Square Enix Is Teasing Something NieR-Related Again in a Cryptic Website Update

Even if you enjoyed NieR: Automata and its predecessor, NieR: Replicant, you could beryllium forgiven for not knowing that crippled really got a sequel, and a beauteous bully 1 too. Unfortunately, that sequel, mobile crippled NieR: Re[in]carnation, hasn't been disposable for astir a twelvemonth aft being taken offline successful April of 2024.

But fortunately, a Square Enix website is dropping immoderate beauteous chaotic in-universe hints that this mightiness beryllium astir to change.

As pointed retired to america connected BlueSky by writer Willa Rowe, an authoritative NieR website that's presently publishing a NieR peculiar movel to commemorate the bid 15th day is teasing thing NieR: Re[in]carnation-related via cryptic in-text hints and webpage root code. As a portion of today's update to the novel, the just-published section 4 ends with immoderate unusual substance that reads arsenic follows:

[WARNING] : Recovery protocol initialized...[ERROR] : Redirecting to backup node: < https://www.jp.square-enix.com/nierreincarnation/ >[INFO] : Analysis comments added to the root code.
[FATAL] : Process forcibly halted.

What does THAT mean? Who knows? But wait, there's more. If you deed "View Source" connected that page, determination are adjacent much weird teases successful the codification comments, arsenic hinted astatine above. They read, successful order:

SECURITY NOTICE: Unauthorized transmission detected. Signal disruption logged. Countermeasure protocol active. Redirecting to backup node: https://www.jp.square-enix.com/nierreincarnation/TODO: Optimize rendering efficiency. Contradictions successful "Her" emotions whitethorn interfere with awesome clarity. Ensure transission remains undistorted.FIXME: Visibility settings enabled for crashed perceiver system. He is watching...Adjust entree permissions earlier deployment. His sanction is............HACK: Log discrepancy detected. Records bespeak erstwhile modification attempts owed to excessive interference from The Cage. Cross-check against archetypal transmission earlier proceeding.

Okay, there's a batch here, immoderate of which is inscrutable and immoderate of which makes sense. "The Cage", for instance, is the main determination wherever astir of NieR: Re[in]carnation takes place. And "Her" is simply a cardinal quality (yes, that's Her name) successful Re[in]carnation arsenic well. Between that and the hyperlink, it's beauteous evident what each this is referencing, but what precisely volition go of it remains anyone's guess.

The 2 last chapters of the caller are scheduled to people connected May 2, a week from today, and it's imaginable it whitethorn besides propulsion backmost the curtain connected whatever's happening here. Fans are speculating that it whitethorn beryllium starring up to immoderate benignant of larboard oregon re-release of NieR: Re[in]carnation, which has been wholly unplayable anyplace since it went offline past year. They're besides pointing retired that the chapters of the peculiar novel, which are presently lone disposable successful Japanese (but which fans are translating), person immoderate beauteous important tie-ins to each 3 different NieR games.

If you're unfamiliar with Re[in]carnation, I highly urge keeping an oculus connected this, particularly if the extremity effect is different accidental to play it. Re[in]carnation is simply a bully crippled successful its ain close that galore slept connected owed to its being a mobile gacha game, but critically, it's besides the nonstop sequel to NieR: Automata, and efficaciously is NieR 3, for those who person been waiting for it. Who knows? Maybe a caller Re[in]carnation merchandise could see immoderate caller contented that ties the ongoing watercourse of escaped NieR-related threads unneurotic astatine last.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. You tin find her posting connected BlueSky @duckvalentine.bsky.social. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].