Exploración del conflicto desde sus distintas perspectivas. Cómo creerte con legitimidad justifica acciones injustificables. Entre medio, empatía hacia sus personajes, todos ellos marginados y maltratados por la vida, los cuales siguen encontrando razones por las que seguir adelante.

A pesar de sus buenas intenciones, el juego falla para mi en la pobreza de su estilo. No consigo conectar con lo que propone, sus escenas emotivas no me emocionan, su mensaje se siente redundante. Y el mismo final D, que debería ser catalizador de la empatía desarrollada hacia el mejor personaje del juego, falla al proponer un sacrificio vacío.

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I honestly cannot understand where the love for this game comes from. Sporadically cliche-but-effective writing is hamstrung by some of the worst looking and playing levels I have ever seen in a game, additionally weighed down by shitty sidequests and wildly varying production quality levels.

The game as a whole feels unfocused, and the addition of having to complete the game multiple times to get the full story feels like a cop-out meant to draw out your time with the game. To make matters worse, Nier ALREADY recycles areas twice, sometimes 3 times in the main game. This is absolutely inexcusable, especially when your reward for slogging through the Lost Shrine for the sixth time is a crowbarred-in cutscene that depicts how the giant shadow monster you're fighting is a single mother of 12 or whatever.

Also Kaine's outfit might be one of the worst designs I've seen in some time. It's not even hot; it just looks absurd.

Pretty good game. The way the story starts really draws you in and compels you to keep playing to find out what's up even during the meh moments which are rare. Sadly the way that it's resolved isn't great. It's teased and foreshadowed well enough but the way the game just throws a bunch of documents at you right before one of the final bosses (documents that I don't think actually said that much) just irked me a lot. The game tries to cover it up too by making the boss tell the MC to stop standing with his mouth open and get on with the fight.

Besides the twist stuff I like the story a lot, Father NieR has a lot of great scenes with Kaine and Emil and a lot of great dialogue during cutscenes and side quests that it makes it hard to believe that he was supposed to be a teenage boy. Route B adds some scenes and dialog which improve the story a lot imo even if some of them are literally just like reading a digital novel.

The gameplay was pretty good, each hit felt weighty and had impact. It isn't very challenging though and it pretty much becomes mindless once you get the Phoenix Spear. Even then it was still kinda fun cause of Grimoire Weiss' blood magic stuff which was great to look at and contrasted well with any background. That said by the time I got to Ending C I was sick of the gameplay and just watched Ending D on YouTube. You should not rush the game like I did even if you're really drawn into it. Take your time and you probably won't be burn out.

Music is great, a lot of memorable tracks such as Shadowlord, Shadowlord's Castle ~ Memory, Snow in Summer, The Incomplete Stone, Hills of Radiant Wind. If you don't play the game you should at least listen to these songs, maybe even the whole ost if you feel like it. It's that good.

There aren't many locations in game but they're all pretty memorable to me. The ominous Aerie, the lively Seafront, the video game references in Emil's Manor and the Underground Laboratory are some off the top of my head.

To sum it up, great music, great locations, good story, great characters. Easily would recommend this to anyone willing to spend time on it. Something I almost forgot to mention was the UI design in this game. It's like scribblings you'd make in a notebook and I love it