NieR: Automata - Platinum's Take on all the Weirdness of NieR and Drakengard

[NAP]

Drakengard has a really cool story but man is it hard to play. I never did finish it because it’s so tedious. But I love the world they set up for it.

[atirador]

Drakengard 3 has such an amazing soundtrack too!

That and the story are pretty much the only good things about the game… somehow their second game for last gen looked and played worse than the game they made prior to it. Outside the Assassin’s Creed series, I don’t think I’ve played any game with such a shitty framerate and awful camera.

The combat was bad and the framerate was even worse, but somehow the game captivated me and I even got the platinum trophy and bought all the story DLC

I wish I could find a copy of NieR at a decent price, or maybe Sony could release the game digitally for PS3 or a remaster for PS4 before this next one comes out

[Megasizer]

Looks like it plays well but the setting looks crap.

[Rodimus]

Was waiting for more info on Neir and from that trailer i stand firm in my day-one purchase. P* is way too OP shit is not even fair in these gaming streets. Also that music in that trailer was to die for, OST will have huge shoes to fill but that shit is all types of hype.

[Moonchilde]

The combat was bad and the framerate was even worse, but somehow the game captivated me and I even got the platinum trophy and bought all the story DLC

I wish I could find a copy of NieR at a decent price, or maybe Sony could release the game digitally for PS3 or a remaster for PS4 before this next one comes out

Man, I tried. I even grinded out all the fucking weapons just to unlock the last chapter. The last chapter was actually good, if only the rest of the game had been like it. Then I had that stupid boss battle against the demon dragon with all the fucking pillars blocking the view on what’s going on… frame rate tanking during integral moments, and lol… that final fucking boss. I mean, that’s when I put it down. Ultimate troll to not let me skip the cutscene and then reloading the entire level over if you fail. That’s like 2 minutes of waiting just to play that rhythm game which is super easy to fuck up. Maybe in 5 years I’ll try to complete it, but I have no incentive really. Certain things about the story had me wanting more, like what the flower was and why Zero wanted to kill her sisters. Plus Three was pretty cool, with her little mopey self and scissors. Great design. Game was a huge mess though.

[Sonicabid]

Thread is making me want to start up Drakengard 3 tomorrow. I picked it up a few weeks ago but haven’t played it yet. I loved the original Nier, very few games across all generations of gaming platforms have hit me so hard emotionally when playing them, the latter endings, dialogue and scenes will hit you right in the feels.

Love developers like Suda51 and Yoko Taro for making weird, yet really enjoyable games. FYI guys the original Nier has gone up in price quite a bit. I bought my copy a few months after release for like $10 sealed. I even picked up a copy for even less later on for my brother, but he’s narrow-minded and completely disregarded the game because of its graphics(wish I was joking.) He ended up giving it to my nephew who ended up liking it, so it worked out in the end. B)

Yup, story was really strong in the original Nier. Yoko Taro has a really distinct style/weirdness to the plot, setting and characters, best seen in Nier, Drakengard and Drakengard 3. It’s why him working with P* is such a dream team - he’ll be single handedly holding up the story/vision of the game.

If you want the basic idea, Nier is the story of a dude who is trying to cure his daughter of the Black Scrawl - a fantasy incurable disease.
Then everything goes wrong. Ev. Ry. Thing.

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[crotchpuncha]

I bought my Nier three weeks ago from GS for $8.99

[Sonicabid]

I bought my Nier three weeks ago from GS for $8.99

Everyone who enjoyed a JRPG at one point in their life owes it to themselves to play this game.

THE FEELS

Edit: The game’s a lot pricier on amazon and ebay.

[crotchpuncha]

Yea I plan to really dig into it soon.

[DrellyFish]

Drakengard has a really cool story but man is it hard to play. I never did finish it because it’s so tedious. But I love the world they set up for it.

I got a few diff endings for Drakengard, i wanted to get all of the, but once i found out i had already seen the canon ending and the fact that you need all weapons to get the true ending i just said fuck it.

[Gasaraki]

Drakengard has a really cool story but man is it hard to play. I never did finish it because it’s so tedious. But I love the world they set up for it.

I got a few diff endings for Drakengard, i wanted to get all of the, but once i found out i had already seen the canon ending and the fact that you need all weapons to get the true ending i just said fuck it.

All endings are canon in these games, its just not every ending is fully explored or will be. And not every ending leads to the same games either.

