PC, PS4
Chances are you didn’t play the original Nier game back in 2010. It’s a cult classic, which is what people call games that weren’t quite good enough to sell by the truckload.
Quietly causing some excitement seven years later, though, is its sequel, which you don’t need to have played the original to understand.
You play as 2B, who, as it turns out, isn’t a giant pencil but a sword-twirling humanoid robot. This being a Japanese game, 2B takes the form of an impossibly stretched femme fatale in stockings, heels and a blindfold. Because that’s what we’d all put on for a day doing battle against an army of machines bent on our destruction, right?
The most common machine you’ll come across looks a lot like the little…
