PlatinumGames’ Nier: Automata is taken into account probably the greatest video games of the 2010s, and within the final 5 years, the love for it has grown because it’s been replayed and expanded to different platforms. (Recent Secret doors additionally helped.) While it’s not clear if there’ll be a observe as much as the sport, its upcoming anime can function one other shot of life to the acclaimed action-RPG.

Revealed in the course of the weekend’s AniPlex Online pageant, a pair of teasers for the anime sequence—now titled Nier: Automata Version 1.1a and developed by A-1 Pictures (Lycoris Recoil, Kaguya-Sama)—was revealed, exhibiting a quick take a look at the sport’s first two protagonists, 2B (Yui Ishikawa) and 9S (Natsuki Hanae). Notably, the teasers don’t function A2 (Ayaka Suwa), the sport’s third protagonist. It’s additionally price noting that the anime gained’t be a straight adaptation: sport director Yoko Taro, who’s co-writing the anime with director Ryouji Masuyama determined {that a} full retread wouldn’t work, so he opted to alter components of the anime round. Given that the sport has over two dozen endings, that is maybe anticipated.

Released in 2017, Nier: Automata tells the story (at first) of 2B and 9S, a pair of human-made androids who combat machines from an invading alien pressure. During their efforts to push again the machines, the duo hyperlink up with A2 and study extra about their pre-programmed goal to take again Earth for humanity. The sport turned a important darling, with specific reward directed towards its narrative and music. Commercially, the sport is alleged to have exceeded Square Enix’s expectations sufficient to make it think about turning Nier right into a franchise, and allowed PlatinumGames to proceed working as a developer.

Nier: Automata Version 1.1a will launch in January 2023.

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