Un viaje inolvidable de, posiblemente, los mejores protagonistas que he visto en juego alguno. La historia es claramente su punto fuerte (junto con la banda sonora), y eso es un tanto problemático porque hay partes del juego que son terriblemente aburridas. El gameplay se presentaba como la gran mejora respecto al original y eso me deja muchas dudas sobre lo mal que puede estar el original... Las misiones secundarias también son un problema, hay algunas muy buenas y otras que son de hacer de recadero por el mapa y que solo sirven para alargar el juego a lo tonto. En mi caso, si lo pongo todo en una balanza, me salen más cosas positivas que negativas pero entiendo perfectamente al que no le guste.

Le di dos oportunidades a este juego y me saqué el final A y el B y puedo decir que este es el peor juego que he jugado en mi vida. La historia puede estar bien, pero esto es un videojuego, no una película, y todo lo que tiene que ver con jugar es horrible porque el gameplay es una auténtica basura, solo machacas un botón todo el rato hasta la saciedad. Las misiones secundarias son las peores que he hecho nunca; un tostonazo de recadero de ir de punto A a punto B para hablar con NPCs, haciendo que moverse por el mapa sea una pataleta constante, parece que este juego odia mi tiempo como jugador. Además, la música está bien pero se repite tanto que te meten las mismas cinco canciones todo el rato en bucle. Para colmo, me parece una basura insultante que te obliguen a jugarte la misma mitad del juego otra vez desde el medio hacia adelante para sacar los finales. Si la jugabilidad es un sufrimiento, el juego es un cero absoluto. No tiréis el tiempo.

Intro: I played Automata and enjoyed that game a lot. I decided to play through Replicant because I thought it would provide me with more lore/backstory, and because I liked the soundtrack and character designs to be honest. What I liked: Well, the music, obviously. And most players do, and many people are introduced to the game via this path. Snow in summer, Radiant winds, The incomplete stone, Cold Steel Coffin (belongs in a dark souls game lmao), City of commerce, Song of the Ancients, The Ultimate Weapon, Kaine/Salvation, Lost Forest, and Emil's Sacrifice are my top 10 songs. The combat was simple but fun thanks to the variety of weapons and the different moves they enabled, and the parrying system. I thought that the best thing the game did story-wise was give a good sense of the passing of time. Shades evolve, characters change physical forms, time skips happen, childhoods are explored, characters are frozen in time or cannot age properly, etc. etc. And Kainé was unique and lowkey inspirational, and Emil was wholesome and you cant help but pity/feel sympathy for the lad - and Yonah who has a disease like the whole game. But then what Yoko Taro does with those characters... I do not like much (see below in the 'What I did not like' section). What could have been improved: Tutorial system. Also, not sure I understood the concept behind what words did to weapons and why. finding outfits would have been cool. Fast travel or boar riding earlier. What I did not like: the fact that it was never explained what was happening at the start of the game, who Devola and Popola really are, why Emil's mansion was so weird, and why we can hear gestalts after ending A but you couldn't before. Where are any of the real humans actually? How old are all of our characters?? Why isn't Kainé a human since she is possessed by a gestalt? I don't understand why Weiss leaves at the end so abruptly and while saying so little - and what his purpose in the story even was... Same with the redhead twins, they say so little. They just laugh, explain they must fight, and then... fight... Why does a massive flower appear at the end of the game? I'm just critical of a lot of story delivery decisions and I'm confused on many things, even though the story's ideas and what I thinkkk it was trying to tell seemed interesting and fine to me. And lot of blank screens with text to read. Reading isnt an issue, and I thought the forest of myth village dreams being told through text was cool and understandable, but telling the backstory of Kainé this way? Either lazy or they didn't have the resources to animate those childhood scenes... which was disappointing since she is a major character. Finally, the wolves were really annoying to fight. The way they run around in circles and flee away from you was painful to go through. Especially in a blinding storm. Especially when there is an endless stream of them spawning and being sent to you. Conclusion: In the end, while it is a frankly good game which kept me entertained for about 24 hours, I think automata was better, and Nier Replicant simply has too much missing content - yes, it's ridiculous to ask people to buy official lore books or read reddit posts for a few hours to get the full picture. I wish the game was longer, had more interesting and useful side quests, and had more cutscenes and lore to read/find. Combat was fine for me. Music carried the game. Lowkey the best part, and dare I say the rest of the game does not reach the height of the soundtrack. Keiichi Okabe and Emi Evans r the reason this is in the high 70s. I give Nier: Replicant 78/100.