I just wanted to let you know it's appreciated. Even if you never post anything again, I'm really thankful for the content you did make and that I can revisit it now. I hope all your current endeavors are going well and that you'll have great success in life. :) Thank you, Valkyrie Aurora! God bless you always! :)
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1. THIS CANNOT CONTINUE
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It's really rare for a game to have such a consistently good soundtrack
Alot of these songs Nierly made me cry.
Just kidding I cried alot
PineAppleProductions Nice pun tho.
10/10 pun.
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Heya Buns!
Yo Buns what's happening
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I think Pascal village theme is my favorite, it's so unique and beautiful, give me goosebumps every time I listen to it, Amusement park too
Absolutly agree, PunPun!!! :)
oyasumi, friend °^°
Yeah thats mine to, but I'm probably bias towards it a bit
Same
Yesss
So, a year since Automata's release, huh? That means it's been a year since I added Automata's soundtrack to my daily playlist, and I still don't get tired of it.
Julipe Jarana Same lol.
I bought the ost long before I even played the game. I still listen to it after 100%ing thebgame
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Julipe Jarana Glad to hear I’m not the only one !!! 😍
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I am resisting making a list, 1-10 of just 'this cannot continue'.
This is difficult!
Don't forget "Become as gods"
Don't make a video on it! As soon as you will try to play it it will freeze, because it cannot continue!
I'm sorry but this cannot continue.
Vague hope (cold rain)?!?!? Damn I was sure it would be on here. Probably cause ya boy was tearing up while reading 9s's death text and hearing the song
Zade i thought so too
That moment when you realize 9S wrote his own Eulogy as he slowly disappeared and faded into nothingness.
My #1, honestly surprised there's not more love for it !
Same my dude same ;-;
Yeah man, it probably left such an impact due to the times its played
God, when I first heard "Mourning" play doing that one foreshadow and a half sidequest. It legit creeped me the fuck out. It's such an eary song and I love it...
Even put down my controller just to sit and listen the song...
I felt so much pain thi while listen to it
My personnal ranking would be :
1) A Beautiful Song - sounds like the last words of Simone.Very tragic, a singer's last play before she dies on the scene. And DAMN it feels so smooth during the fight.
2) Bipolar Nightmare - Love how well it's used in route C, when you're jumping from the perspectives of the frantic anger and hysteria of 9S, and the bitterness and hopefulness of A2. Also the fact that you're fighting Ko-shi and Ro-shi, so Confucius and Laozi, who have opposed philosophies (confucianism and taoism), one saying to follow strict rules, the other to "go with the flow". there's even the black/white opposition pattern (and the yin yang when they fuse together). So the title is very clever in that sense. Love how they played with the duality of that fight.
3) Song of the Ancients / Atonement - really felt like a last sacrifice for Popola and Devola, and you never go wrong with SotA.
4) Dependant Weakling - for the same reasons that you said. And because Eve is a good cinammon roll that didn't deserve this shit
5) Birth of a Wish - every version of it cool as hell and feels like powerful hope. also BEC O M E A S G O D S
6) Memories of Dust - just love the instrumental and J'Nique Nicole voice. It sounds so good !!
7) Grandma / Destruction : just. the scene with 9s and the 2B models. god that hurt.
8) End of the Unknown - Goth loli and shota and semi-nude guys fighting on the dance floor ? sign me up
9) Amusment Park - LET THE HAPPY ROBOTS PARTY AND BE HAPPY DON'T HURT THEM YOU MONSTER
10) Copied City - Usually Im not into piano but this one sold me.
+honda civic Im calling the police
10. Amusement Park
09. Emil Despair
08. Kaine - Playing as 9S visiting that cave!
07. Birth of a Wish: Left me shell shocked during the become as gods scenario.
06. Song of the Ancients
05. City Ruins - Rays of Light
04. Peaceful Sleep: Nostalgia for other games :)
03. A Beautiful Song: Amazing boss fight
02. End of the Unknown - A Nier:Automata 'Victoria's Secret' fashion show with this playing in the background! Oh and Adam & Even are so slick.
01. Bipolar Nightmare - Desperation, Struggle, Futility. Yet you keep marching forward. I will never get tired of this.
Overall. I'd add every Nier:Automata soundtrack here. They're all just amazing.
