Square Enix will release its action-adventure RPG Nier on April 27 in North America, the company announced on Wednesday.
The game, which "blends traditional RPG gameplay mechanics with intense, bloody combat and powerful magic" (i.e., a hack-and-slash with leveling up), is developed by Cavia (Bullet Witch, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles).
Nier has many Square Enix fans baffled, for good reason – in Japan, the game will be released in two different versions for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, called Nier Gestalt and Nier Replicant. The two games have somewhat different graphical styles and slightly altered storylines: Gestalt features an old and grizzled protagonist named Nier who is trying to save his daughter named Yonah, while Replicant has a younger, much more effeminate Nier on a quest to save his sister, also named Yonah.
To make matters slightly less complicated (or more, depending on how you look at it), the U.S. version of the game, on both platforms, is Gestalt.
Oh and the game has a hermaphrodite in it. You know, just because.
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