NieR Replicant - Emil (Sacrifice) | Reacting To Video Game Music!
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I straight up went to a different dimension....
You should listen to the song "Grandma" then, from NieR Replicant/Gestalt. Another one that will set you adrift and let your mind wander.
@@ciphereightayumi_k8259 I did lol
@@JessesAuditorium Ah, the Destruction version. I meant the regular one. Glad to see you reacting to more NieR songs! Your overviews on each song are great.
That's pretty much how you feel when you're playing the game, lol
it hits in a different level when you listen to it while playing the game. I literally cried
This man hasn't even played the games and is already having an existencial crisis. He gets it.
Jesse: I see sacrifice... I noticed a pattern.
Nier fans: about that...
Yoko Taro: "Happiness is optional".
Optional implies that happiness exists in Yoko Taro's games.
Happiness does not exist in Yoko Taro's games.
All I saw was my tears.
@@Chudpope Nier Automata Ending E would like a word.
@@Chudpope NieR:Automata is definitely not a happy game but ending E is beautifully optimistic
@@Chudpope i adore the neir franchise when the original neir came out in 2010 i wasn't old enough to play it as i was 12 but i remember my big brother playing it and i fell in love with what I saw and then automata came out in 2017 and I played it with my boyfriend and replicant again i ugly cried i was a utter mess the tears and now im excited for having it on the switch so i can cry again and apologise to my tv for being a human being but my point is i feel like its important to me somehow and i will forever have a close place in my heart for replicant/gascalt because i associate it with my brother and because personally no matter how much I love automata replicant/gascalt will always be the one nearest to my heart sorry for ranting i got carried away it gives me at least a sense of even though its soul crushing and harrowing it also makes me happy
Before playing Nier: “this song is so depressing made me shed a tear”
After playing Nier: “I understand *cries in my sleep*
and every time you hear it...
Emil’s song is simply telling the devastation and tragedy of a child. It really hurts when you remember he was just a child
@@sararapotata a child who has been alive and basically alone for over a thousand years. Cuz remember the experiments that turned Emil and his sister into weapons took place during the prolog time period.
If you do end up playing the game, I'd recommend coming back to watching this reaction. The emotional hit in the game for Emil has a similar vibe to what you described as your experience.
The truest true. (I'm not even being sarcastic, I second the eff outta this.)
Just goes to show how well the music is composed to convey the themes of the game. Keiichi Okabe is on a different level. His soundtracks really are so amazing in the way they tie into the games and themes.
[PTSD of Roc the wolf's death in Route B intensifies]
I played this song when my dad passed away last year to pancreatic cancer. It just allowed my tears to flow and flow. Such a terribly beautiful and sad song. Especially this seen unbelievably sad. Loved nier replicant and automata.
If you want a master class on reframing a song, I highly recommend Emil's Shop theme in Automata. It's the same melody, but the tempo is sped up and instrumentation is swapped to a marching band type sound, with Emil himself adding clumsy made-up-on-the-spot type of lyrics advertising the shop he runs out of his moped. (Long story.)
Fookin Emil that can't read the mood...
In Automata, this theme is converted into a song that you hear when you are close to Emil's shop.
It's so cool how such a melancholic theme can be turned into a lively - catchy tune using the exact same notes.
There are multiple versions of Emil. My favorite is Emil (despair) from automata. While this one sounds more somber to fit with the sacrifice theme, despair always felt like more the anger stage of grief/loss to me
Isn't (Despair) from the side mission with Emil where you go to his house?
@@nicholascunningham4439 no, its from the fight in the desert against the clones
@@mika9578 yeah and what do you have to do to unlock it ? Excactly the side Mission where you visit emils home.
@@ichigokurosaki516 Thats still not where Despair plays so i dont know know what point you thought you made
@@mika9578 bro he just descriped the beginning of this quest i dont get your point, i know well that despair plays in the fight with him but its not wrong to describe the quest beginning to make sure "ah is it this quest where you visit his home" yes it is in this quest.
This song is the embodiment of the theme for this game which is pain and sacrifice
This track also really stands out for being the only track with male vocals, and a boy at that (cementing its likely supposed to represent being sung by Emil himself).
Such a sweet little boy willing to sacrifice everything to help his friends.
Also, Highly recommend the track preceding the boss encounter at the start of the video, "The Ultimate Weapon".
It's not true that this is the only song with male vocals. Birth of a Wish from NieR Automata has male vocals too.
If we're only talking about Replicant though, there's "The incomplete Stone" which is the theme of the lost shrine. And "Blu-bird" Which is the boss battle theme from the same area.
