Nier.

[bluestarultor]

Anyone else grab a copy of this? Phantom's playing, but I'm frankly not impressed. Like, the set pieces all seem good, but unlike other games he's played, it's just failed to grab my attention. Part of it is probably that the music depresses me and another part of it is probably that while there seems to be color, it's only in splashes against a blanched world. Combat also looks rather generic.

On the other hand, the voice acting is pretty damn good and the world is all very detailed.

I dunno, it just seems to suffer from some of the same atmosphere issues as Demon's Souls, as well as possibly some of the "repeat it ad infinitum until you get it right" gameplay, given the difficulty Phantom was having getting a trinket from point A to point B without the damn thing breaking in the midst of combat.

Also, fishing is just plain horrid. Seaweed and old buckets should NOT give you that much of a fight, and he's cursing as I type because he has yet to catch an actual fish.



Anyone else have a different perspective?