[bleak]

guys i beat this game like yesterday. it made me cry on several different occasions, i'm only slightly ashamed to admit it. i think the part that got me the most was the immediate beginning to NG+. i could empathize. well, you know. sort of. that and fierce loyalty always gets me right here. i thought the gameplay itself was pretty alright but the soundtrack and VA and character design and dialogue and most importantly, the plot are all pretty gosh darn fantastic. felt a little cheated with emil's VA though. motherfucker sounded like ash ketchum. second favorite game to come out of 2010 behind dead prem, and just in front of K+L 2 dog days.

guys play this game. i haven't gotten any ending other than the A ending yet though, i'm... waiting for it. i want to savor the game.

[bleak]

i don't know how many side quests i skipped but i lost some due to the five years later bit and then later i got about 3 different quests asking me for various rare junk heap drops so i was like fuck this and beat the game. i did get the 30 quest cheev though. at some point doing the side quests just is not worth it.
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[bleak]

oh, yeah, and i couldn't do any of the other quests involving me going to the strange thing store in Facade because for whatever reason it would only allow me to have one quest at a time lined up with that guy. that happened with a couple things in the game and it was pretty frustrating.
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[bleak]

i don't care what poignancy a quest has i am not spending my time farming 20+ titanium alloys just so some fuck can upgrade his kitchen and/or knife
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[bleak]

the one major flaw in the game is its side quests. they feel very much like playing WoW or something, and mostly amounts to busywork and well i feel the same amount of characterization could have been implemented without all that and also doing them made the game too easy. having access to all the phoenix weapons / the phoenix spear even at level 1 just breaks the game right in half. even the upgraded two handed beast sword with its 620 attack doesn't compare to the 490 attack power phoenix spear. plus the +50% magic power while equipped. why use anything else. that weapon oversight is a minor flaw.
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[bleak]

i mean, having said that though, i can't heap enough praise on the writing this game has got. it's clear that the writers cared for their creations and it shows. the massive foreboding that looms throughout the game, the elephant in the room that no one addresses which happens to be named yonah's illness or disappearance as the case may be. kaine's willingness to approach and befriend the characters in the story while keeping them at arm's length at once. grimoire weiss being uppity and snobbish and constantly butting heads with nier's dumb as rocks approach to things. the grudging acceptance of each others' quiddity and the characters each supporting one another in desperate times. it might not be the ideal game design-wise but god damn if the scenarios in the game aren't incredibly varied and interesting.
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[bleak]

this just keeps getting better and better. what're the differences between nier and nier replicant? i haven't seen that around any game stores in these parts.
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[bleak]

p.s. guys i already got two other people to buy and play this game
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[bleak]

i see. thanks! the Real Wikipedia made it seem like it was a significant paradigm shift, plotwise and wasn't very clear.
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