Ok hype deflated. I had forgotten that the game was apparently so good that MS dropped it and Konami who pumps out all kinds of shit picked it up to publish.
Take N3 and make the complete opposite game and you have N3-2.
Good things about N3-2
+Multiple weapons with different abilities and stats
+useful cool magic attacks that you can equip to the four face buttons (LB+face button to use)
+accessories that let you change up stuff like cut down on move recovery or up stats
+stats to upgrade with xp
+CHECKPOINTS (aka, the biggest failing of N3)
+The ability to fully change your magic/equipment/weapon loadout when retrying at a checkpoint before going back in
+Good responsive quick roll on the RT
Bad things about N3-2
-The combat kind of sucks. No feel of actually hitting anything. (N3 got this right)
-The animation is amazingly awful. Like PS2 DW games awful (N3 had good animation)
-Graphics/framerate are kind of bad (N3 looked nice)
-QTEs for bosses and shitty ones at that
:|
It's not bad, but it feels like you are playing a PS2 game. Basically like Drakenguard 2 in HD. I haven't played Nier but the combat looks a hell of a lot better, which is kind of ironic since that's actually THE DRAKENGUARD guys. If someone took the best parts of N3 (visuals and combat feel) and mixed it with what's in the N3-2 demo (stats, equipment, magic, checkpoints, dodge roll) you'd get a great game of this sort. But going by the demo....maybe when it hits $20.
