NieR: Automata – Game of the YoRHa Edition
Had no idea what I was getting into with this one. Why didn’t I read Eric Layman’s March/2017 review of NieR: Automata, where he broke down the game and laid it all out? Eric’s well-written GRE-like review of the game brought more questions than answers for me, which was only stoked by its inclusion in our Holiday Gift Guide 2018 video segment, where he tried to sneak in a 2017 game into GOTY cont...[Read More]
NieR: Automata heading to the Xbox One on June 26th
It’s so preeeettttyyyy! LOS ANGELES (June 10, 2018) – SQUARE ENIX® announced that the award-winning action role-playing game (RPG), NieR:Automata®, will be available digitally for the Xbox One on June 26. Titled the NieR:Automata: BECOME AS GODS Edition, this version will feature the base game alongside exciting digital content, including: the 3C3C1D119440927 Expansion DLC, four pod designs ...[Read More]
NieR: Automata – 3C3C1D119440927
PlatinumGame’s action expertise may have brought players into Nier: Automata, but it’s not what they left with after the final set of credits rolled. 3C3C1D119440927—I paradoxically can and cannot believe they called it that—puts combat front and center and leaves the crippling existentialism and surreal aberrations off to the side. (I usually don’t do spoiler warnings but this t...[Read More]
NieR: Automata
Nier was a demanding and ambitious game undermined by the reality that it wasn’t much fun to sit down and play. Seven years later, Nier: Automata seeks not to sterilize Nier’s affable idiosyncrasies, but rather recast them in a mold forged to withstand the torrent of institutional mischief delivered through director Yoko Toro’s unorthodox approach to game design. Translating Toro...[Read More]