By dubious popular demand:
I had already written down some impressions, but figured I'll do an in-progress thread of my experience. Maybe other people that have also decided to play it due to recent events can also post about their progress. Thanks to Not Spaceghost who was nice enough to lend me his copy! I've actually had it for three months but couldn't muster enough interest until recently. Yeah uh sorry about that. It's gonna be a pretty stream of consciousness kinda thing, don't expect much depth or analysis.
I'll update as I go.
3 hours in
This is the second time I’ve tried playing the game. First time I lost interest about an hour earlier, but I wasn’t in the mood for a JRPG at the time. This time I’m really enjoying myself more. The combat is simple and a bit janky, but yet it remains kinda fun, relative to the action JRPG genre. Wasting enemies feels oddly satisfying in this game, despite not really requiring much skill. The pimp slap magic seems really OP compared to regular melee, but whatever, I don’t play RPGs for the challenge. So far it seems pretty “normal”, pretty standard fare. Except for whatever the hell Kaine is wearing. Seriously, what is that.
BTW, Pig-drifting is the best.
7 hours in
Junk Heap – Forest of Myth
The dungeon music in this game is bitching. Not sure if it actually fits, but who cares. Just experienced an escort mission, which totally sucked ass, because obviously. Thankfully the dungeon that came after that was pretty cool. I dig the overall variety in this game, it seems like there’s always something new around the corner. I'm not all tat sold on the bullet hell stuff in the game, maybe I'll come around to that, but it's neat enough. Like I said, I dig the variety. After I was done with that it seems like the next new thing to do was storytelling time. A “dungeon” turned out to be a literal text adventure with a third person narrator and everything. That was actually not only fairly cool, but also pretty well written. The text-styled side quests that were available after that however are nonsense. Speaking of side quests, they’re pretty terrible. I’ve been recommended to ignore them, but I just feel like I gotta do some of those, and it seems they’re your major source of income too. BTW, I wish upgrading your weapons didn’t require so much random bullshit, and that the place where you do it wasn’t far away from the hub area. Really jonesing for some fast travel right now. I think that’s what I like the least about the game so far. Not the inherent jank or the PS1.5-level graphics, but just traveling from place to place. It’s pretty dull. I got my Boar AE86, but still, it's the most annoying part of the game so far. Especially at first, it was like a never-ending bouncing between Popola's house and my own.
11 hours in
My little brother can't possibly be this skeletal
You like Evangelion, don't you?
You like The Nightmare Before Christmas, don't you?
You like Berserk, don't you?
You like Final Fantasy, don't you?
So all kinds of shit happened. The supposedly big bad showed up, caused a game changer in the world and momentarily "winning". (coughberserk/finalfantasyvicough). One of my party members sacrificed herself by turning to stone to protect the rest of us. (coughfinalfantasyiv). Some massive fucking thing appeared that looked like the result of the unholy union between Lilith and Jack (cough...yeah you get it.) This is turning out to be a "greatest hits" of Yoko Taro's childhood memories, it seems. I don't know how to feel about that. I'm not usually a fan of derivative work, and this is kinda that. The animu quality voice acting and kinda crap execution doesn't really help the presentation of the game. I'm reminded of Xenogears a bit, in that that was another game that wore its inspirations on its sleeve.
But it's fun, it's enjoyable, and I'm digging how the game plays too. Good decision to hold the new weapon types until now, really changes the game after 10 hours of pretty much doing the same thing combat wise. Bought a super OP spear at this sad-ass town's store. Tearing through everything with a couple of hits at most. Thankfully I had some money from a few quests I actually did, just had to sell some 7K worth of crap I had no use for. The spear rush move is making this game cakewalk for now.
Kinda shitty that all of my incomplete quests were deemed failed. I mean, it makes logical sense, but it's still shitty. And this game doesn't seem very logical anyway!
I hadn't played a game from the weird japanese stuff genre while, so it's actually kinda refreshing to be honest, all niggles aside.
p.s. The people in this sad-ass town are real assholes. Right now I'm feeling like I would nuke it Fallout 3-style if I could.
THE END TIMES
What if I told you someone ripped off my movie?
Well the story ended up being a mish-mash of half a dozen references from pop culture. I actually was kind of intrigued during the endgame, the problem with this game is that the execution of everything is pretty mediocre. This meathead's daughter has just been revived, who he has been searching for for five years, is lying there motionless, but he nonchalantly asks a dying book how's it hanging instead. This game has serious character issues. It's just super dumb.
Despite thinking it'd be the jankiest part of the game, I actually enjoyed the combat the most. Has a nice feel to it. Funniest thing about htat is that it's probably the one part of the game that will be completely tossed into the trashcan by Platinum Games, who's involvement is what made me play the game in the first place!
I'm looking forward to more weirdness in Nier Automata. I may or may not do the whole NG+ business. I usually reserve that for games that are mechanically impeccable. I really did enjoy this game. It felt like a throwback to the PS2 era.
I give it three tomatoes out of five watermelons.
