If you’ve ever played the likes of Bayonetta or Transformers: Devastation, you’ll know just how ridiculously smooth their signature hack-and-slash/beat-’em-up/spectacle fighter style of gameplay can be.
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Granted, the more mind-blowing sights would again provide spoilers, but even just wandering the land in search of items, quests or secrets leads to a lovely, nicely-designed open world full of beautiful ruins reclaimed by nature, with quite a bit to do in it.īut let’s get right to what makes a Platinum Games titles a success already: The combat. It helps that the world they’re in gives them a lot to work with, and looks good while doing so.
2B and 9S are also some interesting characters, largely in how they play off of the other cast members and each other, providing some cute and enjoyable, well-written dialogue. Every bizarre twist just make you want to keep going, to learn even more about this universe and the people and machines that inhabit it.
In fact, there were quite the hefty amount of moments that provoked a lengthy “What the fuuuuuuu…?” reaction, and that is meant in the best way possible. Of course, when you have a war between androids wielding massive swords that have been trained to suppress emotions versus an army of small wind-up robots with faces like Baymax, you do begin to question things, and sure enough, things quickly spiral into insanity when machine truces, lethal humanoids, rogue androids and even more complications turn up, so now you and 2B have to scour this world in search of some answers.Īs you may have guessed, this isn’t exactly the type of story you can go into detail about without some notable spoilers.
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The remaining humans on the moon send down a series of combat androids to assist the resistance, and that’s where our main heroine 2B comes in, with her operator 9S, as they arrive on Earth to help out. Taking place long after the original game (and thankfully making sure that it can serve as a mostly standalone title), NieR: Automata is set in a futuristic world where an alien invasion ravaged humanity, with the remnants engaging in a war between a resistance and the killer machines that the aliens have left behind. After getting a quick refresher course on the original NieR, I ventured forth nervously…and then emerged later, with a trail of scrap metal behind my character now, ready to declare this beautiful, intense and freaky romp that is Automata to easily be one of the best games of 2017. After all, a big open-world game about having to battle massive machines in a post-apocalyptic world (the third game fitting that bill to be released within the span of a single week, oddly enough) makes for quite the imposing feat and you do not want to be the one who botched things up when it comes to tackling that. After feeling a tremendous amount of pressure from having to preview NieR: Automata about a week ago, with it being what may very well be the biggest game of the year in our eyes, you can imagine the amount of bullets having been sweat out over the task of having to actually review the whole game as a follow-up.