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SINoALICE Global Coming Soon – For Real This Time

About a year ago, I reported that SINoALICE, a mobile game directed by Drakengard/Nier director Yoko Taro, would be coming out in July of last year. However, that did not come to be. However, a few weeks ago, the global SINoALICE dream…

NieR 10th Anniversary Site Appears

Nier is a relatively new Square Enix franchise that really hit big with the 2017 release of Nier: Automata. A spin-off of Yoko Taro’s lesser-known Drakengard series, the Nier series brings a tragic fever dream through post-apocalyptic worlds that really captures the…

Nier: Automata World Guide Impressions

Nier: Automata is one of my favorite games in recent memory and I’m excited to engage with anything related to that or Nier. I recently went to a Barnes and Noble for the first time in years because we were stopping at…

Drakengard 3 (PS3) Impressions

It must be weird to see an “impressions” post for a PS3 game, huh? Well, it’s never too late to turn back the clock and pick up an old game, especially if you’re a new fan of Yoko Taro. Game director Yoko…

Nier (PS3) Review

Like many people, NieR: Automata was my first exposure to games directed by Yoko Taro, which led me to watching people play a bunch of his past stuff. On a trip to GameStop a few months ago, I saw that they had…

SINoALICE Gets Global Launch Window

It’s no secret that Square-Enix has a lot of mobile games. Most of them are ports of console games of varying quality, though they have a few gacha games; mainly based on the Final Fantasy franchise. One of their mobile games, however,…

Nier: Automata (PS4) Review

For years, game director Yoko Taro was a niche creator with interesting ideas. His most well-known works, Drakengard and Nier, are beloved for everything but their gameplay; which has led to them largely being rejected by mainstream gaming audiences but embraced by…