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Topic	transience's top 100 games -- 2020 edition.
transience 12/25/19 11:47:27 PM #73:	84. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StXRi5zPPjk 2017 PS4, XB1, PC I have a lot of feelings -- including some fairly negative ones -- about Nier: Automata. I could ramble for a while about them but this isnt really the right place for that. Id be diving into spoilers abound and honestly, the player is better off just not knowing anything about this games narrative. What I do really like about Automata is the way it plays with structure. The game parses out information to the player in a very deliberate way over several playthroughs. I actually think your first playthrough is the worst part of the game which is a weird thing to say. The main character from your first playthrough, the most popular one, probably isnt even the main character of the game. Its fascinating to see the ways in which the game plays with expectations and preconceptions, and it makes you want to keep playing just to see how it can pull the rug out from under you. Those structural layers is what makes Automata really good. By the time you get through your third playthrough -- yeah, its mandatory that you see it through -- this game gets legitimately awesome. It just takes so much investment to get to the good stuff. Automata has a killer atmosphere thanks in large part to top tier sound design, but sometimes the game design side of things lets it down a little bit. --- xyzzy <cite>transience posted [p:932063318] in transience... [t:78280088]...</cite> <quote>84. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StXRi5zPPjk 2017 PS4, XB1, PC I have a lot of feelings -- including some fairly negative ones -- about Nier: Automata. I could ramble for a while about them but this isnt really the right place for that. Id be diving into spoilers abound and honestly, the player is better off just not knowing anything about this games narrative. What I do really like about Automata is the way it plays with structure. The game parses out information to the player in a very deliberate way over several playthroughs. I actually think your first playthrough is the worst part of the game which is a weird thing to say. The main character from your first playthrough, the most popular one, probably isnt even the main character of the game. Its fascinating to see the ways in which the game plays with expectations and preconceptions, and it makes you want to keep playing just to see how it can pull the rug out from under you. Those structural layers is what makes Automata really good. By the time you get through your third playthrough -- yeah, its mandatory that you see it through -- this game gets legitimately awesome. It just takes so much investment to get to the good stuff. Automata has a killer atmosphere thanks in large part to top tier sound design, but sometimes the game design side of things lets it down a little bit. --- xyzzy</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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