NieR Replicant Coming Back to Life on PS4, Steam, and Xbox! Plus Yoko Taro’s New Game Announced!

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There are lots of announcements from the beginning hour or so of the NieR 10th Anniversary, so let’s take a quick look at everything!

NieR Replicant Ver.1.22474487139… will be released on PS4, Steam, and Xbox. This is neither a remaster or a remake, but rather a “Version Up”, according to Yoko-san. But if you were to choose one or the other, it may be appropriate to call this a remaster. It will include complete FULL VOICE that has been newly recorded and with additional new scenes. This time, the role of Weiss, originally portrayed by PETER, will be performed by Yasumoto Hiroki, aka Pod042.

And we have new concept art by Koda Kazuma! Look at this gorgeous stuff!! He is amazing!

  • The new NieR Replicant is neither a remaster or a remake, but rather a “version up”. This is the same sort of thing that they’ve been doing for all the newer versions of the YoRHa stage plays as well. Generally speaking, the story remains the same, but little bits here and there are touched up and maybe fleshed out with additional scenes. If you need to call it one or the other, then perhaps “remaster” would be the closest thing.
  • All dialogue will be spoken by the voice cast.
  • Yasumoto Hiroki, voice of Pod042, will be portraying Weiss instead of Peter since he is currently “on break”.
  • Various aspects from the original game will be added in the new version.
  • The soundtrack will be re-recorded, plus there will be some new tracks as well.
  • There will be a new character.
  • Ishikawa Yui (2B), Hanae Natsuki (9S), and Suwa Ayaka (A2) will appear in the game, but not as their respective characters from Automata.
  • There may be a new ending…? We know the novella “The Lost World” is generally considered Ending E, so it’s also possible for this to appear in some shape or form.
  • That being said, I can’t help but be reminded of the blurb in Grimoire NIER in which Yoko discusses the possibility of a second Original Gestalt. You can read more about that here.

Below is an example of some of the new NieR merch that is currently available from the SQEX e-STORE!

Next up is Yoko’s New Project, “NieR Reincarnation,” which will be a smartphone game developed by Applibot with character designs by the great CyDesignation, who collaborated with Automata, such as the lead character designer, Yoshida Akihiko, and sub character designer Nagai Yuya.

And here are some more juicy bits that we learned in the very final Premium section of the livestream:

  • Accord is ALWAYS a female android. He is male in the YoRHa Ver.1.3a/aa stage plays because the cast is all male; she is actually female.
  • Accord’s origins begin in the Kingdom of Night during the war with aliens. If you’re curious about this, I wrote a bunch about this here.
  • Accord was created by humans.
  • Since her creation, Accord has been multiplying, but Yoko won’t reveal why or for what purpose. For example, Emil creates many copies of himself to fight the aliens, but Yoko wouldn’t say why Accord is basically doing the same thing. Which means, like Emil, there must be an Original Accord as well. Saito asked for more information about this, but Yoko refused to answer because it would be bad. Perhaps we WILL get some sort of story that takes place during this time/location.
  • All androids were installed with false memories, but A2 was the final android to have false memories. All other YoRHa after her were not installed with these memories because they often caused problems.
  • The planet became tidally locked sometime after the 6.12 and before the time of Replicant.

This is all breaking news, so more information will likely become known later. Please expect this page to be further updated once more information is released.