Nier / Game

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They created clones resistant to the disease, Replicants, and intended to recombine the souls, or Gestalts, with the Replicant bodies once the disease had died out; [18] Devola and Popola were androids set to oversee the project.

After journeying for a time, their village is attacked by a giant shade; [13] [14] the battle culminates in Yonah being carried away by a master Shade—the Shadowlord—who carries his own book, Grimoire Noir. The game included new story content, content creating a narrative link to its sequel, and story content originally cut from the game. The characters will bicker, make jokes and general small talk as you traverse the world, and will often make comments about the quests you've recently undertaken, as well as make remarks about what choices you make when doing said quests, often making you question if you really did the right thing. The game has a level system like any RPG, stats matter to a certain point (like how many magic attack you can pull off, how much HP you got), but player skill still dictates the battle outcome. Nier Gestalt sold over 12,500 copies in Japan the week of its release, [63] while Replicant sold over 60,000 and was the top-selling video game in Japan that week.The event consisted of a game level in SINoAlice titled "Nier Replicant: Dream Under Missing Pages", with story from Yoko Taro, and ran for the first time from June 22, 2021 to July 6, 2021. In this scenario, the game's protagonists Caim and Angelus travel across a dimensional boundary to fight a monstrous beast. Toylogic was brought on board due to Yoko knowing its founder, Yoichi Take, from their time working together at Cavia. The player gains the ability to understand what the shades are saying, including the one possessing Kainé, though in-game the protagonist, Weiss, and Emil are still unable to. Yoko took from it the idea of a terrible event where both sides believed they were doing the right thing, and wanted to show the player multiple perspectives of the same events.

Okabe was allowed a great deal of freedom regarding what the music was to sound like; game director Yoko Taro's main request was that he use a lot of vocal works. This leaves Nier feeling fresh and unique for quite awhile, but once the shine wears off, you'll find yourself just playing to get it done.The latter choice not only erases all memory of him from the other characters' minds, shown in a final cutscene, but also deletes all of the player's saved progress, as if the game had never been played. He finds a talking book, Grimoire Weiss, which suggests that the two team up to use Weiss's magic and to find a cure for Yonah's disease. The music was designed for different motifs to appear in various arrangements throughout the soundtrack, and also to convey a sense of sadness even during the "thrilling" tracks. And I learned something about myself, as well: It takes a lot more than sassy books and hermaphrodites to keep my interest these days. The soundtrack to Nier is largely composed of melancholy acoustic pieces which heavily feature vocals by vocalist Emi Evans (Emiko Rebecca Evans), a singer from England living in Tokyo.

The boss battles are pretty well balanced, as most battles have checkpoints in them, so if you failed after the checkpoint you don't have to start over (like Dark Souls series).You do have to finish this game 4 times to really appreciate it (the 2nd/3rd/4th playthrough don't force you to play thought the whole thing again, but from a half way point), only than you will get full insight in the story and will be very emotional.

Magic abilities are useful, but not all of them are useful at any given time, so you have to switch them based on the current situation. Nier was originally intended to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, but after deciding to also develop the game for PlayStation 3, the developers decided to further divide the Japanese release of the game. In an attempt to survive, they separated their souls from their bodies using Grimoire Noir and Weiss. Moreover, if the player wants to start a new game, they are unable to enter the same name chosen for the previous playthrough for the protagonist.The Famitsu reviewer that viewed the game the most favorably said that he was "blown away" by the multiple endings, and that "nothing like it's been done in gaming". This influenced the decision to have a main character in his 30s for the international version, as well as more blood and swearing than typical in a Square Enix RPG. Kainé's status as intersex caused some "commotion" in western territories, which is something the team did not actively intend. It's a game with a phenomenal story, one of the best soundtracks I've ever heard, and constantly changing gameplay.