The game opens with a prologue during the summer of 2049 during which it is, unusually, snowing. In a modern but dilapidated-looking city, a silver-haired man fends off attacks from ethereal monsters in and around a broken-down grocery store where he is sheltering with his sick daughter, Yonah. Having defeated the last of the monsters, he checks on Yonah, who has begun to cough much worse than before. The man then realizes that Yonah has activated the magical book they carried, against his wishes. Realising this may be fatal for her, he calls out for help, but to no avail.
The game then cuts to 1,312 years later, where the player sees what appears to be the same two characters—the man, named Nier, and his sick daughter Yonah
Let that just sink in a second.
The game is one of those adventure games that have came out recently that play like Zelda but better. (e.g. Darksiders) NIER keeps it fresh and the gameplay is different throughout.
The game has a phenomenal soundtrack, quite possibly the best OST in entire gaming history.
Seriously if you can get it, it's like $8 dollars or £5 because it didn't sell and the company went bust. Expect an amazing game with quite good gameplay (not great), a great story and one of the better Japanese to English translations. There's 40ish hours of gameplay in this, and expect the story to ruin your day at the end.
This is the intro of the game by the way:
Plus a tranny is one of the major characters.
