Review NieR Replicant: The hottest action game in 2021

NieR Replicant is a very hot action game this year.

More than just a graphics upgrade, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… has improved many other elements of the original game.

After NieR Automata became a blockbuster game in 2017, Yoko Taro believes it’s time to introduce the vast majority of gamers with the first Nier.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… (hereinafter referred to as NieR Remaster) is the work of developer Toylogic and published by Square Enix. Even so, this game still has a great influence from director Yoko Taro as well as his collaborators. Basically, it can be seen that NieR Remaster tries to perfect the ideas and promises of the game 11 years ago.

Although the article is called Remaster, NieR is actually closer to “Remake” territory and this can be seen in the gameplay and graphics.

Story summary

Players take on the role of NieR, a young man who lives with his terminally ill sister Yonah in an abandoned post-apocalyptic city. When the condition is getting worse, the main character must set out to find a cure before it is too late.

He meets many other characters along the way: from Weiss, a book that talks about a swordswoman named Kaine… and finally to a boy named Emil with eyes that can petrify anything he looks at. . The village is then attacked by a giant Shadow named Shadowlord, who has kidnapped Yonah – and the party must chase it around the world to get her back.

Variety in Genre

Nier Replicant is an action-adventure game with a darker and darker theme than titles of the same genre like Legend of Zelda. Nier adheres to many of the game genre’s standards but sometimes goes against the player’s expectations.

Throughout the experience, Nier makes players reflect on issues such as violence, human cruelty, and what it means to exist in a world that wants us dead and the world itself. is also dying.

While playing the game, Nier will occasionally change his style. There are times when we will play like a bullet hell game, but there are also times when the top-down camera makes us feel like we are playing Diablo.

Gameplay

Most of the player’s time will be spent running around lush fields and sinking dungeons, doing quests and battling monsters known as Shades.

Inspired by Automata, the Remaster’s combat mechanics are significantly more dynamic and fluid than the original game, with combos and dodges that feel graceful and responsive.

Magic, which used to be a heavy and slow element, is now neatly integrated into the combat mechanics, allowing you to unleash spells and ranged attacks in tandem with melee combat. This will help the player feel both strong and agile.

Graphics

Not only upgrading the resolution like many other Remaster games, Nier Replicant has redesigned many character models, increased the range the game can handle and raised gameplay to 60fps (compared to 30fps in the past).

However, because it is built on the old framework, the surrounding world of the game is still lacking in detail and the NPCs are a bit lifeless.

New points

Nier Remaster has also added new quests as well as story elements. These elements do not change the original story but make them deeper, basically, you can see Nier Remaster as a “Director Cut” of the previous game.

The game’s additions and modifications help Nier Remaster become closer to Automata. The end of the game now looks like the beginning of the game’s story in 2017.

Conclude

Nier is not a perfect game. The fact that the plot has many floors and requires playing many times is a bold idea, but it also unintentionally makes the gameplay repetitive and boring.

Even so, Nier is still a unique game and can’t be missed in 2021. If 2010’s Nier was an unpolished raw gem, then Nier Remaster is the last gem that has a chance to shine. morning – albeit a little late.