/vr/ - Retro Games

>>3487354
Do you think Papa Nier would have appreciated a good chainsaw?
>>3488237
You've picked the second worst game in the series for newcomers.
I went in blind after playing every other title in the series and I stil had to restart it four or five times to even get to the last boss because I kept messing up quests, missing quests, I didn't know where to look for items, didn't get magic and so on, and when I got to the last boss I had to restart it again because I couldn't even get to the second phase before getting BTFO(and when I got to the second phase later I had to restart it again because it was even more brutal)

It's my favorite game in the series and all, but it's brutal even if you're accustomed to the franchise.
So unless you're one of those guys who revel in punishing games I don't know whether you like it, it's pretty brutal and requires you to know what you're doing since the moment you start the game.
I wouldn't tell you to use a guide, at least not on your first playthrough, because the game is basically a sim-rpg, most of the fun comes from sequence breaking, experimenting with classes, finding quest triggers and dungeons, seeing different questlines and long and short term planning.
90% of the bosses will rape you, story bosses also get stronger, as in get different, vastly more powerful forms depending on how you proceed in the game, if you grind some of them will get more powerful, if you make certain choices during quests you'll have to fight them in very different conditions, as in almost no equipment at all and/or in more powerful forms and so on.
Then you'll have to deal with character permadeath, getting magic, getting waza, getting items, avoid enemies since every battle raises the BR which in turn makes all enemies stronger faster than you and so on, it's a great game if you like deep, non linear RPGs, but you need to know how it works, discovering it by yourself is a great experience, but it can be tremendously frustrating.