Cat_von_Tiny
(Rating for Fontaine overall)
Best region by far, amazing creative environments with consistently interesting world quest lines and the best Archon Quest so far. The only region that comes close in Enkanomiya.
Best region by far, amazing creative environments with consistently interesting world quest lines and the best Archon Quest so far. The only region that comes close in Enkanomiya.
2021
![NieR Re[in]carnation](https://images.igdb.com/igdb/image/upload/t_cover_big/co7bm4.jpg)
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.
2022
This review contains spoilers
I love gay people
It does what it sets out to do well and the art is amazing as seems to be a trend for Studio Investigrave games. I don't like it quite as much as Elevator Hitch but that's because I really enjoyed how thematically dense that game was, versus this one being more character driven. I also think it reasonably could've been like 20-30 minutes longer and it would probably be able to justify it. Game jam game though so I'm not gonna be that harsh.
It does what it sets out to do well and the art is amazing as seems to be a trend for Studio Investigrave games. I don't like it quite as much as Elevator Hitch but that's because I really enjoyed how thematically dense that game was, versus this one being more character driven. I also think it reasonably could've been like 20-30 minutes longer and it would probably be able to justify it. Game jam game though so I'm not gonna be that harsh.
2022
This review contains spoilers
The horrifying dread of Job. Really unique game, i especially loved the art and ost.
I got locked out of the secret ending though without doing a third loop because i misclicked in Floor 4 and couldn't get the ending there. I cant find it on youtube for some reason?? But i read what it was, seems cool.
I got locked out of the secret ending though without doing a third loop because i misclicked in Floor 4 and couldn't get the ending there. I cant find it on youtube for some reason?? But i read what it was, seems cool.