Where Automata was the scalpel, using the travails of androids 2B and 9S (and, later, A2) to carefully and methodically peel back layers of branching narrative to reveal painful existential viscera, ...

NieR Replicant opens up just as the apocalypse is dawning, but after the opening scenes, the game moves on to more than 1,300 years later, when humanity isn’t exactly extinct, but also not ...

So begins Neir Replicant ver.1.22474487139…, a modernised "version upgrade" of the original, 2010 Japanese release of Nier.

After playing and being thoroughly wrecked by Nier: Automata, I was curious if Nier: Replicant ver.1.22474487139… the “version up” (since according to the developers it’s not a remake or a ...

Nier Replicant is ambitious, clever, and has an absolutely killer story. Back in 2010, I gave the original game 6/10 in view of its muddy visuals, poor performance, and a whole lot of backtracking.

NieR Replicant ver 1.22 is the kind of game that only Yoko Taro could get away with. It's a remake of the Japanese-only version of a game released 11 years ago that started by saying nothing the hero ...