I was trying to edit my message and accidentally somehow deleted it. There's no "confirm" button to actually delete your comment. I literally deleted it by accidentally tapping the delete button instead of the button next to it. Great design (sarcasm). ffs..
Thankfully I managed to "restore" it by going back in the browser because it was cached in it..
Here's the comment again..
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How can you even ask this question? The anime basically didn't even start. No one can answer since no one knows what the anime is(will be).
And the obvious answer is obviously to play the game.
You will feel more because you will be more connected to the experience becasue your skill and what you do will steer your experience, you will not be merely served what to observe.
Spoiler for the entire first episode because I'll directly comment in what the differences in between the anime and the game are below:
Up until 9S is shown for the first time, it's basically the gameplay animated.
For now, one likely problem to me is that it seems likely that the anime mixes up into one the story which in the game is told via different "parts" of the story.
9S talking with 21O at the very beginning for example is not seen until you finish the first part of the game.
The big mining hand robot that 2B killed with a single charged shot by the pod did not have complete justice done to it in terms of how the anime shows what you experience through the game for that fight; In the game it's the first boss fight and it takes a while. All the while you are hearing the game's music.
But, well, that's fine. Would've been good had they animated the attacks that the drill hand does in the game, at least two, but it's fine.
The robots that stand still as 2B walks next to them and 9S explains to her that as of late such robots have started increasing in numbers; That did not take place there. In the game you fight against robots in that area wheras in the anime 2B walks past them.
Then, as she walked past those robots that did nothing to her, stuff is not in the anime in terms of how much area (and fighting and thus getting immersed into the story by being exposed to the music) there is in the game.
By the time she arrives to the Goliath enemy, a lot of fighting is skipped alongside some "inspiring" moments.
Prior to the Goliath enemy fight, the two mining drills that are the Goliath enemy's hands attack 2B and in the game you need to first defeat them by themself before 2B fights the Goliath enemy.
Again, all this time you spend in the game you are exposed to the music which is perhaps the strongest thing of this game. I mean, anime. haha
The fight against the Goliath enemy is also very much shortened. You don't see many of the attacks which are a peculiar aspect of this game because of how they look.
When 9S hacks the Goliath enemy, that is also something not seen in the game until the second part of the game. Only 9S can hack enemies and as you play the first part of the game, you don't even realize that 9S does something other than fly around and fight.
A big plus is that almost, if not literally everything, that is said in the first episode of the anime is from the game, I noticed only potentially a single voice line that isn't taken directly from the game, and it was by the Pod, not by either 9S or 2B.
The ending of the episode is well, also not what it is in the game. Only in the sense that you don't control 2B, but it is a big thing in this case because of what The Bunker is and the experience that walking on it for the first time is. Everything else is almost 1-to-1 from the game.
Walking on The Bunker is special. Everything is black and white, there are no colors in the game in The Bunker. And the melody that plays in The Bunker is peculiar and important. That experience is missing from the anime, at least from its first episode.
This seems to be overall a great adaptation.
If you like it and want more, based on just the first episode so far, you might tremendously enjoy the game.
Once more, the music is of great significance in this game for me and for that reason alone I think that it's basically impossible to enjoy experiencing NieR:Automata in its anime form as much as if one does it through its game form.
I like 2B's eyes and overal face a lot more in the game.
This is when 2B wakes up in The Bunker.
It is all black and white in the game.
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