Like a lot of people, NieR Automata was my introduction to the world of NieR and the works of Yoko Taro. It’s no exaggeration to say that it quickly earned its place as my favourite game of all time, with its beautiful, heartbreaking story, its sense of humour, its subversive …
Famitsu has published a new interview with Bravely Default II producer Takahashi Masashi and Bravely series creator Asano Tomoya, with a lot of interesting insights into the development of the new game. Among other things, they revealed that, early on, the game was internally nicknamed “Bravely Default Automata“—a name meant …
As well as the usual assortment of new quests, dungeons, and raids, Final Fantasy XIV Patch 5.3 will make a very welcome improvement to the game’s older areas: support for flying mounts. When Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn launched in 2013, flying mounts weren’t a part of the game; …
March 2017 was absolutely ridiculous for game releases. It’s like every publisher suddenly simultaneously realised that if they release in March, those sales can give them a last-minute boost before the end of the financial year. The end result was an onslaught of games – many of them excellent – that …
Nier: Automata is one of the best games you’ll ever play, combining PlatinumGames action expertise with the mad genius of Yoko Taro. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is one of the best, most important books ever written. Not just because it gave birth to the science fiction and horror genres, but …
I’m genuinely surprised there hasn’t been an announcement of a remastered Nier yet. With Nier Automata on the way, I can’t be the only person with renewed interest in finally playing the original, and Square Enix hasn’t exactly shied away from remasters to date. Nier was, by almost any metric, a dismal failure. It was …
