NieR Gestalt & Replicant Original Soundtrack

Title: NieR Gestalt & Replicant Original Soundtrack

Publisher: Square Enix Co., Ltd.
Release Date: April 21st, 2010

Composed by: Keiichi Okabe , Kakeru Ishihama, Keigo Hoashi, Takafumi Nishimura
Arranged by: Ryuichi Takada
Performed by: Emi Evans, Nami Nakagawa, Keiichi Okabe, Daishu Oikawa, Kazuya Miyashita, Kento Yamazaki, Takanori Goto, Keigo Hoashi, Daisensei Muroya Strings

Tracklist

Disc 1 (1:13:46)

1 Snow in Summer
2 Hills of Radiant Wind
3 The Incomplete Stone
4 Blu-bird
5 Cold Steel Coffin
6 Grandma
7 Song of the Ancients / Devola
8 The Wretched Automatons
9 City of Commerce
10 Song of the Ancients / Popola
11 The Prestigious Mask
12 Temple of Drifting Sands
13 Gods Bound by Rules
14 The Ultimate Weapon
15 Deep Crimson Foe
16 Dispossession / Piano Ver.
17 Dispossession / Strings Ver.
18 Dispossession / Pluck Ver.
19 Dispossession / Music Box Ver.
20 Yonah / Piano Ver.
21 Yonah / Strings Ver.
22 Yonah / Pluck Ver. 1
23 Yonah / Pluck Ver. 2

Disc 2 (1:16:02)

1 The Dark Colossus Destroys All
2 Song of the Ancients / Hollow Dreams
3 Kainé / Salvation
4 Kainé / Escape
5 His Dream
6 This Dream
7 Repose
8 The Lost Forest
9 Song of the Ancients / Fate
10 Shadowlord's Castle / Memory
11 Dance of the Evanescent
12 Shadowlord's Castle / Roar
13 Emil / Karma
14 Emil / Sacrifice
15 Shadowlord
16 Ashes of Dreams / New
17 Ashes of Dreams / Nouveau
18 Ashes of Dreams / Nuadhaich
19 Ashes of Dreams / Aratanaru
20 Shadowlord - White-note Remix

Download: Mirrorcreator [part1/part2/part3]

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As I mentioned in previous entry on Nier's original soundtrack;

Awesome. Freaking amazing. Superb. Despite the crappy character design/awkward gameplay, I really love the musics in Nier. Soothing, melancholic yet fit with the theme and mood of the story. They're not the same with the one you often heard from Motoi Sakuraba/Nobuo Uematsu, Yasunori Mitsuda blablabla, and have a tiny bit resemblance with Kajiura Yuki's operatic style arrangement, sang with choir in fictional language. Whoever compose the music for Nier deserve a double thumb up. Overall I can only say that Nier has one of the best BGM I've ever listened to.

You know a game's OST is good if you can listen to them independently in your playlist without reminding you much to the game. This is the case with Nier's OST, at least it is in my case. In many other games, usually only a few tracks of their OST stand out for me, but in Nier, almost every song are good and nice to listen to, although the song has no exact meaning due to the fictional languages being used. My favorite tracks would be all versions of Song of the Ancients.

kickass music, if only the game was slightly better designed.