The History of the NieR World Before the Start of Replicant - NieR Lore

the story in near replicant is fantastic i'm of the opinion that playing the game multiple times really makes you notice and appreciate the minutia and detail of the scenes being presented nothing is really wasted and everything has a point that it's trying to get across the thing about the near story though is that it's kind of incomplete but not incomplete in the way some other games that have obvious signs of cut corners and missing plot elements are the og near released in 2010 and pretty much ever since side content has been gradually released fleshing out more and more of the story surrounding the game have a question that wasn't answered during the game itself chances are you can probably find what you're looking for in the side content thing is there's a lot like a lot a lot so it can be a bit intimidating finding out where to start and how to put it all together that's not even mentioning some of the dark souls level obscure hidden collectibles in the game that give almost essential world building details you can easily miss i'm looking at you project gestalt reports in your automata that's not even to mention the whole series that technically came before it so that all being said i'm going to be making a few videos in this series plugging the gaps around near replicant what happens between that game and automata and etc by the way uh if you want to follow the series i recommend giving that subscribe button a quick slap that felt kind of dirty i figured what better place to start than in the beginning so in this video i'll be going over mostly everything significant that happens in between ending e of drakengard and the beginning in near replicant with a specific focus on what doesn't appear in the game i'm gonna be omitting most information about project gestalt since i think that deserves its own separate space entirely to do it justice but i'll give it a mention when it's really essential full disclosure given that most of this stuff happens in between the front and back cover of a pile of processed trees i'll try my best to match what i'm saying to the video but some of it's gonna have to end up being unrelated gameplay also uh massive spoilers ahead just in case you needed to hear that with that all out of the way let's start where near begins 2003 in our world shinjuku [Applause] on june 12 2003 the events of ending e of drakengard play out chime angelus and the queen beast appear in tokyo to have their final showdown kaiman angelus come out on top but are shortly after shot down by a jsdf fighter plane in the aftermath the queen beast dissolves into a white substance said to be without mass or weight this substance would turn out to be maso a magical element from the dimension drakenguard takes place in this whole event would later be known as the 612 incident and it mostly came and went without too many issues there were about 50 casualties a below average amount for a final boss fight and carpet bombing taking place in the middle of an urban center but the problem seemed to have sorted itself out that is until december of that year when a few incidents of a certain disease began popping up around shinjuku when an individual is infected with white chlorination syndrome uh from now on wcs because i ain't saying that every time they're presented with a choice make a pact with god lose their humanity and become a member of the legion or turn into a pile of salt bit of a raw deal initially it would appear that most people chose option 2 since individuals with the disease were observed turning into salt 100 of the time in these early stages despite fatality basically being guaranteed not much attention was paid to this issue since case rates were incredibly low until february 2004 when the pace started ramping up exponentially in april 2004 the first cases of people making a pact with a god from the drakenguard universe were observed as some patients began to go berserk while undergoing treatment over the following months martial law was declared in shinjuku and plans were made to seal off the city a plan that was executed in october of that year this is sounding pretty zombie apocalypse fiction-ish but hey it worked over the next three years or so the numbers of wcs were going down the jsdf were tackling the issues of berserk patients within the walls and the scientists were working on discovering more about the disease things were looking up in october of 2007 a strange black dot appeared in aerial photos of shinjuku but the general consensus was that it wasn't worth paying attention to that so it was ignored by military and researchers note they probably should have paid attention to that the walls that surrounded shinjuku came crashing down in early 2008 with a similar sound to what was heard during time's fight with the queen beast after such a long exposure time the people infected with wcs who had previously chosen to make a pact with a god had turned into white monsters led by a mysterious figure called red eye the legion were basically mindless with red eye being an intelligent being directing their movements a war immediately broke out between the jsdf and the legion facilitating the spread of wcs across the main island of japan honshu with this increase in cases comes an increase in the legion and their numbers grew stronger by the day forcing japan's military and people to retreat to the island of kyushu to the south it's at this point i gotta chime in and say honshu and kyushu are separated by like half a kilometer of water and are connected by multiple bridges and roads so i don't know how this small geographical feature kept legion in wcs at bay but whatever the battle is going uh how do i how do i put this scientifically uh