NieR: Automata was deflinitely a breakout point for the series, going as far as to cross 4 million copies sold in 2019. It was also announced that the NieR: Automata BECOME AS GODS edition would be coming to the Xbox Game Pass on April 2, 2020.
NieR Replicant wasn’t the only news coming on the NieR front. Nier Replicant remastered will be coming to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam. The NieR Replicant remaster looks like it will polish up the game and offer a story that many may have missed when it first launched. Even so, there are absolutely a slew of connections, albeit subtle between the original NieR, NieR Replicant, and NieR: Automata, though the games seem vastly separated from one another. Though the original NieR featured a middle-aged protagonist, Replicant featured a teenage character instead. NieR Replicant is based upon an alternate version of the first NieR game released in 2010. Square Enix launched a new trailer for NieR Replicant via the Square Enix YouTube on March 26, 2020.
They just announced a remaster of NieR Replicant for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Steam on PC. Coming up on the series’ 10th anniversary, Square Enix going back in the franchise to bring a benchmark of the NieR series to modern consoles. Many players may know NieR quite well from the stellar NieR: Automata, but the series actually has quite some history behind it with several games.
