Nier Automata - Review and Analysis

CAUSE WE'RE GONNA SHOUT IT LOUD EVEN IF OUR WORDS SEEM MEANINGLESS, IT'S LIKE I'M CARRYING THE WEIGHT OF THE WORRRRRRRRRRRRLD!!!!!

Best game on ps4, hands down. Fight me.

This game mentally traumatized me

I started this game without any expectation, not a fan of the genres, not a fan of anime or japanese culture. But i was in really loe point of my life, haunted with loss and despair. I had only a hint about this game to be long and absorbing, in a time i really needed to just escape. So you can guess it striked so deep and violently, it couldn't had in any other time in my life like that. Still now, after years, i can get some flashback about what i felt out of nowhere, like it was a real life trauma or experience, no other media was able to do so. Thank you to make me remember that time so hard but so beatiful, so well

ok fine i will go play it first(its been sitting in my steam library for years now)

Why don't YorHa androids have a kill switch?
Well, probably because overly clever, overly curious scanners, that often run diagnostics on both themselves and fellow androids, will find it and start asking questions.
Because they already have self-destruct function, and it's much more noisy and much more dangerous than a clean stub through the chest.
Because other androids will in very human way start mass hysteria, if their friends just start dropping dead with no apparent reason, but it's awfully simple to shift the blame to a logic virus and a rogue android.

It took me 90 hrs to beat the prologue cuz i fuggin bate myself lol

Route E was literally one of the most amazing bits of gaming I've played, it was such a sidesweep.

Recently found your channel and I love your reviews. especially this one. This one pulled at the heart strings when going over the whole meaning and take away from the game. excellent!

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I never played this game but I regret watching this video because of spoiling myself. I should've played first and this game looks like a Japanese masterpiece, because no western game devs are capable of creating great games like this anymore sadly.

Speaking of the 2021 gaming disappointment, what are your thoughts on games like Ratchet and Clank Rift Apart and Tales of Arise?

The greatest game Square Enix has ever published since FFVI and FFVII. Nier Automata's true value will still be discovered even decades after its release. A true work of art that proves that gaming can stand shoulder to shoulder with literature, film and music as a medium of expression.

The music and gameplay were incredible but I've still yet to have a shred of empathy for the androids or the robots.

I haven’t played any game in like 6 years, nor have I ever played a game for more than 15 hours max. For some reason I gave NieR Automata a shot though & went in completely blind.

Needless to say I completed the whole game in a few days. The writing, visuals & compelling gameplay were, although a little overwhelming at first, brilliant.

This game has left a mark on me. It’s a piece of media that doesn’t leave you once you completed it.

Ending C & D were soul crushing (a little too sad for my taste) but I'm glad that they decided to add ending E because it leaves us with a glimmer of hope, that 2B & 9S maybe break out of their vicious circle at some point.

Thank you for this video. I loved it.

Thank you. Truly, thank you. I have enjoyed every second of this video. You are a great writer and content creator, and I wish you all the best, dear.

as for someone who dropped the game after 5h
this video helps a lot.
i dont regret dropping it tho.

The descent of 9S into "edgy the emo android" got me so disconnected from the story that I ended up not caring at all about endings C and D :/

I feel a bit jealous of people this game resonated with, because for me it did not. Even though I love Nier Replicant

You put out one banger video after the next.

The ending absolutely blew my mind. Needless to say I did the unselfish thing so people can experience the ending I got. If you havent played it then please go in blind and don't look up the ending. It will blow your mind and you may find yourself doing something unexpected!

if you look around and pay attention, there is actually a third option in the pascal decision

I feel like I'm insane and missed something major in the game (even though I did get all 5 endings). I don't like the gameplay, story, music, pretty much everything.
Nier Replicant is one of my favorite games of all time and once I beat it I expected to love Automata even more but I was somehow disappointed.
I wanted to love this game to death, but I couldn't...

Hacking should have been like, funny enough, Dot Hack. Beat them up, shatter their defenses so they're vulnerable, then data drain. Afterwards their defenses come back up and you can't hack again until you beat them up some more.

Song name at the start anyone?

Wow, thank you so much for making this. It took years for me to play this game because of my preconceived notions. My friends had mentioned it a few times saying it was anime cringe. It was the "haha look up the skirt game" how painful a revelation that they were wrong it was. To an extent I don't know if I will ever look at these people in the same way because of how they judged it.

The game was painful, it was cringe, it was boring. It was all these things at times and beyond all of it the experience was amazing and I wouldn't give it up for a second. By the end of the game I was overjoyed at every part where I felt like I had "wasted my time" I don''t think I can truly explain why I feel this way. I just know that I truly am glad the game had the "grinds" that it did.

Its hard to remember my exact reactions to the game. I know I at very least came close to crying several times throughout and most likely did cry at the end. But it is only here and right now that I can say I'm crying very hard from watching the end of your video.

Throughout the watch time I just had an immense respect for your care and passion, I believe I found your channel from the 5 minute video you posted about being demonetized and I'm glad I did. I could tell you had real passion and when I saw the short clip about this game I had to know what your opinion was. I do certainly think you could have been more harsh, but it seems clear to me that wasn't truly the point. You wanted to show the vibe of the game, the soul and where it is actually strong and where it offers things people might truly not like. You took the heart of the game and put it on display. I didn't realize how much it had emotionally touched me until the final few seconds of the video. The soundtrack is truly beautiful.

