![]() And just as Yoko Taro and his team had to work to write an emotionally resonant story, Okabe and his team had to work to write an emotionally resonant soundtrack. I’m a very unromantic person in most ways, but the story and characters of NieR:Automata hit me in the feels, as they say (or used to say, anyway, a few years ago.) It’s a tragedy in the classical sense, and a good one, because it doesn’t use cheap tricks or ploys or plot devices to achieve its emotional effect – it makes it the hard way by making you care about its characters and its world. I still feel like I’m missing some of the impact of the original NieR OST for just that reason.ĢB can see through that blindfold thing she usually wears, but how can she see through the hair covering her left eye? This isn’t relevant to the soundtrack, just thought I would throw the question out there.ĭid I say “emotional weight”? Yeah. That’s not to say you can’t enjoy this album without playing NieR:Automata, but pieces like Copied City, Birth of a Wish, or The Tower won’t carry the same emotional weight if you haven’t. It’s hard to write about this music without writing about the game itself, in fact, the music being meshed so completely into the game’s fabric. It’s mostly a mix of powerful orchestral pieces and ambient-ish background tracks, all of which both suit and enhance the feel of the game. He also wrote the soundtrack to the original NieR, and that was amazing, and so is this. Let me put down the cane and whiskey and keep gushing about this music and about how much of a genius composer Keiichi Okabe is. ![]() I’m terrified for the future if this is the kind of weird shit the new generation is going to be into. That’s really my only complaint about this album: it should have been a boxset.Īre boxsets even a thing anymore? Am I showing my age? They were popular in the 90s, but now, I have no idea. The actual amount of music in NieR :Automata is something like seven hours if you include all the different versions of each track (versions that play during combat, 8-bit hacking versions, versions with and without vocals) which this album does not. It’s a triple album – a 3 disc set – and it’s still too short. This year I’m thankful for owning a hard copy of NieR:Automata Original Soundtrack. It is also a day of announcing to a room full of relatives, most of whom you only see at Thanksgiving dinner, what you’re thankful for (most likely something generic you made up on the spot like family or your health.) Thanksgiving is a day of eating turkey, a bird whose meat is so god damn bone-dry when cooked that you are required to load it up with cranberry sauce and stuffing just to swallow it. Happy American Thanksgiving weekend, dear readers.
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