Ilona THANK YOU!!!! Amusement park!!!!!! Thank you 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Im gonna need a picture of what you think loli is because im not sure we're talking about the same thing
I loved reading this but my favorite is Rays of Hope ... God I love how heavenly it sounds!! it's like humanity will go or went to a better place, I mean good humans of course :)
Wretched Weaponry is probably my favorite. Darkest turn of the game in my opinion. All of the feels.
Wretched Weaponry is definitely one of my favs as well
My favourite is "Peaceful Sleep". That song made me put the controller down and just listen to it. I also loved how talking to Anemone added vocals to the song. That voice calmed me so much.
My second favourite is "End of the World". Nier Automata is my first Yoko Taro game, I didn't really know that I had to *sacrifice *that*. After a while, I gave up doing Ending E on my own and accepted the *help*. Boy, when I heard the choir chorus, it felt like everyone is helping me and cheering me on. I have not experienced anything like this from a game.
Anthony Tan I am also new to NieR, and I was so frustrated until I accepted the help too. It felt so nice seeing those messages pop up and it was so uplifting to be honest.
Peaceful Sleep is also definitely my fav, I love fishing while listening to this song, I just want an excuse to listen to the song and relax
without realising I became really rich from fishing XD
My list (Spoiler Alert):
1) Kaine (Salvation) - cop out since it's from a prior Nier game, but it encapsulates the feelings that 9S had for 2B perfectly. Even better, it played in one of the most beautiful if simplistic stages of the game.
2) City Ruins (Ray of Light) - same reason as you. Never got tired of it, and always love listening to the song. Whenever I'm mindlessly grinding on a game, I'll play it on a loop.
3) Amusement Park - it has such a haunting yet beautiful tone to it, and in my opinion was a flawless match for the amusement park in-game.
4) Song of the Ancients - Devola and Popola deserved better.
5) Wretched Weaponry - the mechanical sound combined with the vocals made it a pleasant song to listen to while exploring the factory.
6) Vague Hope (Cold Rain) - I feel like this song was just an amazing song that would've done well at any of the emotional points in the game. Also learning it on piano, so it's that good.
7) Birth of a Wish - BECOME AS GODS! THIS CANNOT CONTINUE!
8) Fortress of Lies - I hear this song, and I think of 6O. 6O was too good for this world.
9) Mourning - It absolutely gave me chills when I finished the quest where you investigate the murder of an android's best friend, and this song came on. I was terrified but mystified by the choir.
10) Peaceful Sleep - I ACTUALLY fell asleep listening to this song. It's such a restful-sounding song, like a break in the action so you can just kick back and enjoy the scenery.
God bless finally the songs that need recognition
Huh no beatiful song
Thank you for such an amazing list. Finally someone who knows what’s good
My favorite is City Ruins Shade version. I think it plays when you’re A2. The vocals changes pitch to represent A2 rather than 2B. It has a bit of a more serious darker heavier tone than the original I remember how serious shit got when that one played.
It also plays for 9S too after that point in the game, representing how the status quo breaked hard and how lonely 9S must be feeling now that 2B is gone.
Some solid picks Sophie; it's not easy to narrow down favourites with such stellar competition. There's so many songs that get stuck in your head that you could make a decent argument for nearly any of the songs to be on a person's top ten list.
Some of my personal favourites are:
City Ruins (Shade) - For similar reasons that you liked Rays of Light, but I prefer this version. It brings back memories of when 2B and 9S were still together, which makes it all the sadder that they're not anymore. The naming convention of the two songs is also pretty heart breaking if you find 2B's flight unit...
Forest Kingdom - Gives off a distinct _Ghost in the Shell_ vibe, which is a major win in my books. Just like how the music in _GitS_ gave off an impression of a marriage between machine and man, this song makes me think of a marriage between machines and nature.
Grandma (Destruction) - This is a fantastic remix of the original from Nier. I love the heavy high tempo brass that was used in this version and having to destroy multiple 2B clones as 9S was pretty heart wrenching to do to cap everything off.
Amusement Park - There's a real sense of childhood magic and wonder in the spirited tone of this song, like the machines have created their own version of Disneyland. The area is also one of my favourites in the game visually, so that probably has someething to do with it too.
