NieR Team Working on Download Content [4/16]

[Gingerbread Lesbian]

Nier executive producer Yosuke Saito said during early interviews that his team had some interesting download content ideas. It looks like we'll get to see some of those ideas.

In an interview posted at Xbox.com, Saito said that team NieR is planning download content for the game. They started working on this area immediately following completion of the main release. He did not share further details.

Elsewhere in the interview, Saito revealed a surprising connection between NieR and a previous Cavia game called Drakengard (Drag-on-Dragoon in Japan). Drakengard has multiple endings. The Tokyo Tower landmark appears in one of these endings, which is known as the "Shinjuku End." NieR actually takes place some time in the future of the world featured in this Shinjuku End.

This little connection is not clearly mentioned in the game, though. Saito assured potential NieR buyers that they have no need to worry if they've not played Drakengard.

Saito also revealed one other element that won't be clearly visible in the game. Each of the game's weapon has its own story. These will be told in magazines as "Weapon Stories." There are also plans in place to release the stories in book form at some point.

For those looking forward to playing NieR in something other than Japanese, it looks like the team spent a good amount of time on the localization aspects. Saito described translations as a difficult area of the game.

Normally, they tackle localization after the Japanese version of a game has been completed. This time, they wanted to make all languages simultaneously. This caused some difficulties, as any changes to the Japanese source text required changes to all the other text.

Source: Andriasang
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[Rey]

Thats cool! So If I finish Nier I will get DLC Im actually really looking foward to playing Nier. Btw Gestalt is on ps3 also right since Replicant is only JP only. So they released Gestalt on 360 and ps3. Im gonna get it for the 360 Im glad SE is finally deciding to put Dlc in their games.

 

[Linnaete]

*sigh*. Download content. Must they? Is that now an arbitrary part of life in the world of video games now? NieR itself isn't particularly a game I am excited for - nor is it a game I'm planning to get, but I don't like the idea of buying it from the store with the knowledge that the game you are holding in your hands is not the whole thing - that you need to fork out considerably more for the rest of the content.

When it says that Cavia have finished developing the main release itself, I hope that it hasn't meant a cut in content from the main game just to implement it as DLC.

 

[Martel]

Its related to Drakengard?!

...this game just upped itself from "will buy somewhen" to "must buy on launch day" for me. I LOVE Drakengard, and no matter how small the link, its definetely worth looking into. Although I'm not going to look at those giant monsters in the same way again...everything is going to remind me of a Grotesquerie, and those things scare the hell out of me...

They MUST have mentioned that link for some reason, so I'm going to take that as a good sign for some obscure references or cameos. Considering Drakengard's freakish monsters would fit in nicely with NIER's, I can only hope for some optional bosses at least.

Oh, and DLC sounds very nice, so long as its actually worth it *is too excited by the Drakengard reference to care*