Still pretty early in the game I think but shortly after finding the friendly robo village I had all the chipset spaces unlocked thanks to selling a bunch of loot I found on the map. Been running just +attack, +defense, auto-healing, offsensive-heal. Level 15 and been steam rolling level 40+ guys since in the rare case they hit me I’m back to full health in like 2-3 seconds. Generic high-dmg, life-steal build. Also auto-healing is nice since apparently shooting with your drone doesn’t count as ‘in combat’ so as long as you aren’t getting hit or meleeing you heal life after the slight delay.
What does a diamond on a chip mean?
I’m playing on normal, but do the higher difficulties give some recovery to your roll? I don’t see the point of + range on evade when they can be chained together with no vulnerable frames.
If I’m right about the chips with diamonds on them, that means they will take up the least amount of space for that type of chip. That seems to run true everytime I compare them to the others of their kind.
Diamond Chips are the best of the best. You have to really analyze the setup. I have a +5 Auto heal that takes the same amount of space as a +3.
By the way, my comment earlier about body retrieval, those are just temporary buffs. Whenever you absorb them, you will notice a chipset icon near your health bar that flashes. When the effect wears off, you won’t see that icon any longer.
The wandering couple sidequest is pissing me off. I want to finish it already and it seems they are in a location I can’t get to yet. Lord of the Valley is another sidequest I had to abandon due to the boss being above my weight class.
I really like the side quests in this game. I like how some of them are it’s own ongoing story, others shedding some light in the world’s history and getting to know the recurring characters. So far I completed 40% of the quests and I’m still on my first playthrough.
Stop it already goddamn! This is my first true time with a Yoko Taro game and I heard of the insanity and evil trollishness of his past games, I know that there is dickishness in this game but dammit man, you are just making it worse.
So I finally got the game because I’m a PAL pleb. Playing it in Japanese, both because I’m a pretentious weeb and because I want to practice my Japanese. So I get to the desert boss, and the “this cannot continue” moment. I go "Well, that must suck for the people playing in English. They get to this point and suddenly the song kicks in and everyone’s chanting in Japanese, when the entire thing that made it cool is that the chant continues as part of the song. Because there’s no way they spent the time, money and effort redubbing songs in two languages just for a small moment like this.
Well, a quick youtube search shows me that, yes, they did go through that effort and the people who played it in English got the same cool moment. Yoko Taro, you crazy motherfucker, I don’t even know why I doubted you.
Finished all of the “Story” endings of the game. It’s not the prettiest title, but this is probably one of the most unique gaming experiences that I have had in a long time. The game definitely needs a nod for its soundtrack.
Amazing soundtracks and balls-to-the-walls stories (sometimes to the point of being stupid and nonsensical, like is the case with like half the Drakengard endings) are a staple of Cavia/Taro titles. Hell, a lot of the songs in Automata are just straight up remixes of songs from the original Nier. Taro is also known for being notoriously hard to work with, to the point he himself has said he would yell and scream at his team for not being able to do what he wanted them to. They’re basically art projects created by a pretentious Japanese man with quite probable mental issues. Because he’s an artsy-fartsy crazy man obsessed with his vision, they often end up having great art, music and writing. But because he’s a goddamn madman who is a director and not a programmer the game part has been mediocre at best. Only now he finally got people capable of making it play like a video game rather than some sort of weird 18 wheel trucking simulator.
I got it for PC yesterday. They really fucked up the initial user experience on PC.
It auto selects the embedded intel HD graphics and I had to learn about selecting graphics cards on an exe for the first time. That was odd and I had to quit the introduction part way through.
At least Furi “strongly recommended” a controller. The mouse+keyboard is gimped compared with the controller, but I couldn’t know that until I got part way through the unskippable introduction. Which means I had to restart again, only part way through the introduction, when I found out I could only shoot in eight fucking directions with a mouse while my character was twitching back and forth because movement and aiming are the same, apparently.
Once I found out my PS3 controller works with an XBOX controller driver, I was tired of replaying the intro, so I paused it at the boss fight and got a beer. Hopefully it won’t crash now.
The song that plays at the first boss fight right? I only played it on English but I was easily able to hear the THIS CANNOT CONTINUE part throughout the whole song and made it extremely catchy.
Really says something about Taro with how dedicated he is into making shit work for both sides.
I was trying to iron out a shit load of quests prior to a certain part of the game that seemed huge and holy fuck do they have you go to all other areas you went to multiple times. I literally just spent all Saturday hammering out quests walking from area to area. I really love the environments so it didn’t bother me too much but eventually this morning I said fuck it.
Turns out you do get fast travel. I wish I knew but I suppose it was a hell of a relief to discover it myself.
Ending A is done. Since this is a Taro game I decided it was worth the potential spoilers to see how to achieve each ending, because I remember the insanity of Drakengard, and to a lesser extent even Nier. So apparently I don’t have to collect all the weapons for the true ending in this game? H-has Yoko Taro learned that needless tedium is not a good thing, even if you’re trying to make some stupid point? Also, fuck me for focusing on nothing but acquiring all weapons and upgrading them, then.
I think being savvy hurt me in this game. I knew how everything worked in Nier, where you didn’t get (extremely limited) fast travel until way late in the game, so I did the same thing. It’s kind of a bummer that in turning Automata into more of a game, they seem to have gotten rid of some of the super weird shit from Nier, though, like the text adventure parts. The pretentious artist in me always liked the idea of “we don’t have the budget or know-how to make this shit, so let’s just present it in a way that isn’t even a video game”.