Birth of a Wish (Become as Gods) - IMO this was the best part of the first playthrough, which is complemented excellently by this tension filled reprisal of an already fantastic song. Escaping the machine cult was such a thrilling ordeal, with their voices echoing in the background to remind you that you were not safe just yet. Also minor tangent, but *fuck* the room where you find the Engine Blade in, fuck it hard 😠.
• My 10
• 10. Pascal
• 9. Bipolar nightmare
• 8. Dependent weakling
• 7. Beautiful song
• 6. Peaceful sleep
• 5. City ruins (shade)
• 4. Fortress of lies
• 3. Amusement park
• 2. The tower
• 1. wretched weaponry
Finally someone who recognizes the greatness of Wretched Weaponry! Definitely my favorite of the entire soundtrack.
Devonte Williams Hell yeah ! The medium version is absolutely gorgeous , and the dynamic version makes me feel so apocalyptic.
My favorite song is amusement park. When I started playing the game, I didn't know anything about it, so entering the amusement park for the first time made me extremely uneasy. It was so different from anything up to that point. The song amplified the feeling of unease, because it was beautiful, but haunting at the same time. Hearing it still sends shivers down my spine.
One of my favorites was Possessed By a Disease, it's the one that plays in the factory when you fight the sphere goliath for the first time, it's pretty NieR-y with some GiTS vibes, shame not that much people talk about it though.
holytape you have excellent taste, my friend. Incredibly underrated track.
YES!
The "Become As Gods" version of that track is my overall favorite track from Automata.
ALL OF THE AGREES. Also Pascal.
Can you talk about Your personal Nier experience with the game? maybe covering a virgin run of it and your thoughts during the game at first compared to say later playthroughs? That would be interesting.
smellslikeus They call it a blind playthrough
I been watching your videos for a while (while I never been here since the beginning) I would really like to appreciate how more confident and flourished your voice has become compared to yer earlier work! You have really let your personality shine and you deserve to be praised on how you matured for recordings
"End of the Unknown" is pretty much Keiichi Okabe taking his raw talent for making awesome Tekken soundtracks and mixing it into Automata. Pretty simple crossover, but it's a nice homage to both games. Speaking of which, let's not forget Yoko Taro having the even brighter idea (or approval) to make the boss fight a 2D side-scroller, much like actual fighters of the genre.
Vague Hope is my favorite. It was just what I needed after that bleak ending we got in D. The song is split into two verses, one melancholic, the other hopeful but bittersweet. I'd like to think the first half of the song was about coming into terms with tragedy, while the second half captures the will to continue struggling despite the meaninglessness of existence to find the light at the end of the tunnel. It worked beautifully into Ending A too (pretty much a theme of EVERY Nier track really, they always integrate perfectly with the feeling of the moment).
I completely agree, the track and all it’s versions are truly beautiful. Not to mention that the the song managed to peak its head in many of the game’s emotional moments whether it be from some sad side quest or in the main story. It’s simply amazing
Wretched Weaponry is my favourite song. I don't know why, I just really like the vocals and the melody. Other than that I love Forest Kingdom, Possessed by a Disease, War to War or Emil Despair, from songs that You didn't mentioned. No joke, I could put here the whole OST, it's that good. ;)
Alien Manifestation is not even on the list?
I was down to just "agree to disagree" at first, but this?? I'll fite you.
Same goes for me, only with 'Memories of Dust'.
Alien manifestation live is incredible
EGGJACTLYY
This is how I feel but related to Wretched Weaponry.
Where's the kaine salvation love at
“Possessed by Disease” is my fav. The synths, strings and insane fast vocals are just incredible.
I’m one of the few people who ended up deleting all their save files at the end of the game so weight of the world brings back a lot of good (and bad) memories. also the part where the singer starts crying in the Japanese version gives me chills every time :,)
I only purchased automata recently and found your channel shortly after. I felt that the music used Automata pulled the tide of battle for my first play through as I thought, “oh yeah this reminds me of dark souls bring it on big fellas” but by the end of my play through I was playing through tears but the orchestral flow allowed me to finish my journey. I’m on the 3rd play-through right now and I can’t shake the emotion off and become desensitised to it unlike other emotional games I’ve played. I’ve never played any of Yako Toros games before automata but I’m looking forward to buying and playing Nier onwards.