EDIT: Not even moments after finishing writing this and I keep rewatching the end segment. Not just the music, but your message is what really does it for me. "This game has received a lot of praise since it was first released, but I'm still not sure if its received as much as it truly deserves" What a downplay to say such a beautiful thing. This really resonates with one of my core hopes and dreams whenever I find something I truly love. I can only hope that the person who made it can understand how beautiful what they made truly is. How adored it is, how happy it has made people. I want them to know that they succeeded and even if they don't do anything else, they have touched the world in a way that few others ever have.

I genuinely did not expect the hacking to be such a nitpick. Interesting.

Hearing the nier automata English voice acting is so weird because I’ve always played the game in Japanese for years.

'We know that it means something not through logic or philosophy, but because we can feel that it does.'
You really lost me here. All that stuff you said about connections is completely meaningless without an objective standard of meaning from God. I just played this game and was impressed by how much a lot of the characters reminded me of my mental state before becoming Christian.

WHY IS IT IN ENGLISH???

Somehow in any video essay about a video game donguri pops up as an example for combat display. I do think one of the other issues with the combat of the game is lack o9f properly teaching the player and there is no combo list. I had to look up advance combos online like pressing jump and heavy attack (large sword weapon type equipped) will do a spinning launch move with any enemies near 2B or A2. Like would've been nice to have a combo list available to the player.

those four letters could be a lot of things. Kill, shag, help, slap, kick, stop

pretty fucking lame ad sale at the beginning

Years go by, but I find myself coming back to this game periodically. This game is so special, I'm so glad I got baited by anime butts and ended up having an incredible experience that I won't ever forget

Its one of the best games i ever played. After picking it up i made 4 whole playthrough's in two years. Just because i was so attached to the Characters and their journey. I also enjoyed the combat and the Soundtrack is just as unique as the game.
I bought than Nier Remasterd or whatever its called and was utterly dissapointed. That Game just bored me to death. Kinda sad. Its narrative is no where "nier" the one of automata.
I still hope we get some kind of prequel or sequel but thats just pure egoism. It would actually be better to let it stand on its own for eternity.

The Nier games are truly excellent and at least for me that truly made me feel empathetic on a level I’ve never felt for games the nature of tragedy and pain with the final endings being a show of hope. Discovering Nier while I was struggling with depression truly helped me on a personal level too.

Yup too hard on hard I agree specially on the desert and the trials, reminds me of Persona a full nightmare, regarding combat system it is awesome to have fists and sword combos or spear and sword or long sword short sword, the problem is lack of defense, I hate that with parries you can do a lot more specially when the game could give you opportunity to play it correctly, I am kind of stubborn so I play in the way that the game wants me to play it so I do not cheat and when I see those attacks getting in the whole screen I do not jump just use the spaces but you lack something to really pass through them, nonetheless 2B and A2 feel sooooo good to handle, I love how sweet and sophisticated they are, still one of the most fluid characters that I have ever played along with previous GoW Kratos, or Ryu Hayabusa and the rest of the Ninja Gaiden women except for Rachel, she is too slow, I like Noctis but not really at that level, maybe Tifa, she feels awesome, but for example a lot better than those handicapped on From Software that cannot move for sh1t.

The problem with the story is that is not humane is a dissection of humanity, but that's the material component only, so I think it is that it is pessimistic because Yoko Taro is pessimistic, things need to be unknown so you can be subverted, the good in humanity is also a stupid act, his ideology is everywhere so I think the story is bad because it is not real, humans are made for good, and there is no stupidity on goodness, this is what happens when you let weirdos to write stories their flaws flood the story.

You need to go back to Drakengard a dragon is a being of tyranny but world will be destroyed if they are destroyed, Adam and Eve both have dragon claws and scales signifying that the tyrans will go to the stars, it reminds me of Prometheus.

I like the struggle approach however I remember an interview about Nier being a curse, an attachment love is a curse as well so it is more loaded that what you expect. Sartre was an addict, Marx and Engels terrorists along with Beauvoir but they all deconstruct human experience, Yoko Taro deconstructs the games so that's the link.

Route B was actually my favorite. It didn't feel repetitive since the experience YOU (the player) have doing the "exact same missions" is way different. I don't need to hear 9S thoughts to think differently of a certain interaction now that I know that these machines are much more complex than what you thought in route A. Highest point in the game for me.

how has automata still has been dickrided so much, at this point people should've realized that it's garbage

Never, this was brilliantly written and edited. You can tell the games themes really resonated with you and you did an incredible job at digging into a number little details that I totally missed. Your passion and dedication to these videos is admirable and I just want to say how much your work is appreciated.

Weight of the World makes me cry everytime = )

As someone with no internet the ending made me die inside. Also this game’s balance is egregiously bad and the whole losing chips on death doesn’t feel well implemented or thought out. There’s other issues like poor enemy variety and bad checkpointing, but overall the story makes up for much of the game’s many issues.

Looking for the sweet spot of difficulty for the majority of people. That's a problem and that's the type of critique keeping games from evolving forward.

Beautiful work 🙏

Anyone making a 1 hour + video on Nier Automata gets an instasub+bell from me baby 😎