NieR: Automata: Long Story Short by Jun Eishima & Yoko Taro

[james_davis_nicoll]

NieR: Automata: Long Story Short by Jun Eishima & Yoko Taro

Comments

[catbear]

(minor game spoilers) The game as delivered should be played through a minimum of 3 times in sequence. Each will be as a different character, 2B, 9S and A2. Each time through unveils a new flavour and chapter in the story, though you are playing through the same sequence of events from a different perspective. The third play through unveils the final revelations. It is a more or less linear story, and I don't think it would suffer from being told in prose. There are, however, 26 different endings in the game that can be found by fulfilling certain conditions, some easy, some almost astronomically difficult.

[petrea_mitchell]

"It must be close to impossible to translate an interactive experience to a fixed form like a book or a film."

Yes. It's not just that but reconciling showing off the game mechanics while still trying to tell a story. After a few years of a whole lot of terrible video-game-to-anime adaptations, just this season, we've started seeing more of an approach where the show tells a story related to the game, but does not try to adapt the game itself. This is working out a lot better.

[ba_munronoe]

Another game struggling bravely to remedy the terrible shortage of fetish fodder in video games, I see.

[scott_sanford]

Questionable Content teaches us that AI libido subroutines can be highly diverse.

[ba_munronoe]

Does it also teach how to master Battle Heels? Bipedalism is a precarious enough enterprise to begin with. She's probably full of gyroscopes or something.

[scott_sanford]

"Would you like to see what I can do with my hips?"
"No! ...maybe."