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Nier Automata's soundtrack is god tier
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Eh, I probably skip every other song. It's ok. We're talking about the 3 CD release right? Having not played the game half the tracks didn't really stand on their own. Maybe the degree to which you like the games resonates with the soundtrack's enjoyment.
Maybe I'll listen to Nier's OST since a large number are praising it just as much if not more.
FF14 and its expansions is where its at for underappreciated SE music. Never played the game once (not a MMO kinda person) but its tracks are sublime.
Maybe I'll listen to Nier's OST since a large number are praising it just as much if not more.
After hearing god tier status for so long I too found it to be... okay.
FF14 and its expansions is where its at for underappreciated SE music. Never played the game once (not a MMO kinda person) but its tracks are sublime.
Lesser god tier. Honestly it's just as good, just that Automata did a masterful job of implementing it throughout the game that I rank it a bit higher.
Oh yeah, she did say it too, but I was referring to someone else lol
Yep, easily one of the best soundtracks to emerge from the entire medium. Right up there with some of the best film soundtracks ever. The first time I played through the game I was astonished at how the music enhanced every place and scene.
I still get tracks from both games stuck in my head on a regular basis. City Ruins in particular just kind of drifts into my mind whenever I'm aimlessly walking around the city.
This orchestra concert bluray is gorgeous. Emil's JP voice actress comes out every few songs to do some Emil voice skits. The orchestra is in top form.
Has like 10 NieR songs and 13 Automata songs. So far I'm only on The Wretched Automatons, which is halfway through the first NieR's setlist.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07L5XFCFS/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Has like 10 NieR songs and 13 Automata songs. So far I'm only on The Wretched Automatons, which is halfway through the first NieR's setlist.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/product/B07L5XFCFS/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
for me 2-5 was same price as 5-10, just got a shipping notification and it's maybe arriving on Monday. I'm not entirely sure though cause i got a USPS tracking number for it but i also got a DHL text this morning saying monday delivery, but i also have another package coming from DHL. At least my mech edition of Left Alive is coming via UPS on tuesday.
Back on topic I just added the NieR: Automata soundtrack to my spotify so i can listen to it whenever. I'm tempted to get the NieR Orchestral CD, I already own the Automata Orchestral CD and it's very nice.
When this comes on during that one particular side-mission:
Perfect. But yeah, I'm also another in the camp who enjoys the original's OST more. Love Automata, though.
Perfect. But yeah, I'm also another in the camp who enjoys the original's OST more. Love Automata, though.
Never played the original Nier, just the automata, but gatdamn am I tempted to get its OST from listening to this.
Nier 1's OST quite literally crushes Automata's to dust and blows it away in the wind. It's incredible, and a lot of Automata's best tracks are just covers/arrangements of stuff from the first game.
I hit play and this is making me more feel more awake than I've been at 8:10am in a long time. Talk about gives me life.
It's good, but the first game's soundtrack is better.
That's why the best tracks from Automata are from the original.
That's why the best tracks from Automata are from the original.
Alright, you sold me on purchasing it as I regard the Automata OST as one of my top 3 VG OST. of all time.
It's so good. It's one of the few video game OSTs I've actually paid full price for since the rise of Youtube and digital distribution.
I prefer Automata ost to the first NieR mostly on the strength of how the game utilizes its soundtrack. Automata really punctuates every moment with the right music.
Also as much as I love The Wretched Automatons, all the junk cheap visits and grinding can really burn you out on it
Also as much as I love The Wretched Automatons, all the junk cheap visits and grinding can really burn you out on it
Automata really has the same problem in my book. There isn't enough environmental variety in the game so you're constantly hearing the same five or six songs over and over again. It's a general series flaw, rather than something specific to either game.
Seeing people talk about the soundtrack always brings me back to the first teaser at E3 2015.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH26BfSo7co
Saito's name right off the bat, Nier among his works. "No way!". Then Yoshida and Taura and I'm like "yeah, I guess it's something else but man this kinda sounds like--"
Keiichi Okabe
"...yeah like Okabe's stuff in Nier."
Yoko Taro
"Are you fucking serious?"
They were, the madmen. Platinum doing a Nier sequel. Completely unfathomable at the time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH26BfSo7co
Saito's name right off the bat, Nier among his works. "No way!". Then Yoshida and Taura and I'm like "yeah, I guess it's something else but man this kinda sounds like--"
Keiichi Okabe
"...yeah like Okabe's stuff in Nier."
Yoko Taro
"Are you fucking serious?"
They were, the madmen. Platinum doing a Nier sequel. Completely unfathomable at the time.
I don't even care for Japanese games and I have Automata OST on my phone playlist. However, I prefer other tracks than the OP suggested.
I can still remember the feeling of dread as it started layering in at the beginning of Route C.
The orchestral arrangement is fucking haunting. It's just ominous, foreboding, and perfect. Don't miss out on it.
My favorite musical moment in Nier :A was the Ro-Shi battle with Bipolar Nightmare blaring between segments. Fucking love this soundtrack.
Agreed
Masayoshi Soken certainly among the best composer in SE
We'll never have a moment like that again. The power in that reveal was unreal. The fans all knew how amazing this game would be.
I genuinely can't explain the ethereal and euphoric feeling this game gave me, and thats entirely owed to the marvelous soundtrack. It's what made me truly care for the people and world in the first NieR.
Utterly. Marvelous.
Utterly. Marvelous.
For those unaware, And I'm assuming most of you are, the SinoAlice soundtrack is by the same team and it sounds like just something out of NieR. Do listen to it. It's pretty damn great too.
Birth of a Wish (this cannot continue version) is my cellphone ringtone.
Nier Automa OST is by far my favorite OST in any game, so many great songs.
They had one of the newer guys do the new arrangements when they reused some of the first game's tracks, and the results are always interesting. He really went in a different direction with some of them.
Automata also covers A LOT more than the first game. It's not just one piece of music, but multiple versions and layers, and all get used in the game in some thematically appropriate way. The sheer breadth of it is astounding.
NieR is fantastic and has some of the best pieces in the series, but the scope is a lot smaller, and it concentrates too much on different arrangements for a few key themes.
They work best as a pair, because Automata incorporates and extends and improves a lot of the same melodies (and that's not even counting the new arrangements).