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Quotes from NIER for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3, some edited for length. Temporarily deactivated to iron out bugs following Bluesky outage.
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Kainé: Hmph. Stupid trash, getting in our way.
Emil: It's hard to imagine a Shade being here. It's almost like it was...waiting for us. They can't be that intelligent!
Emil: It's hard to imagine a Shade being here. It's almost like it was...waiting for us. They can't be that intelligent!
November 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Kainé: Hmph. Stupid trash, getting in our way.
Emil: It's hard to imagine a Shade being here. It's almost like it was...waiting for us. They can't be that intelligent!
Emil: It's hard to imagine a Shade being here. It's almost like it was...waiting for us. They can't be that intelligent!
Weiss: I suppose all children are precious to their own parents.
Nier: Of course they are.
Nier: Of course they are.
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Weiss: I suppose all children are precious to their own parents.
Nier: Of course they are.
Nier: Of course they are.
Emil: I hear that lots of men are getting into cooking lately. I bet this guy just wanted a new hobby.
Weiss: Yes, yes. Well, we must be off.
Weiss: Yes, yes. Well, we must be off.
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Emil: I hear that lots of men are getting into cooking lately. I bet this guy just wanted a new hobby.
Weiss: Yes, yes. Well, we must be off.
Weiss: Yes, yes. Well, we must be off.
Nier: It's a statue... of a boy.
Weiss: Popola certainly has eccentric tastes.
Weiss: Popola certainly has eccentric tastes.
November 28, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Nier: It's a statue... of a boy.
Weiss: Popola certainly has eccentric tastes.
Weiss: Popola certainly has eccentric tastes.
Sechs: (Fyra... I'm... coming for you...)
November 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Sechs: (Fyra... I'm... coming for you...)
Nier: This is from the Junk Heap.
Weiss: For a decoration, it's certainly in poor taste.
Weiss: For a decoration, it's certainly in poor taste.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Nier: This is from the Junk Heap.
Weiss: For a decoration, it's certainly in poor taste.
Weiss: For a decoration, it's certainly in poor taste.
Yonah: And I know you and Weissy are the only ones who can help him!
Weiss: ...Weissy?
Weiss: ...Weissy?
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Yonah: And I know you and Weissy are the only ones who can help him!
Weiss: ...Weissy?
Weiss: ...Weissy?
Weiss: And thus my headache.
Kainé: Stop bitching and get moving.
Kainé: Stop bitching and get moving.
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Weiss: And thus my headache.
Kainé: Stop bitching and get moving.
Kainé: Stop bitching and get moving.
Masked Soldier: (Please, O mighty one! Please aid us!)
Nier: Yeah, all right. I'll do it. Just stop calling me mighty one.
Masked Soldier: (Thank you for lending an ear to our plight!)
Nier: Yeah, all right. I'll do it. Just stop calling me mighty one.
Masked Soldier: (Thank you for lending an ear to our plight!)
November 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Masked Soldier: (Please, O mighty one! Please aid us!)
Nier: Yeah, all right. I'll do it. Just stop calling me mighty one.
Masked Soldier: (Thank you for lending an ear to our plight!)
Nier: Yeah, all right. I'll do it. Just stop calling me mighty one.
Masked Soldier: (Thank you for lending an ear to our plight!)
September 11
Dad said he would come back home for my birthday, but I want to celebrate his birthday once in a while!
Dad said he would come back home for my birthday, but I want to celebrate his birthday once in a while!
November 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
September 11
Dad said he would come back home for my birthday, but I want to celebrate his birthday once in a while!
Dad said he would come back home for my birthday, but I want to celebrate his birthday once in a while!
Nier: No! Open the door! You can't fight them on your own!
Sechs: (It's all right! You have to keep going! Defeat the Shadowlord and get your daughter back! You must once again know the joy of having one you love by your side.)
Sechs: (It's all right! You have to keep going! Defeat the Shadowlord and get your daughter back! You must once again know the joy of having one you love by your side.)
November 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Nier: No! Open the door! You can't fight them on your own!
Sechs: (It's all right! You have to keep going! Defeat the Shadowlord and get your daughter back! You must once again know the joy of having one you love by your side.)
Sechs: (It's all right! You have to keep going! Defeat the Shadowlord and get your daughter back! You must once again know the joy of having one you love by your side.)
I am not a Shade. I am Kainé.
Repeating this mantra in her mind, she slowly began digging through the rubble of her house, being careful to ignore a certain red-stained spot in the corner.
Repeating this mantra in her mind, she slowly began digging through the rubble of her house, being careful to ignore a certain red-stained spot in the corner.
November 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I am not a Shade. I am Kainé.
Repeating this mantra in her mind, she slowly began digging through the rubble of her house, being careful to ignore a certain red-stained spot in the corner.
Repeating this mantra in her mind, she slowly began digging through the rubble of her house, being careful to ignore a certain red-stained spot in the corner.
Emi: They... They couldn't be here!
Kainé: Stop with the bullshit and just KILL THEM ALL!
Weiss: The hussy is correct. We must eliminate these beasts.
Emil: But... but I...
Nier: Emil! Watch out!
Kainé: Stop with the bullshit and just KILL THEM ALL!
Weiss: The hussy is correct. We must eliminate these beasts.
Emil: But... but I...
Nier: Emil! Watch out!
November 28, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Emi: They... They couldn't be here!
Kainé: Stop with the bullshit and just KILL THEM ALL!
Weiss: The hussy is correct. We must eliminate these beasts.
Emil: But... but I...
