Gametech: Resurrection of a gaming masterpiece

It’s not often a game comes back to life. Yet here we are, faced with Nier: Automata, sequel to a game everyone thought dead and buried. Not only has Nier returned — but it’s come back stronger than ever.

Resurrection is a fitting theme for Nier: Automata. The game’s protagonists have been reborn more often than Dolly the Sheep. They probably wear sunglasses to bed, they’ve seen the light so often.

The central characters are all androids, programmed solely to wage war. These faux humans were constructed to protect Earth against alien-controlled robots, but humanity has long since died out and the androids and robots have kept on fighting. Every time the androids die, their consciousness is transported to a space station circling Earth, where they are given new bodies and sent out to fight again.