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NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... (2021)

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Developer(s): Cavia & Toylogic (remaster)
Publisher(s): Square Enix
Director(s): Yoko Taro
Producer(s): Takuya Iwasaki; Yosuke Saito
Designer(s): Daisuke Iizuka
Programmer(s): Takeshi Katayama
Artist(s): D.K; Yoshio Kamikubo; Shogo Tojo
Writer(s): Sawako Natori & Hana Kikuchi
Composer(s): Keiichi Okabe; Kakeru Ishihama; Keigo Hoashi; Takafumi Nishimura
Series: Drakengard
Platform(s): Nier Gestalt; PlayStation 3; Xbox 360; Nier Replicant; PlayStation 3; PlayStation 4; Xbox One; Windows
Genre(s): Action role-playing, hack and slash
Mode(s): Single-player

Nier is an action role-playing video game developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April 2010. In Japan, the game was released as Nier Replicant[b] for the PlayStation 3 with a younger main character, while an alternative version titled Nier Gestalt[c] with an older main character was released for the Xbox 360; Gestalt was released outside of Japan as Nier for both platforms. Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139.. is a remake of the game, released for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Windows on April 23, 2021.

The game opens with a prologue during the summer of 2049 (2053 in Replicant) in a snowstorm. In a modern, broken-down grocery store, the protagonist fends off attacks from ethereal monsters to protect the sick Yonah—either his younger sister or daughter, depending on the version. After defeating the monsters, he checks on Yonah, who has begun to cough badly. The game then cuts to 1,312 years later (1,412 years in Replicant), where the protagonist and Yonah are now living in a village built upon the ruins of an old town. The low-technology village is one of several, and is surrounded by more modern ruins such as the remnants of train tracks and industrial machinery. The areas between towns are filled with monsters known as Shades that attack travelers.

As Yonah's illness, the Black Scrawl, is terminal, the protagonist sets out to look for a cure. He finds a talking book, Grimoire Weiss, which suggests that the two team up to use Weiss' magic and to find a cure for Yonah's disease. In their search, they encounter Kainé, a hot-tempered and foul-mouthed swords woman; and Emil, a blindfolded boy whose eyes petrify anyone they see. After journeying for a time, the village is attacked by a giant shade; the battle culminates in Yonah being carried away by a master Shade that suddenly appears—the Shadowlord—who carries his own book, Grimoire Noir.

The game then jumps five years forward. The protagonist and the others are trying to find the parts to a key that they believe will help them locate the Shadow lord and Grimoire Noir. After defeating five Shades and assembling the key, the team go to defeat the Shadowlord. There, Devola and Popola, characters who have been guiding the protagonist on his quest, appear to try to stop them. They explain that over 1300 years prior, humanity faced extinction due to an incurable disease. In an attempt to survive, they separated their souls from their bodies using Grimoire Noir and Weiss. 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; Devola and Popola were androids set to oversee the project. Over time, the Replicants had begun to form their own identities; while the Gestalts, or Shades, had grown aggressive to them.

The game is a spin-off from the Drakengard series, and follows the fifth ending of the first game, the events of which have left the planet Earth in a state of decay. Set over one thousand years after this, the game puts the player in control of the protagonist as he attempts to find a cure for an illness, known as the Black Scrawl, to which Yonah—either his sister or daughter, depending on the version—has succumbed. Partnering with a talking book known as Grimoire Weiss, he journeys with two other characters, Kainé and Emil, as he attempts to find a remedy and understand the nature of the creatures known as Shades that stalk the world. The gameplay borrows elements from various video game genres, occasionally switching between them and the main role-playing-based gameplay.

Nier was designed to have gameplay that would appeal to players outside of Japan, where Cavia is based; additionally, the Gestalt version of the game has an older main character for the same reason. The music was composed by Keiichi Okabe, head of Monaca, a music composition studio, and several albums have been released. Nier was released to mixed reception; reviewers praised the story, characters and soundtrack and were mixed in their opinions of how well the disparate gameplay elements were connected.

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