I really liked how the remaster kinda depowered the final boss in la mulana, The original felt like one last big obstacle, and the remaster made the final boss feel more like the last gasp of the dungeon that you’ve spent the entire game defeating, and whose secrets you’ve already laid bare.
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The gorilla isn’t too bad once you know what you have to aim for. Unless there are other guys around at the same time, that gets tricky! But I kind of liked him all the same. : ) Except for the last time when there’s a whole mob of guys thrown in at the same time, that was part of the ending ridiculousness–but still doesn’t have a patch on the final boss in the next screen over, eesh.
I plan to finish the last route of Nier Automata today and would like to play Replicant.
I read around a bit, and it seems the multiple playthroughs in Nier Replicant are much more repetitive than in Automata.
Should I skip them and replace them with watching youtube videos of the content missing from ending A?
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The remake of Replicant is even more repetitive since they add a new story segment that must also be replayed. I personally don’t mind the repetition but am a Nier mark. I think there’s some sections that are interesting to see as different for yourself and the new ending route is kinda neat to playthrough. If you wanna save 10 hours then you could probably do Youtube but the new stuff in each ending isn’t all at the end. There’s probably a Yt compilation that filters out the new stuff
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Thank you. I will look into a youtube compilation when the time comes 
Is the first playthrough also 10 hour long?
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First playthrough is significantly longer. Without spoiling much, the first playthrough involves playing the front half of the game, then a back half. The Repeat playthroughs for the different endings will always start at the same point which is a little way into the back half, so they’re shorter but feel long because of how much you redo. That first front and back half together takes about 15ish hours depending on how slow you go. If you really rush and beeline it it can be as long as 5-6hours.
The whole thing takes about 35 hours I’d say, assuming you take your time with side activities and other stuff.
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What’s like, the total playtime to go through all the routes in Automata anyway?
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i’d put it in the 35-50 hours category depending on how many sidequests you’re doing
Replicant/OG Nier demands a lot more sidequest interaction due to how you unlock the last ending
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That Jackey the Jack Rabbit game doesn’t seem to exist?
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had to put away Alundra for awhile after beating another dungeon. i did seem to successfully switch over to the “Un Working Designs” patch, but eventually i started to have a “why am i doing this” crisis moment which usually spells doom for my motivation to finish games. there’s just so much more to go in this game and it already feels like i’ve been playing it for forever.
the dungeons have gotten more Zelda-esque and dense and the dialogue with people in the town has wound down for a bit. although someone did think i’m the devil, so that’s cool. i do like the darker aspects of the plot.
the dungeons, i will say, are more intense about particular kind of puzzles. i’m not sure if this is to its credit or not, but it’s at least different feeling enough from Zelda. after i beat the above dungeon a lot of the map opened up, including this cool looking temple i presume i’ll go to later on that a lot of angry little elves were coming out of once they spotted me
i like Alundra overall but it’s not doing enough to keep me going when i have a billion other games i’d probably rather be playing right now. it feels better/more advanced than many Zelda games in a lot of ways, so i’m not really sure why it’s not holding me quite as much. maybe it’s just the atmosphere/economy of things in Zelda stuff is better. it’s better at conveying more mystery with less. maybe there’s just a little less slightly grindy/awkward bullshit in a lot of Zelda games than there is in this one. or maybe it’s just because the tropes are already so well established at this point and i’ve just gotten tired of them whenever i start to see them.
also i really respect games like Silent Hill 1 for being like 8-10 hours. that feels like a good sweet spot.
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I took a look at an LP of Shadows of Forbidden Gods after reading this. Kind of had crazy vibes of Dominions which I have dipped into many times over the years when I get a particular itch. After I felt like I had the mechanics reasonably understood I bought it and started it up.
Got a horrible spawn for spreading shadow – bottle-necked in both directions to any civilizations with nothing but orcs behind. I did get a good plague going in the north though. Had to stop but today I was thinking I could go Game of Thrones style by stoking political tensions in the south while turning the plague dead into a zombie horde.
Not sure if it will result in a win but I hope it does so I can try out Iastur. From what I’ve read, you can mess with individual characters’ likes and dislikes.
Thanks for bringing it up!
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i tried a couple generated maps and got confronted by a few of these situations like the one you mentioned, where the map itself was challenging for my god’s playstyle… however the pre-generated one that you can select to use in the game start menu is pretty good! It has some features which make it fun to experiment with certain techniques (summoning the first daughter etc) but protect you from some of those game-escalating things early on. I recommend it if you’re looking for a very ordinary continent to demolish, haha.
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FFviiR Platinum attempt trundles on. It’s looking like the horrible sidequest trophy only triggers when what it considers a ‘playthrough’ has 24/26 of the sidequests complete. All 26 have to be completed across multiple playthroughs because 2 are blocked off by doing 2 others and vice versa. If you replay and don’t do the sidequests in a mission it resets the counter and you gotta do em again as far as I can make out - even though I’ve done them all. This thankless chore is my entertainment atm.
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OH. Yeah that the reference I found and did not look at closely was on Video Games Fanon Wiki | Fandom , whose front page says
This is a fanon wiki, meaning none of these works are real.
… Sheesh. : P
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less slowly than expected, but surely, the rhythm and stage layout of Osman is coming back to me, and i consistently make it to the last level on 1 or 2 credits. the last level is genuinely kind of ridiculous, but i’ll get it…eventually - it always gave me a hard time and i never 1CC’d the game as i’d wished back when i was playing this in between classes in college…uhh…20 years ago…but
i think this time i’ll do it!!!
i think this game surpasses Strider in terms of combat and perhaps even aesthetics, but the cinematic events are fewer and the set pieces are perhaps less memorable. though when they are memorable (like the Helios fight, or the chats with Abdullah the Slaver), they leave a stronger impression than anything in Strider or Strider 2.
this release is a happy one for me, but i do find it baffling - after all this time, they release a somewhat barebones release of an arcade game essentially no one has heard of; it doesn’t bode well for gaining the game more recognition, but who knows - maybe just having a general console presence will do more for it.
i find the combat in Osman to be more enjoyable than Strider, but only because you have more options. enemies are fodder to destroy each other, or they’re impassable objects that you need to find the one correct path to avoid - finding the weaknesses in level design or enemy AI is the joy of this game
i’m going to have to take some screen shots of the more interesting parts, because Google is…lacking
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screaming and crying because my steam deck crashed when i beat a tough shrine in tears of the kingdom, and now i cant beat it again
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living up to its name, then
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Speaking of that on Steam Deck. I am hopeful we will be able to play the game at a stable 30fps instead of an unstable 20 someday.
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Good to know for an unlock should this one fail. I hope I can pull it out though. Once the zombie horde is unleashed and the kingdoms hate each other enough, I’m hoping they will be too preoccupied to fight of the shadow off.
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