A 528-page memorial archive celebrating the completion of NieR Re[in]carnation, including character designs and illustrations, Weapon Stories, and other stories that weren’t implemented in the game will be released on November 28 and is available on Amazon.
Title: NieR Re[in]carnation Complete Guide -The Story of “The Cage” and Prayers (Official English title not decided)
Content: A memorial archive commemorating the conclusion of NieR Re[in]carnation. The book contains character visuals, weapon stories, and stories that had not been implemented in the game.
▶︎ COMPLETE TABLE OF CONTENTS
Content Details:
NieR Re[in]carnation – Guidepost of Those Memories and Recollections
Character Visuals and Settings
Main Story, Dark Memories, Recollections of Dusk, Weapon Memories, Character Stories, Hidden Stories
One of the unreleased Weapon Stories to be published in this book will likely be the Si’F-00 story that was revealed in a previous livestream. You can read my translation of it here.
Service for NieR Re[in]carnation ended on April 29, 2024 after a little more than 3 years from its time of release on February 18, 2021.
【重要なお知らせ】
2024/4/30（火）15:00をもちまして、「NieR Re [in] carnation」はサービスの提供を終了させていただきます。
I had entirely forgot about the announcement for this book, so here’s some of the details:
Title: NieR Re[in]carnation Complete Guide -The Story of “The Cage” and Prayers
Content: A memorial archive commemorating the conclusion of NieR Re[in]carnation. The book contains character visuals, weapon stories, and stories that had not been implemented in the game.
464 pages seems like an awfully huge thing, but it will likely be similar to what they did with the SINoALICE book which was mostly a collection of weapon stories, although that was over 1,000 pages… This at lease sounds to contain more than just the stories, not to mention unreleased material, so that sounds super interesting.
It’s taken me a long time to experience the end of the NieR Re[in]carnation story ever since service ended at the end of April. I was super busy getting used to my new contracted job and then I broke my leg/ankle just before Golden Week, so it was the furthest from my mind, unfortunately.
【重要なお知らせ】
2024/4/30（火）15:00をもちまして、「NieR Re [in] carnation」はサービスの提供を終了させていただきます。
So, I’ve been trying to catch up as much as possible and I recently watched gameplay through to the end of the story as well as several of the live broadcasts with the staff. I still need some time to process everything, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this little bit about Noelle that I came across.
Noelle was always an interesting character from the first time she appeared in the game, and these extra bits about her really spark my imagination. This was a question regarding Noelle’s origins, whether she might be directly related to NieR:Automata or perhaps Replicant. Scenario writer Karin Harada answered this during the April 18 live broadcast, which you can view below.
Well, the answer might be a little indirect in the form of an unreleased weapon story, which I’ve translated below. This is a story in the Si’F series of weapons for Noelle. I also tried to search “Sisters Fang” in English and couldn’t find anything (it also may or may not require an apostrophe, so I left it without), so I’m curious to know if this was never explained in English. As far as where it fits within the other Si’F weapons, Harada mentioned that this is the first in the series, hence the double 0s.
I believe this is talking about the Original android from which the others like Noelle were created, but I don’t recall if we were given any other details that would allude to who the Original could be. Given how closely related they seem to be with the Dragon weapons, I’d like to imagine that they’re alluding to the Original Accord in the Kingdom of Night around 6230. Or, perhaps these are precisely the human form of the dragon weapons that we all know and love and Accord is the one who first gave this character her name.
Also, here’s the 17th Live Broadcast from March 6 if you missed it. They also talked about a lot of interesting things, so definitely check it out!
The NieR Re[in]carnation live broadcast #2 is scheduled for Wednesday, March 17, 2021 at 8:00 PM (JST).
Those scheduled to be in attendance are Hara Yumi (voice of Mama), NieR series producer, Saito Yosuke, and NieR Re[in]carnation director, Matsukawa Daichi (others not announced may also appear).
Yesterday was the pre-release live broadcast for the next installment in Yoko Taro’s NieR saga, NieR Re[in]carnation. There were several segments of the broadcast, one of which gathered up a bunch of questions from fans who posted them on Twitter with the appropriate hashtags. The video below shows the moment a question similar to mine was read live:
We’ll get back to that in a little bit, but first the DETAILS in the question..
[QUESTION] How much is NieR Re[in]carnation related to the previous games in the NieR Series? As long as it doesn’t spoil anything, I’d appreciate it if you could tell us!
[ANSWER] Yoko: If I were to say whether it’s connected or not, I’d have to say that it is, but… Saito: There’s not much you can say… Yoko: Well, if you think about how NieR has its roots in the real world, I would say that it’s connected like today’s morning dramas are connected to NieR Replicant. It’s sort of connected to NieR like that.
So, basically…
NieR is to Asadora* as NieR Re[in]carnation is to NieR. * Japanese morning dramas/soaps
PLEASE NOTE: This gets into some pretty heavy-duty speculation, so please keep that in mind. I have also not played the CBT of Re[in]carnation, so there may be things that are explained there that I don’t know about.
I’m not exactly sure what we can take away from this answer, but it could be something along the lines as my old speculation regarding Accord and the Dragons.
Basically, my idea is that Fio, the little girl character, is the Original Accord who exists to “set things right” within something similar to the Gestalt Terminal. Of course, if you’ve played OG NieR, you’ll know what that is, but I’ll try to be discrete and leave out the spoilers.
Simply, the Cage is actually the Gestalt Terminal that houses all the Gestalt data of humanity. It’s not just their DNA biological data but also copies of their soul and/or memories. So, by interacting with the Cage, Fio is able to access the “slumbering” memories inside. What becomes the main conflict is that even though the memories are not physical and yet they continue to exist within the Cage. It’s sort of like a living hell, where there is never salvation and they keep repeating their same mistakes over and over and horrible things keep happening. That’s where Fio steps in to try and change that for them…
Maybe.
But, in the end, that would make the Cage a sort of “limbo world”, one that doesn’t necessarily exist on the physical plain; it’s sort of separate to the real world. It can copy and make it seem like you’re in the real world, but they’re all just memories. They’re not real… Much like typical dramas or soaps are not real and yet they try to mimic real life. I think that’s what Yoko was trying to say in his answer. That the story is indirectly connected to the NieR series as a whole, but in bits and pieces, like the roots of a tree or the nerves stemming from your brain to connect to various areas of your body.
Now, going back to the live broadcast and the fan questions that were picked up to be answered during the program…
As you can see in the video above, I was visibly excited that a question close to mine was read aloud, but I knew the wording was different but the content was close to identical. Sometimes for events like this where fan comments and such are used, the presenter can and do make edits to make the wording more clear or to fit the context of the show better. This is what I imagined happened with my question.
As it turns out, it wasn’t necessarily my question that was used, and was actually posted by the following user about a day or two after mine:
So, sorry about that! It wasn’t my intention to “claim” the question as mine, I was just super excited to hear its answer more than anything else, but of course, we didn’t really get a clear answer out of Yoko anyway, so… xD
We have 15 more days until the Japanese release of the game, so be sure to check out the official NieR Re[in]carnation Twitter, who will be posting countdown illustrations until the release on February 18!
