TheSacredTurf
2012
2016
I've tried. I've really tried. I've put hours and hours into this. But The Last Guardian is a truly hateful thing. You may think cos it's got a big stupid dog in it that it's cute or cuddly. But the truth is that it hates ye. It doesn't want ye to have a nice time. It doesn't want ye to be in control of things. It doesn't want ye to have any idea about what's going on. It hates ye. It hates everything about ye. It hates your family and your clothes and the way you brush your teeth. It just hates ye. Fuck The Last Guardian.
2010
Nier is a difficult game to REALLY love.
While there's a great story, reasonably interesting characters, cool combat and even fun boss fights to be had (and I usually hate boss fights), the rest of the game unfortunately ends up becoming a tad repetitive with boring shopping-list side quests and far too much backtracking around four or five locations. Add to this the fact that there's no actually useful fast travel means your adventure becomes a bit of a tedious slog after a while. However, I did enjoy my time with Nier and would recommend it for those looking for something a bit different to the usual, generic western action games. Nier gets a lot of things right but sadly also gets a lot wrong.
While there's a great story, reasonably interesting characters, cool combat and even fun boss fights to be had (and I usually hate boss fights), the rest of the game unfortunately ends up becoming a tad repetitive with boring shopping-list side quests and far too much backtracking around four or five locations. Add to this the fact that there's no actually useful fast travel means your adventure becomes a bit of a tedious slog after a while. However, I did enjoy my time with Nier and would recommend it for those looking for something a bit different to the usual, generic western action games. Nier gets a lot of things right but sadly also gets a lot wrong.
Remember that bit in Robocop when the fella has a bath in the nuclear Fanta and he comes out all melted with bits of him falling aff and he goes "kill me" or something and everyone goes HERE STEADY ON cos he's honking. Well, that's you, that is. That's you after playing this game. Bits of ye will be falling aff. They'll find ye with tears in your eyes and yer willy in a bucket.