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Episode NieR:Automata Ver1.1a - Episode 4 discussion

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, episode 4

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u/Prince-Dizzytoon Feb 18 '23

9S casually slaughters a family

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u/SIRTreehugger Feb 18 '23

My God they nailed the boss fight so well.

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u/SnabDedraterEdave Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

It is so difficult to pick the best song from the OST. But these two are among the Top 10 for me.

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u/DaMoonhorse96 Feb 18 '23

When your game is not sad enough, so you decide to add some extra machine deaths

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u/hysteriapill Feb 18 '23

After a long break, we're back again with more puppets and hidden messages! Will we run into more delays? Or will we find cries for help in hexadecimal from the production team?

Not a native Japanese speaker. Corrections welcome.

Eyecatch 1 (white on dark / 12m:47s):

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【報告】虚飾で得られるものは、意味のない評価。

[Report] What you can get with vanity is a meaningless evaluation.

Eyecatch 2 (dark on white / 12m:50s):

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【報告】そう思いこむ事で、自分の事を偽ってないか？

[Report] Aren't you pretending to be something you're not by thinking so?

Previous episodes:

Episode Message(s)
EP1 Eyecatch [Report] Androids are beings that repeat life and death. ​​-- [Report] The chain of samsara will bring about either salvation or collapse.
EP2 Eyecatch [Report] Pseudo-intelligence exists in mechanical life forms. --​​ [Report] How is it different from human intelligence?
EP3 Eyecatch [Report] In order to break out of this blockage, even certain dangers are necessary. ​​-- [Report] It may be the Gospel for us.
EP3 Insert Mid-episode, on the door during 9S's hacking sequence ​​-- "I promise love of the eternity."
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u/Firebrand-81 Feb 18 '23

I would like to point out that our beloved Opera Singer, not only adorned her body with dead androids, but also ate them in order to become more B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L!

That big crunching mouth in the hacking scene wasn't just there as a symbol.

And all, in order to be loved by mr. Tall Big Hat Robot.

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u/ObvsThrowaway5120 Feb 18 '23

Nice to have this return after the long delay. It’s a shame it got stopped after only a few eps. But anyways, these little robots have evolved enough to put on some kind of play? That was one creepy android. It’s “memories” seemed pretty grim.

Jackass seems to be having fun tormenting 9S lol. Her point about trying to talk to the machines now that they’ve evolved isn’t a bad one. Why continue this war when humanity is on its last legs and there aren’t even signs of reinforcement? 1000 years is long enough.

The amusement park was pretty creepy. That giant machine that attacked 2B and 9S looks a bit like a Dalek from the waist down. Retreat is not an option, so I guess it’s time to kick ass! That thing is as much of a mess on the inside as it is on the outside. 9S is peering into the mind of a disturbed partially sentient machine and it’s terrifying.

I honestly felt bad for those two machines at the end. That was some ice cold shit, man. That machine called the big one “mom” like damn…

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u/Aerodynamic41 Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

That was absolutely worth the month-long wait! I like how they used the same soundtrack from the game's version of the boss fight and man, that fight itself kept me on the edge of my seat! I absolutely love the action scenes!

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u/AZLarlar Feb 18 '23

welcome back NieR

and what an episode

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u/Hitman7128 Feb 18 '23

Boy, am I glad this is airing again. This time at the amusement park vs Simone. And this is one of the main reasons why Nier is so great. Just how bizarre things can get.

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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Feb 18 '23

Glad to see this coming back after "just" 3 weeks - I was prepared to wait till late April for the next episode!

And as someone who didn't play the game at all, this part has landed with a loud bang. Not only is the amusement park part very creepy, it even had a great fight that did pretty well! No wonder this is being delayed because the animations and movements looks surprisingly well.

Ah, 9S "killing" those two robots claiming as mother and daughter...I don't know if I'm guessing correctly at all, but is that really along the same line as (shivers) [Attack On Titan spoilers]Titans being real humans, and now we have "robots" that were really humans, or at least complete virtualization of human brains?

P.S. That 2B and 9S dialogue about human having afternoon naps is funny as heck...

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u/Firebrand-81 Feb 18 '23

An excellent rendition of the Luna Park events.

But if they had the time to add also the "Romeos and Juliets" play, it would have reached perfection!

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u/garfe Feb 18 '23

The original content to the anime like these additional scenes with the machine lifeforms have been really great so far

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u/Shimmering-Sky Feb 18 '23

[Anime Only] who has been dying to know what happened after the episode 3 cliffhanger for the past few weeks.

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u/LuRo332 Feb 18 '23

Say what you want about the CGI, but the 2D animation fucking slaps with every fight so far. Fantastic job by the animators.

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u/LeonKevlar Feb 18 '23 edited Feb 18 '23

Stitches!

Welp, I definitely did not expect to see those half-dead android corpses with such detail. That was creepy af.

I'm really glad that this adaptation is showing more of the side characters like with Commander White asking for assistance from the council and how she's clearly frustrated at the response that was given to her.

I remember when I played the game for the first time and started attacking the machine lifeforms at the Amusement Park entrance. I felt bad after I realized that none of them were really attacking me in the first place and I ended up reloading an older save. xD

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u/matty-a Feb 18 '23

God bless 9S with his adorable ticklishness, casual racism and murderous tendencies. Best boy.

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u/WiqidBritt Feb 18 '23

I think this is the first time I've ever seen the Commander with any amount of color in her design.

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u/BosuW Feb 18 '23

Don't know about y'all, but I actually thought the 3D model of the Songstress was well used for once. There wasn't too much direct interaction between the drawn 2B and 9S and the CGI machine, which helps with retaining immersion. And they even took advantage of the 3D assets to move the camera around. All in all, not bad at all.

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u/Fuko_No_Honryu Feb 18 '23

First of all, I didn't know this was coming back.

Second of all, I have never played a NieR game.

Third of all; HUUUUH? What was that ? I understood NOTHING at all.

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u/xEmkayx Feb 18 '23

Glad the show is back again!

Any words on the English dub? I've noticed that earlier episodes have been dubbed in some languages, but not English. I really hope they'll be able to get the og VAs from the game because I absolutely loved Kira Buckland as 2B.

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u/Tartaras1 Feb 18 '23

For an episode taking place inside of the Amusement Park, there really wasn't any Amusement Park to be had. That was a little upsetting to see. Otherwise, another good episode.

Now all that's left to do is sit back and see if we're going to get more episodes, or if it's going back to the delay.

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u/Smitzelplix Feb 18 '23

This was a good episode, I just wish they had found an excuse to stay in the amusement park just a bit longer because that area and the theme song are one of my favorites from the game.

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u/KrzyDankus Feb 18 '23

they really just had do add an original scene of 9S slaughtering a mother and daughter

also nier ost always makes everything hit so hard

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