▲
1
▼
In Route C, if the player talks to Jackass after the bunker's destruction, she'll comment that she had a friend on The Bunker named "White." This friend is revealed to be The Commander in the Black Box Edition Art Book.
▲
1
▼
The original plan was to make the game for mobile platforms or Play Station Vita. Yoko claims that they intended for it to be similar to farming simulator Farmville. But it was soon decided to develop the game for PS4 instead.
▲
1
▼
Pascal identifies as male but uses a female voice. The in-game reason is to soothe his adopted machine children. But in actuality, Yoko Taro claims that it is due to Takahisa Taura, game designer for Platinum Games, wanting voice actress Aoi Yuuki to play a role in the game.
▲
1
▼
Much like the previous game being inspired by the September 11th and the War on Terror, Taro cites the changing political spectrum influencing the game. For example, changes from "reason to emotion" and "objective to subjective," which is represented by "President Trump being elected" and "the UK leaving the EU."
▲
1
▼
The main framework of the game is themed around "uneasy children without parents" represented as "machine life-forms that have lost their creator" and "androids that have lost the humankind they were supposed to protect."
▲
1
▼
The game was written by Yoko, Haha Kikuchi and Yoshiho Akabane. The team defined the game's central theme as "agaku", a Japanese word meaning to struggle out of a bad situation. Another theme for the game was "love", which was unusual given that all the central cast were robots, which were not normally associated with emotions.
According to Yoko, while the scenario of NieR was "wet" in its emotional content, for Nier: Automata he aimed for a "dry" narrative concerning the world's inherent unfairness and the prejudices the characters are forced to confront.
According to Yoko, while the scenario of NieR was "wet" in its emotional content, for Nier: Automata he aimed for a "dry" narrative concerning the world's inherent unfairness and the prejudices the characters are forced to confront.
▲
1
▼
While designing the game's RPG elements, the staff at Platinum Games were at least partially inspired by The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt in the design of their sidequests, which they felt they would never be able to match. Game designer, Takahisa Taura, said:
"When we were making the game, The Witcher 3 came out. The sub-quest elements were so great, it was kind of demoralizing, so we just stopped playing the game..."
"When we were making the game, The Witcher 3 came out. The sub-quest elements were so great, it was kind of demoralizing, so we just stopped playing the game..."
▲
1
▼
The collaboration between Square Enix and Platinum Games was agreed upon with the condition that Yoko Taro relocate from Tokyo to Osaka where Platinum Games was located. Although Taro was initially uneasy about the collaboration, the staff at Platinum Games had been wanting to work on a NieR game since its release, and their enthusiasm and wish to remain faithful to the original assuaged his doubts.
▲
1
▼

Related Games
NieR
Drakengard 2
Drakengard 3
Drakengard
Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days
Final Fantasy XV
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars
American Mensa Academy
Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
Gex Trilogy
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants in Manhattan
Deadman's Cross
Bayonetta 3
PowerWash Simulator
Bayonetta
Bushido Blade
Fortune Street
Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume
Kingdom Hearts 0.2: Birth by Sleep - A Fragmentary Passage
Fantasy Earth: Zero
Ogre Battle: The March of the Black Queen
Bahamut Lagoon
Final Fantasy VIII
Final Fantasy Dimensions
Final Fantasy IV Advance
The Quiet Man
Saints Row: The Third
Overwatch
Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy
Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King
Final Fantasy VII
Final Fantasy XIV Online
Tobal No. 1
Kingdom Hearts
Star Ocean: The Last Hope
Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria
Hitman: Absolution
Final Fantasy I & II: Dawn of Souls
Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Demon's Score
The 3rd Birthday
Tomb Raider
The Wonderful 101
Major Minor's Majestic March
One Piece Odyssey
Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Dirge of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure