NIER Dated in North America

That was quick. Just a few days after Square Enix announced the Japanese release date for Cavia's upcoming action-RPG NieR: Gestalt and NieR: Replicant, the company's North America branch has done the same.

As previously noted, the North American version of NieR will only be Japan's Gestalt version, and the game's official spelling on our side of the world is apparently NIER (like it matters, but there you go).

The game will launch in North America on April 27, 2010 on both Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3, a mere 5 days after its Japanese release.

Given Cavia's reputation, NieR could either be extremely interesting or extremely boring, but will almost assuredly be far from mainstream. I'm hoping for at least interesting.

[Square Enix]