The new game will take place into the future, after Ending D of NieR.
Neither Gestalts nor Replicants will make an appearance.
Name drops of the previous NieR characters such as Nier, Yonah, and Kaine are likely, but that is all; however, Yoko Taro said that Emil will make an appearance. Likewise, Accord will also make an appearance in name only. He also said that a certain ******* character(s) will appear. Could this be Devola & Popola (DE-VO-LA-&-PO-PO-LA) or maybe even the Red Dragon (RE-D-DO DO-RA-GO-N)? The Dengeki Online interviewer seemed quite shocked by this news and wondered how it could be possible.
Yoko Taro stated that those who never played the first NieR can play the new one without a problem; however, he went on to say that it might be more confusing for those who have played the first one. He fears that fans may not see or even accept this new game as a true sequel. The fans might even be pissed by it.
Yoko Taro thinks the game has a “happy ending” but this statement startles both the Square Enix producer Saito Yosuke and Platinum Games game designer Taura when he says it. Yoko Taro is notorious for claiming a particular ending is “happy” when the general consensus calls it more tragic and sad than anything else. Saito goes on to say that he can’t see how there could possibly be a happy ending from the scripts he read. Yoko Taro then repeats, “I said it will be a happy ending! You don’t have to look so suspicious!”
The Junk Heap will be revisited. It is unclear, however, if it will be the exact same location as in the first title.
The concept art seemly does *not* depict Shinjuku but possibly other famous locations around the globe.
There appears to be a robot standing within the ruins of an old shopping mall. Besides this, there are many other shots of ruins including something that looks like the Golden Gate bridge in San Fransisco and a huge, rundown amusement park.
The image depicting a large building deep within a forest is called the “Forest Castle”.
An alternative reading of the Celestial writing in the teaser trailer translates to “ANGEL HUMAN ROBOT”.
Even those who are not very apt toward Action games will be able to complete this game because of the balance between the action and fun moments. Taura says this is the crux of the project.
There are many fans of the previous game who work at Platinum Games, so they will be sure to treat it with diligent care. Without getting into details, they feel this new game is very much like a “NieR” title. The feeling of the previous title is still intact while increasing the enjoyment of the action.
Since Yoko Taro is such a huge fan of the shooting genre, there will also be shooting segments in the game. Simply, there won’t be multiple genres shoved into a single game like the last one.
There will be a myriad of weapons with Weapon Stories.
There will be multiple playable characters that you can switch between. As far as the E3 announcement, it was stated that there will be 3 playable characters.
You cannot freely switch between the playable characters until you unlock them through multiple play-throughs. This seems like a call-back to the first Drakengard where more characters became playable after each ending.
The parameters for multiple play-throughs is different from previous games.
Action sequences will vary between characters even when they use the same weapon. Connecting combos will be quite fluid.
Besides the wild boar, there will be other types of vehicles as well.
CyDesignation offered to do the design of the game since the president was a huge fan of Nier, not to mention many female fans in the company as well.
Somewhere in the game, a rather disappointing but good-looking male character will make an appearance (this was the same way Cent was described in DOD3: “disappointing good-looking guy”).
Emi Evans will be back to sing for the game!!
There were ideas of making the next NieR game for smartphones or the PS Vita…but they decided to take things seriously–to really do it right–and make a great game for the PS4.
The majority of the plot and dialogue has already been decided, and the new game will delve deeper within the “World of Yoko Taro”
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