![]() It kinda feels extraneous though because, come on, who isn’t going to prioritize the ones that boost damage? I don’t like how the combat flows, especially at the beginning of the game. Throughout the game, you collect “words” that you can attach to weapons and spells to give them modifiers. He starts out with simple Dark Blast projectiles that rival the stuff enemies throw out, but he gains more powers as you beat bosses in the first part of the game. There’s an interesting weapon variety, though one-handed weapons end up being completely outclassed.Īlong with weapons, you can summon upon the power of the great Grimoire Weiss to do magical attacks, with a souped up version if you hold down on the button longer. Spears have a narrow attack area, but are reasonably strong and their special lets you do a cool little dash attack. ![]() ![]() Two-handed weapons are heavy, but their swings hit hard and can break armor. One-handed weapons are the only ones that you have available in the first half of the game and have a special that breaks enemies’ guards. Weapons have a base combo and a charge attack that can be used mid-combo, as well as a special attack depending on weapon type. In trying to save her, Nier finds a talking book called Grimoire Weiss, who may have the key to solving his problems, and with that, the game truly begins.Īs an action game, NieR is just… okay. In a desperate attempt to heal herself, Yonah seeks a legendary flower at the nearby ruins, where she is captured. He merely wants to take care of Yonah, who has been afflicted with the Black Scrawl. Civilization has regressed to a medieval state and Shades ran rampant along with a disease called the Black Scrawl, threatening to bring mankind to extinction. The game then shifts suddenly to a time period more than a thousand years later, where you’re now playing as an identical man also called Nier, taking care of his own Yonah. Alone with Yonah, whose conditions seems to be getting worse, he cries out for help… Nier rejects the aid of a magical book he has in his possession, however, the appearance of an army of shadowy creatures called Shades forces him to rely on it. The game opens up in a (presumably) snowy apocalypse, where a man (whose default name is Nier) tries to take care of his daughter, Yonah. On the other hand, a lot of the flaws of NieR are downplayed when you watch someone else play it, and man, there are a lot of flaws. On one hand, the story beats have a greater impact when you have to work for it. Playing NieR is a fundamentally different experience from merely watching it. On a trip to GameStop a few months ago, I saw that they had a copy of the original NieR and while I had watched somebody else play it before, I decided that it was my chance to check it out firsthand. Like many people, NieR: Automatawas my first exposure to games directed by Yoko Taro, which led me to watching people play a bunch of his past stuff.
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