"Cold Steel Coffin" the Aerie theme also uses male vocals (In the background, not as the main vocal)
And there's a bunch of other examples. So while yes, NieR uses predominantly female vocals. There's still male vocals to be found all over.
Uhh.. Emil's voice actor is female..
@@dannyfrost1746 the person singing was a boy and was not emils va
@@asherc2809 Oh i know that, it's just i thought that the person said that Emil's VA also sang this.
@@dannyfrost1746 the op said its "representing" Emil
Emil is one of the game (or generally fictional) character with the saddest story.
I agree I put him on par with guts and makima
In NieR universe until Automata that Emil is the last “human” who still exist on earth
@@lilshinobu Makima ain't that sad lol
I love songs like this, that just hit you so deep with its intended emotions. Without visuals or context, those strings still cut straight to the core.
I think when a piece of art can do this, can evoke such strong emotions, that is truly art
Hearing this song for the first time: Oh my god, Emil is precious and this is so sad.
Hearing this song for the 5th time in the game: Yoko Taro and Okabe, please, my tear ducts can't take much more.
This song was in my head randomly for a couple of days now. And though it's been several months since I finished the game (April 2021), I didn't check it out until now, and hearing it again brings me back to all the pain and suffering that happened in this game. But at the same time it's so beautiful. Almost teared up hearing it again.
I think Emil (Sacrifice) was the very first soundtrack I heard from NieR way before I knew what "VGMs" are, and I still love it fondly. Just as much as I love baby boi Emil ♥
There is more than one version of the Emil theme, and in true fashion of good Japanese games, every detail matters. It hits you very differently playing the game when you get the version with male soprano voice vs other versions. I'm a massive fan of Yoko Taro's weird brain and everything he touches. And of course Okabe's music is a huge part of my love for the series.
I love all of nier osts. They're such a masterpiece. And I'm glad that you feel the similar way
The thing about Nier is that every track, every piece of music is crafted to make you feel a specific emotion during specific segments of the game. Story, gameplay and soundtrack are all made with one another in mind and play off each other in a way I have honestly never seen elsewhere.
i tear up so much at Emil's scenes... his scene in Automata at the end of his questline broke me.
Emil (Sacrifice), to me, has the same cadence has a nursery rhyme or lullaby. Something soft and peaceful with deeper, darker undertones that its intended audience isn't really equipped to understand the first time they hear it.
Man the feels actually seeing it, emil was still very young all things considered, along with kaine they are both very tragic characters with either bad fates or tragic backstories
This is a song... that never fails to make me tear up... Emil best boy
I would recommend checking out Emil (Despair) as well. It's the same song at it's core, but with a much bigger and more epic feeling to it.
This is a beautiful song, and heartbreaking when you know the story.
God this song always brings some tears to my eyes
Every time I hear Emil, the way those cellos and violins sweep in from low and high, it's like they're gently enclosing my heart and whisking me away on a melancholy but beautiful journey. The quiet, persistent STRENGTH of it. Absolutely did cry listening to this one live, and Kainé, and was happy to do so.
By the way, pronunciation for these two goes like eh-MEEL and KAI-nay.
It was live where?
@@Verticom10 Chicago, for me.
i'm glad you enjoyed it. neir has great music but it's very important in context to the game and its emotional notes. especially in automata. some of the ways they use music is next level
What a great reaction ! What I would do to experience playing NieR again and the current anime that’s going on has these beautiful songs as well
This makes me soo emotional every time I listen because of everything Emil went through. He didn't deserve a damn bit of it.
Even better when you hear emil speaking those lines, and are completely invested in him as a character ❤
Ah, all the things that happen were this song played. Makes me tear up, nier it's such an emotional game, every track has a meaning behind it.
Thank you for your time. I still cry for Emil. You'll never know i subscribered. Thank you. Legendary 🎸 🌪 🎸
god, I love the NieR games. I have a feeling Yoko Taro intended when making these games to make them as depressing as possible. (especially the first one/replicant)
Emil is probably one of the saddest characters, I at least, have encountered so his theme fits perfectly.
I can't with this song man. It just exudes such a sense of sorrow.
AKA the song that's the definition of sorrow.
The beautiful part about the NieR series is that they understand that the accompanying music is just as important when telling a story as the story itself. Nearly every piece I have heard from the series seems to go out of its way to match the scene/beat/scenario that it's in. And that's not a small feat considering the mind of Yoko Taro. It really is just a brilliant expression of what video games can be when the developers actually care.
Sometimes an explanation is required as to why a piece of music is good. With this, it's just kinda obvious why it's incredible just from listening. And the escape version of this song is arguably even better.
I recommend Hills of Radiant Winds, The Lost Forest, City Ruins and City of Commerce.
