Captain Cadaver said:
Pocket-Gog~ said:
Have you played NieR Automata?
Bump for this since I have since played the game. Finished the A Route but could not do Route B due to the bullet hell segments towards the start and lack of healing items being available means I'd always get to abysmally low health by the time playing as Pod and get the bad ending.
I would recommend playing the side missions. As not only does it provide much needed experience and gold, which makes the main story easier. It also fleshes out the world of NieR Automata itself. For your healing problems, there's an auto heal chip which is available, which heals you if your health goes to low, as well as a hotkey which can bring up healing items without going through the tedious menu screen.
However, I have watched playthroughs and cutscenes of the game to compensate enough to provide a concise opinion on the game.
Some of the characters are still cool and interesting, though I wouldn't say any of them are as engaging or developed as those of other cyberpunk/sci-fi stories of similar tone such as say, the first two parts of Battle Angel Alita or Neon Genesis Evangelion.
I would argue that the likes of 9S stand among the characters of Battle Angel Alita in terms of complexity.
The final route and many of the plot points it throws at the audience are also highly rushed to the point of feeling like random bullshit.
As someone who has played the game through it's entirety and completed a majority of it's side missions. There was no plot holes or contradictions in the finial act. The worst critiscim I can give to it is Devola, Pepola's backstory being crammed in, in the form of a rushed text adventure. And A2, whose backstory is only present in a play.
The Machine network itself.
What are The Tower and The Ark?
The ark is a rocket, which is designed to launch the machine data to a new world.
If this is referring to N2, then it was the aliens. However, if you're referring to the ark and tower, it's very clearly implied to be a creation of N2.
What was the sphere with the children laughs?
This is actually vague and up for debate. It's implied by Yoko Taro that it's the machine network.
What was the end of Adam and Eve in the Ark?
It was their data. 9S in ending D, even has the choice of uploading himself into the ark itself.
It also doesn't help that the final ending noting how the main characters are destined to continue their struggle infinitely, whilst tying in to some of philosophical themes, is still far too fatalistic for it to be a satisfying ending.
Ending E does not say that the characters are eternally destined to repeat this conflict of life and death, ending E is the cycle of life and death that this war created ending for good.
It's also why Ending E is called The "end of YoRHa", because it's the end of YoRHa. We also have side content which confirms that the androids and the remaining machines on Earth sign a peace treaty.
The struggle definitively ended.
himself states that Genki only makes up 1/3 of one's Ki. However, even that can be seen as inaccurate when taking into account Super's Genki-Damas or Goku still making an OK Genki-Dama out of the Genki on Kaio's planet, which doesn't seem to be even the size of a city, so I'd consider any Genki-Dama's power to just be plot based more than anything.
