Topic: Nier: Automata

The soundtrack is awesome.

My copy was finally delivered yesterday. I'm hoping to give it a go this weekend. I was already excited about this game but reading everyone's thoughts about it makes me even more.

@NathanUC Yeah it does get a bit harder which is nice. About an hour into chapter 3 now, sh*ts getting real!

Bloody love this game.

@KratosMD I absolutely cained it last weekend (like 22 hours over 48 hours) - felt quite ill until like Tuesday haha. Won't be able to play much now until Sunday evening

@kyleforrester87 I'm ashamed to admit I had to drop back down to normal difficulty at the start of my 3rd. I was able to put it back to hard a bit later, but that 3rd playthrough intro is nuts.

I said it with the Last Guardian, but I play A LOT of games and forget most of them. I don't think I'll forget about this one! So good

I'm not sure how many brazilians are in this website, but there has been a recall for some physical editions of Nier Automata here. From what I understood, they weren't allowing patches to be installed; anyone with a troubled copy should contact the distributor - IGN Brasil has the details.

Just finished the 3rd "play through" - awesome, what a game. Going to play around with it some more but think I've seen the bulk of what it has to offer (unless there are any more mental surprises in store?) and I've got half the side quests to finish.

I really hope they carry this series on somehow. Why can't Final Fantasy be this good?!

My love-hate relationship with Nier Automata continues...
After finishing Horizon I finally got back to it last night. In my 2nd playthrough, as I was in a hacking cutscene the game crashed on me. I actually thought it was a weird '4th wall breaking' moment that I've come to expect from weird Japanese games (Freedom Wars). Nope game just crashed, lost about an hour of progression.

This coupled with freezes when I exit the menu or enter the machine village as well as the voice acting being off during cutscenes is really affecting my enjoyment of what is otherwise a great game.

It crashed on me twice in 50 hours both times after long play sessions.

@KratosMD Yeah I was never sure if it was intentional or not, or if I was missing another aspect of the combo to get them up into the air with me. I've found Platinums combat systems to have lots of little aspects that are easy to miss so I wouldn't be too surprised, but yeah it does seem a bit weird so who knows. In the end when it happened I just followed through with a downward attack to keep bringing on the pain.

@KratosMD I think it's by design because the launch in the air after perfect dodge is only one of three things that you can do. You launch into the air because you push square, try triangle and R1, they will give you different moves. I use them when I identify an enemy that can't be launched mid air; a little hard when you're pushing square so much but can certainly be done.

Just finished Nier Automata and got the platinum. Turns out you can't buy all the trophies. You have to get all 5 endings (I ended with 7), very reasonable I think. After 40 hours and seeing all endings here are my thoughts:

-Soundtrack is amazing. It the best that I've heard in any game ever.
-Was initially frustrated. I had major performance issues & I expected more from the combat. I regretted my purchase in the first 20-25 hours and I had to force myself to play it.
-3rd playthrough, everything changes. Can't go into it without spoiling, but WOW.

Right up to that third playthrough the game was a 7 for me, but having finished its a 9. The way the game picks up is incredible.
Its a masterpiece only held back by performance issues.

Nioh, Horizon, Gravity Rush 2 and Nier, I couldn't pick between them. Next week Persona 5. What a start to the year!

@Fight_Teza_Fight Glad you enjoyed it. I'm gunna get back to it later on in the year, I want to get some more endings

I haven't had much time for the PS4 lately (work and family etc) but at the end of the summer my wife is going on holiday with the kids - whilst I stay at home and work. In the evenings I'm going to thrash this. I absolutely love Platinum and this looks amazing.

@KratosMD When you clear it the third time you open up chapter select and can restart at any point of the game. Each chapter has a list of possible side quests during that chapter along with those completed already, so you can very easily go back and tie up all the loose ends.

The only thing to consider is quests that have been half finished when you complete the game will be fully restarted.

My advice is to just plough on to the ending.

@KratosMD Hmmm is Dojo guy an on going quest or is it broken up to mark it as completed each time you beat him? Can't remember for sure but I think it goes into your completed quests log each time you defeat him.. Quests that are split up like that shouldn't be affected.

@KratosMD Cool, I just checked and have "Robo Dojo-Brown belt" and "Black-belt" etc in my completed quests log, so yeah, you don't need to complete the entire chain.

I really want to play it again now I've got the disc in haha.

@KratosMD You nearly cleared the story mode entirely or just the first run? If its the whole thing that was quick! Haha.

Yeah, this kind of surrealist story is way more interesting to me than a by the numbers story like Horizons. As much as I enjoy that game the story just doesn't intrigue me like Niers does. I only mention Horizon as they are both about robots taking over the world lol.

I'm not 100% no, only 49% so plenty to go back to. Also you get a choice at the end, and you can immediately reload and try the other choice.. I've yet to try the other one. So I've got that to do, half the side quests and some other endings to get at some point.

@KratosMD Nah the quest completion stats follow over to further play throughs. Basically don't worry about them, it'll all make sense once you've unlocked chapter select after 3rd play through

@KratosMD Yeah there is nothing really wrong with any of the three main play trough's really. I suppose the second can seem kinda repetitive in places but its not that bad.