Posted: 7/30/2017 9:22:02 AM EDT
I've had Nier Automata for a while and finally got around to sinking some real time into it over the past couple weekends. I gave up when I first played the game three or four months ago, mostly because I couldn't figure out the combat on my own and got absolutely dumpstered in the tutorial mission.  The game has some odd camera angles that's done for the cinematic feel I imagine, but it made combat awkward in the opening segment of the game (and makes it a little clunky at times throughout the game, but it looks cool at least). I had no clue WTF I was doing, not being able to see what was going on didn't help matters any either.
I cheated and watched a couple Youtube videos, nothing story related, just a how-to on the combat, and what I'm supposed to do for the opening/tutorial bit. I've gotten all of the main endings I think, and a few of the joke endings inadvertently which are mostly just funny game over screens. It's a very strange game, but a very satisfying one as well. The music is fantastic (seriously - the scoring with poignant moments in the game is brilliant), the voice acting, especially at the game's climax is amazing, and the story itself...man, I don't know if I've ever cared about characters in a video game - both the good guys and the bad guys - like I do/did in Nier Automata. Even the NPCs hit you in the feels with their dialog and stories. I don't want to spoil anything, but the development of someone other than the main protagonist I thought was especially neat. A lot of games will focus on one hero or one character, usually the player-character, which makes sense, but in this game almost everyone has their story, and this character's story is very cool. For me I'd say it is *the* story of the game, but it really is a beautiful story and needs to be heard and experienced first hand. Nier Automata is on PC and PS4, I don't know how it runs on PC. There's a few moments where it chugs piss pretty hard on PS4, but it wasn't anything that broke or crashed the game. You'll probably want to play this with a controller, there's some combos/countering involved in combat that I don't know if they'd transfer well over to mouse/keyboard. So in short, this is a really, really good game. A really strange game. I never played the original Nier, nor any of the Drakengard games which I've read are in the same universe as Nier, and apparently there's a lot of Easter eggs in the game that go back to both of those games. If you're looking for a good story, I think this is one of the better/best ones in 2017 to experience. |
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I beat the first playthrough but I haven't gone back and done any of the others yet. Right now FF12 is taking up my time. I do enjoy it. my first joke ending outside of the tutorial one was going 'huh i wonder if they will actually let you remove this....DEAD A whole new world opens up on subsequent completions. |
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I loved the demo, and the Cosplay has been epic!
Since I have a huge backlog of games across many platforms as it is, I have elected to wait for the inevitable Game of the Year/Complete edition to come out with all the DLC. Although, right now, I don't think there has been any, other than some outfits for 2B and the others... |
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Third route is where it's at. Whole lot of holy shit moments. |
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I loved the demo, and the Cosplay has been epic! Since I have a huge backlog of games across many platforms as it is, I have elected to wait for the inevitable Game of the Year/Complete edition to come out with all the DLC. Although, right now, I don't think there has been any, other than some outfits for 2B and the others... |