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NIER AT HAND

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT? A full remaster of a beloved and strange action JRPG

DEVELOPER In-house, Toylogic Inc

PUBLISHER Square Enix

REVIEWED ON Windows 10, Intel Core i7-8750H, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK nier.square-enix-games.com/en-us

If 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 characterised by’s creative director, Yoko Taro, moved on to ply his craft elsewhere.

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