People tell me it gets good! So I will keep playing and see, I guess.
But no matter how good the story is, and no matter how relevant this is to the plot, it does genuinely piss me off that the game makes you play through long stretches without being able to save. I had some people over this weekend, and they wanted to use the Blu-ray player on the PS4. I had to eject the Nier disc, which means that I'm going to have to play through this hour of bullet hell all over again from the beginning. God forbid the person playing Nier Automatica isn't completely dedicated to the game with nothing else going on in their life.
Although this may just be the opening sequence, who knows. Square Enix is awful about using opening sequences as prolonged software demos, and even my beloved FFXII is not free of sin. As a side note, I was watching the opening cinematic of FFVII with my video games class the other day, and everyone was remarking on how effective it was for only being about two and a half minutes long. I've heard people complain that the earlier FF games haven't aged well, and I tend to agree on some counts, but those games were and still are extremely accessible and really fun to play even from the beginning.
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Date: 2019-03-04 07:15 pm (UTC)But no matter how good the story is, and no matter how relevant this is to the plot, it does genuinely piss me off that the game makes you play through long stretches without being able to save. I had some people over this weekend, and they wanted to use the Blu-ray player on the PS4. I had to eject the Nier disc, which means that I'm going to have to play through this hour of bullet hell all over again from the beginning. God forbid the person playing Nier Automatica isn't completely dedicated to the game with nothing else going on in their life.
Although this may just be the opening sequence, who knows. Square Enix is awful about using opening sequences as prolonged software demos, and even my beloved FFXII is not free of sin. As a side note, I was watching the opening cinematic of FFVII with my video games class the other day, and everyone was remarking on how effective it was for only being about two and a half minutes long. I've heard people complain that the earlier FF games haven't aged well, and I tend to agree on some counts, but those games were and still are extremely accessible and really fun to play even from the beginning.