In 2015, Eurogamer called it 'the rare game that gets better with age,' with critic Jeffrey Matulef attributing its cult following to the 'sense of wonder' produced by the game's cryptic storytelling, downbeat atmosphere and mashup of genres. In the years following the commercial and critically tepid response to Nier, it developed a cult following. In his review, Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation gave tepid praise to the story but criticized the game's sidequests and repetitive structure (shown below, left). They were more divided on the the effectiveness of the game's mix of styles and the sidequests were almost universally derided. Reviewers were critical of its graphics, but praised the voice acting and soundtrack. Nier received mixed reviews from critics, earning a score of 68 on Metacritic.

The game's main enemies are creatures known as Shades and the villain is a shadow version of the title character who wants to kidnap Yonah. The middle-aged titular character Nier (whose name can be changed in game) embarks on a quest to save his daughter Yonah from an illness known as 'the black scrawl.' Along the way, he meets a snarky book named Grimoire Weiss and social outcasts Kainé and Emil (cast shown below). The story takes place in the distant future. In Japan, the game was released as Nier: Gestalt and an alternate version, Nier: Replicant was released and featured a younger main character. Thus, Nier features multiple perspectives on the events of its plot, revealed through multiple playthroughs. Yoko stated the game was inspired by the events of September 11th, 2001 and that he wanted to show how in conflict, both sides believe they are doing the right thing. Director Yoko Taro had high creative control over his game, and as a result, the game blends multiple styles and genres.

It was initially planned as an entry into the Drakengard series, but was released as its own spinoff. I also don't do stupid **** like join an internet hate mob to harass some poor scientist (whos achievements we should be celebrating) because he wore a shirt with anime girls on it.Nier was released in 2010 by Square Enix. If I don't like it, I don't play it, I argue my case for why so issues can be addressed effetively if developers are so inclined, and I make a point to ask for/buy games I do want. As long as it isn't doing demonstrable harm to other people (and the portrayal of characters in Call of Juarez and Bayonetta is doing no such thing) then it's fine. I like Bayonetta, which other women sometimes find intolerably sexist, I find it to be an awesome sexy power fantasy and think the people calling it sexist are dumb, and that's fine too. If you don't care that it is those things (or like those things) and you like the gameplay, you go right ahead. That doesn't mean I want to stop you playing it.

(which is to say it's not.) Put another way: I have a problem with Call of Juarez being intolerably racist and sexist (and also being a bad game) so I don't play it. I can talk about how it srtikes me as ridiculous that a large majority of female characters in AAA games could pass a super models or how male characters are usually allowed to have a wider range in age and level of attractiveness or how a disproportionate majority are white, and how maybe these things could use some change, while also acknowledging things like men (and white people) are the people who buy more AAA games and men tend to like attractive women, and women are less likely to care as much about physical appearance, thus even if it does change you're still going to see an abnormal concentration of very attractive women, a wider range of male character levels of attractiveness, and mostly white characters, and that isn't a bad thing any more than it's a bad thing when any other industry or work of art caters to the preferences of it's audience. Advocating for laws or censorship based on that is *fundamentally* different than pointing out percieved flaws in something. In the interest of equality, either everyones every irrational feelings are protected or nobodys can be, anything else is arbitrary favoritism. Social Justice shouldn't be about having feelings protected, feelings are irrational and cannot have consistently enforcable policy based on them, and everyone is upset by different things. Princess_Pilfer 2576d ago (Edited 2576d ago )

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