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ニーア オートマタ

Developer: PlatinumGames Publisher: Square Enix
23 February 2017
PS4
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16 Ratings / 1 Reviews
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#4 for 2017
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NieR: Automata Day One Edition
2017 Platinum Square Enix  
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DE 5 021290 074521 CUSA-04480
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GB 5 021290 072558 CUSA-04480
NieR: Automata BECOME AS GODS Edition
2018 Platinum Square Enix  
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NieR: Automata Game of the YoRHa Edition
2019 Platinum Square Enix  
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RU 5 021290 083585 CUSA 04480
NieR: Automata Game of the Yorha Edition
2019 Platinum Square Enix  
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NieR: Automata Game of the Yorha Edition
2019 Platinum Square Enix  
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GB 5 021290 083523 CUSA-04480
NieR:Automata The End of YoRHa Edition
2022 Platinum Square Enix  
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All in all, it was a more than decent hack and slash with JRPG elements and curious shoot 'em up sections to spice things up. Interesting how the camera angles change in the middle of the campaign to give a whole new feeling to the gameplay. Platinum Games made sure to provide engaging combat with fluid animations and a stable frame rate, but little to no strategy is required on standard difficulty. Harder settings obviously offer more challenge for the player, but also make the gameplay quite tedious as it's the exact same mechanics with increased enemy health and damage.

Graphics are a little washed out and closer to a PS3 generation game, but still manage to conceive a unique and personal look. The whole game is set in the same open-world map, but the post-apocalyptic setting offers little detail and repetitive patterns within the same macro-areas. The most fascinating places are the smaller ones, like the machine village, the forest, the amusement park, and the copied city. The main campaign keeps asking you to go back and forth the same areas, but it was never a problem as the combat is fun, the story is interesting, and the background music is always good. Side missions tend to be a little more tedious, as they are primarily fetch-quests or extra backtracking just for the sake of it. After fast travel is unlocked, it just becomes a series of loading screens with a couple of dialogues in between.

I can't really see how the storytelling could be innovative, but it does deal with themes that are not so recurrent in recent video games. It may appeal to people who enjoyed "Ghost in the Shell", "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and the likes. I am aware the game didn't have a huge budget, but a better direction in the cutscenes and more fleshed-out dialogues could have helped to explore the plot and characters a little more. Like in the "Kingdom Hearts" saga, there are references to the previous games and other related media, but what can be actually found in-game is pretty basic.

I also didn't like how they force you to play the first half of the campaign twice to unlock the rest of the story. Nothing against replaying the same game with different characters and learning a few more details, but these should be facultative tasks to complete after the endgame.

Despite the rough edges and budget limitations, it was still an enjoyable game able to provide something different from its competitors. I am pretty interested in "Replicant" as it seems more plot-focused than "Automata", but I am not sure I want to beat the campaign four times to get to the ending.
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edgar_marrybell ニーア オートマタ 2024-02-11T17:03:03Z
PS4 • JP
2024-02-11T17:03:03Z
4.0
1
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DEEPSLEEP ニーア オートマタ 2024-01-31T04:29:28Z
PS4 • JP
2024-01-31T04:29:28Z
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buttsoccYOU ニーア オートマタ 2024-01-07T12:54:31Z
PS4 • JP
2024-01-07T12:54:31Z
4.5
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calvieh ニーア オートマタ 2023-12-29T15:57:36Z
PS4 • JP
2023-12-29T15:57:36Z
4.0
1
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toest ニーア オートマタ 2023-02-10T18:16:26Z
PS4 • JP
2023-02-10T18:16:26Z
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Joinforpp ニーア オートマタ 2022-10-20T12:37:08Z
PS4 • JP
2022-10-20T12:37:08Z
4.5
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EastMan01 ニーア オートマタ 2022-05-29T06:17:38Z
PS4 • JP
2022-05-29T06:17:38Z
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Chizceke ニーア オートマタ 2022-05-27T13:28:17Z
PS4 • JP
2022-05-27T13:28:17Z
3.5
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tortsnol ニーア オートマタ 2022-02-13T03:31:08Z
PS4 • JP
2022-02-13T03:31:08Z
5.0
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parz ニーア オートマタ 2021-11-30T14:59:16Z
PS4 • JP
2021-11-30T14:59:16Z
4.0
1
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Mako2026 ニーア オートマタ 2021-09-19T20:04:03Z
PS4 • JP
2021-09-19T20:04:03Z
5.0
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manicure ニーア オートマタ 2021-08-26T07:56:21Z
PS4 • JP
2021-08-26T07:56:21Z
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100% complete campaign platinum
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  • omo_ree 2024-02-17 05:20:12.572801+00
    im glad and surprised they added sonic when they remade it under the name sonic frontiers
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  • choraft 2024-02-27 21:50:23.472492+00
    need some videogame nerds to get to work and come up with recommendations for games with writing like this cuz i've never really come across something similar yet and it's killing me... replaying this game over and over for the story experience isn't gonna keep me satisfied forever
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  • EJ_082887 2024-03-09 01:30:24.256065+00
    E-Girlcore
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  • Illogic93 2024-03-12 19:58:03.054328+00
    Chad-core
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  • omo_ree 2024-03-22 23:43:33.717594+00
    lukedo's review makes me want to play this,looking at anything from this game does not
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  • Pumas 2024-03-26 02:26:51.717142+00
    Tbh the last act brings in a lot of shit that makes no sense at the very end. Maybe i need to play the first nier to understand it idk. But I wish they kept it a little more simple cuz besides that I think the game is pretty much perfect.
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