I know love. The convenience store was selling it. For 298 yen.

[Hakuteiken]

Playing NieR with a keyboard is rather crazy. Especially the double tap evade that maybe works sometimes and the mid-air jump that I don't even know how I am doing. Yay!

 

[Sky]

Playing NieR with a keyboard is rather crazy. Especially the double tap evade that maybe works sometimes and the mid-air jump that I don't even know how I am doing. Yay!

The original NieR? Do it for Kaine!

Also Harumin is so precious... Not as much as Yuzu but still...

 

[Hakuteiken]

The original NieR? Do it for Kaine!

Also Harumin is so precious... Not as much as Yuzu but still...

No, Automata. And I have hit 4h without getting to the first save point.

Harumin best girl, Yuzu not even close.

 

[Sky]

No, Automata. And I have hit 4h without getting to the first save point.

Harumin best girl, Yuzu not even close.

You should have started with Replicant... You lose so much by not doing it...

Say that to this smile:

#protecc

 

[Hakuteiken]

You should have started with Replicant... You lose so much by not doing it...

Isn't it console only? Maybe if they release a remastered version for PC one day..

And yeah, Yuzu is fine, but Harumin is the best wingman ever.

 

[Sky]

Problem is that you lose tons of references and feels. Especially later on... Too bad...

Well in the next manga arc right after the Anime will end, they actually added a reader as a character. By that I mean a fangirl who gets nosebleeds while thinking about HaruYuzu and shipping them together...

 

[Hakuteiken]

What can I possibly do about a game I cannot play, though?

Really? That's actually a cool salute to the fans.

 

[Sky]

I know... But that just sucks... I had tons of feels during certain missions because of the prequel... Meh...

Well I wonder. x'D
The girl is really cute but her delusions are almost dangerous.
The Manga made me like Matsuri by the way.

 

[Hakuteiken]

On the bright side, I might not ever get past the first boss at this pace, so, all is well

Feels like a way to interact with fans. Sounds similar to Wake Up, Girls! way of casting. I believe they took newbies for all roles, and there is a small episode preview segment with young VAs showing up themselves to present the episode.
Too bad the whole anime had like no budget. It had potential to be a good idol anime otherwise.

 

[Sky]

I remember getting trashed by the first boss and because you can't save I had to start again... Went with easy during that just to actually play the game... Hah. Good memories.

It is sad how many potentially good shows get a bad case of low budget.

For some reason I have to think about Love Lab now. Damn what a nice surprise of a show.

 

[Hakuteiken]

I once made it past the boss and died while trying to save 9S. In all other 3-4 attempts, I died at those double jigsaws right before the first boss.
Once I had like 17 potions and got one shot. That was tilting. Playing at normal difficulty here.

Yeah, it's a sad part of the industry.

Rabu rabu~

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After all those "perfect" runs I had, I went onto make an idiotic run and wasted lots of potions, but thought of using them mid-fight manually this time and dodged some weird stuff to make it to the first check point at around 5 hours. Hell yeah.

 

[Nii]

Funnily enough, the beginning is more or less the hardest part of the game lol. Wouldn't be Nier with a bunch of fascinating "quirks" like that though, lol. A shame you can't play the original Nier first Hakkun, but I'm sure you will enjoy Automata nevertheless. It was such an awesome experience, the best game (to me) I've played in a long time.

 

[Hakuteiken]

Yeah, I haven't started the second quest, but there is already lots of "Saving available" messages I saw that in bunker, so I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case \o/

 

[Sky]

Good job, Hakkun.

Now have some healing. <3

 

[Hakuteiken]

Kawaii~

Arigatou, brother \o/

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Played an hour or so of the resistance camp area. Now this is more like RPG and exploration. Cool!

Also, probably didn't realize before because I was busy trying to not die, but there is some god tier music playing in the background.

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Alright, time to ramble on a little bit. Having not played the prequel title and not completed this one, this is mostly me having fun rather than trying to play a guess the whole plot game at this point.

Spoiler: Hmm

Leaving aside the background music, the story has been heading in a weird direction. The part up to the first boss felt more straightforward in terms of plot as you simply killed everything at sight, but now there are a lot of "neutral" mobs that show zero interest in you. There was an evolving "humanoid" was basically produced by machines or something? And then there was the amusement park hacking boss which basically showed us a what looked like an emotion-carrying memory for a split second. Now, there is a whole village of machines that wants.. peace. Not sure how I feel about a machine talking about carrying on its existence peacefully. More so than a machine carrying emotions or not, I'm more intrigued by the fact that there are so many machines that seem to have no apparent purpose. Oh, and the machines keep talking about love. The whole concept of "emotion" was messed up even before that, as 2B declared emotions were unnecessary when she first interacted with 9S, and then showed outright emotion as they used black boxes to destroy the goliaths. Their interactions feel like a constant wavering of belief, as they take turns to reassure themselves machines do not feel anything.

Right at this point, I remembered. Or rather, I realized that I didn't remember. What the heck are we doing here, anyway? It looks like we are killing time, honestly. Earth is under invasion, but somehow, we can send resources to Moon in a pretty gaudy fashion, and the machines are well aware there is a Resistance camp. One would be curious about the name since they seem to be in a pretty comfortable environment for the most part, unlike our YoRHa squad which was wiped by the amusement park boss. Androids seem to be having a much tougher time compared to humans for some reason. It would be rather hilarious if the whole "Glory to the mankind" was a facade and the humans were actually using androids for an ulterior motive.

 

[Sky]

Hakkun how far thee? What about those thicc androids?

 

[Hakuteiken]

Made it to the end, but apparently it's route based. I went back into the game and immediately quit I was right at the beginning, this time in 9S' perspective, because I was tired xD

So many things left unanswered. What exactly were Adam & Eve? What was HQ up to? What was the betrayal A2 spoke about? What the hell was that about machines talking about becoming Gods by dying and suiciding to achieve that?

 

[Zasz]

Hakkun how far thee? What about those thicc androids?

I see what the author did there.

 

[Sky]

Made it to the end, but apparently it's route based. I went back into the game and immediately quit I was right at the beginning, this time in 9S' perspective, because I was tired xD

So many things left unanswered. What exactly were Adam & Eve? What was HQ up to? What was the betrayal A2 spoke about? What the hell was that about machines talking about becoming Gods by dying and suiciding to achieve that?

Well to be honest, you barely started if we just look at the story. Looking forward to your thoughts.
Also with 9S you can see the boss names. You should like them a lot imho.

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Why did I not know about this...

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Legal Lolis are the best.

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HNNNNNNNG

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Bwide-tan!!!!!!!

 

[Hakuteiken]

Well to be honest, you barely started if we just look at the story. Looking forward to your thoughts.
Also with 9S you can see the boss names. You should like them a lot imho. [/IMG]

I guess I'll have to put the pieces together, then.
Boss names? You mean the nonsense character names shown info Warning boxes were a distraction?

Also, Yuru Camp going Yuri Camp

Also, Rory..