Squeenix NieR: Automata from Yoko Taro and Platinum Games

[Cat Headed Eagle]

Pretty funny to complain about multimedia lore dumps when the basis for Nier itself is mostly contained in a drama CD. Not saying it's a dumb view to have, just funny.

Not really, if you want the whole story you need a lot more stuff, and that's not mentioning the Drakengard stuff that still ties to Nier (especially after the mobile game tied Nier back into Drakengard's timeline)

 

[Jacob]

I'm just saying that if you say it out loud that you hate this franchise, especially in some American neighborhood, it's not going to end well for you.

 

[FreshCorpse]

I found this game in my steam library last week, which probably means that I bought it heavily discounted in a sale at some point.

Not knowing what to expect I booted it up. It's been weird. Some disorganised thoughts:

It's quite easy. I somehow managed to get a near invincible build by accident. I plumped for the entire set of chip slots quite early (all the +N SLOTS items), then just auto set my chips. As I have a few chips that give health when I kill/deal damage I am a regeneration monster. I've died once in the first ~9 hours to the first snake enemy.

The default keybinding is weird. I immediately remapped it to Dark Souls, which strangely is not one of the three preset options.

I read that there was some kerfuffle online about many textures being shit but I personally doubted how bad they could be. They are so, so bad. I can't understand how they were left in. Fairly easily modded via NAMH which appears to be the way to go these days. There's a lot of out-of-date modding guides online from before the final patch so it took me a while to find NAMH. Predictably Nexus is filled with all sorts of coomer mods. I reserve the right to make everyone's boobs massive at a later date.

It's cool how there is a mix of genres. I find the shmup/twin-stick shooter sections to be "good, actually". I would never really consider those genres normally so they are refreshing.

The environments are beautiful on occasion but bland as all hell most of the time. Somehow they have a visual commonality with a lot of bland Japanese game backgrounds. Like the urban areas in Death Stranding. A queer auto-generated feeling. Can't put my finger on that effect.

The plot is porno-tier junk but the set pieces are cool. I always think the Japanese have an eye for shots, I dunno why I can think of nearly no contemporary Japanese films.

 

[Jason Liang]

It's quite easy. I somehow managed to get a near invincible build by accident. I plumped for the entire set of chip slots quite early (all the +N SLOTS items), then just auto set my chips. As I have a few chips that give health when I kill/deal damage I am a regeneration monster. I've died once in the first ~9 hours to the first snake enemy.

I mean, you could turn up the difficulty. My 7 year old niece beat Ending A on Normal last year without doing any weapon changing, upgrading, or skill chips.

 

[Azalin]

The people who manage to beat the final bullet hell shooter against the credits to get ending E without any assistance have my respect

Of course I hold in even higher regard those who chose to sacrifice their saves in the end to help others

 

[Abu Antar]

The people who manage to beat the final bullet hell shooter against the credits to get ending E without any assistance have my respect

Of course I hold in even higher regard those who chose to sacrifice their saves in the end to help others

That's what I did.