15 Facts About Nier

Nier is an action role-playing video game developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in April 2010.

Nier was designed to have gameplay that would appeal to players outside of Japan, where Cavia is based; additionally, the Gestalt version of the game has an older main character for the same reason.

Nier was released to mixed reception; reviewers praised the story, characters and soundtrack and were mixed in their opinions of how well the disparate gameplay elements were connected.

Nier finds a talking book, Grimoire Weiss, which suggests that the two team up to use Weiss' magic and to find a cure for Yonah's disease.

Concept that would become Nier was first proposed following the release of Drakengard 2 and the reveal of seventh generation consoles.

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Nier is intended to be set over 1000 years after the events of Drakengard's fifth ending.

Combat and action elements of Nier were inspired by the God of War series of games, which both Taro and Saito enjoyed.

Nier was originally intended to be exclusive to the Xbox 360, but after deciding to develop the game for PlayStation 3, the developers decided to further divide the Japanese release of the game.

Nier was officially unveiled in June 2009 at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009 for both the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, to be developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix.

Soundtrack to Nier was composed by a collaboration of the studio MoNACA, directed by Keiichi Okabe and including Kakeru Ishihama and Keigo Hoashi, and Takafumi Nishimura from Cavia.

Soundtrack to Nier is largely composed of melancholy acoustic pieces which heavily feature vocals by vocalist Emi Evans, a singer from England living in Tokyo.

Nier's is the singer for the band freesscape, and had previously worked on video games such as Etrian Odyssey.

Nier enters the battles in a dream world accessed through a diary in his house.

Square Enix executive producer Yosuke Saito later commented that "a number of things" related to Nier were in progress, and that an announcement could be due in 2011.

Nier was the last game that Cavia made; the company was absorbed into its parent company, AQ Interactive, in July 2010.