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Aug 27th, 2018 at 19:52:39 - Nier Automata (PS4) |
Nier Automata has been a really fun game to play so far. The combat is so smooth and fast that every fight I feel like a boss. The gameplay varies a lot at the start switching between flying and ground combat. From what I have played the map is very big and there is enough activity scattered through out the world so I never felt bored. The map itself is sometimes beautiful but then occasionally the world seems bare.
I initially played the game on hard difficulty but I could not get past the first fifteen minutes. Every time that you died you had to restart the entire game. I watched the opening cut scene about 9 times. I finally switched to Normal and I could then continue further.
Once I got into the meat of the story I was very intrigued. In the open world there where harmless machines scattered throughout the map. I would always kill them because I had to fight them in the opening level and then learned that these machines have taken over the Earth. So I tried to erase this filth from the world. But then I came across this amusement park filled with harmless machines celebrating life and enjoying themselves. It was very weird to see these machines happy. I didn't want to attack them because there were so many of them that they would probably smarm me. But I also didn't want to attack them because it looked like they were enjoying themselves and I did not want to be a jerk. A little farther down the line I find a whole village of harmless machines that where nice to me. I believed it was a trap but also thought that maybe I do not know the whole story. Maybe this whole time I have been killing the wrong things.
In the Ethics Reader it talked about how video games try to test our emotional responses. At the start of the game I am fighting the evil machines and told that they are the enemy. Only to find a group of machines having a good time. I didn't want to attack them and I actually questioned if these guys are all that bad. When I later was running through the same area with the harmless scattered machines I felt a little bit of guilt for attacking them earlier and I did not attack them again. So far this game has set up the player to question their actions and beliefs on who the enemy really is.
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