That aside , how do you feel about . the change of the general tone ? For me , the original JP is super down on parodyingdeconstructing the Hero vs . Demon Lord RPG trope it felt . well , it ' s hard to say , but some of the EN dialogue changes seem to make the whole script more distinctive . Thats actually the problem for me , they rewrote and remade parts of the script to be more generic . Kaine in a lot of instances became just an uncarring swearing badass trope , Nier became an angry teen even tho he is a father in the english one and he is less of a one emotion pony in th JP one . # s Kaines shade says I don ' t know what it is , but i don ' t like it when Kaine starts to feel love , thats super generic that the bad guy doesn ' t like love . In JP he says what is this feelingemotion . Because he always was alonehatedoutcast just as Kaine , not because he is bad and hate all good emotions # s At first i felt it ' s out of place the whole no one stops bit . I guess it ' s fine . Saying that she will kill them kinda feels that she is andgry so they both kinda work # s Younger brother in Junk heap goes on a megalomaniac tirade about creating weapons of mass destruction , when in JP he says he will build even stronger weapon for Nier to kill robots with . They actually cut a lot of nuances out of the story in places , in EN Kaine almost always says don ' t care or ' fuck them or anything else , when she thanks or feels uncofortable in the JP one . All in all it ' s not tha big , but you can see why later 84 translations became pure fanfiction , because they thought they are more creative than the authors . There are too much changes in the script that were unnecesarry or stupid and thats without getting ending C D and not counting the written only parts , that have some jumps in character tone for some reason . Like Nier is more of an edglord in the text only parts , sadlty i don ' t understand written Japanese , so i can ' t compare it to original script .