Hey friends,
I've written a lot about Nier already (Papa Nier or Brother Nier?, Ambiguity and Nier) but my piece on nightmaremode.net entitled Confronting Violence in Nier truly, finally, closes the book on what I've been trying to put into words for a long time. Click the link to read about Nier, Epic Theatre, New Game +, and excessive murder all in one piece! SPOILERS AHOY!
Cavia have always struck me as a developer that finally found its feet when they released Drakengard. Nier is in many ways a continuation of what Yoko Taro started in Drakengard and you get the sense that if Cavia stuck around long enough, they would have ironed out all the kinks on the technical side of development and made something really important and recognised. There are the grubby marks of an auteur embedded into each game.
We need more games like Nier. They might not be perfectly executed, but what Nier gets right is far more important than anything else in games: It makes you think.
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