![]() This is accompanied by floating pods which each android is equipped, adding ranged combat in the form of bullets, and other projectiles throughout the game. Navigating the world is a treat, and the smooth controls of the android characters gives a feeling more akin to floating across the surface than the full-on sprint they exhibit.Ĭombat is akin to Bayonetta in some ways, with a fair amount of dodging (and eventually the ability to slow time on perfect dodges) and melee. Credit is mostly due to developer PlatinumGames for putting their best efforts into the genre they do best, third-person action. Right off the bat, Automata is immediately more fun to play than Cavia’s NieR from seven years ago. Playing as android 2B, with the aid of companion android 9S, the open-world game sets players on a quest to save humanity in a post-apocalyptic world inhabited by adorable killer robots. NieR: Automata is a continuation of 2010’s NieR universe, this time putting players in the middle of a battle between machine and android for the greater benefit of mankind. And yet it’s one of the least traditional examples of what constitutes “just a game” in today’s market. ![]() A regular scene in NieR: Automata’s universe, as players will whizz through a fake credit sequence on any death they hit, they’re reminded that this is just a game.
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