NIER AT HAND
f you didn’t know that was the final game from studio Cavia Games, you might be able to tell from playing it. The action RPG feels like a final act: a swing for the fences characterized by anger, tragedy, and a desperate sense of sincerity. And like most desperate swings, it failed at the time: Sales were poor, Cavia Games was absorbed into its parent company, and ’s creative director, Yoko Taro, moved
