NieR Repilcant ver.1.22474487139â¦Âhas been rated in Taiwan, which suggests we’ll be hearing more about the game soon.
As spotted by Gematsu, all three versions of the title (PlayStation 4,Xbox One, andPC) have received a rating, coming in just about five months after the current-gen upgrade was announced.NieR’srating is now the latest in a continuing trend where Taiwan’s ratings board has given an inadvertent “heads up” on upcoming games. In April,the board let slip that definitive editions ofMafia IIandMafia IIIwere on the way. Then in June,the board leaked the existence ofCrash Bandicoot 4: It’s About Timea few days beforeActivision and developer Toys For Bob made their official announcement.
Revealed in March as part of a 10-hour long, 10th anniversary livestream for the franchise,NieR Repilcant ver.1.22474487139Â(yes, that is the actual title) is an upgraded version of the 2010, Japan-only PlayStation 3 release. WithNieR’sbig 3 in director Yoko Taro, composer Keiichi Okabe, and Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito back at the helm, development is being handled by Toylogic, a studio that previously assisted in the development ofDragon Quest XIâsÂNintendo 3DS version,ÂThe Evil Within,ÂKid Icarus: Uprising, andÂSuper Smash Bros. Brawl.
PlatinumGames' Takahisa Taura, who was the senior game designer forthe series' breakout hitNieR: Automataand director of the 2019 Nintendo Switch exclusiveAstral Chain,is supervisingReplicant’scombat to see it brought more up to speed withAutomata.Taura, however, isn’t directly involved with the project. Concept artist Kazuma Koda also returned fromNieR: Automataafter working with Intelligent Systems and Nintendo onFire Emblem: Three Houses.
Replicantwas one of the two versions ofNieRthat launched back in 2010. Exclusive to the PS3,Replicantfocuses on a younger protagonist named Nier who is in search of a cure for his ill sister, Yonah. The Xbox 360, meanwhile, received a version dubbedGestalt,Âwhich follows the same story, but on a different timeline and with an older version of Nier that changes the relationship dynamic with Yonah from brother and sister to father and daughter.
Gestaltwent on to become the only version ofNieRthe West would receive for either current-gen platform at the time.
Replicant ver.1.22474487139had a Western release confirmed alongside its announcement, so this will be the first time that version of the game receives a proper launch outside of Japan.
This year’s online only edition of the Tokyo Game Showis coming up later in the month (Sept. 23-27),and while Square Enix doesn’t currently have a spot forReplicantin its lineup, there are still a few blank spots on there that the game could fill in,along with the in-development mobile gameNieR Re[in]carnation.