Two weeks ago, the game NieR:Replicant ver.1.22474487139… was released to the worldwide players. I started the game right away, and I was truly marveled by the quality, though I still wanted to see the Father NIER to be on the storyline. It’s just probably that I have grown quite a character bond with the Father.

I would like to discuss something I think this remastered version did worse than the original version, and I would apologize for spoilers.

1. I do believe all remastered soundtracks are even better. However, the arrangements of music playback in game play are somewhat awkward in certain cut-scenes. Music sometimes went mute without comfortable transitions. For the significant example, the beginning of cut-scene that Yonah wakes during the Shadowlord’s battle with NIER is totally out of music; there is only wind whistling. In comparison, the original version’s cut-scene of that would fade the music to mute for some seconds in the cut-scene.
2. Some lines aren’t performed sufficiently enthusiastic. Ray Chase did not perform as the same altitude as Jamieson Price did, at least for the case of “I am going to save you. I swear it!”, which would be taken place in the Ending C/D. I have practiced speaking this line myself for about a hundred times, and I could tell how hard it would be to express a strong will to save Kainé’s life. Thus, under this regard, I believe original version performed better than the remastered version in this line. Even though, Ray Chase surely did a great job on casting the adult protagonist.
3. I’m not sure if it is I mishearing. I can barely distinguish the voice of Kira Buckland – the voice actress who cast as 2B in NieR:Automata – who cast as the Girl in the Ending E story line. Maybe it is because 2B’s persevering personality isn’t infused into it. I would check on the voice of Yui Ishikawa, who cast Japanese version, later on. I can tell there is definitely Kyle McCarley’s voice, though. Anyway, this might not be a bad thing.

As I complete the game, there is not much I can express. To be more specific, I have many emotions as I complete it, but I find it difficult to express them in any language I know: so complex were the emotions that I could barely explicate.
Singing hymns of hope, I am sure to fight my way to my future, albeit the way could be full of danger.