In addition, there were altered minor story elements that mostly toned down more esoteric or potentially off-putting subject matter to a general audience.
The first most people in the West played has been labeled NieR: Gestalt, which makes the hero an older man with bulging muscles and a gravely voice the family member he's saving is referred to as his daughter. While on this journey, the group is joined by a foul-mouthed warrior named Kaine and a kind-hearted skeletal wizard named Emil.Ĭuriously, there were two different versions of NieR that were released in different territories. It is only after discovering a talking magical book named Grimoire Weiss that the hero sets out on a journey to defeat a villain known as the Shadowlord, who commands an army of monsters called shades to kill and terrorize local villages. At a very basic level, the original NieR is an action RPG where the main hero is tasked with saving a family member of theirs from a deadly disease known as the Black Scrawl, which has wiped out most of humanity. But the changes made in this remake are perplexingly mundane but quietly profound in a way that makes me wonder just how much of them were meant to be examined critically and how much if it was more elaborate subterfuge by director Yoko Taro.įirst, a very brief and heavily abridged summary of the 2010 original game and the remake's interesting history.
NIER REPLICANT BLACK SCRAWL SERIES
A lot has been discussed regarding its technical presentation, its relationship with its 2017 sequel NieR: Automata, as well as what it means for the series going forward. For the past several weeks, I have been playing through NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139, a remake of the 2010 action RPG cult hit, NieR.