Another month means a fresh batch of additions to Sony’s PlayStation Now service, with August’s offerings now confirmed to be Nier: Automata, Ghostrunner, and Undertale.
Nier: Automata is probably the biggest eye-catcher, providing another opportunity to experience developer Platinum Games’ celebrated action-RPG. Creator Yoko Taro’s second Nier outing – which follows the dystopian travails of androids 2B and 9S – is as richly atmospheric and dizzyingly inventive as its predecessor, mixing Platinum’s tried-and-tested hack-and-slash action with ample genre-busting surprises as its layers are gradually revealed.
“Those searching for an endlessly imaginative dreamlike journey,” wrote Jeffrey Matulef in his Recommended review, “will find Nier: Automata too mesmerising to look away from.
