by Henry Spencer » Fri Mar 03, 2017 2:07 pm
No way it is keeping that score. That's only from the more niche websites so far. Not really surprised either way that it's getting good reviews off those who have finished it however. This game is rad. Music is almost at the original's quality, some of it is the continuation of the music, some of its music sounds distinctively different from previous Nier music (and still sounds great) and some of it sounds so melancholic. So glad I pre-ordered the soundtrack (can only get the 3rd disc if you pre-order the first release, any stock after that will miss out on the 3rd CD).
NieR was my favourite game from last generation (next to Dark Souls 1) simply put because of the music, storyline, characters, dialogue, the atmosphere and way it defied genres. If you enjoy games like Team Ico's games, Zelda, story heavy games, like a wide variety of games (since it changes genres a few times over the course of the game) and just generally weird niche Japanese games you should try it. Why did it have low Metacritic? Because journalists last gen were a joke, that's why. Make up your own mind about games, don't let others do that for you. It's also shorter that you'd think too. Think I clocked in at 40ish hours in total doing all of the side quests and doing the NG+ runs (since the game changes when you do NG+ the first time, which drops you in halfway through the game) all combined.
EDIT: Automata has sold three times what NieR did in its first week, so the outlook is looking good for more PG + Yoko games in the future.
Henry Spencer has received 2 thanks from: KidMarine, Monkei