

In anticipation of that game’s release on April 23, we had the chance to ask Okabe-san about revisiting that seminal work over a decade on and find out how the game’s ethereal soundtrack is being reinterpreted for this new version.

And in a few short months we’ll hear modern-day reimaginings of those classic tracks, created especially for an updated version of the original entitled NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… Outside working on arrangement albums and live concerts, he returned for acclaimed series’ sequel NieR:Automata in 2017. Since then, the 51 year old Japanese composer has revisited that haunting sci-fi world on multiple occasions. When NieR Replicant launched in 2010, one of the most memorable facets of the PS3 action RPG was its soundtrack, masterfully created by Keiichi Okabe.
