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| - | ===== NieR ====== | ||
| - | **//NieR//** (alternatively spelled **//NIER//**) was [[company:Cavia]]'s final game, and an action RPG for the [[hardware:Xbox 360]]/[[hardware:PS3]]. It was set in the same universe as the //[[Drakengard]]// series, and had some story connections, though these were not confirmed within the game itself. | ||
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| - | The Japanese version was known as **//NieR Gestalt//** on the 360, and **//NieR Replicant//** on the PS3. Gestalt starred a father protecting his daughter, while Replicant was about a brother doing the same for his sister. The games were identical otherwise. Gestalt was the version that the West got on both platforms. | ||
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| - | Due to poor marketing by publisher [[company:Square-Enix]] and the game's failure to meet players' expectations of a tarted-up brogamer epic, **//NieR//** was a critical and commercial failure in the West, but saw wider recognition in Japan. | ||
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| - | ===== Games and game genres referenced in NieR ===== | ||
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| - | **Zelda series**: A dungeon full of blocks and locked rooms, culminating in the acquisition of an item with a very familiar animation and jingle. | ||
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| - | **Harvest Moon series**: You could grow crops and flowers on the land next to your house. | ||
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| - | **Monster Hunter series**: Hunting animals and scavenging the land for materials, which were used to complete quests and upgrade weapons. | ||
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| - | **Text adventures**: A text-based maze in a horror castle. | ||
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| - | **Visual novels**: Not quite, as there were no visual component to the novel segments, but the writing was in a very Kinoko Nasu style. | ||
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| - | **Arcade racers**: When riding boars, you could drift them like in **//[[OutRun 2]]//** and similar games. | ||
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| - | **Resident Evil series**: A haunted mansion with giant spiders, fixed camera angles, and a history of secret lab operations. | ||
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| - | **Twin-stick shooters**: When the camera moved to a fixed overhead view, magical attacks were directed with the right stick. | ||
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| - | **Manic/"bullet hell" shooters**: Many enemies fired elaborate patterns of 2D bullets, which could be canceled and absorbed with attacks. | ||
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| - | =====See also===== | ||
| - | [[theory:genre_guise|Genre Guise]] (sort of) | ||