Where can you play it? I check the steam page and there’s no demo.

@@kobecleckler7431 This was from the content creator demo sent out to people who asked or submitted an application. I suggest following their twitter (or X if thats what you wanna call it) @AIKODEgame | They post new forms to apply for access to the demo quite often.

@@nibuin thank you

it was for the greater good of the loop 😶

I was quite surprised from the trailers alone how much it felt like a full-on fan-made DrakenNier game. One character quite literally resembles Zero from Drakengard 3, after all. The gameplay (specifically the combat) certainly feels similar to the NieR games, give or take a few things. The combat effects, primarily the red ghost left behind during certain actions, remind me of the Engine Blade that you could also acquire in Automata. I suppose if the goal was to release a game that "can" compete with DrakenNier games, it's trying its best to do so. As a fan of these types of games I have to admit I enjoyed the demo itself, for what it's worth. I am hoping the developer tries to branch away from the NieR aesthetic they are going for before fully releasing this game, and making it their own. From my understanding via the email I received the developer claimed the game is intended to have endings that are not like in NieR, but more-so like Virtue's Last Reward or Stein's Gate. Whether that is the only thing intended to stray away from the NieR / Drakengard similarities is beyond me right now. I would have to agree right now the majority of the game feels like a Yoko Taro fan-made game with steampunk aspects to try and cloud off how the game will be perceived. TLDR; demo was fun (I encountered very few bugs and little to no performance problems), combat is very satisfying and smooth, music was very nice to listen to, game currently feels like a fan-made DrakenNier game (this could be ok if intentional). I look forward to seeing what's to come before the release, but for now that is my stance on the game.

I respect your opinion, but I dont think NieR automata is a “GOD”, don’t get me wrong I love yoko taro’s work, but imo Nier Automata is far from perfect (and I actually PREFER Nier replicant)… I don’t really understand… what are we comparing here? Visuals, music, narrative? The visuals of AIKODE are really different (and from a technical point of view it’s better thanks to the actual engine - UE5), the music? Is completely different, I would even say the narrative is different, even how the cutscenes are directed (you can even see this in the last cutscene how the music syncs with each shot)… also, if we talk about story, this is not trying to mimic NA, it’s actually closer to steins gate or virtue’s last reward, and even so… saying this is just Nier or yoko taro’s work mixed up is illogical… a lot of this demo looks more “nomura” than yoko taro… and a lot of other games too… the guitar minigame is the last of us, the HUD looks more persona “scifi” than Nier, the visuals are final fantasy, the music final fantasy or kingdom hearts, the sector F area looks more gravity rush than nier, Schrödinger town more like altissia from ffxv or scala from kh, Shibuya is literally Shibuya, Kingdom of decay is more similar to Anthem… even the flying mechanic are like Anthem… and a lot of characters look more FF13 than Nier (and even when they are “Nier type”, like Aiko, you can see FF13 Elements on them)… tbh, even the color correction is nothing like Nier (nier looks much much much more less contrasted and desaturated)… yeah sure, it has gameplay elements from NA… but AIKODE takes stuff from a lot of other games (what I took from Nier Automata was part of the movement and part of the combat… but that’s it) I don’t care about comparisons tbh, the final game is not Nier, and people will understand this when they play the final game.

Also, in this case I can assure you comparisons don’t hurt, they help… the main reason why AIKODE is getting more popular and more “loved” is because of the Nier comparisons, so I embrace that… most DrakeNier fans are awesome, and they support stuff inspired but the stuff they like, especially when it’s done right, even Yoko taro tweeted about AIKODE… and I can only be grateful… most of this happened because I decided to “lean this close to nier”… and imo it was the best think I could have done as a solo developer… not only because I love Nier and Yoko taro’s work, but because getting “popular” in this industry as a solo dev is harder than you think… Creating a game has a lot of layers, and even if i did the most original product, if no one knows about it, it DOESN’T exist. (The fact that you are here or other people are here is proving my point) And again, I love Yoko taro’s work, but is not my only inspiration, because i love other directors and games too, as i’ve said, like Nomura’s work, FF13 Saga, persona, yakuza, gravity rush, etc… this game is trying to recapture the 2000s RPG era with modern graphics, not Nier.