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GAME · 2021

NieR Replicant IS WOKE

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The upgraded prequel of NieR:Automata. A kind young man sets out with Grimoire Weiss, a strange talking book, to search for the "Sealed verses" in order to save his sister Yonah, who fell terminally ill to the Black Scrawl.

In the far distant future, humanity is on the brink of extinction. A black scrawl disease and strange beasts threaten the world. A kind-hearted young boy makes a promise to his little sister. A thousand-year lie that would live on for eternity.

The protagonist is a kind young man living in a remote village. In order to save his sister Yonah, who fell terminally ill to the Black Scrawl, he sets out with Grimoire Weiss, a strange talking tome, to search for the "Sealed verses."

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  • notwokeshows@gmail.comThe Gay Ratio
    • While the game's narrative tracks a tiny, isolated group of nomadic survivors in a crumbling, post-apocalyptic world meant to mirror an early societal cross-section, the script establishes a highly dense concentration of LGBTQ+ dynamics within its immediate four-member main party.
  • notwokeshows@gmail.comStrong Woman
    • The game utilizes traditional gender subversion by attributing hyper-masculine, aggressive physical dominance and raw combat mastery to its primary female lead. Kainé is structurally written as a foul-mouthed, dual-blade-wielding berserker who routinely spearheads the party's frontal assaults, intercepting monolithic boss threats and executing high-impact physical strikes. The script positions her physical endurance and protective offensive capabilities as an absolute necessity that repeatedly saves the young male protagonist from terminal kinetic threats, upending historical damsel archetypes

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