![]() ![]() Honest review from a guy who loves challenging games,loves japanese made games and loved to death Bayonetta and it's battle system Honest review from a guy who loves challenging games,loves japanese made games and loved to death Bayonetta and it's battle system Graphics: 8 Technically the graphics are ps3 but the artwork is amazing and builds excellent atmosphere.The game has performance issues though and the optimization for the pc is bad.Nothing game-breaking but you will get dips below 60 fps even with high end cards while the graphics don't seem so demanding.Artwork>graphics so 8/10 here Sound: 9 The soundtrack is truly memorable,one of the best i have heard in years in a videogame and it really compliments the mysterious setting of the game.The fx sound of the game is good, could be worse could be better.Not every dialog is voice acted though.It gest a 9 mostly for the amazing soundtrack Gameplay: 7 Serious balancing issues for the difficulty levels.Very hard=one hit killed.That makes the different enemies irrelevant. Hopefully it receives the attention it deserves because games like this are really once a gen masterpieces. Nier is the best game I've played since The Witcher 3 in July 2015. Nier frequently defies player expectations, creatively breaks the fourth wall, paints a rich sci-fi lore with excellent world-building, and leaves enough room to fill in the blanks with your imagination that I expect a fanbase similar to Undertale to crop up around it. So many great ideas and designs are incorporated into Nier: Automata that its hard to cover all of them in a simple written review. While replaying portions of the game again as a different character can become tedious, their story line splits provide a fresh look at each character and the main story itself. His decline into insanity isn't a simple breaking point but a good dozen hours of misery that was so well written that it became the main driving force of the story. This game's character goes from a happy-go-lucky straight shooter and suffers multiple depressing events that I felt affected me more than him at times. Most Japanese media seems to take characters who are "supposed" to be evil and has them instantly snap under pressure, typically caused by one traumatic event like a loved one dying. ![]() ![]() One character, who surprisingly becomes the focal point of the story, has a gradual mental health degradation which even the game's support characters make it a point to notice. To put it simply, Nier is broken into two parts, each being played across two characters. It's hard to talk about how good the writing in Nier is without spoilers. Flight combat, hacking sequences, creative use of locked camera angles, and even mini-VNs all break up the hack 'n' slash to create what is probably the most creative mainstream "AAA" game in the past two console gens. While the ground combat is even more simplistic than MGR (you can often just hold the "light attack" button to auto-combo normal enemies), there is such a huge variety of gameplay that you never get bored. This also extends into the flight sequences, where you command a transforming airplane mecha with a moveset not dissimilar to your grounded counterparts. Their heavily-stylized "character action" game design fits perfectly into the anime-esque world of Nier: Automata: characters swing and throw teleporting greatswords twice their size with ease, slow down time to teleport-dodge enemy attacks, and run with an acceleration that feels like a 2-legged racing game. PlatinumGames, while not known for deep complexity in their combat systems, have still managed to form a brand for themselves in the past few years thanks to big successes such as Metal Gear Rising and Bayonetta 2. With a wide variety of gameplay styles, a remarkably well-written story with incredibly deep characters, and a memorable sound track complete with a proprietary language, Nier is a definite contender for Game of the Year awards. While not flawless, Nier is undeniably a work of art that is greater than the sum of its parts. While not flawless, Nier is undeniably a work of art Nier is a genuine masterpiece that defies conventional expectations and design norms. ![]() Nier is a genuine masterpiece that defies conventional expectations and design norms. ![]()
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