NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139...

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  1. Natharyn
    Jun 22, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Nier replicant 1.22 is a video game remake of Nier replicant from 2010. The game was directed by Yoko Taro who directed Drakengard 1 and 3 and supervised Drakengard 2 and is the creator of the Nier franchise.

    The story of Nier replicant 1.22 is a well-thought-out story, but with lacking background in the game. The story builds from Drakengard ending E where Angelus and Caim enters a world similar to ours. However, it is not necessary to play Drakengard to enjoy Nier. The story does however fall somewhat as the plot twist is what makes the story deeper than the average Hero story. Together with extra material after ending A and B makes the story more interesting following as more information is uncovered for the player.

    The characters are fun and interesting part of the game. They add flavour with each other’s personality as they complement each other. They motivate each other and has fun dialogue with each others. Kaine’s intense and foul-mouthed personality together with Emil’s shy and kind-hearted or Kaine and Grimoire Weiss insulting each makes the game funnier and more interesting to play.

    The music of the game is overall good, with some pieces better than others. One of the better music pieces in the game is Shadowlord. Where the music becomes more intense as the boss fight goes on, causing the flow of the battle in increase. Another well done music piece is the end credits song which has well organized with its instrument and vocals working together to create a melodious music piece.

    The gameplay of Nier is in my opinion the most boring part of the game. The game combat is average at best, thanks to the magic you can use in the game. The game otherwise a normal hack and slash game where you cut down enemies with different weapons such as swords or spears.    … Expand
  2. Smoothhands
    Oct 25, 2021
    5
    A diamond in an Ocean of crap.

    I'm talking about the combat. Not the game it self. The game is just terrible. The story is really boring and ham fisted. The game tries to be meaningful but trips over it's toes attempting so. I could go into great depths on how bad the voice acting is and how bland and uninspiring the the side quests are but the worst thing about this game is how    A diamond in an Ocean of crap.

    I'm talking about the combat. Not the game it self. The game is just terrible. The story is really boring and ham fisted. The game tries to be meaningful but trips over it's toes attempting so.

    I could go into great depths on how bad the voice acting is and how bland and uninspiring the the side quests are but the worst thing about this game is how sexually depraved it is.
    The combat however is great! But i wouldn't recommend swimming trough this bowl of liquid turd to get trough it.    … Expand
  3. SnaZzyDotEXE
    May 6, 2021
    7
    anybody who gives this game a 10/10 is lying. this game is not that good.

    firstly, i have not played the original version of this game, nor do i intend to. however i can already tell, that this remake was too faithful. what do i mean by that you ask? well, there are so many issues and oversights which were from the original game, which should have been fixed, but weren't. while i dont    anybody who gives this game a 10/10 is lying. this game is not that good.

    firstly, i have not played the original version of this game, nor do i intend to. however i can already tell, that this remake was too faithful. what do i mean by that you ask? well, there are so many issues and oversights which were from the original game, which should have been fixed, but weren't. while i dont expect every complaint i have to have been fixed, there are some really annoying gameplay elements which i really wish were changed or altered in some way. considering this is a remaster, a lot of the problems i have with this game should not be here.

    anyway before we get onto the full game, lets discuss the pc port itself. for the most part, i experienced very few bugs and glitches. that being said, the game was not completely sterile. infact there was one bug which was apparent right from the start and, boy, its a big one. the classic, "we tied your movement speed to your frame rate, and forgot that the PC port does not have an fps cap". how does this happen? its 2021. i could understand (who am i kidding no i couldnt) if this was 10 or so years ago, but are you seriously telling me that nobody tested this? i hope nobody did, because if someone saw this and thought, "yeah thats fine" then i would be genuinely concerned. YOU RUN AT LIKE 4 TIMES THE INTENDED SPEED. WHAT?!

    so anyway onto the game itself with as few spoilers as humanly possible.
    firstly its an open world game, in a style which reminded me a lot of ocarina of time from the get go. large open fields, with various areas, kingdoms and towns extending from that. but unlike ocarina of time, you do a lot of running back and forth between these areas, often on foot. you also do not get fast travel until the second half of the game. needless to say, this is a giant pain. when you do finally unlock the ferry, which serves as this games form of fast travel, the docks for them are so out of the way, and the areas that you can access them from are so big, it hardly reduces the tedium of running about in a barren empty wasteland. that being said though, some of the places you visit are genuinely awe inspiring. I absolutely love the idea of a town built into the side of two parallel cliffs, and a town hidden in the desert where everyone wears masks, and gets around by riding boats on streams of flowing sand. ( also yes i know you do revisit areas in OoT, but its never necessary until you unlock various means of travel, such as the bunny hood, or teleportation songs)

    the story of the game initially seems cliché. a young boy trying to save his sister from an illness, but gradually over the course of the game, it really starts to pick up and turn into something truly unique and memorable. my only issue with this is that it takes way too long to really get into the meat of the story. for most of the first act, you're aimlessly running around the world trying to find info on the black scrawl, the illness that the protagonist's sister is suffering from. then in the second act, you are running around trying to get the magic mcguffins to unlock the evil guy's lair. and even once you beat the game for the first time, you end up left with a half finished conclusion, and are forced to replay the game to find out more. to completely understand the game's lore, you have to beat the game 5 times. while i do like the concept of achieving various endings to paint the full picture, the game itself is really tedious. especially when you have to do it multiple times back to back.