I had already written down some impressions, but figured I'll do an in-progress thread of my experience. Maybe other people that have also decided to play it due to recent events can also post about their progress. Thanks to Not Spaceghost who was nice enough to lend me his copy! I've actually had it for three months but couldn't muster enough interest until recently. Yeah uh sorry about that. It's gonna be a pretty stream of consciousness kinda thing, don't expect much depth or analysis.
I'll update as I go.3 hours in
This is the second time I’ve tried playing the game. First time I lost interest about an hour earlier, but I wasn’t in the mood for a JRPG at the time. This time I’m really enjoying myself more. The combat is simple and a bit janky, but yet it remains kinda fun, relative to the action JRPG genre. Wasting enemies feels oddly satisfying in this game, despite not really requiring much skill. The pimp slap magic seems really OP compared to regular melee, but whatever, I don’t play RPGs for the challenge. So far it seems pretty “normal”, pretty standard fare. Except for whatever the hell Kaine is wearing. Seriously, what is that.
BTW, Pig-drifting is the best.
7 hours in
Junk Heap – Forest of Myth
The dungeon music in this game is bitching. Not sure if it actually fits, but who cares. Just experienced an escort mission, which totally sucked ass, because obviously. Thankfully the dungeon that came after that was pretty cool. I dig the overall variety in this game, it seems like there’s always something new around the corner. I'm not all tat sold on the bullet hell stuff in the game, maybe I'll come around to that, but it's neat enough. Like I said, I dig the variety. After I was done with that it seems like the next new thing to do was storytelling time. A “dungeon” turned out to be a literal text adventure with a third person narrator and everything. That was actually not only fairly cool, but also pretty well written. The text-styled side quests that were available after that however are nonsense. Speaking of side quests, they’re pretty terrible. I’ve been recommended to ignore them, but I just feel like I gotta do some of those, and it seems they’re your major source of income too. BTW, I wish upgrading your weapons didn’t require so much random bullshit, and that the place where you do it wasn’t far away from the hub area. Really jonesing for some fast travel right now. I think that’s what I like the least about the game so far. Not the inherent jank or the PS1.5-level graphics, but just traveling from place to place. It’s pretty dull. I got my Boar AE86, but still, it's the most annoying part of the game so far. Especially at first, it was like a never-ending bouncing between Popola's house and my own.
11 hours in
My little brother can't possibly be this skeletal
You like Evangelion, don't you?
You like The Nightmare Before Christmas, don't you?
You like Berserk, don't you?
You like Final Fantasy, don't you?
So all kinds of shit happened. The supposedly big bad showed up, caused a game changer in the world and momentarily "winning". (coughberserk/finalfantasyvicough). One of my party members sacrificed herself by turning to stone to protect the rest of us. (coughfinalfantasyiv). Some massive fucking thing appeared that looked like the result of the unholy union between Lilith and Jack (cough...yeah you get it.) This is turning out to be a "greatest hits" of Yoko Taro's childhood memories, it seems. I don't know how to feel about that. I'm not usually a fan of derivative work, and this is kinda that. The animu quality voice acting and kinda crap execution doesn't really help the presentation of the game. I'm reminded of Xenogears a bit, in that that was another game that wore its inspirations on its sleeve.
But it's fun, it's enjoyable, and I'm digging how the game plays too. Good decision to hold the new weapon types until now, really changes the game after 10 hours of pretty much doing the same thing combat wise. Bought a super OP spear at this sad-ass town's store. Tearing through everything with a couple of hits at most. Thankfully I had some money from a few quests I actually did, just had to sell some 7K worth of crap I had no use for. The spear rush move is making this game cakewalk for now.
Kinda shitty that all of my incomplete quests were deemed failed. I mean, it makes logical sense, but it's still shitty. And this game doesn't seem very logical anyway!
I hadn't played a game from the weird japanese stuff genre while, so it's actually kinda refreshing to be honest, all niggles aside.
p.s. The people in this sad-ass town are real assholes. Right now I'm feeling like I would nuke it Fallout 3-style if I could.
THE END TIMES
What if I told you someone ripped off my movie?
Well the story ended up being a mish-mash of half a dozen references from pop culture. I actually was kind of intrigued during the endgame, the problem with this game is that the execution of everything is pretty mediocre. This meathead's daughter has just been revived, who he has been searching for for five years, is lying there motionless, but he nonchalantly asks a dying book how's it hanging instead. This game has serious character issues. It's just super dumb.
Despite thinking it'd be the jankiest part of the game, I actually enjoyed the combat the most. Has a nice feel to it. Funniest thing about htat is that it's probably the one part of the game that will be completely tossed into the trashcan by Platinum Games, who's involvement is what made me play the game in the first place!
I'm looking forward to more weirdness in Nier Automata. I may or may not do the whole NG+ business. I usually reserve that for games that are mechanically impeccable. I really did enjoy this game. It felt like a throwback to the PS2 era.
I give it three tomatoes out of five watermelons.