extremely [ __ ] poorly so japan makes an alliance with the us to try and turn the tides even still nothing seems to be working and the legion endlessly replenishes their numbers whenever they make any headway so they decide to go with the good old nuclear option an idea supported overseas but with obviously mixed reception in japan it goes through and in august of 2009 large portions of japan are bombed with nuclear weapons despite the loss of property and life it actually works by november all traces of the legion seem to have been dealt with the price was high too high maybe but the war with the legion had been won [Music] starting in february wcs cases started popping up in countries around the globe which caused it to accelerate at an unheard of level despite japan's struggle with the legion in wcs in the half decade prior to this it was only this event that made the international community realize huh maybe this might be our problem research into the body evangelists maso wcs and its origins began on a global scale way too little way too late but they managed to get a decent grasp on it by june turns out wcs is spread through the air by coughing and saliva and hang on i i gotta grip my chest for a sec because this paragraph is hitting way too close to home okay so since maso originates from another dimension it can't be destroyed turns out on a scale from 1 to 10 dropping bombs on honshu was a conservative 13 to 14 as far as bad ideas go since it propelled masa around the world that's not to say it's all bad though scientists figured out how to use air quotes magic by harnessing muscle's energy so i mean at least we have that in october of 2011 the lab that was studying angelus body was broken into and someone stole the dragon thing is no one knows who did it i wonder if that'll be important the situation would continue to grow worse and worse for the next four or so years until february 2016 when a compound that sounds like it's named after a b-tier uk energy drink luciferase is discovered to significantly slow down the effects of wcs as ridiculous as the name sounds this stuff actually exists it's an enzyme that produces bioluminescence sure he's still up on its real-world effectiveness against wcs though using luciferase a combat group called the first crusade is created to fight the legion and hey it worked until it didn't and the entire unit was wiped out this was the trump card and it ended up as a failure options were running pretty slim i'll see the thing is turns out children get a much larger benefit from luciferase and they would be better suited to fight the legion but recruiting children as soldiers and having them fight while hopped up a massive amount of an experimental performance enhancer that sounds morally wrong although so the hamlin organization is formed to recruit and train an elite squad of teenagers then pump them full of luciferase to fight the legion hey i've heard that name before i wonder if they're going to be involved in some shady [ __ ] in about one minute from now there's some unease around the world over the sunrise and power of the hamlin organization particularly in japan especially since they've started researching into using maso to create super soldiers they are humanity's best and only hope in winning the war however so they continue to fight the legion without interference over the next few years all the while project gestalt is quietly continuing in the background like i said though we'll talk about that next time around 2026 the hamlin organization decided to go through with the whole do unethical [ __ ] for max profit thing you probably know what happens here emile and his sister hulu are experimented on with maso to create living weapons that can defeat the legion they grew up in a facility that labeled itself as an orphanage but kids were disappearing on a regular basis a meal might not have been but hulua was old enough to know something was off here their main caregiver was a woman they referred to as her sensei and she seemed to genuinely care about the pair's well-being one day halua was told she had a disease and needed to undergo surgery immediately halua was transformed into the skeleton boss and she was pretty lucid in the beginning before they put her under a researcher mentioned that even if the experiments on her were to fail they could use her brother as a replacement hearing this put her into a panic that they would do the same thing to a meal they did to her so she tried to break the two of them out on the way she ran into her sensei had some conflicting thoughts and then one shot her into the wall unfortunately in the chaos the hamlet organization decided to speed up their experiments on a meal and give him his trademark eyes forcing him to turn hallua into stone so they could seal her up in the basement for the next thousand years suffice to say they lost their human experimentation funding for the next fiscal season four more years of war would pass until finally some headway was made redeye was slain by the 13th crusader unit ceo are you keeping counting that's the 13th they lost 13 of these things before they finally got him despite the co dying of his injuries afterwards the legion was left without a leader becoming an uncoordinated mindless horde that slowly weakened over time this is the main reason why we don't see any legion activity in the beginning of the game got that problem solved but wcs on the other hand shows no signs of slowing down so project gestalt intended with the replicant system begins on mass in march of 2032 needless to say this also begins to fail pretty badly which leads to the events of the intro of nir where he makes a pact with grammar noir to gain power in the chaos jonah touches the book and begins to relapse and nier is