The writing being almost engrishy in spots likely due the localisation being rushed and Atlus threatening with copyright strikes against anyone who posts video with content beyond the early parts of the game. I realise this is all a bit overblown due to the people I happen to follow on Twitter but launch day on my social media places have just been kind of a downer that made me decide that I’ll be totally fine with taking my time with Nier before jumping into this one.
I think this is fine at least for the first month or so. I’m p tired of the playing-by-proxy monopoly of LP celebrities dominating the conversation about new games and flattening the medium into disposable non-participatory background noise
it was shitty when Nintendo was cracking down on speedrunners and modders but those things actually entail creative expression and unique performative acts that contributively modify the source material into newly meaningful works
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also fuck P-Team
let me know when their sole duty is to outsource cool UI design to better games
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also also bots poisoning the well so no one can safely discuss this game for a while owns because it means it’ll take longer for everyone to only talk about waifus forever
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This game is so Ann-heavy the first couple months! I don’t have waifu concerns but am eager for more ladies in the “Kit Kat Crew” (almost Pussy Patrol but decided nah).
The translation is less than stellar
There is a little too much verisimilitude as I navigate the exact way I would go from my house to aoyama-icchome.
I do not live in Sangenjaya (Yongenjaya). What what made them change some place names and not others.
I can agree with the general argument that let’s players often don’t transform the work sufficiently to warrant being covered under “fair use”, even though people tend to throw around the word “fair use” without knowing what its legal definition is and tend to use it as a synonym for “whatever potentially infringing thing I am doing right now”. I think if the issue Altus is trying to solve is people watching someone else play the game instead of buying it themselves, they should flat out ban any kind of streaming of P5 altogether and not choose an arbitrary point in the game from which to start enforcing their policy.
But if they are legitimately using this as a means to prevent spoilers of the game being spread around, that’s plain stupid. The game has been out for 7 months in Japan now, it’s not like the spoilers aren’t already out there.
I’m still not through with the tutorial section and am 3 hours in. I am feeling that grind where I did not with P4 or really P3.
I hate the flashback structure as I hate all flashback structures.
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Agreed on the intro. It finally opened up 4 hours in right when it was time to be done for the day.
So stylish, though!
I wasn’t particularly impressed for a while, but at this point I think the English localization and VA have done a great job with plenty of it. Party chats or interactions get very amusing and endearing.
so i played a lot of this last night, but i guess not a lot a lot, because it feels like the game hasn’t really begun yet. i was also very stoned so i guess take some of this with that in mind ~
visuals, presentation, music, atmosphere, etc all PHENOMENAL. i’m genuinely impressed by how well this game plays. it feels joyous.
other stuff - happy to hear that you can download Japanese voices. the English voices aren’t bad, but i don’t feel like i should be hearing English being spoken in this game.
so far pretty much every character aside from the playable characters has been atrocious and i hate them. i mean maybe that’s the point, but they are all genuinely awful people. additionally, the writing seems to ride a line where…i’m not always sure if the things those characters are saying are supposed to be humorous or are supposed to make me not like them even more.
also - i was wondering about the fact that i couldn’t stream this game at all (at least, that’s how it seemed). interesting to see it went far enough to have the threat of legal action form Atlus.
i am genuinely impressed by the lack of direction given when navigating the subway. i had to read the signs and actually pay attention to where i was going. felt pretty similar to my actual experiences there! and hell, even my experiences in NYC when i am taking a line i’m not super familiar with.
anyway, i like this game a lot so far and it’s a real departure, atmospherically, from NieR: Automata, so it feels like a nice way to follow up on that.
definitely wanna see how some things play out before i give it a gold star, but yeah, it’s better than i was expecting tbh.
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this was really cool. felt kind of like playing shenmue. I hope the game is rooted enough to evoke that kind of feeling more often as it goes on.
The timing on this release could not have possibly been better
Hm. I’ve only played an hour or so and I’m not feeling this at all. Hate the setup/backstory, hate the flashback structure, and I haven’t met a single endearing character yet. I know it’s still way early on, but the previous entries sucked me in immediately and this one is testing my patience.
And I know everyone else seems to like it but the UI is giving me a headache.
That shibuya statiom is hecka accurate!
The train line that derails is my trainline and that’s terrifying.
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I’ve only played like two hours but I’m loving it so far! I find it starts much better than Persona 4, where you basically hit “next” for like 5 straight in-game days. This opening is only slightly more interactive (you get to walk around, click on things, and have a few battles but are otherwise just as on rails), but the story has way more intrigue right off the bat. I like the flashback structure (especially since the framing device seems to take place halfway through the game, which is a trick i’ve seen a few times before and always enjoy), and the extremely oppressive atmosphere of injustice is palpable.
This game is really hitting me hard; I identify with the anxiety of knowing that the systems that govern people’s lives are deeply unjust, and the feeling of anger and hatred that comes as a result of you (or in my case, people i love) being powerless. Also, I just got to where morgana explains the conceit of the dungeons, and I think it’s the most effective metaphor i’ve seen in the series this far: that these places literally represent the way in which a person in power can use that power to distort reality to their will
I’m not super into the game itself yet, but having played P3 and P4 I feel like I can kinda see where P5 is going and how it differs and I think it’ll be really good
Wish the game would ease up on the railroading though. Let me buy some crap from the vending machines at least!
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Still weird that as I watch/play this game the thing I’m continually impressed by is the menus. Never thought I’d be impressed by a game’s menus.
THis first dungo isnt any joke!