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Aug 29th, 2018 at 00:36:31 - Nier Automata (PS4) |
(For my first experience with Nier Automata - August 25)
My initial reaction to Nier Automata was nothing special. The game had some interesting mechanics between it's initial aerial battles and the ground fights that blend ranged and melee combat. In particular, I came to appreciate the game's style of flipping perspectives or forcing the player to carefully control their viewpoint in order to play effectively (although this did make me more nauseous than most games would).
The plot of the game did not impress me as much initially. You begin the game as "2B", an android sent to deal with some malevolent mechanical entity. She, along with an accompanying "9S" unit, demonstrate very flashy style: elegant and voluminous dresses, suits, and stockings, complete with shock white hair and a black blindfold. Your weapons are two swords controlled (presumably) by the character's telekinetic abilities. Additionally, there is some small drone-like character who helps in combat. These quirks give the game its style, but they are presented in a vacuum with no clear background or reasoning provided. The interactions between characters feel somewhat weightless when your entire fleet is gunned down in the opening scene, and I have yet to find anything distinctive in the personalities of these two characters.
Despite all my initial misgivings about the showy design and undefined characters, I'm actually very excited to continue to play this game and fill in all the gaps and shortcomings of my first look. And I'm optimistic because this introduction concludes with a gripping premise: both 9S and 2B perish to destroy the threatening machinery, but shortly after they are both rebooted on their space station in all-new bodies. 2B retains the memories of their sacrifice while 2B was unable to upload anything after their first meeting. Immediately the game has showed the potential to dive deep into ethical dilemmas of artificial intelligence, cloning, defining humanity or self, and other issues that may arise in such a game world. And so I will begin with a rating of 4/5 stars, but I already anticipate that my impressions will rapidly improve.
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