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Sure, it’s not the most gorgeous of sights (the remastering does its best to update a very early 2010’s environment), but you’ll at least see that everyone in your home village cares for one another. Wander around the village that you and Yonah inhabit, and you’ll gather quite the sense of community. Where Replicant’s narrative is strongest is in the bonding between friends along with the lore that unravels along the way. Desperate for a cure, you set out across the lands, meeting some companions and many a foe (in the form of ghastly ghostly Shades) along the way. An illness known as the Black Scrawl has spread across the world he inhabits, eventually even afflicting his younger sister Yonah. Players assume the role of titular hero Nier, thrust into a vast fantasy sci-fi world. NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… is a game that feels like an epic journey of the truest nature. And secondly, this is a game absolutely more for the fans, or at least those into weird as hell RPGs.

Firstly, it won’t break out of the niche the game has carved for itself over the years. Getting to play the game this past week ahead of release, two things are abundantly clear. All these years later and Western audiences are finally getting a taste of the Japanese version of the original game, now titled NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139…. It itself was a spin-off of the series Drakengardand despite a later indirect sequel in the hugely popular NieR Automata, it never saw vast commercial success and has instead been a cult classic of the past eleven years. To appeal more to Western audiences, players controlled a buff, brawny older character in the Gestalt version while Japan controlled a much younger version of the protagonist, Nier. The original game released in 2010 and interestingly had two versions circling. NieR is a franchise with an interesting trajectory over the last decade.