Picked up Nier: Automata at a sale at the beginning of 2024 and started to play through it. Only heard good things about it and it is made by Platinum Games that made Wonderful 101 and the Bayonetta-series and published by Square Enix. I gathered it's a sequel to a game that is a spinoff to another series, but I've never played any of them. Oh yeah and of course I know the main character 2B from all the p... you know what, maybe I've written too much?
Anyway, the game begins by telling us that mankind have been driven from earth by aliens that built robots attacking them. Mankind have settled on the moon and uses androids to fight their battles to reclaim the earth. The opening begin with our hero 2B on an inflight mission to fight a goliath with several other androids in shells (like in Xenoblade Chronicles X, still want a port and continuation of that game [this of course was written long before they announced the port to Switch]), but one by one they get offed by the robots. She is the only one that survives the raid and as she begins fighting the goliath she is supported by 9S, a scout android compared to her battle android. They defeat the goliath but three more appears so they use their black boxes to create an explosion that take them all out, including 9S and 2B.
And here they show a bit about the gameplay. If you die, you are generated back into a new body (the same as the old one), and we're back in the bunker. So in story, the androids loses their self and return constantly missing information (technically only when the story demands is since I very much remember what happens until the death) and relearning their bonds with their peers. In this case 2B and 9S. Anyway, they are sent back to recon and help the resistance on earth. They explore and fights robots, in the desert they see a robot... orgy is probably the closest word I can use for what I saw as I lie here in a fetal position. There the robots create a robot that looks like an android that names himself Adam. You fight him, but has to retreat since he is too strong.
Then you fight a robot at an amusement park that looks like an opera singer that captured several YoRHa members. You defeat it and then are helped by a robot named Pascal that leads a village where robots have decoupled from the network that rule the robots. From here I got a feeling it was go here, do that until you are supposed to protect a missile convoy that allows you to again fly in shell, you fight it but has to use one of the cannons to destroy a Godzilla like monster, 9S disappears after the battle so you look for him and find a replica city where you confront Adam again (you already meet again while investigating an alien ship below ground that resurfaced where the aliens where dead, apparently killed by Adam and his brother Eve) that have kidnapped 9S and put him on a cross. You kill Adam and return 9S to the bunker. You are tasked by command to investigate strange behaviour from the robots and joins Pascal as she is on her way to colony of robots in the factory. There the robots seemed to have form a cult and you are taken to their leader that seems to have died so the robots begin killing themselves and tries to take you out as well. You escape with the help of 9S that hacked into the network from the bunker.
Back outside you head to the resistance camp where the robots have gone berserk and began eating the androids. Afterwards a huge boss appears outside the camp which you fight and 9S joins you by crashing a shell into it and then Eve appears from it completely deranged after the loss of his brother. You thwart an attack on Pascal's village and then take the fight to Eve where 9S hack into the network again to severe Eve's connection to the network. After he is killed 9S reveal that he is infected so 2B has to strangle him to stop the corruption from being uploaded to the Bunker. She is about to destroy every single robot, but all the heads of the robots begin activating, a giant robot comes up from the ground and it is 9S who was saved in the robot network. The end?
Well, the credits roll at least. The game afterwards shows a message from the PR team that this is one ending of several and recommended to continue playing. Don't know what to think about it really. I played it on normal and the difficulty was rather descent. The harder modes where you had no lock-in function and could only take one hit seemed a bit too hard for me. Although, I felt at times I was just pushing buttons and 2B dodged hits here and there and the pods did the most damage (which makes the loss of Lock-on targeting seem like a very bad thing to lose). The chip-upgrade function I never learned so used automatic for all three (balanced, attack and defence) and used mostly Attack and Defence depending if the extra health or attack was important. The game crashed on me once, 16 hours in and after stopping the attack on Pascal's village so I had to redo the Eve fight before that since I saved just before going out to that fight (thank god for that). I might think not closing the software for that amount might have been the thing that did me in.
That was the gameplay part. It's fun playing it, but I find the environments rather boring, abandoned factory and a desert being the first part and then pretty much city ruins. Not until the forest area we get some colours back. And then the game get to the end game with the missile convoy. Also, there is basically only 4-5 enemies types as well that just gets stronger. Music's fine and it is rather interesting themes like what makes one human. Sometimes the robots seems more human than the androids even though they are supposed to be made by the aliens. Cause there is some unanswered questions in ending A. You have A2, an android deserter from YoRHa that killed the forest king of the robots and just bailed which seems to have a history with the resistance leader. Also, are the androids really made by mankind? I mean, the robots like Emil sounds like they where humans first so maybe it's that the Aliens used humans for their robots, but that has to be another playthrough I guess. And the YoRHA motto of "Glory to Mankind"? Sounds awfully facist if you ask me, so what does this mean? Is there humans or are they as dead as the aliens? Are we gonna go for a Xenoblade Chronicles X twist that the androids are the actual humans? The more I think about it, the more I feel like they are similar in so many ways, that the differences are irritating, and then X is the winner in better gameplay. For example, if I see the mountain, I could climb it in X, I just needed to find the right angle. In Nier, it is hard to know if I can jump to that platform since I'm invisible walled off from reaching it. But sometimes I'm supposed to do so since it's of the map... I really like X alright!
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