[protoblax]

I got the upgrade achievement in Nier and didn't even mind, the junkyard music was that soothing.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Twenty hours in four days. I beat this thing (well, I saw ending A.)

It's definitely to Zelda what Deadly Premonition is to Shenmue. And by that I mean it's excellent.

(endgame spoilers) I suppose the reveal that all the Shades are "twisted copies" of humans parallels Drakengard's armies of child soldiers, who you'd been slaughtering the whole time without a care.

Is there a different final boss for some of the endings? The Gamefaqs listing isn't very clear.

[BotageL]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Huh. Don't think I'm willing to grind for all the weapons, so I'll just Youtube 'em.

[protoblax]

You don't have to max out the weapons to get the C&D endings, just have them. None of the weapons are hard tO find.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Are there any weapons hidden in out-of-the-way places that require heavy backtracking? Because I could deal with farming enough stuff to sell for the shop weapons.

[8128]

A couple just require you to finish quests - nothing too bad - and a few you'll find in boxes and stuff as you complete your second loop.
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[8128]

at least do a second loop it is interesting
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[BotageL]

[Drem]

A second playthrough really is important to the game. After that you will know what you are doing and will be very strong, so a 3rd and 4th playthrough are very quick and easy. I managed to speed through to endings C and D on the same day as my second play through, so I saved some time while still having a serious playthrough in my recent memory, which helped with ending C/D's affect.

Did anybody happen to name their character Cavia when they played, and proceed all the way to ending D? That would be an oddly fitting end to the game.

[protoblax]

Yeah, all of the weapons are really simple to get- you can look online for a guide if you like. You should find all but maybe three of them just going through the game normally, and the weapons you have are carried over between play throughs.

Also, if you don't play through at least the second loop you miss out on a whole lot.
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

okay, guess i'll do another loop or two when i've cleared out some of my backlog.

[protoblax]

No, seriously, the second loop takes a quarter as long as the first one because you start from the halfway point and you keep all of your experience and weapons. It's pretty easy to breeze through and you should do it while the game is still fresh in your mind.
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[Teflon]

Yeah also you don't have to collect shit during the B loop, just cut dudes up. Only D requires you to get all the weapons. I hated doing my C/D run because I was missing like 13 weapons and ended up spending three hours beating up robots in the scrapyard zone but the B loop is one of the best things in the game because there's actually new stuff happening.

[BotageL]

I don't know why you were beating up robots in the scrapyard, unless you really wanted to max them out for some arbitrary reason. All you need is to own all the weapons to see C/D, and that's not particularly hard at all.

Also, it's worth noting that, on any playthrough, you can fight the various part 2 bosses in mostly any order you want by taking advantage of the various prompts, or checking your mail, or what have you. It doesn't make a huge difference, but it's a nice touch.
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[BotageL]

Oh, I'd forgotten about that one. I likely already had a few of the oils, then; I think the only grinding I did was for the Phoenix Spear -- and I still didn't max it out, I don't hate myself that much.
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[protoblax]

Machine Oil is a pretty common drop from the giant robots on the second basement floor. Get loaded up in just one or two trips.
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[Adilegian]

[Sniper Honeyviper]

Do you absolutely have to beat the entire DLC episode in one go? The second door was gone after exiting and reentering the place.

[Rud31]

yep.
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Just started playing this tonight. So far the highlight is powersliding giant boars.
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[8128]

is the dlc worth playing?
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[protoblax]

Downloaded it, haven't played it yet. I'll let you know!
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[Rud31]

I'm pretty sure I state multiple times in this thread and others do to that it is pretty nice.
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[Ymer]

I'd say the DLC is a pretty good booster for you to get the last few endings. The costumes you unlock are pretty fun to play through the game with (they keep them on in the non-prerendered cutscenes) and the high the difficulty of the fights by the end of it make for a pretty nice change of pace from how ridiculously easy the game gets after one or two loops. Getting it around half-way though the second loop and then playing it until you die a couple of times throughout the rest of the game's loops worked out pretty well for me.

[8128]

oh does it use your main levels/progress

because I already got ending D, if you know what I mean
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Interview with Emi Evans about NieR's soundtrack (translated from a French site).

[Rud31]

Nier Tribute album coming

Game has a lot of legs for something that was a "failure".
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[Sniper Honeyviper]

Finally got around to achieving the B ending.

I had suspected that every mission after the time jump was nothing more than a tragic exercise in futility, but damn, it sure made that painfully clear.

Do the DLC weapons count towards the total needed to access the C/D endings?

[Rud31]

no.
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[Tlon]

had the worst experience with this this weekend. Saturday night i got to the Darklord's Castle. get to the very final bit of the very final boss. i've got a sliver of health and its 8:30pm. try a few times to get through the bullet hell, realize I'm not going to do it with no food and i need to leave anyway. so i quit, and realize that the last save point was about 3 hours ago.

powered through it the next morning but it still left a bad taste in my mouth. liked it, though... gonna try for the B ending. wish you could play as Kaine. seems like a lot of the game was cut because they ran out of money
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[protoblax]

Apparently, the E ending (part of the cut content) had you playing as Kaine. There've been some rumblings about a sequel despite all evidence to the contrary, and if this happens I would not be surprised to see her as the protagonist.
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[Tlon]

[Rud31]

It took me a very long time to collect all of these, but I decided to go ahead and post Nier Status Messages.

Spoilers. I guess.
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[Tlon]

"Ah gods, What a choice. All paths lead to heartbreak..."

this is always my status :-(
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[protoblax]

I had no idea this was a thing! Very cool.
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[tacotaskforce]

Whoever on SB was playing Nier on PS3 yesterday had a really funny one that's not on that list, but I can't remember what it was.
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[Cynic]

Supposedly there's one that goes something like "Some dude's been sending letters to my 10 year old daughter, I'm not too happy about that." I'm surprised The Internet doesn't have a comprehensive listing of these anywhere yet.

[Rud31]

Because it would require 2 consoles? One dude just sitting there waiting for the status to be updated and another 100% the game.

That's more involvement than 99% of game related projects.
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