Nier Automata Review Thread. Metacritic: 89!!

[Faelco]

BraLoD said:

Faelco said:

I didn't finish the game yet, but I passed the part where Square Enix says "You need to beat the game multiple times so launch it again" a long  time ago, and you just don't play the same thing again. The second "run" is already different, and the third (where I am right now) is something else entirely, and is even presented as the main part of the game. The first part of the game, before the "beat it multiple times" message, feels more like a long intro.

So, maybe I'm wrong and at the very end of the game I'll have to do everything again, but I rather think that guys complaining about that stopped at the message asking you to launch a second run without trying to do it. Congrats to those geniuses for reviewing a game at the end of the intro...

Well, he could have been fooled.
I don't usually try to replay a game as soon as I beat it, most games I never replay, so if the game tells me I have to play it multiple times more, I would very likely drop it there, if it's really completely different (as different settings, different characters, etc), then it's the game fault to not let it clear.
Again, I don't know how it is, maybe it feels like it'll still be new after reading the message, but it sounds like it's a poor way of letting people aware it doesn't actually keep repeating and keep more as a continuation, rather than a "do it again".

For example, one of the things RE6 does right is that, it separates every major char story on its own campaign, and from the beginning you know they are complete different things, as they are all well separated, so when you beat Leon's campaign, and the get the story conclusion, you know there are still a lot of complete new stuff to do, and playing Chris, Jake and Ada campaign will not be a repeating, but a different thing that still adds more and more to the story mode you already played,

I don't remember the message exactly, but it is a "Square Enix message" after the credits saying something like "you only saw one aspect of the story, we ask you to launch your save game again to see more". And the second run is different from the first second after you load your game, you see immediately that it's not the same thing (I was like "What? What is happening? Shouldn't it be the same thing?" when I did it). So it's not that Square Enix wasn't clear, it's that the reviewers didn't even press "continue" after the "Please press continue" message. Lazy and/or stupid...

Those guys surely ended Persona 4 in the hospital room without knowing that they skipped 3 months of the story, or stopped playing Zero Time Dilemma after 5 minutes when they got the first ending for choosing the right side of the coin (automatic first ending after 5 minutes). 40 euros for a 5 minutes game, what a scam!