NieR: Automata Boss Fight Footage Revealed at E3

Showing off one of the game's boss battles, Square Enix's newest trailer for NieR: Automata gives a better look at the game's fast paced and furious combat style.

This year's E3 has showcased some of the most popular Square Enix titles. Gameplay trailers for Final Fantasy 15 and Deus Ex: Mankind Divided got fans excited about latest additions to the respective franchises, especially with the most recent game's VR announcement.

What seems less familiar to mainstream fans is another Square Enix game, NieR: Automata, which showed off one of the game's boss battle in a new gameplay trailer that released this week. NieR: Automata is developed by Platinum Games, the studio behind Bayonetta 2, and is the sequel to NieR. The action combat series takes place in an apocalyptic future where humanity's last remnants fight against machines built by alien invaders.

Though a number of characters will be available for players to control through the game, the main playable character is an all-purpose battle android named 2B, who's job is to take back earth from enemies known as machine lifeforms. The previous NieR: Automata trailer was more story focused, showing off vast barren deserts and a world of ruined futuristic cities while only revealing small parts of the fast combat mechanics that Platinum Games is known for.

The game's protagonist is showed in the newest trailer as he enters a theater and starts fighting against a gigantic boss, designed to appear as a twisted, robotic version of an opera singer. Also present in the trailer is Platinum Games' trademark action-RPG combat, which puts players in a waiting position for moving in and dealing some serious damage to alternate dodging patterns. There appears to be a dash ability allowing players to quickly change direction and dodge in midair or on the ground.

NieR: Automata is scheduled to launch for PS4 in early 2017.