No it's quite easy to be honest, but you still need to pay attention in the bossfights, the optionals are way more difficult if tackled 20-30 levels below, though nothing approaching dark souls difficulty.
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NieR: Automata |OT2| You're thinking how much you want to **** this game aren't you?
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No it's quite easy to be honest, but you still need to pay attention in the bossfights, the optionals are way more difficult if tackled 20-30 levels below, though nothing approaching dark souls difficulty.
PixelatedBookake
Junior Member
I beat Nier Automata like, 5 months ago, but one thing I still love about the game is how END OF ROUTE B SPOILERS
there is a fucking trailer for the next half of the game which shows you a bunch of crazy shit after you think you've played through the whole game as 2B and 9S already. Like holy SHIT was I shocked.
If anything it gets easier because of how absurdly powerful a lot of the chips are. Increasing the difficulty to Hard still doesn't do much because you heal instantly anyway. Very Hard is probably just frustrating on the first playthrough because you literally die in one hit to anything.
No, the difficulty/balancing is my one major disappointment with the game. Levels are far too important and it's far too easy to overlevel.
Route B shakes up the combat a little tho.
Still GOTY#2 regardless of that.
Funyarinpa
Member
PS4 version is 35 bucks over at Amazon, if anyone's still on the fence.
I don't have a PS4 but GOD HELP ME I'M ABOUT TO DOUBLE FUCKING DIP
"I want to buy this game, uhm, Ni.... oh, what was it called again?"
"Yes, we have that game. Here you go."
Nierly there, but still a miss.
Funyarinpa
Member
Amazing
Route C is definitely where things get interesting. I also noticed that
That would explain why
The logged backstory of
is depressing but not terribly surprising. A2
It's also interesting how in this route's story, you're basically
.
Oh, and the
greatsword is fucking ace when fully upgraded. I really like the
.
the A2 and 9S sections take place during different stretches of time, don't they? A2's sections take place immediately after the white tower appeared, and 9S' sections take place two weeks after the whole thing because he was out cold, right?
Pascal's village is fine in A2's sections but is destroyed in 9S's sections.
The logged backstory of
A2 and Anemone
is starting to show a bit of a heart around Pascal even though she hides it behind being super cold. She's kind of like Lightning, but minus the annoying bits.
It's also interesting how in this route's story, you're basically
watching 9S become A2 in terms of personality
Oh, and the
4O
megaman-style idle charge
A store almost sold me Ninety Nine Nights once when I asked for a copy of 999.
SprachBrooks
Member
I went back to it.
Now I'm stuck on the hacking mini-game in the second tower with 9S. Fuck.
Now I'm stuck on the hacking mini-game in the second tower with 9S. Fuck.
Just had a traumatising moment on Nier, without realising what I was doing I accidentally sold all my medipacks, I thought I was in the buy section, not sell 🤣 by the time I'd realised it was too late, I'd spent my money on something else, oh well, I've gone from having over a hundred of the things to just ten!
I suspect this ties in with the whole thing about
how Adam said 9S has a lot of hatred inside him but 9S denied it at the time.
I'm guessing watching 2B die unleashed all that suppressed hate, and he's just slowly going nuts at this point.
A2 is probably going to have to stop him sooner or later... if she's even alive in 9S' segments.
I'm guessing watching 2B die unleashed all that suppressed hate, and he's just slowly going nuts at this point.
A2 is probably going to have to stop him sooner or later... if she's even alive in 9S' segments.
It's clear the game is building up towards something really huge, but I wonder what it'll be. Having played games like (big spoilers of multiple VNs)
999, VLR, Steins;Gate, Ever17
"go back in time to fix something you had no way of knowing at the time" multiverse fuckery.
d00d3n
Member
The amusement park song is so good. I should clearly have farmed more there instead of getting ending A yesterday ... 
cj_iwakura
Member
The amusement park song is so good. I should clearly have farmed more there instead of getting ending A yesterday ...
Probably my favorite song in the OST. I don't think anything has quite surpassed Nier 1's OST yet, but it's at least very good all around.
cheermancy
Member
Just spent like 10 minutes fighting level 40 Servo, then Jackass told me to eat a mackerel.
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EDIT: Didn't read
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EDIT: Didn't read
"Don't blame me if you die"
Lmao, I'm sorry man
Once you complete Ending C/D you unlock chapter select which has an "order" of sorts for how the C/D route plays out.
I actually switched the difficulty to the easiest one during my first playthrough,turned on the auto skills,used all my money to buy healing items because i just wanted to continue the story and i still died a lot.
