The machines continue to fight without masters because the network that controls them doesn’t need oversight to continue its work. First it turns out that Aliens are dead, having perished soon after arriving on Earth. Let’s not entertain this setup for too long: the twists in NieR:Automata start coming pretty early.
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You play as a pair of YoRHa androids, the taciturn and professional 2B and her younger, more naive partner 9S, who hack and slash their way through battle after battle as new facts about the fight are revealed, and long-term plans come to fruition, eventually bringing the conflict to its final conclusion. The surviving remnants of Mankind fight back through an organization of androids named “YoRHa,” having retreated to a shelter on the Moon. Aliens have sent an autonomous force of machine soldiers to Earth as a precursor to their invasion of the planet. NieR:Automata is, at first, the story of a war-torn Earth far, far in the future. Let’s step back a bit to establish what this game is before we talk about what it becomes. That’s why NieR:Automata is the worst game of the year.
This is the story you decided to tell? And it was a bitter question because of how much promise the game had shown me at first, how excited I was starting the download, and how disinterested it left me in the end. Really? I asked the game over and over again. The tragedy in Automata is predictable and fake, turning to cheap character death and convenient plot turns so often I began to exclusively question the story rather than engage with it. But NieR:Automata is so busy tripping over itself to try and bum you out that it can’t be bothered to do it right. This is the kind of game that starts with a post-apocalyptic setting and introduces another apocalypse halfway through. NieR:Automata doesn’t just want you to feel sad, it wants you to despair. This is a game that is trying very, very hard to upset its player. All in pursuit of the one thing NieR:Automata cares about more than anything else: tragedy. Characters die left and right, themes are hastily wrapped up or abandoned altogether, the pacing stutters and grinds to a half, and the storytelling nosedives. Automata has one thing it cares about more than anything else, and it starts tossing out every other part of itself in pursuit of its goal. The problem is, these things that I like aren’t the elements of NieR:Automata that really matter.
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All of these are things I’m very much into, and the reasons that I bought NieR:Automata the second it came out on PC even though I had planned to get a PS4 just a few months later. There’s themes of existentialism, of society and how society is created and recreated, and how nonhuman beings would understand personhood when their only frame of reference for such a thing is human. There’s stellar music that really punctuates the haunted, melancholy vibe of some of the game’s areas, both things I like in general and specifically wanted to see again after the original NieR. There’s a cast of cool robots, many of whom are lesbians, which I’m already very into as a gay robot myself. In fact, there are a lot of things in this game I genuinely enjoy. NieR:Automata is not the worst game of the year because there’s nothing to like about it. I promise that’s the last you’ll ever hear about 2B’s butt. With all that preamble out of the way, let the take officially commence. I don’t think I’ll change anybody’s mind by writing this, but I do think that if I let the year pass by without putting any of my issues with this game on paper, I’ll regret it. Its critical reception doesn’t make me eager to put that take out in public, but at the same time, I feel compelled to. Personally, I don’t think that NieR:Automata is a horny game. Throughout the year, I’ve been hard-pressed to find anyone beyond a handful of friends who thought this game was anything short of a heart-wrenching masterpiece, with the one exception of the Video Game Hell podcast, who capture most of my initial feelings about the game at launch.Īside from a single podcast, the nearest thing approaching criticism of NieR:Automata I ever saw were tweets rebutting the idea that the game was “too horny,” a perception that I think comes more from a subgroup of the game’s fans (and, to be fair, the game’s director), than anything in Automata itself. I don’t know what your critical landscape is like, but judging from my social media feeds the internet has had almost nothing but praise for the Square Enix/PlatinumGames-developed NieR:Automata, both at the time of its release and once again as we enter Game of the Year season. NieR:Automata is the worst game of the year, and I doubt that very many people share that opinion. (Warning: This article spoils most of NieR:Automata, and a hearty part of the original NieR to boot)
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