NIER PETRIFY KAINE SERIES

It turns out that not only are we not who we thought we were, but neither is Yonah or the Shadowlord. After some wandering, their hometown is attacked by a giant Shade, the Shadowlord, who not only has his own talking book friend, Grimoire Noir, but also kidnaps Yonah after a titanic battle.įrom here, the story gets really weird, with androids, replica people (called Replicants, funnily enough) and souls separated from bodies. With the addition of two other companions, a foul-mouthed swordswoman named Kaine and a blindfolded boy named Emil, whose eyes can literally petrify anyone who sees them, the odd bunch hit the road. With the roads between the various settlements populated with Shades, which attack travellers on sight, Nier agrees this may be the best course and they set out together. The book suggests that teaming up might be a good idea, as it has powerful magic, and between that and Nier’s weapon-swinging prowess they may well make a good partnership. Yes, you read that right, a talking book, and quite a snippy, sarcastic one at that. Luckily, Nier doesn’t have to do this alone, as quite early on he meets a talking book called Grimoire Weiss. Obviously, it’s not going to be that easy, and this certainly proves to be the case as the game progresses. Yonah has a sickness called the Black Scrawl, and there doesn’t seem to be any cure, essentially making it a death sentence. As any father would, Nier sets out on a journey to find a cure and save his daughter’s life. Was it a dream? Was it some kind of suspended animation?Īnyway, in the future, Nier and Yonah live in a village built on the ruins of an ancient town, but all is not well in their rural idyll. The game then cuts to 1,312 years in the future, but Nier and Yonah still appear to be the same age. They are attacked by some shadowy monsters, and after he defeats them, Nier goes to check on Yonah, who has a bad cough. You see, in the prologue, Nier and his daughter, Yonah, are taking cover in a grocery store from a snowstorm. The events in the game of Nier take place 1000 years after these events, although the start always had me confused. To be precise, it is a follow-up to the fifth possible ending of the first game, which apparently saw the Earth reduced to a state of decay.

NIER PETRIFY KAINE SERIES

Nier is not, as I always believed, a standalone game, and instead it was spawned from one of the possible endings of Square Enix’s Drakengard series of games. While doing research for this piece, I discovered an interesting fact about Nier.

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