Is it really that good? What am I really in for?
Is it really that good? What am I really in for?
William Campbell
Kevin Smith
An extremely flawed but very worthwhile and compelling experience
The best game since Spelunky
Justin Hernandez
So what's the selling point of it? The narrative?
Evan Carter
Yes
> 7th Best Game Ever: NieR Automata
> If NieR Automata were just a straight-forward open-world action title, one that could be completed in approximately 10 hours, stretching from the first line of dialogue until Ending A, it would still stand tall for being a fundamentally odd game about machines pondering their own humanity, ending on a quaintly sentimental but earned grace note. Ending A, however, is the tip of the iceberg, partially obscuring what eventually reveals itself to be one of the most unique ludological and existentialist exercises in any medium. On one hand, it’s a love letter and celebration of everything games are, as its mechanics flit joyously between genres; it’s a hack-and-slash power trip one moment, a shooter the next, sometimes even a platformer. On the other, it’s pathologically obsessed with tearing down everything about what those genres have done up to this point in the history of gaming. NieR Automata performs a philosophical autopsy on the post-apocalyptic corpse of humankind through the lens of machines finding themselves bound to make sense of their own burgeoning sentience from the scraps we leave behind. It’s a game that revels in the destruction of one’s enemies, and also forces players to recognize their own role in creating them, and the imperative of understanding them to truly move forward, a pensiveness framed by one of the most glorious, eclectic scores ever composed. - Slant Magazine
Nicholas Watson
The way it tells it
Advice: Keep playing. This is literally "it gets good 20 hours in" the game. Not that the first two parts are bad, it's just the third part is so fucking good it
Don't get spoiled
Connor Hernandez
2b dies
Mason Anderson
Pretty solid game with a nice story.
I still like the original Nier more and I really hope they remaster it.
Caleb Rodriguez
Subpar action game, god tier story, secondary quests are worse than skyrim ones but at least they have some story going.
Nolan Sullivan
A good game. Btw there are 5 main endings don't stop after you get A. Have fun faggot.
John Taylor
Literally the very INCARNATION of the
"it gets good forty hours in, really" meme.