forced to play ball becoming the original gestalt the shadow lord in exchange for the world purification system the company behind the project agreeing to put yonah's relapsing gestalts on ice until the bodies and souls can be reunited you might be sensing a common trend here but things went relatively smoothly until they you know didn't once all the masso had been removed from the world and the remaining legion forces destroyed project gestalt could be completed and humanity could return to their bodies for the first few centuries the mindless replicants took orders from the androids left behind to watch over them taking out the remnants of the legion's forces and scrubbing the world of the remaining maso if this had taken say about half the time that it ended up actually taking project gestalt might have gone off without a hitch and we wouldn't have a game to play here well about 600 years after the intro of near-replicants and about 600 years before the beginning of the game proper some replicant decided there must be more to life and gain sentience at this point i'm pretty sure the observer androids collectively shot a brick this whole sentience thing was a slow process at first but about a thousand years after the events of the intro in the year 3000 pretty much every replicant have developed big brain they began to form their own primitive societies with a unique culture an important point to note here is that most replicants developed personalities almost wholly unrelated to their original guest alts becoming a separate entity whose existence was no less valid than what they were before despite now having free will the replicants would continue to cooperate with the androids continuing to purify the world in the year 3276 one replicant enters a land that's said to grant one's deepest desire so he sets off to revive his dead lover when he wishes for a resurrection a series of events plays out that almost exactly mirrors when enuart tried to revive fury eye at the end of drakengard everything looks like it's going fine until she opens her eyes and when he chaos him i should also mention that this magical wish-granting place is the same one where red-eye fell over a thousand years prior the city of jerusalem whether the wish-granting properties of this area were something the replicants truly believed in or whether they were honey-trapped into approaching by red-eyes ghost or something is up for you to decide either way the newly resurrected replicant takes the form of a new red-eye and immediately declares legion world war ii amassing the remaining forces and attacking the replicants this war would last about a full decade until an android and four replicant heroes defeated the new red eye who having amassed all the legion soldiers in the same place made them quick to wipe out as well why the original war lasted almost three decades with the combined forces of the modern armies of every country in the world and this one was beat back by a single final fantasy party as anyone's guess but whatever [Music] oh wait did you hear that ding the legion has been completely eliminated and the world has been purified in maso so it's time for project gestalt to come out of the oven oh this isn't going well no no this isn't going well at all the replicants have become their own people and they see these black demons running around more as body snatchers than the actual humans with no place to return to these guest dolls start to relapse and go berserk one by one okay so i don't want to get blown out by making a blanket statement that turns out to be wrong but one misconception i see a lot of is that the shades you fight in the game are relapsed to my knowledge for the majority of cases this isn't true the shades we see in game for the most part retain their consciousness and free will some don't attack you unless in self-defense a lot of perceived attacks are just them trying to return to their bodies and we can clearly see many examples of them having justified motivations for their actions that and when the shade relapses the replicant gets the black scroll something we see only two sorry three the lighthouse lady as well cases of in the game lastly before we end things off there's a short story that gives us a brief glimpse of near's life slightly before the events of the game a lot of content from this short story is referenced in the loading screens yona getting a pet chick a story about a big tree you know the deal it's around this time yona gets diagnosed with the black scroll while the disease is ultimately untreatable near was pretty desperate for money to buy medicine to at least ease yonah's pain but there's one problem it might not look like it in game but nearest village is kinda poor most people didn't have any work to give him no matter how much they wanted to and at best they could offer him some pity job for some meager pay this is reflected in game a lot of the side quests in part one from the village have near doing some menial fetch quests something most people could do themselves but they let near to it to throw him a bone near goes to some seriously desperate lengths to earn some money which actually ends up being the reason why he ties his hair up for the first half of the game popolo and devla give near slightly more dangerous jobs like hunting shades despite the risk to prevent him from having to do stuff like that again i recommend reading the short story the red and the black if you want to know a bit about what i mean and that's it the next thing that happens is the game starting so we're done for today next time we'll focus on project guesthou why it failed and what could have been done hope to see you for that one [Music]

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Published: Wed Jun 16 2021