    also to access the last 3 endings, you also need to collect all 33 weapons, which is an ordeal in itself. specifically the quest to unlock the Labyrinth's shout, is a giant pain in the ass, which has you running back and forth on a really long fetch quest and grinding for rare items, just to get one sword you probably won't even use.

    the way weapons and abilities are balanced also leads to an overall unsatisfying combat experience. you are never forced to use the unlockable abilities, and dungeons rarely test you in new ways. this creates a really repetitive gameplay loop, as it pretty much boils down to: go to x place, kill shades, fight big monster, rinse and repeat.

    i suppose the main reason why i still absolutely love this game is probably because of the characters. emil and kaine are really interesting, and i really liked the way their pasts and futures were explored throughout the game. that being said though, i also really hate how your party is constantly separated, in really jarring ways. firstly it makes interaction between characters fairly minimal when you aren't doing main story related stuff. secondly it means that when you are in a town area, your party wont be there, only for them to suddenly appear when you exit it

    i want to say more about this game but the 5k limit means i cant :/

    just want to say i still love this game. its probably my GOTY despite its plethora of issues    … Expand
  4. Trofim
    May 5, 2021
    5
    Seriously watch walkthrough on YouTube you will not miss anything.
    If you want to return to that world then replay Automata.
  5. MikComposer
    Jan 14, 2023
    6
    I'm quite far in the game, and decided I'll leave a short review already, because I don't think my impression of the game will change much. Game is ok. In some aspects it exceeds Automata, mainly with characters who are much more colourful and more entertaining then those in Automata. But in terms of fetch quests it is way way worse. Both games suffer from similar bad design issuesI'm quite far in the game, and decided I'll leave a short review already, because I don't think my impression of the game will change much. Game is ok. In some aspects it exceeds Automata, mainly with characters who are much more colourful and more entertaining then those in Automata. But in terms of fetch quests it is way way worse. Both games suffer from similar bad design issues thought, as fetch quest in Automata are also tedious and combat although smooth and flashy gets quickly repetitive. Later on in the game enemies just become damage sponges. But I think that's because of small worlds both games have, although both have nice vistas to look at. I recon that if the worlds would be bigger and more intricate, combat would be good enough. Story is not bad and better then in Automata. Music is again fantastic and drives the playthrough. But just like with Automata where I only completed Route A and didn't want to play more, here I'm not even sure if I will complete the game. I probably will, but at least half of the game is a slog. I had much more fun with Trials of Mana remake. That one, although much more simple in its design, is way more entertaining. Still, I recommend this one at a discounted price.… Expand
  6. Meon1845
    May 26, 2021
    5
    I'm really torn on this game. I have no nostalgia for it and I've played it after Automata, which I'd reccomend heartily. And while undertstanding that this game was made years before Automata, I feel like Automata managed to contain similar ideas in a much better overall package.

    Lets start with the good: The story is actually pretty good, and while the lore isnt detailed and has a few    I'm really torn on this game. I have no nostalgia for it and I've played it after Automata, which I'd reccomend heartily. And while undertstanding that this game was made years before Automata, I feel like Automata managed to contain similar ideas in a much better overall package.

    Lets start with the good: The story is actually pretty good, and while the lore isnt detailed and has a few plotholes, the characters are so memorable and fun to hang around with, they almost manage to carry the game for me. The game twists quite a few gaming cliches and it sets up some stuff that definitely was picked up by many meta games later on.

    Now for the bad: The gameplay and quests are on the range from mediocre to absolutely terrible. The gameplay is a regular beat-em-up that doesnt manage to stand out. Quests are either just fetch quests where they send you from one side of the map again and again, or make you grind materials in a dungeon. The game makes you replay the second part of it 2 times, and while the first replay is interesting and offers a twist on your earlier game time, the second hardly manages to matter and is there just to make you collect all the weapons WHICH IS NECESSARY TO GET THE THIRD ENDING. So its not like you can skip all the boring side quests just to progress the story - you need to do at least some of them. To top it all off, the world itself is so empty and the fast travel mechanic sucks ass - you only unlock it after 10 hours and it only takes you to select locations, sometimes nowhere near where you need to go. You end up with a 15 hour game stretched to 40 hours just because of all the walking you have to do.

    It sometimes feels like the game hates you for trying to finish it while offering a really interesting tale with fun characters. It was made years before many expectiations-breaking games and it made some baby steps that Spec Ops The Line and such would follow up on later. I'm not sure if its worth the 60 dollar asking price, as it feels like may indie games have managed to expand many similar ideas since then - including Automata.

    Go play Automata tho, that one is a banger.    … Expand
  7. ErayTellezi
    Sep 13, 2022
    6
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Japonlar'ın bölüm tasarımı konusundaki tüm kabiliyetleri from software çalışanlarına gitmiş anlaşılan. Diğerleri bu işi o kadar kötü yapıyorlar ki özensizlikten de kötü gerçekten beceriksizlik var bu işte. İnsan bakınca kötü olduğunu anlar, ya biz bunu böyle yapmayalım der çünkü.

