Last week’s issue of Famitsu revealed two Nier games coming to Japan; one for Xbox 360 and the other presumably for PlayStation 3. The Xbox 360 game, Nier Gestalt, is the Nier game that has already been announced for North America since E3. A teaser ad was shown for another Nier game titled Nier Replicant. This week’s Famitsu reveals Replicant as Japan’s PlayStation 3 version of Nier. However, there are differences.
In Nier Replicant, Nier looks younger and more anime-ish than he does in Nier Gestalt. In Replicant, Yonah, the girl he is trying to cure, is his sister where as in Gestalt, she is his daughter.
What’s more are Nier’s companions. Kaine, a hermaphrodite who was bullied as a child leading “her” to dress like a lady, will accompany Nier in a full-on thong.
I have no idea how this Nier release will work. We already know Nier is coming to both PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in North America, as Square have said Gestalt being Xbox 360-only in Japan (which is the same game) will not affect the North American release. Now with Replicant, there’s no word on if this will hit stateside.