Nier: Emil! Watch out!
Kainé: Stop with the bullshit and just KILL THEM ALL!
Weiss: The hussy is correct. We must eliminate these beasts.
Emil: But... but I...
Nier: Emil! Watch out!
Nier: Devola? What's happening!?
Devola: Sorry! This is our fate.
Popola: I spoke the truth. We did not want to fight you.
Devola: We wanted to put it off for a hundred years or so. Until the next generation came along.
Nier: What're you talking about!?
Devola: Sorry! This is our fate.
Popola: I spoke the truth. We did not want to fight you.
Devola: We wanted to put it off for a hundred years or so. Until the next generation came along.
Nier: What're you talking about!?
November 28, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Nier: Devola? What's happening!?
Devola: Sorry! This is our fate.
Popola: I spoke the truth. We did not want to fight you.
Devola: We wanted to put it off for a hundred years or so. Until the next generation came along.
Nier: What're you talking about!?
Devola: Sorry! This is our fate.
Popola: I spoke the truth. We did not want to fight you.
Devola: We wanted to put it off for a hundred years or so. Until the next generation came along.
Nier: What're you talking about!?
Fyra: (All shops and houses in this city must abide by the following rule. Rule 106: Do not live on level ground.)
November 28, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Fyra: (All shops and houses in this city must abide by the following rule. Rule 106: Do not live on level ground.)
Nier: I've got a story for you this time. Have you ever heard of a flower called the Lunar Tear?
Yonah: That's a silly name.
Yonah: That's a silly name.
November 28, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Nier: I've got a story for you this time. Have you ever heard of a flower called the Lunar Tear?
Yonah: That's a silly name.
Yonah: That's a silly name.
Villager: ...You think Max and Granddad are together in heaven?
Nier: I do. ...I'm sure of it.
Nier: I do. ...I'm sure of it.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Villager: ...You think Max and Granddad are together in heaven?
Nier: I do. ...I'm sure of it.
Nier: I do. ...I'm sure of it.
Yonah: There's another girl inside this body. I can... I can hear her. She keeps crying. She says she wants to see her dad. This girl loves her father just as much as I do. She loves him just as much. It... it's not right she can't see him.
Shadowlord: Yonah, stop. Please...
Shadowlord: Yonah, stop. Please...
November 28, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Yonah: There's another girl inside this body. I can... I can hear her. She keeps crying. She says she wants to see her dad. This girl loves her father just as much as I do. She loves him just as much. It... it's not right she can't see him.
Shadowlord: Yonah, stop. Please...
Shadowlord: Yonah, stop. Please...
Kainé blushed and turned away.
"You...you think I'm pretty?"
"Course you are! What a fool thing to say."
"Th-thank you, Grandma."
Her grandmother smiled.
"You...you think I'm pretty?"
"Course you are! What a fool thing to say."
"Th-thank you, Grandma."
Her grandmother smiled.
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Kainé blushed and turned away.
"You...you think I'm pretty?"
"Course you are! What a fool thing to say."
"Th-thank you, Grandma."
Her grandmother smiled.
"You...you think I'm pretty?"
"Course you are! What a fool thing to say."
"Th-thank you, Grandma."
Her grandmother smiled.
Nier: You're the Shade inside Kainé. Why are you trying to help her?
Tyrann: Probably for the same reason you are. Enough talk. Make your choice.
Tyrann: Probably for the same reason you are. Enough talk. Make your choice.
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 AM
Nier: You're the Shade inside Kainé. Why are you trying to help her?
Tyrann: Probably for the same reason you are. Enough talk. Make your choice.
Tyrann: Probably for the same reason you are. Enough talk. Make your choice.
Kainé: I want... I want you to petrify me. Use me to keep this thing locked away.
Emil: No! I can't!
Emil: No! I can't!
November 28, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Kainé: I want... I want you to petrify me. Use me to keep this thing locked away.
Emil: No! I can't!
Emil: No! I can't!
Nier: It's nothing. I just... I had a strange dream, and I didn't sleep very well.
Yonah: Oh! I have weird dreams all the time!
Nier: I know.
Yonah: Oh! I have weird dreams all the time!
Nier: I know.
November 28, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Nier: It's nothing. I just... I had a strange dream, and I didn't sleep very well.
Yonah: Oh! I have weird dreams all the time!
Nier: I know.
Yonah: Oh! I have weird dreams all the time!
Nier: I know.
Devola: No dice, huh. Well, I guess we don't have a choice.
Popola: No, I suppose not. ...How sad.
Devola: We didn't want to fight you.
Popola: It's true. We didn't want to...
Popola: No, I suppose not. ...How sad.
Devola: We didn't want to fight you.
Popola: It's true. We didn't want to...
November 28, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Devola: No dice, huh. Well, I guess we don't have a choice.
Popola: No, I suppose not. ...How sad.
Devola: We didn't want to fight you.
Popola: It's true. We didn't want to...
Popola: No, I suppose not. ...How sad.
Devola: We didn't want to fight you.
Popola: It's true. We didn't want to...
Weiss: You did the right thing. Never doubt it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Weiss: You did the right thing. Never doubt it.
Time moves on. People and memories come in and out of life like ghosts passing through a hall.
But this moment will be different, Kainé swore, because I will remember it forever.
But this moment will be different, Kainé swore, because I will remember it forever.
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Time moves on. People and memories come in and out of life like ghosts passing through a hall.
But this moment will be different, Kainé swore, because I will remember it forever.
But this moment will be different, Kainé swore, because I will remember it forever.