Nier was a running joke in our group. I picked it up from game stores, but never played it because pants face on the front cover put me off it. So our old flatmate played it and had a love hate relationship with it. Shortly afterwards, Shauna played it and had the same experience. So I had to see what the hype was about.
Nier is...boring. It's Dull, nothing happens in it and everything is basically a means to an end. You can finished the game start to finish in about 10 hours if you know what you need to do. All the "Side Quests" are meaningless missions that serve no purpose other than getting some money or items that will never really be used. All the weapons can be upgrades 3 times each which takes a stupid amount of resource farming and when you've upgraded your weapon of choice (in my case a spear) there is no point doing anything else.
But you do it anyway, and you like it.
There is literally no reason for this game to be good, but it is and it took me 2 lets plays from Shauna and Mary (Flatmate) and m own play through to find out why. Nier is super chill and relaxing. There is a fishing section of the game where you just catch fish to sell. Usually this is just for quests but the process of just throwing in a line and chilling to relaxing music while casting is something that you rarely experience. Just give it a go, take everything at your own pace and have a great old relax.
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