I died one time the entire time I played, and it wasn't even dying in battle

Before the merge with Enix, Squaresoft managed to churn out games that were so impressive and dazzling, that a player can dedicate six hours of free time on any given day, and it only felt like six minutes...this is the exact opposite

But, the game goes out of its way to point out that no one's making you do this stuff - the 'sidekick' character will repeatedly point out your habit of performing absurd tasks, one person will degrade you for your habit (before giving you a painfully time consuming task), and your character will even reflect what a terrible waste of time one particular quest was

Nier" starts off well, with an intriguing prelude in (relatively) modern times leading into the story of a man trying to save his daughter from a case of the Deadly Scribbles in the year 3,160ish.

I lost count on how many times I was asked to gather this item/s or kill this creature

One of my favorite games of all time worth every penny ( yeah the side missions kind of suck except a

After listening to the Temple of the Ruins songs 800 times (literally) I looked up the trailer for the game

To prevent the game from being too short, you have to do the same dungeons multiple times, just with stronger enemies.

Also, the character model borrows from Nier Replicant, which had a younger protagonist, making the much older, in the U.S. version, Nier move a little oddly times.

, there's fishing but only good to sell for money or side quests, platforming that was only used in 2 area, and material gathering for weapons upgrade which will Completely waste your time because spawning rate is extremely low

The storyline is overly simplistic and E-rated, taking place in perhaps a total of five (small) locations through which you continually backtrack