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NieR Re[in]carnation is a role-playing video game which takes place in the universe of NieR and its sequel, NieR: Automata. Set in a realm called the Cage, the player takes on the role of a girl guided by a ghost-like being. The gameplay is split into three parts: exploration, where players can roam the different stages of the Cage; weapon stories, which showcase memories from different characters in a side-scrolling painting-like perspective; and battles, featuring a mix of real-time combat with time-based skills. Players will have to assemble teams of 3 characters while taking into account their elements, roles and equipment in order to prevail in PvE and PvP encounters.
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Picked this game up on February, after its demise was announced. It was clearly meant to be played on bite-sized segments with the fact that their chapters were mostly standalone with an overaching story. I didn't even care about the teambuilding because you only needed like 150k power at maximum (and the UI was EXTREMELUY LAGGY for some reason), and I have nothing positive to say about the fighting itself.
That being said, the music is soothing and god-tier. And I grew attached to the type of storytelling. I liked the references and payoffs.
I'll probably watch all the extra stories someday.
That being said, the music is soothing and god-tier. And I grew attached to the type of storytelling. I liked the references and payoffs.
I'll probably watch all the extra stories someday.
This review contains spoilers
I guess I'll write out my thoughts on Reincarnation.
It's an interesting game. The individual characters' stories/worlds are written excellently (except for the last two storybook chars) and I loved reading basically everything on offer and learning more about their stories and their tragedies. The overarching main plot on the other hand was kind of mixed. Arc 2 was great and Arc 1 was fine but it all tied together pretty poorly in Arc 3 and the ending basically requires Replicant to have much impact. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it feels like the plot of Reincarnation was thrown to the wayside in order to tie up loose ends from Replicant version 1.22. I really liked Levania and Fio's exchange before the end though, and seeing the characters in the ending sequence was great.
Arc 3 in general while not bad felt like it should've had an additional chapter (no fault to the dev team, the game shut down). I loved the growth and interactions of the characters but again it all gets swept away by the last chapter to focus on Him and Her. I'm not even getting into it here but Her is an abysmally written character imo and she also does the trope of becoming brown when evil which is. Really gross.
Overall, my rankings would be:
Character stories: 10/10
Overarching story: 6/10
Gameplay: 2/10 (It was so bad. At least the cage was fun??)
Music: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
DoDNieR continues it's trend of making mediocre games with very compelling stories.
Favorite characters were Rion, Dimos, Noelle, and 10H.
It's an interesting game. The individual characters' stories/worlds are written excellently (except for the last two storybook chars) and I loved reading basically everything on offer and learning more about their stories and their tragedies. The overarching main plot on the other hand was kind of mixed. Arc 2 was great and Arc 1 was fine but it all tied together pretty poorly in Arc 3 and the ending basically requires Replicant to have much impact. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but it feels like the plot of Reincarnation was thrown to the wayside in order to tie up loose ends from Replicant version 1.22. I really liked Levania and Fio's exchange before the end though, and seeing the characters in the ending sequence was great.
Arc 3 in general while not bad felt like it should've had an additional chapter (no fault to the dev team, the game shut down). I loved the growth and interactions of the characters but again it all gets swept away by the last chapter to focus on Him and Her. I'm not even getting into it here but Her is an abysmally written character imo and she also does the trope of becoming brown when evil which is. Really gross.
Overall, my rankings would be:
Character stories: 10/10
Overarching story: 6/10
Gameplay: 2/10 (It was so bad. At least the cage was fun??)
Music: 10/10
Overall: 5/10
DoDNieR continues it's trend of making mediocre games with very compelling stories.
Favorite characters were Rion, Dimos, Noelle, and 10H.
With service for the game over, I can finally put my thoughts on this game.
I have somewhat mixed feelings on this game. While I enjoyed the story and all side content relating to the story (Character Stories, Dark Memories, Hidden Stories, and RoD Stories), I found the gameplay and the grind for materials extremely repetitive. It also didn't help that for the majority of my playthrough, the game would lag and crash a lot. I eventually discovered that it was due to my iPad being an old model, and I was lucky to transfer my data over to my iPhone 13 before service ended.
Unfortunately, I didn't find this out until roughly a month before the end of the game. If I had found this out a lot sooner, I would've had a much better time with the game overall. But that didn't happen. In the end, I missed out on completing Sarafa's and 10H's Dark Memories, and missed out on completing RoD Stories for 63Y, Lars, and Griff.
Regardless of my experience with the mobile game, if it were to ever be remade for consoles, I would definitely pick it up again to relive the story and be able to complete all of the Dark Memories and RoD quests. I'm not sure how the game would be translate from mobile to console in terms of gameplay, but I have a feeling (and hope) that it would be a huge improvement in playability.
I have somewhat mixed feelings on this game. While I enjoyed the story and all side content relating to the story (Character Stories, Dark Memories, Hidden Stories, and RoD Stories), I found the gameplay and the grind for materials extremely repetitive. It also didn't help that for the majority of my playthrough, the game would lag and crash a lot. I eventually discovered that it was due to my iPad being an old model, and I was lucky to transfer my data over to my iPhone 13 before service ended.
Unfortunately, I didn't find this out until roughly a month before the end of the game. If I had found this out a lot sooner, I would've had a much better time with the game overall. But that didn't happen. In the end, I missed out on completing Sarafa's and 10H's Dark Memories, and missed out on completing RoD Stories for 63Y, Lars, and Griff.
Regardless of my experience with the mobile game, if it were to ever be remade for consoles, I would definitely pick it up again to relive the story and be able to complete all of the Dark Memories and RoD quests. I'm not sure how the game would be translate from mobile to console in terms of gameplay, but I have a feeling (and hope) that it would be a huge improvement in playability.
dnf u_u
Decided to play this before the end of service so i could say i played every NieR game, and im so glad i did because this became my favourite out of the three.
While the gameplay is just a basic auto battler, it was entirely worth playing for the beautifull art and stories.
If you like Drakengard/NieR, definitly watch the story on youtube or something. Because this is NieR 3, and i wish more people saw it as that.
While the gameplay is just a basic auto battler, it was entirely worth playing for the beautifull art and stories.
If you like Drakengard/NieR, definitly watch the story on youtube or something. Because this is NieR 3, and i wish more people saw it as that.
Gone too soon. R.I.P. king.