Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing?
mcforest@kbin.social 7 months agoI already did 3 fragile deliveries :D
The biggest "problem" is that you cannot tell beforehand if a quest will be good or not. The lighthouse lady and the old man's dog quests had an amazing conclusion, so they were totally worth it, even though gameplay wise they were boring.
I think you definitely feel that Automata is an improvement on the OG Nier (assuming that OG Nier and the remake aren't that different) in terms of quest design. That doesn't make Replicant bad though.
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Oh my bad. It’s one family of quests
This might sound crazy, but I actually preferred Nier Replicant to Automata in terms of gameplay. I preferred Automata slightly on story and feel, but I also felt like Automata made some really bad mistakes that Nier didn’t (the notorious prologue, for example)
If I could ONLY play one of the two once, I think it would be Automata. If I could only play one game 100 times, it would be Replicant. if that makes sense
mcforest@kbin.social 7 months ago
I actually like Automata's prologue :D
abraxas@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
“Game Over” having to rewatch the opening 6 times in a row was almost enough for me to toss the game out. I ended up putting “super-duper-easy” auto-fight mode on until I reached the first save point.
Who though that having a 1-hit-kill boss 15+ minutes into the game BEFORE the first save point was a good idea?
mcforest@kbin.social 7 months ago
I probably just got lucky because I beat him first try. Just a completely different experience.