Honestly I don't know how you even made this list. It would be so hard for me because all of these songs I love in their own special way. But if I had to pick a song I would say the Copied City theme is my fave.
Edit: or maybe it's Salvation. Idk I can't decide 😣
Your list is pretty much what I listen to on my phone on a daily basis. This game's soundtrack is one of reasons why I never stop thinking about the game even though it's been a year already, and seeing someone still make videos on the it, goes to show how good it is. Keep up the amazing vids, Valk.
I can listen to Voice of no return and Peaceful sleep all day which are my favorites
I just found this channel and totally love it, but i was sad to read about no more content will be here. Ty for all the videos about Nier/Drakengard my favourites so far, regards and i hope you have a wonderful day too
10. The
9. Entire
8. Ost
7. Is
6. Amazing
5. There
4. Are
3. No
2. Winners
1. Emil (despair)
Voice of no return is definitely my favorite track from atuomata. It's so smooth and peaceful it puts me at ease and is just relaxing. Can't get tired of it.
Edit: Can we also like, talk about wretched weaponry? that track is godly and so good, and the transitions from the official track is so good. And the instrument just goes with the ood of the factory and is just perfect. Can just listen to it anytime and be pumped.
What a game
Nice video! Would enjoy seeing more of these for the other games.
Personally, Emil's boss theme hit me like a truck the first time I heard it. Poor fella :(
please talk about drakengard 1's music!! idk if anyone in the fandom really shares my thoughts, but i actually adore drakengard 1's score and id really love to know what you think!
Erin Curry It's a very interesting soundtrack.
It's just so different from anything I've ever heard.
Chapter 13 Closing is too catchy.
I think it’s one of the best game soundtracks there is. Not the sort of thing I’d listen to on its own, but the music fits the game VERY well, and it’s so distinctive.
10 - Weight of the World:
I really love this song! In my TOP 10, i put it in first but the Japanese Version, for being more "depressed", more "hopeless" - a type of environmental music that i like most and i think that it "talks" more to me.
9 - Fortress of Lies
Maybe because i didn't used to think too much about this music, but although it has the perfect job to set the tone, i... didn't remember her? Although, when it plays, i always knows to where it's related. I don't know how to explain well.
8 - Song of the Ancients
It's my third favorite music of Automata, i love so much this song and the moment where it plays the lyrics version when we are fighting along side Devola and Popola... It's like... A Big HUG from Taro and Okabe to Us.
7 - Beaufitul Song
It's in my Second place from my TOP 10 and... This battle is ridiculous! It's my favorite boss battle of all the games that Yoko Taro had made so far, it's a big microcosm of everything he has done: You can see in this battle, elements from Drakengard 1, Drakengard 3, Nier and everything you're going to see in Automata. United to all of that: THE MUSIC! It's a real Opera that has been given it from Okabe to all of us.
6 - End of the Unknow
OMG, this music isn't in my TOP 10 but i really love this SHIT! Fuck, it's so good! I agree and i have the same feeling - it's completetly different from almost everything that this sondtrack gives to the player, it has his rythm, almost feel like... it doesn't belong to that place... but at the same time, "talks" perfectly to the Alien "setting".
5 - Dependent Weakling
I don't remember this music, honestly. I don't even know how to feel about it... Sorry.
4 - Bipolar Nightmare
It's not in my TOP 10, but i LOVE THIS SHIT! I made some commentaries throughout the RUclips to give my theory about this song and i'm gonna give you this: The first moment that it plays in the game, it was when 2B and 9S realized that the sea revealed to them a "Golias Class" Machine, the "first" boss from the game that it was in the "demo". In that moment, they're scared and you can feel the anxiety during the battle and the horrible process of defeat that happen to them during that scene. Obviously, this music plays in other parts of the game, during side-quests and only the instrumental version in some minor fights, but, the next time we're going to hear it is when 9S and A2 are climbing the Tower. And during the climb: THEY'RE THE ENEMY. They are the agressive ones, they are climbing the Tower destroying everything in front of them - if we remember right, you can catch the lines of the Machine during the whole process: He's afraid of 9S and A2. The machine is very scared of them and that's why the music (I think it is, at least) is called BIPOLAR NIGHTMARE, it plays in two different instances, when we are afraid and the machines are agressive and then the other way around.
