I am of a rare breed of gamers who love traditional save points, as opposed to frequent auto-saving checkpoints. Once you get to Nier: Automata Proper, we’ll call it, it will be almost unrecognizable, with tight corridors replaced with vast expanses with bases and quest givers and traders and crafters and (the most welcome addition) save points. Not only that, you’ll also play what feel like 3-5 different games in this half-hour segment, with Automata pulling influence from sidescrollers and bullet hell games in addition to the two mentioned above. While it could be a straight-forward hack-and-slash, we’ll soon find out that Nier: Automata is anything but straight forward.Įven before you get to what you would call “the game,” you have to get through the prologue, which, especially if you play on hard, can feel like the world’s highest-budget roguelike ever created. These segments are repeated throughout Automata and they underscore a theme of shaking up the core gameplay. Rather than a simple cutscene or even an abrupt shift in space and time to get to Earth, you get to play as the YoRHa forces entering Earth’s atmosphere and fighting off enemies in a spaceship segment that’s equal parts Asteroid and Starfox.
This also allows Platinum Games to go outside the box. Many years later, a force of androids known as the YoRHa has been sent back to Earth to rendezvous with the resistance on the ground and destabilize the machine forces. Man had to flee to the moon after an alien invasion sent deadly machines to wipe us out.
Nier is back! Sort of! But Automata’s loose connection with the original Nier is much less tenuous than that with Drakengard, acting much more as a spiritual successor to the latter.
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