#NIER AUTOMATA 2B POLYGON COUNT ASS ANDROID#

The matter is amusingly, that the robot kid is shown to be merely repetition.

A2 shouldn't even have been a player character at all, given how little personality she has, so we can just focus on 9S's rescue arc instead of a pointless revenge arc. The final boss should have been 9S trying to save but having no choice but to defeat a Red-corrupted 2B and the C ending inverts the ending of route A/B. After the Bunker explodes and there is no more backups to count on, 2B decides she's not going to sacrifice 9S again this time, and that's why she is captured by the machines instead. 9S should have had to reset his memories over and over again, only to keep coming to 2B's rescue every time, because that's just the kind of guy he is, and that's why 2B over the course of Route A falls in love with him and resents the cruel fate of having to sacrifice him. A buildup throughout A and B would be something like, dunno if this would make sense, but 2B should have had to die on screen with 9S many, many more times, perhaps once every other chapter after a boss battle. Yes yes its implied that 2B has been 9S's assigned informant/executioner for ages now and the big reveal colors all their past interactions, that's all very clever, but it doesn't really resonate because it comes in at the very end of C, which could be some 40 hours from the start of the game. I think Automata would have had that weight if it had really focused on 2B and 9S's interpersonal tragedy instead of all that other stuff. The player characters felt nothing at all wiping out rando robo kids just trying to protect their nii-chan from the bad androids, and neither did I. Making me play for 5 minutes as a robo kid tripping over junk and bringing machine oil to robo nii-chan, then having him only appear again in a boss battle much much later, is the clearest example of this kind of setup. Literally every boss enemy has a little vignette about their tragic background, but because its every time, it always feels so contrived that I just don't care at all. It's just that I didn't feel much of anything from it.Īutomata felt to me like Yoko's much discussed writing style of working backwards from High Melodrama moments (self-sacrifices, mercy kills, fateful duels etc) has improved in the sense that he is now better at constructing a plot that makes logical sense leading up to those moments, but he hasn't really gotten better at giving them emotional weight. Which is perfectly fine, since that is what he is good at. I get the sense that Yoko isn't really interested in the ideas of SF as much as using them as a setting for melodrama and existential angst over being human and feeling pain. But we didn't get any of that, not even a cursory mention. Yknow the usual tropes that would come up in an SF story about robots, like the one my avatar is from.

#NIER AUTOMATA 2B POLYGON COUNT ASS ANDROID#

Like the nature of androids as copies and clones of their past selves and whether or not the discontinuities affect their sense of being the same person, whether there would be multiple instances of the same android running around simultaneously, whether the androids/machines are 'truly' conscious or if they are p-zombies etc etc. One of the big disappointments is that the hype I heard about this game being all Deep and Philosophical, which is true if comparing against the other squeenix games since the bar they set is so low, but this game itself actually never even touches on the concepts and issues I had thought it would naturally be drawn toward. Jesus, can't Yoko let anyone catch a break. Nobody has a happy ending, not the androids, not the machines, not the cameos from Nier, not even any of the side quest NPCs. On the other hand, I got exactly what I expected with the nonstop tragedy. A bunch of side quests to kill 'rogue' androids but the details are all classified. Everything was telegraphed loud and clear: Mysterious council that never appears on screen. There was nothing absurd and ridiculous like a twin brother out of nowhere or time traveling robots or mass amnesia. Coming in from Nier and Drak3, I expected the plot and character motivations to make zero sense, so I was pleasantly surprised.

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