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I stumbled upon an interesting manga, Shiki no Zenjitsu, I think you may like it.

Yeah, it's a next year release for now. Story seems interesting too.

I do have a habit of starting new games on hard anyway, so I'll probably do just that. I'm always up for a good challenge.

holy shit, another Falcom fan. Much respect dear sirs.

Shall have to take a look at Puppeteer. Yeah, Transistor is by the Bastion guys, including more Logan Cunningham narration and Darren Korb soundtrack, plus enhanced combat and super shiny graphics as usual. There's a trailer around somewhere, I'd recommend watching it if you haven't already.

I have heard of Ys, but never actually got round to playing any of them, nor have I ever known really where to start. I have got a couple of Ys arrange albums in my music though, but not heard the original soundtracks. The unique bosses thing sounds pretty sweet so I'll have to give it a look.

I would totally grab it right now, but I just used up pretty much all of my money to buy a new laptop because my old one crapped out on me :(.

Meh, give it a month and I'll have the money again. Then again the Kyouko Nendoroid rerelease is in a month...

Hey, I was reading this post you posted on this thread and it showed a manga panel in it. In it , there was a guy talking about main characters and side characters in movies and how each human life is the same. Do you know what's the name of the manga ?

Sorry about the late response. I just keep stalking the forums on and off and think 'I'll check my profile after.' but then I keep hitting the refresh button on recent posts.

Ha good observation. I never really noticed that, so after the first chapter or two I just thought 'okay, pretty much every ecchi scene is in his mind.'

Yeah, it is though. I suppose it's okay for what it is, but the story or characters are nothing ground-breaking. It kept me interested though. Happen to have anything else to recommend?

Why, thank you!

To be frank, I'm not close to what you described, but I'll try my best and hope everything will be alright. Perhaps being optimistic is for the best xD

And yeah, I sure do hope we'll meet more and more in the discussions seeing as I'll try to be omnipresent around the forums. Worth mentioning that hopefully you'll help me if you see a spoiler tag not present in a discussion or a thread derailing and so on, by reporting it :D

I haven't actually completed any of Cavia's other works, although I did rent one of the Drakengard games back on the PS2 years ago. It's a shame that part of their downfall was probably due to releasing it near FFXIII too as, whilst I enjoyed FFXIII to some extent, Nier is superior in pretty much every aspect aside from graphics.

The whole 'kill because you can kill' mechanic of games has been put the test recently, not only Nier but also the more recent Spec Ops: The Line and Hotline Miami touched upon the topic. Whilst I haven't played either of the latter, both of them are pretty high up on my plan to play list. I've heard a lot of great stuff about both games and how they question the morality of the player and ask 'is all the killing really worth it?'. As with Nier, Spec Ops was overlooked a lot at release despite good reviews and has only recently been brought into the light due to shoutouts from those who have played it, assuring that it is a lot deeper and better written than the generic war FPS it may look like at a glance.

Nier himself never really had a chance to understand quite what was going on. The only people who had any idea seemed to be Grimoire Noir, who everyone assumed was just tricking them, Devola and Popola who were essentially created to keep the whole cycle of the gestalt project going and Kaine, who could understand the shades due to Tyrann. Kaine never told Nier anything about the true nature of the situation, whilst Devola and Popola simply didn't do a very good job of explaining it to him, possibly due to them not actually knowing that much about the true depth of the project anyway. Nier doesn't even realise what he's done at the end, and it's likely that there aren't many people left, if any, who will actually understand what's to come due to his actions.

I have actually read that post already due to it being linked on another site, some rather interesting info there. Reminds me I also need to read through Grimoire Nier when I'm done with the game as it supposedly contains a whole ton of background information and additional tidbits from the developers themselves.

Yeah, I remember reading a while ago about the language used in the game being a conglomeration of other languages, a pretty interesting idea really. The singer is Emi Evans, isn't it? Think it was mentioned in an article I read about the OST. Still, it sounds beautiful. I remember doing that sidequest in the first part when Devola and Popola do a duet, that was amazing. I just left it on for a while to listen.

I'm currently about to go grab the last couple of Shadowlord Key fragments on my second (half) playthrough, although I'm trying to do as many of the sidequests as I can. Can't get 100% on that due to missing one from the first half but oh well, it gets me money and some of the sidequests are fantastic too. Hearing the shades' side of things for the Lost Shrine and Junkheap bosses was really quite sad though. Are there any additional scenes like those for the third playthough? Would be cool to know even more then.

I may well have to throw both onto my list, although that thing isn't exactly up to date. I probably should add more to it and update it more. I know at least one thing is on there which I now have (Kuragehime) so it needs a tweak.