NieR Re[in]carnation Gets a Western Release Announcement

NieR Re[in]carnation, the first mobile title in Yoko Taro’s ethereal series of games, will get a Western release. The game’s director Daichi Matsukawa revealed the news during the NieR “We Have a Decent Amount of New Info” show streamed today during Tokyo Game Show 2020. The title will be released in Europe and North America, with further details to come at a later date via the game’s official English Twitter and Facebook channels. In Re[in]carnation, players are led by a floating character named Mama throughout a world called The Cage on a mission to collect pieces of “weapon’s memories”. Players will go back and forth between The Cage, which is rendered in 3D, and the weapon’s memories, which are played in 2D. No new details about the story were revealed, and the mystery of Mama and The Cage will be revealed as you progress in the game. Matsukawa also presented a new trailer that gave a few distorted glimpses of exploration and battle. The livestream is available with English subtitles below: [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/09/24/xbox-showcase-nier-livestream-tgs-2020-in-japanese"] Preregistration for NieR Re[in]carnation, which will be released on iOS and Android devices, has already started. The game also has gacha elements and if 500,000 people preregister, everyone gets 3,000 gems to spend in-game, or about 10 gacha pulls according to Matsukawa. If one million register early, the team might even make a golden statue of the ghost-like Mama worth 1 million yen ($9,480) to give away, though as with many things involving Yoko Taro, that is something that will have to be seen to be believed. PlatinumGames’ Takahisa Taura also joined the show to reveal 2017 hit NieR: Automata was nearing 5 million total sales (4,850,000, to be precise). While there were no new updates about the game itself, there will be something for fans to get their hands on next year. Square Enix is launching a new line of premium collectables called the Square Enix Masterline and one of the first products is a large statue featuring the three main characters from NieR: Automata – the androids 2B, 9S and A2. Keiichi Okabe, the composer behind the series’ enchanting musical offerings, also showed the package for the Blu-ray of Nier: Theatrical Orchestra 12020, which will go on sale Oct. 28. The concert was filmed in March without an audience due to covid-19 countermeasures. Taro also said that a new stage production of YoRHa is also coming up sometime down the road. [poilib element="accentDivider"]