I decided to try writing a summary of my thoughts for people who DON'T feel like reading 2 super long posts and watching several hours of youtube videos. I ended up with...a pretty long post, but I tried ( Read more... )

I looked up some interesting extra canon material and watched a bunch of videos (thanks sulla!). These videos go through some of the interesting things the game does with philosophy, storytelling, and the structure of games, the first two have captions/a transcript and are designed to make sense if you haven't played the game. There was a bunch of ( Read more... )

So I kept hearing about the game Nier:Automata being full of robot tropes I'm really into, but it also looked kind of ridiculous and sounded like not my sort of combat, so I finally decided to just watch it on Youtube ( Read more... )