However, my hands don’t run the risk of curling up like lace on 2B’s skirt after doomscrolling through Twitter or watching YouTube video essays about Garfield as often or as painfully as they do while crowd-controlling enemy bots, dodging waves of purple death balls, and articulating my pod’s primary fire at the same time.

The Nintendo Switch’s tablet has the same dimensions as my Samsung Galaxy Note 20 Ultra, a giant-arse phone with its own bed of trade-offs for the sake of having a larger screen. If you have long-arse skeleton fingers like myself or best boy Emil, there’s a high probability your hands are gonna cramp after pulling off air-juggle combos and near-miss dodges for minutes to hours at a time. The only thing preventing End of Yorha Edition from passing with flying colours is that your play sessions might be shorter-lived not because you’re trying to parse the game’s prose, but because your hands keep falling asleep from holding the Switch for so long. I love you, giant boar-sama~! (Image: PlatinumGames / Nintendo / Kotaku) Read More: She Convinced Men On Tinder To Buy Nier: Automata And Then Ghosted Them, She Says Perfectly timing consecutive dodges as 2B still results in beautiful after-images of the shapely android, and the game’s elusively dense combat system still sings just as exquisitely as it did on more powerful hardware, albeit at 30fps instead of 60. This is especially nice if you want to re-experience existential dread about the meaning of life while listening to its banger “real sad girl shit” original soundtrack while sitting on the train or what have you. Outside of gimmicky new Switch additions like tilting your handheld to dodge during flight mode, the game performs perfectly fine and makes for a must-have game to download on your portable console. Its native Nintendo Switch port proves that regardless of the hardware, Nier: Automata is still one of the best character action games of all time, though it now inherits the problem that accompanies many Switch ports: It hurts to play for too long. Since its launch, it won a cavalcade of awards and sold over 6.5 million units worldwide.

But her mission isn’t as it initially appears, leading 2B and her male companion 9S to uncover the truth behind why the world has fallen into disrepair. You start off playing as the android 2B, sent to an Earth in the far-off future where machines dominate the planet. Read More: Nier: Automata: The Kotaku Review

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