FINALLY STARTED!!!
I was surprised by how quickly it approaches themes of humanity with the robots emulating human life and adopting human culture. The game isn't wasting any time with that, which I think is fantastic. It respects the player's inteligence and doesn't try to pretend that the inevitable discussion of any sci-fi thing ever is an incredible plot twist. Especially being a Nier game.
The second boss fight (first after the tutorial) also caught me by surprise. I wasn't expecting things to get going that quickly, hahaha. Awesome boss fight, really pleased with it. I guess the fact that there's new content up to Route C is part of the reason why the game is not wasting any time. Another part of the reason is because of the setting. No point in pretending everything is fine and making us do some fetch quests to get familiar with the world when the whole reason we're in the world is to fight our enemy.
Something I must give a lot of credit to Platinum is the soundtrack, actually. Okabe always creates beautiful music, it's expected, but never before it was that well implemented into the game. The way it not only changes dynamically, but transitions into different songs as you progress to the next area is just beautiful. Holy shit. I have no idea if the individual songs will be able to hit me like the first game's OST, but as an actual soundtrack for a game, I feel like it'll easily surpass it.
And I definitely don't regret my decision of upgrading my PC before playing it for real, the game is BEAUTIFUL. I really can't share complaints here. Great lighting, art direction and animations make it great to look at. The desert blew my mind. Really nice level design there, by the way.
It's on its way to become my favorite game by Platinum, and that's no small task, I adore Bayonetta and Vanquish.
And, most importantly, it just feels like Nier. They nailed it. Please, Square-Enix, never stop that Yoko Taro X Platinum relationship.