AGAIN: Just a Theory. Some theory that i actually believe.
3 - Copied City
I... don't remember? I don't know, maybe because i was too focused in Adam... in 9S... Motherfucker, give me back 9S!
2 - City Ruins
It's in my third place. I ... LOVE SO MUCH! It doesn't get you tired, it sets the ton of the city, the world, the things you're about to do. I don't know, the vocals, the lyrics - which i don't understand, but... fuck! It's so depressed but at the same time, it's so lovely full of hope!
1 - The Tower
It's not in my Top 10, but also, love it. Specially, it's a music that talks perfectly about how everything is about to ruin. Everything you've done is something false, you don't have any more relevant to this world and the moment which it has been marked on my brain for the rest of my life is the talk between 9S and A2. It's something so... "hopeless" and "okay, i give up. i don't want to be here anymore".
I love your Top 10, i didn't remember some musics, i'm so sorry xD But it's a game which, like i say in some previous comment: Nier has 100 musics and everything is on Top 10 or something like that. Thank you so much for share this with us.
For me its:
1. Alien manifestation (Vocals)
2. Copied city (Vocals)
3. City Ruins (Vocals)
4.Fortress of lies
My favorite track is SOUND OF THE END. When Pascal finally stepped up and battles the other Goliath's in front of A2. It gets me hyped everytime listen.
All these songs to me has a slightly empty feeling. Feels like something echoing in the void, in the universe, in the ruins.
Beautiful OST, beautiful list. Thanks for sharing your favorites! I'd add only one to it: Alien Manifestation. The strings, the bells, the subtle organ, all fleshing out pounding, adrenaline-inducing percussion. Gets me ready for battle every time! :D
i agree with like alot of these
kinda wish possessed by a disease was put in somewhere tho, ;;;
i had chills the whole time you were talking about the tower, i just recently went back in order to get ending C and E, and i realized just how much that song foretold what was about to happen, and how the story was about to end, oh and R.I.P for all the saved data i deleted during the credits minigame...
A Beautiful Song is my personal favorite cause I just personally think it sounds like heartbreak. But Rays of Light is what I listen to all the time; it makes me think of lying in a forest, sunlight speckled through the leaves.
I think whats make A beautiful song so awesome was the really good placement, how its play when we see beaufoir, the surounding mood. and the name add more back story to the song, love your video btw !
Vague hope hit me the hardest, by far my favorite Nier:Automata song
I love the whole soundtrack, but my favorite song is Wretched Weaponry. It just gives me a somber, mysterious, and dreadful feeling all at the same time. Love your list and pretty much all of your vids. Please keep up the good work.
"The Tower" is exactly what the original NieR would have needed. While the "Memory" version of "Shadowlord's Castle" had the same, desperate feeling because of it's faint and slow vocals, the "Roar" version, which plays for most of the dungeon, is too upbeat and sounds just like any other battle songs from the game
god, i love this game so much!!!
i never thought i would, but it gave me so many wonderful memories that i will cherish forever.
i really enjoy your videos and i‘d love to see a video like this about the music of the other games.
Just out of curiosity, why were you never sprinting during the in-game footage as 2B?
(I know why, I just want to hear someone else point it out for once)
My top 3 favorite songs did not make into the list... :(
3. Weight of the World／the End of YoRHa (it and ending E is why it's supreme)
2. Peaceful Sleep (when the vocal ends and only instrument remains, still bring tears to my eyes)
1. Isn't that right, Kaine? Even if it's pointless, you still have to do it! Because this is the world my friend tried to save!! (*cry*)
Now do a top 10 of your favorites soundtracks of DrakeNieR ! (I don't know if it's possible)
Make it at least top 30 you maniac
I’m always blasting the Automata OSTs at home, on my way to school, just anywhere!
The tower is my favorite to
Excellent video as always. I agreed with your selections; it's hard to choose because all of the songs are so amazingly composed for each section of the game.
Sees first choice
HOW IS IT ONLY 10!!!!!
