No, I didn’t spill espresso on the keyboard. Yes, the ellipses are a part of the title. 10 years after its console debut, NieR is heading to PC with the elegantly-titled Nier: Replicant vers.1.22474487139… – not a remake or a remaster, Square Enix insist, however a spruced-up re-release that’s sprucing up the audio, sprinkling in some new content material, and at last bringing the cult-classic RPG to Steam.
The self-described “updated version” was introduced throughout NieR’s 10-year anniversary livestream, then later by way of the NieR Series twitter account.
Replicant Long Number is a elegant up re-release of NieR’s 2010 debut – particularly, Japan-exclusive PS3 model Nier: Replicant and never NieR: Gestalt, a world model for PS3 and Xbox 360 which traded the dapper younger lead for a gruff middle-aged dad (affectionately, Papa Nier). Never thoughts that NieR itself is an obscure ending for Drakengard run amok – and man, we haven’t even touched on the reside stage present.
Ahem, anyway.
Besides sprucing up a 10-year outdated game, it feels like Replicant 90210 can be fully-voiced with re-recorded voice performing, remodeling the soundtrack with new tunes, and a brand new character (by way of PushSquare). When requested, sequence producer Yosuke Saito hesitated to say whether or not the ending was staying the identical this time round. With unique builders Cavio out of the image, growth is being headed up by Toylogic – with no signal of NieR: Automata co-developers Platinum Games.
Replicant and Gestalt didn’t precisely blow the financial institution on their preliminary launch. But they’re correct unusual games, and have developed a robust fan following over the past decade. Besides giving us PC people an opportunity to get again into Yoko Taro’s head, Replicant Phone Number is a shot for all of the unhappy robotic followers who hopped on with Automata to test the sequence’ first entry with recent eyes.
There’s at present no deliberate launch date or worth accessible for NieR: Replicant 420, but it surely’ll be the primary time the sequence starter hits PC. It’ll even be the primary time Replicant is offered exterior Japan, whilst my feed is filled with followers lamenting the lack of Papa Nier. Gestalt was forward of its time, most likely, an entire 4-5 years earlier than all of us began moaning in regards to the “dadification” of games.
The 10th Anniversary livestream additionally introduced free-to-play cellular RPG NieR: Re [in] carnation with a similarly vague teaser trailer. Nice idea artwork, thoughts.