    Açık dünya allaha emanet. Farklı görevler için bom boş, 2003'ten kalma dandik grafikli, keşfedecek hiçbir şey olmayan aynı yerleri tekrar tekrar oynuyoruz. İnsafsızlar fast travel da koymamış, oyunun sonlarına doğru öyle bir özellik geliyor da o da pek kullanışlı değil. Amatörce ve salakça bir oyunun süresini uzatma hamlesi.

    Nier Automata gibi hikayesiyle vurucu olur sandım ama değildi. Emil'in ölüm sahnesi fena değildi bir tek.

    B sonu da tam bir hayal kırıklığıydı. Boşuna aynı yerleri bir daha oynadım. Nier Automata'da aynı yerleri oynadıktan sonra epey devam ediyordu hikayenin kalanı. Bunda o da yoktu.

    Oynanış olarak sıkıcıydı. Düşmanlar çeşitli değildi. Yaptığımız şey baştan sona aynıydı. Bazı boss'lar fena değildi.

    Neticede beğenmedim. Bu incelemeye bile daha fazla vakit ve enerji harcayasım yok.    … Expand
  8. RockerKR
    Feb 12, 2023
    7
    Great action game with engaging story. I wish there were more games with so advanced combat and huge amount of various good looking and useful magic abilities. Playing this game is like beeing incarnated in main protagonist in great anime.
  9. Grize
    May 28, 2021
    7
    It a fun good story-driven game

    This game is one of the BEST game I have played I the last few years. And a really good remake Good combat not too hard but you can't go brain dead. Like that you have soo many options. For example, I like to parry and switch my magic a lot but you could only use two spells and be more of a spammer A really good story overall. The main quest and    It a fun good story-driven game

    This game is one of the BEST game I have played I the last few years. And a really good remake

    Good combat not too hard but you can't go brain dead. Like that you have soo many options. For example, I like to parry and switch my magic a lot but you could only use two spells and be more of a spammer

    A really good story overall. The main quest and side quest gives me a nice good feeling. You can see that this game is from a "better time" not to be all like that, but developers can learn a thing or two from old 2000 games. I do recommend not do all the side quest but at least do some of them.

    GameMap design. The Map and dungeons have good layouts. But it is here you will start to see that this is an old game. Invisible walls EVRY WEAR! And thx to that I can't give this game higher than a 7 for that, even though I want to.

    Game AI. The enemy AI is good sometimes not all the times but they work and are fun to fight against. Companion AI do oooooh god save me they are pretty stupid

    Music, not mabby my type but it fit well into the game and the feeling around it

    The graphic is good you will not hurt your eyes, but you would not be amazed at the same time.

    Now the performance was a hit and a miss. If you have a relatively good pc then the only problem you are going to have is sonic syndrome, wear if your fps goes over 60 then the physics moves faster. I only crashed 2 times, and both of those times i had a worse pc

    PC:
    Rtx 2060
    Ryzen 5 5600x
    16GB    … Expand
  10. kinsang
    Sep 10, 2022
    5
    การรีมาสเตอร์เกมที่เปิดโลกของเนียร์อย่างเป็นทางการ ถึงแม้ lore ของเกมจะน่าสนใจมากๆ แต่เนื้อเรื่องภาคนี้ยังเล่าได้ไม่ค่อยดีซักเท่าไหร่
  11. Snjake
    Mar 18, 2023
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Its a good game but i found the story mostly boring and the side characters besides the main 3 were nothing special and the second to last boss being the twin sisters really was meh at best… Expand
  12. imalynxcat
    Apr 2, 2023
    5
    ben aynı oyunu neden 5 kere oynamak zorundayım?
    neden sistemim iyi olmasına rağmen aptal fps dropları alıyorum?
    neden sürekli yükleme ekranı giriyor?
    oyunun ilk sonuna ulaştıktan sonra bir daha oynayasım gelmedi bu sorunlar yüzünden. oynadığım ilk kısım bile çok güzel bir oyunken bu kadar düşük puan verecek olmam üzücü

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Generally favorable reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

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  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
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  1. IGN Portugal
    Jul 6, 2021
    80
    NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139 is an extremely well-thought-out remaster that puts our resilience to the test, with a fantastic story and captivating characters. It does not completely let go of its origins, which at times are somewhat painful. It's a difficult love affair, it demands a lot of our time but it rewards us with one of the most curious and interesting stories of its genre.
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  2. Merlin'in Kazanı (Turkey)
    May 17, 2021
    82
    Despite the problematic PC port, NieR Replicant ver.1.22 is a great opportunity to experience the game released in 2010 with improved graphics, modern gameplay and excellent music.
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  3. Ragequit.gr
    May 10, 2021
    75
    A solid action-RPG with a thought-provoking story and fun combat that is held back by repetitive quests and some dated gameplay elements. It is well worth a playthrough but only the most devoted will have the stamina to replay it multiple times to get the full story.
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