Hoo boy I'm already triggered, calm down, deep breaths, whoo hoo. Ok. I'm good
The amusement park theme and Kaine salvation are still my 2 favs
What’s the name of the intro music?
I just completed the dlc , and the song with the little video at the end has been stuck in my head for days
You know you're going to have to do this for bloodborne now, right? (Please)!
The amusement park theme is my favorite. There's just something about it that feels nostalgic, yet at the same time, haunting and tragic.
TOP 10 automata stones next?
It's amazing how good this music alone is, but it becomes even better, when you think about how dynamically the songs are integrated into the gameplay and story!
How vocals join in when you talk to Anemone in the Resistance Camp, or when you talk to Pascal in his village and of course the mindfuck that is "Become as Gods".
Not to mention the amazing returning tracks from the original NIER, like Kaine's theme.
Automata's Soundtrack is just stellar!
Ahh no Memories of Dust. Still love you tho.
Havent played Automata yet! But love watching ValkyrieAurora's videos, they give me creative inspiration!
Hey where is amusement park
I’ve been playing this game for a week and I am hooked love the characters and your top 10 is dopey yo
Indiemaus’ waifu
Woop!! Awesome list
No.1 is one of my favourite pieces of music ive ever heard and its brought me out of dark times time and time again
Only thing idve changed is to add war to war as a joint second with the city ruins due to how impactful it is to hear such a juxtaposing version of the peaceful tune youve heard all game. A strong sense of duty to protect this place takes over me, only thing thats effectedly quite so much is persona 3s music change towards its end
I'll disagree with you about being able to put #7 in any other game. It's titled "A Beautiful Song" for the obvious double entendre that it's a beautiful song but is sung by the tortured soul of Simone who was driven mad by desire for Beauty. The song itself carries so much impact not just because it sounds like, as you say, an epic battle, but also because the beautiful vocals and jarring instrumentals come together to embody the sad dichotomy of beauty, frustration, and pain that was within Simone. I don't believe the song carries as much power without its backstory.
I'm a loser who played Automata before the original Nier but when I finished the Gathering Keepsakes quest and heard Kaine Salvation for the first time I was utterly blown away. Even though I had no prior attachment to the song, it still stood out to me as a wonderful piece of music and was honestly the first time a song from a video game had brought me to tears. I understand why you didn't put it on the list since it was written for and primarily used in the previous game, but I hope I'm not the only series newcomer who was captivated by this song.
👌🏿
Please do a video like this for the rest of the games, I love the emotional angle you take in discussing this series.
No amusement park theme. Disliked, unsubbed, flagged for shit taste.
just kidding, great list btw
poonzor agreed
I only recently finished playing Nier: Automata yet it feels like it's been ages since I've played it. Watching your videos makes me wish I can play the game for the first time all over again. Thank you for being a hardcore fan and being excited about the game. It's really fun to hear the thoughts and opinions from another Nier fan!
Great list. I couldn't even make a top 10 of this soundtrack. My favorites seem to change all the time - It's just all so good.
Surprised Memories Of Dust didn't make the list, but this is my favorite of your videos anyway. Great work!
Amazing video, seriously, all the songs in automata can get you're feels in a different way. Really agree with you on all of them but if you do say, a 'My Top 10 Nier Gestalt Soundtracks' video i'd like to suggest adding a couple that you wanted to put on the list but chose not to as honourable mentions. Love your content.
Good taste 👍 Singing "The Tower" is a beautiful experience; would recommend.
Birth of a Wish hits me pretty hard.
A lot of the NieR: Automata & NieR soundtracks will always be special to me since I starting playing Automata around the time where extremely desperate, tough times just happened, were happening for awhile. This game gave me so much a sense of hope and hopelessness that I felt I needed.
Like transitioning from Vague Hope’s Cold Rain to Spring Rain
Also, the most important thing to me is that it would always cause such profound frisson unlike no other and gave me life whenever I sang along with it.
bruh weight of the world in ending e made me cry like a baby. Fantastic soundtrack. I thought for sure that the amusement park theme would be on the list but i gotta agree with the placement of city ruins. Awesome video! Please do the other games too!
All 10 of these are amazing picks. I love that Bipolar Nightmare is your favorite battle theme.
And one thing about Rays of Light, I think it also does a good job of not getting old because it changes every so often with the instrumental and vocals.
