Playing this concurrently with the Nier Remake might not have been the best decision for my heart.

Whilst requiem suffers from the base conceit of mostly being a retread (particularly in its final act) of the base story, and that base story is overall far, far superior to this, dear lord Novetacle know how to absolutely wreck me, and this story of inevitable tragedy, the wham moments are wonderfully gut wrenching. It also does a good job at fleshing out some of the main cast, and the new included characters are surprisingly strong.

As ever the art and in particular the haunting soundtrack could carry a much weaker vn on its own. And whilst requiem is a bit of a tacked on retread that almost feels like a stretch goal for a Kickstarter, making that retread good, and somehow still being tense as hell - is quite remarkable