NieR Automata (PS4) - Platinum Games - Demo on PSN

Some early reviews on youtube seem very positive about this game. I'm nearly ready to pre order

I imagine we'll see some slightly more mixed reviews in the next few hours. The 94 it currently sits at on Metacritic seems too good to be true, especially for a game that will likely confuse and obfuscate so many. It'll make zero impact on my purchase decision though.

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Metacritic (average) - 92
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstat ... r-automata

GameSpot - 9
http://www.gamespot.com/reviews/nier-au ... 0-6416628/

IGN 8.9
http://www.ign.com/articles/2017/03/06/ ... ata-review

Videogamer 9
https://www.videogamer.com/reviews/nier-automata-review

GamesRadar 4.5/5
http://www.gamesradar.com/nier-automata-review/

94 right now on Meta

What a year for single player games. Will go down in the record books and we have Mario and Red Dead to come.

Destiny 2 too (probably)!

Japan are strawberry floating killing it this gen, what a comeback for the Japanese industry!

Those scores should do it! Wont start until ive finished horizon though

Favourite tunes so far...

Expected this to be mostly hacky-slashy, which it is, but didn't expect the plethora of side missions, so any of hopes of finishing this quickly have gone out the window. So! Plan is now to play as much as possible before Persona 5 hits, then come back to complete this, and then move on to Horizon: Zero Dawn.

Picked this up yesterday. It's a bit good, isn't it? :mrgreen:

Liking what ive played so far, not as good as horizon which has my goty so far but would have been a contender

Parade side mission is nails :slol:

I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines :dread:

I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Saint of Killers wrote:Parade side mission is nails I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Is that the one you have to get the stamps?

Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Parade side mission is nails I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Is that the one you have to get the stamps?

No, but it's *kind of* related to that. Y'know at the funfair they have those very short machines wearing jester hats and holding balloons? Well, you escort a load of those on a parade whilst they're being attacked by a variety of other machines.

Saint of Killers wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Parade side mission is nails I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Is that the one you have to get the stamps?

No, but it's *kind of* related to that. Y'know at the funfair they have those very short machines wearing jester hats and holding balloons? Well, you escort a load of those on a parade whilst they're being attacked by a variety of other machines.

Will take a look tonight

Saw my friend play some of the opening of this, and changing the vibration settings is amazing. Reminds me a lot of Kojima

Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Parade side mission is nails I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Is that the one you have to get the stamps?

No, but it's *kind of* related to that. Y'know at the funfair they have those very short machines wearing jester hats and holding balloons? Well, you escort a load of those on a parade whilst they're being attacked by a variety of other machines.

Will take a look tonight

He'll be by the sewer manhole entrance.

Closes access point to it is City Ruins: Near the Tower.

That forest zone music.

just started the demo, great so far. another of the many PS4 exclusives I'll add to my wanted list to play in the middle part of the year.

Saint of Killers wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:
Rubix wrote:
Saint of Killers wrote:Parade side mission is nails I'm lvl 18 fighting onslaught of lvl 30+ machines I think I'll come back to it after I've levelled up a bit.

Is that the one you have to get the stamps?

No, but it's *kind of* related to that. Y'know at the funfair they have those very short machines wearing jester hats and holding balloons? Well, you escort a load of those on a parade whilst they're being attacked by a variety of other machines.

Will take a look tonight

He'll be by the sewer manhole entrance.

Closes access point to it is City Ruins: Near the Tower.

Found him, while fighting the enemies they gave uo and i failed the mission

Anyone else foubd gold enemies? They are like bullet sponges

Also ive had ending H :lol:

RockPaperShotgun loved it

Automata, at its best, fuses Platinum’s mastery of stylish action to a framework that works as both a tour and deconstruction of various genres, and a story both stranger and more interesting than it first appears. It’s awesome.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2017/0 ... ta-review/

Call it a "masterpiece" so obvs this has just shot up my list of wants.

Holy gooseberry fool :slol:

Nearly strawberry floated up in a major way!

Got killed doing Twisted Religion. 2B spawned at save point and I continued to play for 90 minutes +, killing a variety of mobs including mini bosses, a boss, and a gauntlet of mini bosses! And only then did I realise, as I was escaping the gooseberry fool hole, just what it was that felt amiss and why: I had failed to go back to loot my body! *That* was why my HP wasn't regenerating after killing mobs. Yup. I'd played over 90 minutes of NierA without any gameplay effecting chips and had been in constant danger of losing the lot for good the whole time! :lol:

NieR Automata (PS4) - Platinum Games - Demo on PSN

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