wow this game is wild. so taro from the second you get past the opening (demo bit).
the sidequest writing is just what i needed from a sequel to nier. the stamp quest OMG!
dang, the ending of loop a to this actually got me in ways.
I know that you can get some endings by choosing not to do story-fights when prompted to
right now Iām super stoked to make the transition from playing as 2B to playing as 9S and the kind of wacky changeup w/r/t mechanics that that implies
I was getting skeptical of how long the last act was going on, but that was seriously about as good of an ending to a japanese videogame about robots as I couldāve imagined
nier / 10, much more excited to play second loop than Iād have thought a couple hours ago
nine hours flat btw, in case others wanted some idea
oh man this is everything
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Should I wait to play nier 1 before playing this
Why the fuck did you wait to play Nier 1
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Iād lean towards no. nier tells a nice little story which has nothing to do with this game, but the majority of what it does thematically and mechanically is present here too, and the baseline āgameplayā (hate that word) is much stronger
I kept assuming it was like some dmc beat-them-up or some shit so I didnāt pay any attention to it. now Iām stuck waiting on ps3 emulation for it
Hey, I unlocked fast travel, which i remember means iām near the end of a loop, but there are a ton of areas on the map that I havenāt unlocked yet (despite trying to get to them), with even some sidequest destinations in these areas. Iāve been doing a lot of sidequests but i wonder if i should just get on with this, since iāll be playing through this a bunch of times?
I got a sidequest that led me to my first extra pod. It has a different weapon than my other pod!
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fast travel is only like half to 2/3 of the way through, ānear the endā was an overstatement by rudie
I wound up doing like half the sidequests I got before I decided that was enough, which is still many more than in nier 1
I am surprisingly engaged by these side quests. Theyāre typical jrpg fodder at first glance but many of them have turns that make them just interesting enough. Some of them are pretty dark! Thereās a few that I wonder if they have multiple outcomes (even though you donāt always get dialogue choices).
yeah, I worry I shouldnāt have played this so soon after yakuza because the worthwhileness of the side quests (above-average writing for bog-standard scripting) and the quality of the combat (not up to from or platinum at their best and therefore not really worth putting on hard but feels better-than-normal good to press buttons) are pretty comparable
japanese games yāall
I spent like three hours trying to complete the demo section on Hard before I finally gave up and switched to Normal to complete that, then went back to Hard. I like the way the enemies actually try to dodge your attacks and stuff on Hard but pretty much everything is an instant-kill? Thereās an Actual Instant Kill Mode above Hard Mode, but that just seems redundant when pretty much any mistake against a boss and most mistakes against regular enemies means youāre dead anyway.
Bullets are a LOOOT more lethal in this game than they were in Nier 1, which makes some fights more interesting but also makes it complete bullshit when giant enemies shooting huge clumps of bullets turn 180 degrees in a handful of frames to blast you point-blank with bullets when youāre trying to run around behind them to flank while 9S attacks them from the other side. Okay, I get it, I Am Required To Deal With This Attack, you couldāve made this feel less like bullshit.
I wasnāt a huge fan of the first Nier. I didnāt really like how it felt to control and combat was a little too stringy, a little floppy.
but yaāll are making me real curious about this one. would it be a repeat of last time or is this one actually better?
Sup I didnāt play Nier either. I meant to at one point because everyone was always talking about it but they were always talking about it in either very vague or very specific ways because no one wanted to spoil the overall thing that Nier does.
It was not until a week ago when I watched this Super Bunnyhop video where the guy basically explains what the deal with Nier is.
I watched that and I was like āOh so thatās what a Nier is. Ok then.ā. In a lot of ways itās basically a video game thatās about video games. Very clever with all the various genre call outs and such. And very Japanese as well.
So I still donāt know if Iāll ever play a Nier but Iām glad thereās two of them now. I also really miss Cavia but thatās kind of neither here nor there. Nier was just one of the last games they released and apparently it kind of ties into Drakengard 2(?) and I feel kind of bad for not playing it at the time.
Man part of the reward and joy with Nier was not knowing what it was and it makes me angry and upset to reduce all those reveals and twists to a youtube video. The connection is with a joke ending in drakengard 1.
Without getting into a semantics argument with felix. After fast travel there are two seperate 45 minute events that kind of arrive without warning and then the ending which is equally abrupt.
If it makes everyone feel better after Loop 3 you unlock chapter select which also lists all the side-quests available and completed in each chapter.
Man I just realized there are a least 4-5 things in the game I still donāt understand! Guess that is my fault~.
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The first Nier was a god tier game, as was Drakengard 3, for reasons I believe Iāve already made abundantly clear. Looking forward to Drakengard 4 after this. I mean, can you imagine Drakengard 3ās gameplay remade by Platinum? There is zero reason for them NOT to make it, and in fact itās such a precise fit that they could probably churn it out in a weekend.
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I didnāt watch the video but if thatās what he says then no not at all
this game rules thereās a robo jean-paul sarte you give presents to
so I unlocked fast travel which I guess means Iām close to the end of the first loop, even though that makes no sense. do I get to unlock the forest here at some point? whereās the other underground shit? should I really do this box puzzle side quest?