After completing new sub-quests in this downloadable content, you can enjoy playing the game while wearing these costumes from NieR Replicant. The NieR:Automata™ BECOME AS GODS Edition includes the action-packed 3C3C1D119440927 downloadable content* which features “Revealing Outfit” costume for 2B, “Young Man’s Outfit” costume for 9S and “Destroyer Outfit” costume for A2. Highly-acclaimed and award winning NieR:Automata™ is a fresh take on the action role-playing game (RPG) genre that gracefully blends mesmerizing action with a captivating story. To break the deadlock, a new breed of android infantry is sent into the fray: the YoRHa squad. Fashion and videogames may be two starkly different disciplines, but Nier exists in its tantalising intersection.Invaders from another world attack without warning - unleashing the machine lifeforms. While the costume design in Nier has divided players, with some criticising its practicality and others the way it sexualises women, there’s no denying that its conceptual, cerebral fashion elevates the game. To be blindfolded also denotes total trust, perpetuating the idea that YoRHA were created to follow demands. Whether this was intentional or not, the android design is unnecessarily sexual, from the cut-out that exposes 2B's cleavage and sharp slash that dissects the elegant hem of her dress to Kaine's nightgown, which falls open at the back to reveal tiny white panties. This distinct note of BDSM is a sharp reminder that YoRHa are fetish objects, created by humans not just to reclaim the Earth but also a kind of dominance. 2B could easily be a model from a Bayne runway show, in boots that look like liquid latex and elbow-length gloves. Unlike typical bondage wear, Bayne makes luxury items in buttery black leather, such as harnesses, chokers and garters. In its prevalence of blindfolds, collars and black materials, Nier recalls Zana Bayne, a New York fashion house described as a post-fetish leather brand. The idea of androids as playthings is heightened further by the echoes of fetish wear. McQueen, obsessed with fragmentation and decay, curiously littered the runway with glass and pieces of broken machinery, highlighting the idea of women as broken dolls. In McQueen’s fall 2009 ready-to-wear collection, models were transformed into phantasmagoria, their faces chalked out and mouths blotted until their natural beauty was twisted into unnatural shapes. One particular boss towards the beginning of the game looks like a model from an Alexander McQueen collection: skeletal, grotesque, but still beautiful, a red ball gown spilling over its thin frame. In McQueen’s fall 2009 ready-to-wear collection, models were transformed into phantasmagoria, their faces chalked out and mouths blotted until their natural beauty was twisted into unnatural shapes.Įven Nier’s villains are given a runway of their own. While the silhouette is similar, 2B’s costume is more adult, swapping a parasol for a svelte sword and Mary Jane shoes for killer heels. Like an elaborate play on Victorian fashion, young women don their dresses like tiered cakes, their bouffant skirts layered in ribbons and pleats. 2B’s style may have been inspired by Gothic Lolita, a Japanese fashion subculture. She is the femme fatale of this planetary ruin. With her traditionally feminine, hyperwaisted silhouette, 2B’s uniform is not about practicality, but desire. She pirouettes across the screen in a billowing velvet dress adorned with a high collar and a delicate cut-out at the back, and is accessorised with thigh-high leather boots and black stockings. When we meet Nier’s protagonist 2B, she is a draped and ruffled china doll. At times this feels far-fetched, especially when watching a woman fi ght machines in a gown and stiletto heels, but it’s also a celebration of contemporary fashion from Los Angeles to Milan. Instead of utilitarian uniforms you may expect from an army deployed for destruction, YoRHa look like ghosts from Gothic romance crossed with children’s toys.
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