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Well, I've just finished this for the first time. The game itself is pretty poor - gently caress your fetchquests, <20 enemy types (guess), <10 proper locations, Emil, and item farming. Is this what Western RPGs are like in general? That said, the only reason I played it through to the end is because of the voice acting. Weiss is one of my favourite characters in any game, ever, and the game is made much better if you treat it as a James-Mason-em-up.* No way am I playing the second half again to get ending B/C/D. *(If you don't know who James Mason is, punch yourself in the face)
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 17:52 |
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| # ¿ May 24, 2013 03:41 |
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I just have. When does the loving text end? 
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 18:00 |
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It's really not. I've just got to the end of the bit where Kaine draws a picture of her grandmother, and it's still going. Besides, if I wanted to read a book, I wouldn't be playing a game that describes itself as an "action RPG"! It's well written, granted, but the concept is lazy as hell.
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 18:08 |
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Flayer posted:It's not lazy. A cutscene could never even hope to convey as much as what is written about Kaine at the beginning of the B run. Well written prose is a far superior method of telling the story. I see where you're coming from, but I don't accept that it'd be impossible to convey it in a cutscene or something. Honest Thief posted:Nier changes game style so much it doesn't pescribe to a label "not very good"  I'm sure the story is good and all, but it's not worth slogging through what is a not-at-all-fun game (that you've already played through) for hours.
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 18:29 |
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InnercityGriot posted:I think the bipolarity of the critical reaction to this game is probably warranted, but I don't think I can understand people not liking the text sections of the game. Even Yahtzee complained about it in his review. It's well-written and fits in with the themes of the game. If the game faced us down with reams of poor exposition with voice acting in some terrible cutscene would it be preferable? Are Americans really this hateful of actually reading, like going to a foreign language film and listening to complaining because people have to read subtitles? Neither myself nor Yahtzee are American 
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| # ¿ Jun 1, 2010 23:06 |
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