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Nier black scrawl2/3/2024 For people with disabilities, or folk who just want to experience the story, Easy mode even comes with a very useful and customizable auto-battle system that lets you decide what the game does for you. Your allies provide some nice support, but they’re never in the way of combat and allow you to take center stage in every engagement. These too change depending on whether you use them by themselves or in a combo, augmenting them with additional properties like the aforementioned punch performing an uppercut to send foes upwards instead of away. That’s where magic comes in - channeling power from Grimoire Weiss, Nier can cast a variety of spells like powerful long-range projectiles or giant fists adept at flattening a group of foes. I was personally a fan of spears and their rapid, long-ranged strikes, but they proved difficult to use against armored foes. Two-handed swords swing in wide, heavy, brutal arcs, while one-handed swords are fast and agile. Attacks can be strung together along with magic spells to create devastating, satisfying combos, with each of Nier’s attacks really selling the impact of his strikes. Replicant’s combat is crisp and satisfying, closer to Automata than the original - a welcome change, because the original’s combat was one of its lowest points. Accompanied by the Grimoire Weiss, a floating, sardonic talking book, a foul-mouthed and hotheaded young woman named Kaine, and a powerful magic user named Emil, you hack, slash, and blast your way through legions of shades in order to complete your quest no matter what. Set in a fantasy world where a mysterious disease called the Black Scrawl plagues humanity, and mysterious, hostile Shades roam the countryside, you play as the titular Nier (or whatever you name your save file), a young man on a quest to save his sick sister, Yonah. This is the first time that Replicant is coming out in English. The main story of both games were largely unchanged, except Gestalt featured an older male protagonist due to pressure from the American branch of Square Enix, while Replicant starred a younger male. There were two versions of NieR that came out - Nier Gestalt, which was localized and distributed simply as Nier in regions outside of Japan, and Nier Replicant, which remained a Japan exclusive. NieR itself is a spinoff of one of director Yoko Taro’s previous games, Drakengard. One of the more interesting details about the game is that it was a sequel to the original NieR, which came out in 2010. Set on a distant future, with androids fighting for the sake of humanity against hostile machine lifeforms, it combined stylish and fluid combat with a compelling story about humanity and purpose. In 2017, NieR: Automata came out and was met with glowing reception.
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