Uncle Jesse has learned how truly amazing the composers at Square-Enix are between Final Fantasy and Nier... and probably some Drakkengard 3 later.
Also... There is a version of this in the FFXIV raid (which is a Nier Cross-Over) Breach at Paradigm's Tower. It's more upbeat and won't carry the emotional power of this track unless you've played the original and hear it in FFXIV. Going through that raid, a lot of the Nier and Drakkengard fans cried at a lot of the tracks, especially due to emotional attachment to them. Those games, which are associated with YOKO TARO (all caps) are not afraid to touch subject matters other games wouldn't touch with a 100 ft. pole. So they carry a lot of weight for the fans of those series. I have only played Automata, but I have researched all the lore for Drakkengard 1 & 3 (2 isn't considered canon) as well as the original.
Poor Emil 😢 Cool to see that the song had impact for you separated from the games context. Okabe is such a gifted composer.
I have finished Automata 7-8 times on both PC and PS before playing Replicant. Emil's overall story is one of the most devastating things I have ever experienced. Especially playing Replicant after getting ending [Y] in Automata.
i get emotional everytime i listen to emil Sacrifice plus knowing the story of emil
Its connect to certain events in my life but the quality of the song isnt different if u dont know what i am talkign about but i srsly just start crying when i hear this piece.
The best thing they do with this soundtrack si when they know it's so good and emotional that it keeps playing after the cutscene is over and you're in the overworld, so you can play with this in the background and enjoy the music without other tracks interrupting.
Emil is my favoritestestest character in the whole NieR saga. My pfp is Yoko Taro wearing an Emil mask! This theme encapsules him perfectly.
i joined a stream at Emils sacrfice, never seen the character never played the game. Started crying. Yoko you brilliant man (and the team obviously)
For clarity it wasnt this sacrifice, the one i saw was when he was a moonhead person and i believe sacrificed himself in the fight vs devola and popola...i think thats their names
I have been streaming this game for the past week. It's a bit short, but each replay gives a different ending and more story. I just got Ending D last night.
emil sacrifice is my favorite nier song mainly because i love Emil as a character.
3:12 "i'm a barbie girl in the barbie world, life in plastic, it's fantastic" tell me that i'm not the only one on the internet hearing this.
and, actually, this is an actual nier reference (to both games): "you can brush my hair, undress me everywhere. imagination, life is your creation"
there is a battle remix of this song but this original one always hit so hard u_u
I think what you read in the comments was that there is sometimes an 8bit crossfade during gameplay. This happens only in Automata when you hack into an enemy. Although the composer was ambitious even back when this game released on PS3, he just got MORE ambitious for Automata.
I would totally love you to try listening to Persona 3's Battle for Everyone's Soul. It's soooo good!! Also I can't wait for the Premiere. I have been watching a lot of your reactions.
Oh i love this one so much, i don't know the names of any nier tracks so i have to go by ear and this is the one i remember liking a ton.
Emil ♥️
What I love about most of these songs, both from Replicant and Automata, is that the chords and build-ups of the songs are reoccuring alot, but when listening to the songs thats something thats not apparant at all. The composers "theme" and style really goes through them like a red thread, but its done with just the right amount. I really think, as a pianist and composer, that alot of these songs are masterpieces just from a composition stand-point. From Neir: Automata, the first song that plays in the intro is Alien Manifestation. Its so incredibly well made, from the singing thats supposed to mimic the aliens with a more aggressive tone, switching over to a passage that links over to both Emil's Sacrifice and Grandma. These soundtracks in themselves should be proof that video-games is as much OR EVEN MORE fine-culture than movies or music as an own phenomena.
jesse plays video
me: 2 seconds in i can already feel my tear ducts swelling up, 5 seconds later tears rolling down my cheek
1 minute in i can't see shit cause of all the tears
i really wish i could play these master pieces of media for the first time again, the depression and sadness it gave me is not reached by any of my past trauma but these games also gave me so much relief, it's weird to describe
Glad I can help produce more tears!
Game music coming for your tears man oh gawd same
Are Pavlov's tears a thing? By the second or third time this plays in game, you already know you're going to cry lol.
Nier is a beautiful fever dream of an experience
I feel like the Emil song collection is so underrated. Even the shop theme in Automata is amazing.
I love how this song can just implant sadness into a person with zero context
Yokotaro loves to destroy, stereotypes, happy adventures, to him, happines is an option, one that he never wants in his games, there is never a good ending, there is never an action with out consecuences.
Um, yeah there is an automata version, its um… it doesn’t hit like this one, but it is fucking glorious given the circumstances of when it appears.
