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will it be too late? you can't fight fate
I AM PLAYING NIER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.
I got to, er. Some Stuff Happening, and boy was that A Thing. It was also probably the most exhausting boss fight I've ever had, thanks to not being equipped with the best weapon at that point in the game. (I've been skint because I deliberately avoided the sidequests, bar a few, because I wanted to do the story, damnit! And thus I have no money :( Because bosses don't pay out highly, and there's only so much vendor trash that is actual trash and not Useful Components).
Also I have learnt via an LP that I am reading in tandem with my playthrough, that I will not be acquiring endings C or D, because I haven't met the requirements, so youtube it is for those! Or possibly not, IDK. (I didn't think there were any special requirements? But apparently what the heck do I know???) I'm actually glad about that, in a way, because I was leery of ending D anyway.
Apparently to access the C and D endings, you need to collect every single weapon available (though thankfully there's not as many, nor is it as ridiculous as in Drakengard). I have not been buying weapons due to not having the readies in a lot of cases. Also there's one I missed in the Forest of Myth, because I didn't know you were supposed to free the other villagers from the Deathdream. HOWEVER! I have since learnt that the missed weapons are available from the blacksmith later on in the game, though at vastly inflated prices. So I suppose there's that option?
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Unstructured thoughts I have on the game so far:
NB: I don't know how right or wrong I am about any of this. Cutting because list, also spoilers, including one for the sequel!
# I think there is some kind of experiment going on (obvious from the diary entries that are not Yonah's)
~ it turns out I was sort of right about this! Well, not in the sense I meant it (I think it's a global thing, like the world Nier is experiencing may not be real for some reason).
# I think Yonah's diary entries come from wherever the experiment is, not the village we see where she lives with her dad. Also the further into the game I get, the more they make me sad. I suspect this is on purpose.
# I know what the word gestalt means, but I don't know how it applies to the game yet. Replicant I only know the meaning of with regard to Bladerunner and I'd assume we're going down that road because of what I know about Automata (which is very very little, but I know there are human looking robots).
# I think Nier is a Good Dad. A+ would want him as my dad.
# relatedly: I'm glad we got Papa Nier and not JRPG Bro Nier. I don't care if that's an unpopular opinion, because I am here for all the examples of dads being good dads for their daughters.
(I keep having Harry and Cheryl ~feels~ and I'm sure it's no coincidence).
~
Please do NOT spoil me for anything in the game. I have made it this far without managing to have any of the story spoilt, apart from what I accidentally saw on TVT because I forgot to switch the "show spoilers" button off. And even then it was only one thing (which won't have the punch it should have, I imagine), and not the entire game.
(I mean, I'm sure you guys will be fine about this, but I just wanted to say it).
I got to, er. Some Stuff Happening, and boy was that A Thing. It was also probably the most exhausting boss fight I've ever had, thanks to not being equipped with the best weapon at that point in the game. (I've been skint because I deliberately avoided the sidequests, bar a few, because I wanted to do the story, damnit! And thus I have no money :( Because bosses don't pay out highly, and there's only so much vendor trash that is actual trash and not Useful Components).
Also I have learnt via an LP that I am reading in tandem with my playthrough, that I will not be acquiring endings C or D, because I haven't met the requirements, so youtube it is for those! Or possibly not, IDK. (I didn't think there were any special requirements? But apparently what the heck do I know???) I'm actually glad about that, in a way, because I was leery of ending D anyway.
Apparently to access the C and D endings, you need to collect every single weapon available (though thankfully there's not as many, nor is it as ridiculous as in Drakengard). I have not been buying weapons due to not having the readies in a lot of cases. Also there's one I missed in the Forest of Myth, because I didn't know you were supposed to free the other villagers from the Deathdream. HOWEVER! I have since learnt that the missed weapons are available from the blacksmith later on in the game, though at vastly inflated prices. So I suppose there's that option?
~
Unstructured thoughts I have on the game so far:
NB: I don't know how right or wrong I am about any of this. Cutting because list, also spoilers, including one for the sequel!
# I think there is some kind of experiment going on (obvious from the diary entries that are not Yonah's)
~ it turns out I was sort of right about this! Well, not in the sense I meant it (I think it's a global thing, like the world Nier is experiencing may not be real for some reason).
# I think Yonah's diary entries come from wherever the experiment is, not the village we see where she lives with her dad. Also the further into the game I get, the more they make me sad. I suspect this is on purpose.
# I know what the word gestalt means, but I don't know how it applies to the game yet. Replicant I only know the meaning of with regard to Bladerunner and I'd assume we're going down that road because of what I know about Automata (which is very very little, but I know there are human looking robots).
# I think Nier is a Good Dad. A+ would want him as my dad.
# relatedly: I'm glad we got Papa Nier and not JRPG Bro Nier. I don't care if that's an unpopular opinion, because I am here for all the examples of dads being good dads for their daughters.
(I keep having Harry and Cheryl ~feels~ and I'm sure it's no coincidence).
~
Please do NOT spoil me for anything in the game. I have made it this far without managing to have any of the story spoilt, apart from what I accidentally saw on TVT because I forgot to switch the "show spoilers" button off. And even then it was only one thing (which won't have the punch it should have, I imagine), and not the entire game.
(I mean, I'm sure you guys will be fine about this, but I just wanted to say it).