Why was he the good guy again?

Because hes a fatty.

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>has a consentual, loving, intimate relationship with his sister
You incestfags are delusional

The whole "le shades were people too" thing didn't work for me. They chose to attack and fight. If you choose to fight you deserve to live as much as you do to die. Why should Nier deserve to die more than the shade attacking him? Should he just let his sister be kidnapped because someone else also has a sister and deserves more than Yonah does? At least the game doesn't try to shove it in your face too hard.
Nier did literally nothing wrong.

>nooooo you cant just defend yourself from violent monsters that try to kill you and your friends!!!!1!
Really?

Spoilers he is really her brother

>All this "T- THEY HIT ME FIRST, TEACHER!" cope
>Justifying siding with some shitty synths and genociding humanity

Fake people don't have rights. Fake people aren't worth anything. The whole point is that by simply giving something a human face, you start to sympathize with it. And by stripping a human face away, you stop. You become less than human by simply letting insane mockeries of humanity survive over the real thing.

You're fake.

t. Popola

He was never really made aware of the consequences of his actions. Even Devola and Popola never actually explain that killing the Shadowlord will room humanity and instead just go on about things being done "according to his will" and the will of the "true humans." There's not even anywhere in the game that explains WHY his death leads to mankind's extinction -- that's all in supplementary stuff.

From his perspective, he was just fighting to protect his sister and betrayed by the people he trusted the most.

There was a conscious choice to have the player play as a replicant and depict the story from a replicant's perspective. Despite our lack of insight into the situation we still fully understand and relate to the character's plight. The replicants are obviously meant to be fairly indistinguishable from humans.

The first Shades you encounter will never attack you first as Replicant Nier, actually, but yes he's raised to believe they're dangerous and believes he's just defending the people he loves, so he really didn't do anything wrong. The Shades (the sapient ones, anyway) view him as a monster, killing the remains of mankind.

Eventually the Shades DO tend to go mad and attack randomly, so he'd eventually encounter hostile ones anyway. Even with the "shades are people" stuff, Nier doesn't know that, just the player does.

Why did Kaine genocide the shades, even the children, when she could understand them?

bitches

Her grandmother was murdered by one. She considered them all monsters at that point (including herself.) I mean, when you're playing during that run, she's constantly trying to ignore or brush of their more human moments.