Weight of the world hit me sooooooo hard in the feels during the credit sequence, I legit shed tears when I was getting help from others during the credits and seeing their encouraging messages
Like how you talk about the music and give reasons for your opinions, wish I had this soundtrack on CD
I’m late here,but the very first time I heard A Beautiful Song I loved it so much I could not stop listening to it,especially the second half of the song when you can hear Nicole’s deep and powerful voice with the mysterious, ethereal choir in the background. It was so amazing and quite addictive to me. And that’s what makes NieR Automata’s soundtrack so good in my opinion. Emi Evans and J Nique Nicole are such talented, great singers,that it kind of saddens me that they’re often overlooked or don’t get more love. But anyway, I look forward to see what they’ll bring out next! Love this vid,btw.
I'm not a returning fan of the NieR games or Drakengard, but I played Automata. This game tore me to bits at the end of Route C/D. When you explained The Tower and how the song feels, I realized that that was how I felt when I walked in, too. I also put the controller down and started crying, and I cried like a baby because I picked 9S (Ending D) first. As much as I cried and yelled at my TV, the experience is worth it XD
I'm seriously considering getting into Drakengard and the other previous NieR games, just because this was such a beautiful game by itself.
I think one aspect that manages to keep City Ruins fresh (as well as the other Automata songs) is the fact there's like _6 versions_ of most songs: quiet (vocals or no vocals), medium (vocals or no vocals), and dynamic (vocals or no vocals).
City Ruins gets a whopping *24 versions* of its theme, since City Ruins - Shade and City Ruins - Ray of Light play later on in the game and they all have their own quiet/medium/dynamic/vocals variation too! Depending in which area you're in, the game slowly switches to one of the other versions and it keeps things from getting stale.
Just... the amount of love and work put into this sound track is phenomenal!
Everything in Automata is a masterpiece. Cant rate music that's so great it makes you tear up or invokes so much emotion
This is a really good opinion piece. There is a strong consistency in your choices. Your choices articulated what you value in sound tracks very well. You did a good job conveying your taste in this video.
my top top top ten
10. song of the ancients
9.a beautiful song.
8. grandma
7. mourning
6. dependent weakling
5. vague hope (spring)
4. faltering prayer
3. the tower.
2. weight of the world
1. bipolar nightmare
I'm surprised Requiem didn't make the list, but hearing your reasoning for all of your choices made me not miss it all that much.
Blessed list
Fortress of Lies is up there with Balamb Garden as one of my favorite pieces from a game.
I'm so happy you have The Tower as your #1! It has such a somber and unnerving vibe, and it shares some similarities with End Of The Unknown with how it uses certain instruments and melodies that sound completely different from anything else in the game.
This entire game's soundtrack is spectacular, and ever since I started playing this game over half a year ago, I have spent so much time just listening it when I can! This has been the longest I've listened to a soundtrack without getting sick of any of the songs!
One of my top favorites is Possessed By Disease. While I think it could've been used better in other parts of the game, it's really grown on me whenever I listened to the soundtrack in my free time. It sounds calm and slow, but also imposing, as if something beyond measure is near. then about a minute in, the entire song flares up, with increased use of instrumentals, and the loud vocal chants that sound nothing like any of the vocals in the game! It has a constant back-and-forth shift with this and just gives off such an intense feel, it's become a song that I just can't stop listening too.
city ruins is so hauntingly good. it got stuck inside my head after my few hours of play. and its on repeat.
Would definitely love seeing more of these please! Perhaps your most and least favourite DoD3 Intoner / boss themes next?
City Ruins definitely tops my list but I was surprised not to see The Dark Colossus Destroys All on here. When Grün appeared with the same motive and urgency as Jack of Hearts in NieR Gestalt, to just wipe you all out in one fell swoop, and brought the same music track with it, wow. That was such an evocative moment. I went through so many emotions as that fight progressed, nostalgia, fear, excitement and relief amongst others. What a powerful piece in both games.
i havent given much thought into my own rankings, but its kind of subjective so who care not me. but i agreed with like, every point you made on each song and hearing you go in depth gave me things to mull over and appreciate all the more thank you sm, your youtube channel and tumblr are a gift