W A R N I N G
Emil
Pretty sure a version of this song plays in Automata, and without playing the original the song manage to be very emotional.
Dont know if someone requested Hills of Radiant Winds, if someone did I would highly recommend that you react both original and rearrange version, the percussion make the vibe that each one pass very different
The Automata version is Despair instead of Sacrifice.
This song hits me the same way some KH songs do. There is something special about it
Hiw you described that song... Thats all about what it should be related to the game...
Now react to Emil's Shop song from Nier Automata. You'll notice some similarities, but....... X3
Hearing the original versions of these songs is so different from how they sound on FFXIV. I think they're still phenomenal, though.
If you ever do the FFXIV version, please react to the version with lyrics: czcams.com/video/fFWYiioj2BQ/video.html
Could someone tell me where to find this audio track? For some reason I have not been able to find this version even on the OST published on Spotify
would love to see your reaction to shadowlord... while youre at it the rest of the nier soundtrack would be fun to see your reaction to lol
Emils despair in nier automata Was the destruction of me
oh yea most song have different version, my fav version of this song is emil (despair) you should check it out if you have time
Play these games. You won't regret it.
Edit - about to trawl your channel now. If you haven't already I highly recommend another Nier song, from Nier Automata. Weight of the world (Japanese version). Its so beautiful.
Just saw it's on your channel let's go
The instrument quality for the remastered version is so damn great but i prefer the choir vocal of the old version better , not that this isnt good mind you , just because old ver vocal sounds much lighter and gives off a feeling of unshackled freedom
Any chance on the link for this version.
It was taken down :/
_I listened this long so many times, surely I can hold the tears now_
Nopes.
And at this point, I doubt I will be able in all my life.
Thanks to the people who suggested it, and I am glad you enjoyed it.
The soundtrack of the original Nier is much better because it is composed by Keiichi Okabe and Monaca, the true geniuses, in this remake it was a third-party arrangement that takes away a lot of feeling.
igual esta muy buena la del remake, no se porque pero me causa la misma sensacion por igual que la original, la verdad Nier tiene un soundtrack expectacular, y salte de alegria que por lo menos el remake haya ganado el premio Goty a mejor banda sonora
nah, the original, only had like 2 or maybe 3 that were better, All of the new ones are better or JUST as good, and the ones that are just as good may as well be better because of the extra bit they have that are great. PLUS the remake has NEW fantastic tracks
@@_GRiM1 It's more generic for me, less emotional.
im glad to know im the only who cries to this song. Nier has some of the only songs that have a 100% chance of making me cry
Hope you can react to some of songs from GBF, cause that game has some banger tracks.
Some are coming yes!
@@JessesAuditorium awesome, thanks for the fun reactions
Nier OST is the only type of music that make me feel so many emotions, and once you play the game does OST just hit even harder
Please react to NieR Replicant The Incomplete Stone (Lost Shrine)! That one is epic.
Cold Steel Coffin (The Aerie) is also one of the best NieR OST in my opinion
what's the video name cuz I can't find the version he played
On the first note... The emotion on your face change to let's do this to, why do I feel pain?
The saddest song for the saddest boy.
nier replicant is concentrated depression in the form of a game
I'm not crying... your crying
I'm not crying your crying 😢 😭 🤧
Drakengard - Black Song aka Kuroi Uta: czcams.com/video/krRNjUJIfFk/video.html
you should listen to the Gestalt song versions too the're very different
Remake versions are less emotional than the 2010 versions. It's my opinion but many people think like me
Neir music is incredible but it slaps so much harder with character dialogue about the power of love and friendship and all that bullsh*t. Lol
Can someone link me this version of the song id appreciate it.
its emil sacrifice
Oh....Emil 😢😢😢
Everyone loves Automata OST, but I think the Nier 1 was even better.
Nier is beautiful. Every ending is sadder then the last. The final ending is so sad, it deletes all your save data for it lol
This song and Emil's story messes me up
Dear Mr Jesse's Auditorium, I highly recommend you to try and listen to dark souls 3 music. I do believe that there may well a track worth of your attention and time.
There is some coming!
I didn't even know this version existed. The Nier Gestalt version is the original and imo better. Replicant is the recent remaster they seem to have changed things quite a bit for it.
nah mate, replicant was one of the two original versions of the game, but was not available outside of Japan until now with this remake. in Japan, replicant was playstation exclusive and gestalt was xbox exclusive. both games were released at the same time.
@@JohnDCrafton yes I know about the two versions, the big difference was brother or father. I own the Japanese Gestalt soundtrack. They re-recorded the ost for the re-release of Replicant and changed things.
Edit: this is the original version of sacrifice czcams.com/video/EDhPsYeK-jU/video.html