How’s the music? Great, innit?

I’ve put in a similar amount of time into Mario now and reached the end.  And Nier is ahead in my GotY so far.

On side quests, I would say if they seem interesting and more story related (some provide good insight into backstory) I say do them. But quite a few can seem tedious or slightly dull although they can help flesh out the universe.

Maybe pace yourself on the side quests. A few here and there.

Tried a second go of this but had to abort due to children.  Dunno when I'll get enough time to get through the first section in one sitting.

Saw the credits last night!  Thought the game was quality by maybe not to the extent of the incredible praise it has been getting.  Then - tried the new game plus mode... and I might be seeing the light!

Some thoughts

*I'm a big fan of platinum's fighting games in general, and I like the power up chips and floating turret assistant that are added to that formula.  Do wish the targeting was a little more sensible though; i sometimes find myself machine gunning a benign moose, lying down on the periphery of a brawl, instead of the hostile robots trying to kill me!

*Love the instant genre shifts!  Not sure I've seen that kind of thing in a game before!

*The story/setting/characters have mostly been of interest!  If the game were to end (properly) now I'd mostly be satisfied though it seems there's a lot to go.  There's a few question marks and bits I'm keen to see resolved.  There's already been some really inventive sections.  Thought I had a fair Idea of where the story was heading, but it wrong footed me a couple of times.

*re: audio there's nothing more I can say.  Seriously considering buying the soundtrack.

On the negative I don't think the open world is much fun to explore with its bottle necks and invisible walls.  It can be frustrating trying to get to a red spot on one side of the map and not being sure which bits you need to walk through.  Sometimes felt a bit like Spinal Tap looking for the stage.  Also the side quests are a bit - go there, kill that, come back which I can get a bit sick of after a while.  And 9S keeps hovering like a blowfly, and I go to open a box or pick up loot, and he thinks I want to talk to him.  I never want to talk to him!  

Have had some technical issues with the PC version.  Nothing too vile but I do have to play it in a window slightly smaller than my TV for it to run properly.  Not sure what's going on there.  That's about it really.  

Have a big day of nothing planned, so hopefully will put a big dent in the NG+!  Keen to see where it's heading.

Isn’t counter like a parry? Press toward the attacking enemy at the moment their attack is about to hit you and you parry the attack and counter. Classic Platinum stuff.

Ah yeah I’m forgetting. I remember using R1 a lot cos you get a good AOE blast that you can get a lot of enemies with. 

With combos, I think it’s referring to how many hits you can do in a row with one combo-attack animation depending on whether equipped in light or heavy slot? The game isn’t as complex as the likes of Bayonetta where you can mix up both weapons and also switch weapons on the fly during a combo. Combat is rather basic in this and mashing the buttons will mostly work.

Once you've got the auto-heal chips it's almost impossible to die. It's also just not very varied, despite the perspective shifts.

Gonna get round to actually playing this. Anyone on here wanna swap for something for a bit? I should go to swap shop ...

I’m loving the bumps, Nina, just like when you did Persona 4. Keep ‘em coming.

Yeah keep posting Nina. Such a great game and considering the storytelling it's always worth a bump when you hit a new bit!

And yeah, after a perfect evade you can hit the different attack buttons to do a different attack. Sometimes it's worth flicking them up into the air (should bring enemies up too) and hack away up there a bit before doing a down slam. But that can also depend on what weapon you have equipped! Including your robot gun having a different evade shot. Can also switch weapon mid combo to mix things up! It doesn't have the depth of Bayonetta but I still found it fun.

Keep at it, Nina. As Cinty kept telling me, “it gets bettter”.

Glory to Mankind!

I got an actual ending that triggered credits! My controller ran out of battery during the last fight so I had to sit in front of the ps4 on the floor as I don't have a long USB cable. The discomfort was worth it.

Liked it, am really curious about the next go, I do have a feeling where it might go, but we'll see.

Lost my body before the last boss, slightly annoying. I was distracted and got smashed
I actually thought that the area would be the ending. Thus connecting
Not gonna add much more, feel like it's better to jump into playthrough 2 than to try and guess where it's going. Just hope I'll see some of the characters again, the was some great character writing in this playthrough.

Edit, quickly looked into the previous pages, did I read it right and is there a trophy for

I don't care that much about the trophies right now, and I think I know what you mean about getting them.

Just felt like that was an important bit in the story, so I can see a trophy being linked to it. I loved that area, made you question some things.

Yeah it wass great.  Reading back it’s easier to appeciate just how many of the bits are delivered in an original way.  

Think from meeting Adam and Eve early it does a great job of topping itself and its easy to forget a lot of the original, out there beats it gives you.  Very cool to read about it later.

I got this for Christmas.  It's an odd one isn't it?

So far I've got as far as the...
I died at the first boss and was a little frustrated by what followed, but I've kind of settled into it, and its weird lurches in play style now.  It's the story I'm playing for really though, and that feeling of expectations being upended.
Oh, and I ate the mackerel.