It was my fault because i didn't bother to learn/use all the tools the game offered me,i pretty much used the default weapons during the entire game(no upgrading or buying skills,hell i didn't even know i could change my Pod's skill)..pretty damn embarrasing tbh haha.
Strangely,the perma-death mode wasn't that bad when i decided to put some fucking attention to the mechanics of the game.
Yeah same, laser is my main with the hammer in reserve.
ShadowSoldier89
Member
laser is boring
I like these
Spear: Impale enemies into a juggle position
Wire: by far the most fun and the most combo potential
Blade: Able to juggle enemies around you to extend combos
Gravity: float enemies in a dome
Bomb: fun for comboing with gravity on hordes
I like these
Spear: Impale enemies into a juggle position
Wire: by far the most fun and the most combo potential
Blade: Able to juggle enemies around you to extend combos
Gravity: float enemies in a dome
Bomb: fun for comboing with gravity on hordes
cj_iwakura
Member
Route B:
Is it safe to say that 9S is like Kaine in Nier? He knows the true feelings of the machines, hence his insight?
That's what I thought before I played Route B, but no. Keep playing.
Funyarinpa
Member
Does anyone know how long the sale on Amazon will last? (The PS4 version, I mean)
Acquiescence
Member
Route B is a massive massive chore. I'm not sure I can get through this.
One thing's for sure, I'm not doing anymore side quests.
One thing's for sure, I'm not doing anymore side quests.
I've decided already I'm not doing any side quests through Route B, just gonna blast through it. Now that I know where I'm going I don't think it will take any longer than 6 or 7 hours to do.
I can't argue with that.
NieR: Automata is brilliant, but the player doesn't have enough in the way of revelations to appreciate and reevaluate what is largely a replay of Route A at that point. The extra/alternate scenes in Route B are great, but there's too much of the same ground covered.
Fortunately, you can blow through the main story of B in, what, six hours?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Uh there are some really crucial side quests and revelations in B.
sackboy2197
Member
E is a continuation, with the Pods reconstructing the androids after the ending.
The six main pods are the three each that 2B and 9S had, the others I think are simply the ones that were with other androids.
The six main pods are the three each that 2B and 9S had, the others I think are simply the ones that were with other androids.
They have
three pods each? I must've missed a ton of them lol. I only found one pod in the game.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
It's a continuation. I mean the whole point of the ending is that it might once again devolve into a meaningless fight, but there's meaning in them trying again for a different outcome.
Also it's not retconning the game. The whole situation still happened, but pod 042 managed to salvage the data of 2B, 9S and A2 from the Yorha Database that the pods were created to erase once project yorha was finished, but he didn't want that. He outgrew his programming from his interactions with the androids.
Also it's not retconning the game. The whole situation still happened, but pod 042 managed to salvage the data of 2B, 9S and A2 from the Yorha Database that the pods were created to erase once project yorha was finished, but he didn't want that. He outgrew his programming from his interactions with the androids.
Ah, that makes more sense.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
They kind of throw a lot of stuff at you at the end.
Still though,
is still one of my favourite parts of the game. I still get shivers from
Still though,
the pod's speech before and after the credits fight
I have come to the conclusion that I cannot accept this resolution.
sackboy2197
Member
You start with one and you can find another 2 (one with a laser and one with missiles). When you switch to 9S, you can see that they're black-ish, as they're technically different pods.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean it's kind of extras thing, but you gotta imagine that the pods probably have a lot of "bodies" seeing that you're technically transferring to a new one whenever you fast travel. From a QA by taro he said that
those fast travel machines are actually kinda like 3D printers.
Somehow the lineThey kind of throw a lot of stuff at you at the end.
Still though,is still one of my favourite parts of the game.the pod's speech before and after the credits fight
"life is pretty much dealing with an endless string of embarrassment"
I thought long and hard when
the game asked if I wanted to wipe my save data to save someone. In the end I was like "no, this game isn't fucking around. I think it'll really do it if I say yes" so I said no to go back and handle some unfinished business.
I think I missed a crapton of Project Gestalt logs or something. I have 1-3 from the factory, then like... 9, and that's it
I think I missed a crapton of Project Gestalt logs or something. I have 1-3 from the factory, then like... 9, and that's it
I think a part of the game does mention that those machines are
stocked with spare android parts. So I figured that every time you fast travel, those machines dismantle you and send your mind+memories to an identical model that another machine assembles for you, and then "you" effectively come out the other side.
It's a cool idea that obviously only works because they're androids. But I find it amusing how all these machines also have all the unique individual swag that each android wears.
It's a cool idea that obviously only works because they're androids. But I find it amusing how all these machines also have all the unique individual swag that each android wears.
Unfortunately there are also some of the worst lol
I can only post my recommendations so many times
I have failed you.