Coming to PS4, Xbox One and PC in April.
NieR: Replicant – or NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 … as it is more formally known – will arrive on the PC and consoles on April 23, and those who wait impatiently for their arrival can now be distracted by nine minutes of gameplay footage from courtesy of a brand new trailer.
NieR: Replicant, if you’re not familiar, is an enhanced version of the original NieR – which was available in two different forms when it was released in Japan in April 2010. The PS3 version – of which version 1.2.27474487139 is a remastered – was known as NieR: Replicant and featured a younger main character, while the Xbox 360 version, NieR: Gestalt, starred an older protagonist.
Set before the events of NieR: Automata (although the two games are only loosely related), NieR: Replicant tells the story of a “kind young man” who leaves his village to locate the famous Sealed Verses and save his terminally ill sister. He is accompanied on his travels by a strange talking tome, known as Grimoire Weiss.
NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 – Gameplay from Barren Temple.
NieR: Replicant ver.1.22474487139 aims to improve the original game with improved visuals, re-recorded audio, new dialogue, as well as reworked combat that is a little closer to the system found in NieR: Automata. The last element has a decent display in the nine minutes of Square Enix’s recently released game footage above.
It focuses on an area known as The Barren Temple and shows a mixture of exploration and combat, culminating in a boss fight against a swarm of sensitive cubes. Hopefully, that will be enough to keep you safe until the release of NieR: Replicant on April 23 on PS4, Xbox One and PC.