[NAP]

I love how the craziest ending to Drakengard is what led to Nier, like 7-8 years later.

[Kurokun]

NieR: Automata Will Have Multiple Protagonists, Costume Breaks, And A “Happy...

Q: How many protagonists are there?

Saito: “By ‘actual protagonists’ then two characters.”

Yoko: “I kind of feel like there are three.”

Q: What is 2B’s gender?

Saito: “a girl… type?”

Yoko: “It’s a secret.”

Q: Why did you guys make her a female?

Yoko: “Because I like girls.”

“Akihiko Yoshida asked for ‘a costume that’d be easy to cosplay’.”

Q: Are there androids of other genders?

Yoko: “The genders are a secret, but there are ‘girl/boy-types.”

Q: What’s the meaning behind “YoRHa?”

Yoko: “Nothing in particular. Its kanji is ‘寄葉’ but it’s nothing of deep significance.”

Q: There was something like a warthog, but will we get to ride it?

Yoko: “I’ve told the folks at PlatinumGames that I’d like for people to be able to ride them.”

The following are more details put together from the interviews:
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[*] The androids are the ones fighting in order to recapture Earth, but the humans don’t participate in the actual fighting itself.

[*] There are plenty of weapons that we’ve yet to see.

**Q: About how many? **

Yoko: “Quite a lot.”

[*] The “Pods” will help with ranged attacks while the player can focus on close-ranged attacks. Again, you’ll be able to use it to glide and also for getting your way across the maps. The Pod can speak, but it isn’t much of a chatterbox, so think of it as more of navigational system for cars. It does not have any emotions.

[*] There are ideas for Pod customizations, but they’re not sure how it’ll end up.

[*] There are possibilities of DLC costumes for 2B.

[*] 2B’s skirt will begin to break after she takes a certain amount of damage. Beneath the skirt she wears a white leotard.

[*] The base of the Living Machines are the same but they’ll come in varieties of parts, colors, texture, and ones that ride on different obstacles.

[*] The giant Living Machine shown in the trailer isn’t a boss, but a ‘kind of strong small-fry.” That one was relatively on the smaller side, but you’ll see some gigantic Living Machines.

[*] There’s also a living creature that is similar to a deer, and there’s a chance that you’ll be able to ride it, too.

[*] The game takes place in the same world in a different era, but story-wise they’re not connected much. They wanted to prevent having things that only those who played the first game would be able to enjoy. If anything, there will be characters or events that will bring a smile to those who are familiar with them.

[*] Yoko: “PlatinumGames’ action might seem a little high-end, but they’re working on adjusting it so that just about anyone can enjoy it and feel that they can play it.”

[*] Saito: “When looking at Yoko-san’s plot, it has some very happy ending-like content. On the contrary, the story is so good to the point where you’d like to ask him ‘is it okay for it to be this much of a happy ending?’ I really hope you look forward to that.”

[*] Yoko: “The development is going favorably, but there’s so much to it that we don’t know what will happen.”
Saito: “We’re entrusting the young development team’s passionate ‘we can do this!’ attitude, so us older folks are excited. And also praying for nothing to go wrong.
Yoko: “Although if it does go wrong somewhere, I think it’d still be NieR-like in its own way. It wouldn’t be bad to have a NieR that will make you go ‘Huh!” It ends here!?’”

[*] The next update of information will be sometime around this spring. They’re hoping to be able to make some announcements in Japan next time.
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[Darkstalker]

Yoko…Taro…? Happy…ending…?

[Cows_say_meeeow]

Still playing Nier right now but man that trailer looks amazing. Cant wait until it comes out and the combat is giving me an MGR vibe which I’m digging for sure.

[crotchpuncha]

Yoko…Taro…? Happy…ending…?

That interview is setting us up for a fall man.

[Gasaraki]

Yoko…Taro…? Happy…ending…?

IIRC he’s said that before. Yoko Taro’s definitions on words are shaky, to say the least, and he has no qualms trolling the media at all lol

[drean]

So, judging from the setting of Nier 2

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I’m going to take it that the father didn’t doom all of humanity by killing the androids and Shadowlord?

[Shinkuu_Tatsumaki]

[*] 2B’s skirt will begin to break after she takes a certain amount of damage. Beneath the skirt she wears a white leotard.

Yep, all I wanted to know.

[Sonicabid]

I’ve been playing Drakengard 3 the past few hours.

The game is weird as shit. I don’t like it nearly as much as Nier so far, but it’s pretty fun.