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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 is set in the same universe as the //[[Drakengard]]// series, and has some story connections, though these are not confirmed within the game itself. | ||
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| - | The Japanese version is known as **//NieR Gestalt//** on the 360, and **//NieR Replicant//** on the PS3. Gestalt stars a father protecting his daughter, while Replicant is about a brother doing the same for his sister. The games are identical otherwise. Gestalt is 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 ===== | ||
| - | (pics./videos would be nice here) | ||
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| - | ***[[the_legend_of_zelda_series|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 can 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 are 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 is no visual component to the novel segments, but the writing is in a very [[people:Kinoko Nasu]] style. | ||
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| - | ***Arcade racers**: When riding boars, you can 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 moves to a fixed overhead view, magical attacks are directed with the right stick. | ||
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| - | ***Manic/"bullet hell" shooters**: Many enemies fire elaborate patterns of 2D bullets, which can be cancelled and absorbed with attacks. | ||
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| - | =====See also===== | ||
| - | * [[theory:genre_guise|Genre Guise]] (sort of) | ||
| - | * [[http://forums.selectbutton.net/viewtopic.php?t=27198|NieR....OR....i thought we used to like Cavia?]] - SB forum thread. | ||