doink

[muladhara]

The gas man finally came and checked my boiler and gas meter yesterday! \o/ Everything is fine, so now I don't have to worry about that again for another ten to twelve months!

~

Today it is supposed to get ridiculously hot (27°C), so I am glad the weather waited till I was not at work five days a week, so I can be sick as a dog at home instead. I'd rather not be sick at all, but better now while I'm on holiday than have to come home from work.

~

Here's another question from the Squeenix meme!

7. If asked for a single recommendation, which Square-Enix game would you recommend?

I mean, I am tempted to say FFXII, because that's my favourite of all time, but honestly I would I actually say NieR and/or The Last Remnant.

I mean, NieR will rip your heart out and stomp all over it, but that's also kind of why I'd rec it. And its soundtrack is an absolute banger. There isn't a track on there that I don't like, or that I got sick of hearing. Added plus is that you don't need to know anything about Drakengard to enjoy the game as, while it's a spin-off of one of the endings (E Ending), it doesn't have a lot of bearing on the actual story. I won't say any more about it, because I'd be tempted to talk spoilers and trust me: it is better to go into this game absolutely unspoilt.

I had a ball playing The Last Remnant (in spite of its flaws, of which there are a few), which is why I'd rec that one. And the soundtrack is awesome - and dynamic to the fights, so depending on your situation, depends on which track you'll hear. If you do decide to play it, get the PC version or the remaster, since they're improved over the original Xbox version, and make the game easier to some degree. Also you can recruit some of your enemies once you've beaten them, which you can't do in the Xbox version.

Comments

[zabimitsuki]

I might add the proviso with Nier that it's probably better to rec Automata than the original game - simply because I've had that backfire on me hard. XD The person in question adored Automata, and I assured them that they'd love the plot of the original just as much, if not moreso! So when I asked them a couple of months later what they though of Replicant they asked me if it was possible to love and hate a game at the same time. -_-; I guess even with the remaster improvements it's still rough...

I'll fight to the death anyone that dislikes Emil though. I love that little guy!

[muladhara]

I suppose I should've said in the entry, but I'm reccing the original for the relationship between Nier and Yonah. I don't know how it works as a brother sister relationship, but it crushed me as a father daughter one. Automata made me sad in parts, but it had nowhere near the same effect on me.

But I think going backwards from Automata to the original is probably a bad idea.

Me too!

[lassarina]

Good selections! I actually have used the XBox version of TLR as an example of a specific game mechanic in one of the tabletops I run. (In "mass combat" in said tabletop, you-the-unit-commander are the one who takes actions and the rest of your unit is basically ablative meat. The joke is "you wear them like armor." That's....pretty much how Xbox-version TLR, where you can have only so many commanders, works!)

[zabimitsuki]

Ah, yeah - it is quite different. The interactions are basically the same, but it's just a different feeling. I do miss papa Nier in the new version, if I'm honest. Young Nier makes a little more sense for things concerning Emil and Kaine, but the Yonah relationship suffers a little in comparison.

And same. Which isn't to say that Automata doesn't make me sad, but the first time I cleared an ending in Nier, I basically had tears streaming down my face the entire way fighting up the tower. God, that game! XD

[muladhara]

*nods*

Oh for sure! There are parts of Automata that make me sad, but yeah, it's just not the same.

[muladhara]

Thanks!

That's a really neat idea!