NIER, the newest franchise from RPG masters SQUARE ENIX, delivers unique and memorable characters, intense action-packed battles, explosive magic and storytelling like only SQUARE ENIX can. Evans wrote songs in versions of Gaelic, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, French, English and Japanese, where she tried to imagine what they would sound like after 1000 years of drifting. I had been looking for this game a while, it's hard to find in the UK (and expensive when you do find one) so I happily bought this US import since the ps3 is region free.

I loved it so much i also purchased the official soundtrack and artbook, unfortunatly Nier is a very underrated game, don't let the reviews get in the way of you missing out on such a gem. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Approaching "Nier Replicant / Nier Gestalt" depicting different protagonists on PS3 and Xbox 360] (in Japanese). He finds a talking book, Grimoire Weiss, which suggests that the two team up to use Weiss's magic and to find a cure for Yonah's disease.The ending part of the game is absolutely amazing, and reveals several shocking things about the world and your whole quest, suddenly putting a whole lot more weight to everything you've been doing. Reviewers criticized the graphics, with Ryan Clements of IGN saying that "one of Nier's greatest flaws is its visuals," while GameSpot 's Kevin VanOrd bemoaned the "flavorless visuals" and "lifeless environments". Square Enix executive producer Yosuke Saito later commented that "a number of things" related to Nier were in progress, and that an announcement could be due in 2011.

The only con is finish the boss when is close to defeat, where a time-sensitive life gauge will appear on the boss' body, and you have to deplete it before the timer expires. Also much of the extras activities within the game are only accessible through side quest; want to ride a giant boar? Moreover, if the player wants to start a new game, they are unable to enter the same name chosen for the previous playthrough for the protagonist. Driven to protect his only family Yonah, he was the first Gestalt, and has combined her with the Replicant Yonah. Nier Gestalt sold over 12,500 copies in Japan the week of its release, [63] while Replicant sold over 60,000 and was the top-selling video game in Japan that week.This is a game that was playable and great when it was released and will still be 20 years from now. The switching from open third person to 2D sidescroller to top down beat 'm up is something I never thought could work so well. In addition to the main plotline, Nier includes numerous sidequests, which give the player experience points and money, as well as fishing and farming segments. Players will jump into the title role of the unyielding Nier as he begins his desperate quest to discover a cure for his daughter, Yonah, who is stricken with the deadly Black Scrawl disease. Talking To Yoko Taro, PlatinumGames' Takahisa Taura, And Composer Keiichi Okabe About Life, Death, And Opportunity".