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Oh my god. This is one of the best games I’ve ever played. I knew going into that it’s considered to be one of the best of the best, but I had no idea just how right that sentiment was. The characters, the story, the gameplay, the soundtrack, everything is just so beautifully done. Everything is leagues better than replicant imo. Except maybe the characters, I still love the main cast of replicant very dearly, but man, the tragic story of 2B, 9S and A2 is just, so well done. The combat is so much more engaging and fun, you have more weapon options and more combos so you aren’t just doing the same moves over and over. Your pod has more magic attacks than Weiss did, and they’re all unique and viable in some way. The open world is so fun to explore, instead of just having small sectioned off areas, you have a whole sandbox to explore, and it’s all interconnected without loading screens, it’s amazing. The side quest, which was one of my biggest gripes with the first, are vastly improved. I did about 45% of them in replicant, and in this I did 90%, and that’s only because I really wanted to see the true ending, so I went ahead and finished it. The 3 main characters are all engaging and fleshed out, tho, some more than others, in the context of the game A2 doesn’t get a lot, but I know she has her backstory in a book. 2B and 9S tho, god. Their story is such a tragic one, and one that came out of left field for me, I never would’ve thought that was the truth about them. The main story itself, endings A and B, aren’t super long, and neither is C/D, maybe a couple hours at most, but having the whole scope of the story, it’s a decent length. I put around 40 hours in it and I feel like it was well worth it. Speaking of multiple playthrough, it was a much easier task than the first game. You only have to replay the first half of the game once, and then everything after that is new. You don’t have to play the same parts over and over again, and even when you do have to replay it as 9S, it’s so different gameplay wise that it’s not even a problem, and for a lot of his parts, he’s doing other stuff without 2B anyway, so you get his side of the story on what was happening. I absolutely adore this game and I’m so glad I played it, everything in this game is perfect, especially the soundtrack, that shit made me feel like I was ascending sometimes. I really really really need a third NieR game that isn’t some mobile title.
It is wild how my viewpoint on this game as flipped from when I first started to now that I fully finished it. Gonna get some cons out of the way first, the amount of backtracking this game has is a little too much for me. It’s not a complete deal breaker, but part 1 of the game has so much backtracking to your house and the library with not a lot in between, it makes it very slow and boring. The side quests are also not great. They’re very bare bones, just, collect this, which usually invovles a grind in some way too, and then bring it back for a couple bucks. I think I ruined my A run by doing almost all the part 1 side quests along with my other gripes with the time kinda put me in a bad mood while playing. The story does start to eventually pick up and it’s way better from there. Part 2 is definitely the highlight of the game for me, the story is at its peak, you get more combat options with the new weapon types, more interactions between the characters. Having to complete the game 5 times was definitely a turn off at first, but it’s really not all that bad once you’re doing it, the worst is definitely getting all the weapons and having to play part 2, 3 times in a row with endings A, B and C/D. But at that point you can pretty much speed run it in like 2 hours so it’s doable. The true ending E is absolutely beautiful and a perfect end to the game. You finally get answers to most of your questions and you get closure for most of the characters. The story, characters, and soundtrack (which is absolutely fucking beautiful btw, like how do you make something that good) is really what gives the game its rating for me, it truly is something special.
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Had to sit with my thoughts for a bit before writing this review. I think the game is nearly perfect. The improvements in combat from remake to this is like night and day, it’s gonna be awful going back to remake after a this, lol. It’s so much fun that it was hard to stop playing. The story is really good, for the most part, there are some things that I miss from the og but it’s not a deal breaker. I liked the Nibelheim conspiracy in the og of, oh wait, did it actually burn down? Do cloud and tifa have false memories, and they get gaslit by shinra who rebuilt it and have just random people who love there being like, wtf you talking about bro? In this that little subplot is gone and it’s just like, yeah, they rebuilt the town and now they’re just doing experiments in the shinra mansion, like it’s fine, nothings wrong with it. Cid is like a completely different character it’s crazy. I like him, he’s fun, but that’s not FF7 Cid. Maybe he’ll change and get bitter in the 3rd game since they also cut rocket town, and so you don’t get his story about his love of space and wanting to finish his rocket, but I’m sure that’ll get added later on so it’s no biggy. The games biggest strength is all the downtime the characters get to grow and interact with each other, I love this little moments, it makes it feel like it’s a real group of friends making there way in an adventure. The open world is gorgeous and really fun to explore and get everything done( for the most part ), there’s ALOT to do in this game it’s fucking insane. There’s like 30+ mini games that you need to do for the 100% and it’s actually crazy. The plot, for the most part, follows the og pretty well, there’s a couple padding sections but not nearly as bad as remake so it’s a huge plus. The story goes fucking off the wall ape shit in the last 2 hours, cuz of course it does. I still don’t even fully comprehend what I witnessed, but, it’s definitely still peak, even tho it’s confusing it’s still go engaging and fun and it such a great time, especially starting the final boss with tears running down my face cuz they killed off one of my fav characters again :). And they somehow made it even more sad this time around with the multiple timelines and you not knowing if OUR Aerith lived or not since it keeps jumping around and showing different scenarios of what could’ve happened. I knew she wasn’t gonna make it tho, and it still hurts. I cannot wait for the conclusion of the trilogy, they’ve been cooking with these last two games and I can’t wait to see it finish, gotta fight god sephiroth at the edge of the universe in remake gameplay.