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The good video game > anime conversions are in short supply and usually they depart quite a bit from the video game to make use if the differences in medium, such as with Cyberpunk and Castlevania. This could work for sure, I hope they're allowed to deviate as much as they want to make it work out.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:It's nailed on to be just route A I reckon, and if it somehow does gangbusters, they might do the rest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlP8Bl_YCdw 1:08 makes me 
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Josuke Higashikata posted:It's nailed on to be just route A I reckon, and if it somehow does gangbusters, they might do the rest. It's very important that the entire game be done in anime form. Specifically Route B. Immediately after Route A. With no changes.
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Jan 2, 2023 04:26
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it turns out the entire anime is just 2b jumping between some barrels at the start of the first episode, instantly reaching the true ending
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I hope there's finally a violent end for that rear end in a top hat Jean-Paul
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Josuke Higashikata posted:I hope there's finally a violent end for that rear end in a top hat Jean-Paul I like to imagine he went berserk like the rest of the village and died some ignominious death, preferably with one of his sycophants gnawing on his core.
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AlternateNu posted:I like to imagine he went berserk like the rest of the village and died some ignominious death, preferably with one of his sycophants gnawing on his core. 
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Supremezero posted:It's very important that the entire game be done in anime form. Kyoani's not responsible for this one are they?
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Supremezero posted:It's very important that the entire game be done in anime form.
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Well, we got a release time!quote:NieR:Automata Ver1.1a https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2023/01/05/heres-the-exact-time-the-nierautomata-ver11a-anime-begins-on-crunchyroll That's 10:30 am MT, 11:30 am CT, 12:30 pm ET, and 5:30 pm GMT. rkd_ fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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Jan 7, 2023 01:50
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Tomorrow huh? I’ll be curious to see how abridged this is compared to the game (hopefully not as much as the TWEWY anime was)
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Jan 7, 2023 02:50
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All of route A covered in a single episode. ... actually I came up with the best way to do the anime. Each episode does the plot as normal But each episode ends with one of the random endings. And then the next episode just continues on as if it never happened. "Wow 2b you beat the giant robot! Wait, don't eat that fish! ... next time, on Nier Automata!"
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Jan 7, 2023 06:17
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Anybody get a chance to check out the premiere yet?
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I've just watched it. The CG is bad, in the typical anime with bad CGI sense. It's condensing route A and B, as is sensible. The 2D animation ranges from mid to good, but not great so far. The VA is amazing, as is the OST, which you'd expect as they're both inherited from the game. They're going to do some of the most loved endings as post credits scenes with puppets!
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Jan 7, 2023 19:30
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Larryb posted:Anybody get a chance to check out the premiere yet? Just did. Going to couch this with the fact that I played the game and thought it was pretty good but I was not super into it and did not probe it for its secrets, so if you're looking for a read on if there's any hints on subverting the story or anything like that I'm not the person to ask. It seems like a straightforward adaptation based on my memory of it. The 2d animation is pretty good, the CG is kind of stiff and sticks out from the rest of the art. There's a lot of CG so it ends up being kind of unfortunate looking. They got up to the point where 9S uploads 2B's consciousness to the space station so there's not a ton of opportunity for the writing to stick out yet, and the action seems just okay. I'm honestly looking for people more into Nier to watch and see if anything weird I don't remember is happening or if it's as straightforward as it seems, because if it's the latter I think I'm out. The OP is fantastic, at least.
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Subversion wise: Other than it being very explicit that there's a love arc going on with 2B and 9S immediately, (i.e. first scene), nothing in this ep. Also for my money the OP is basic AF and doesn't do much to echo the spirit of the work, but it's not worth losing sleep over. Josuke Higashikata fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Jan 7, 2023 |
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The CG stood out as notably bad for me too. Otherwise yeah like other people are saying there's not too much that's remarkable about it so far. I guess there are clear nods to Route B already, but there's no way the show was ever going to do all of A and then all of B anyway, so that's not a surprise. I don't think there's any way around this since the show can't grind to a halt to play a song for four minutes or anything, but only hearing snippets of the songs is bugging me a little bit. Overall I kind of expect the show to be an inferior experience to playing the game again, but I have too many other games to play to jump into a replay right now, so this fills the gap for now anyway. So far I definitely wouldn't recommend it to someone new to the franchise on the fence about watching it vs playing the game though.
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Just watched it myself, the CG leaves a lot to be desired but the 2D animation is nice and I like that they’re using the OST and VAs from the game (though we’ll see if that still holds true once a dub comes out). Combining Routes A & B makes sense but we’ll see if they go beyond that at all
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Supremezero posted:All of route A covered in a single episode. Funnily enough this is kind of what they're doing except it's made clear they're random endings and it's a puppet show. I agree, CG was kinda bad, everything else was fairly enjoyable though.
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This first ep. the show is just ok, tho the puppets are a delight, maybe the talky bits will be better.
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Watched the first ep. Disappointed it seems to just be a straight adaptation of the game rather than Yoko Taro doing some insane retelling, like an alt timeline where the heroes are actually the coked up androids in the desert or something. At least they kept the great music. My favorite part was the puppet theater at the end of the episode. I'd watch a whole series that was nothing but puppet androids loving around. Would like it if we got the original English voice cast back because of how phenomenal that was, but that would require American companies to give a poo poo about voice actors so probably not.
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Anime succeeded in making me want to play the game again. I look forward to more puppet show endings.
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Puppet ending was great. (Particular shoutout to 9S's pronunciation of "Black Box".) Someone has to eventually frame-by-frame the fastforward credits on each joke ending to see what it says different from the game credits. Overall the episode was pretty faithful to the game opening. I replayed the game last month, actually. Minor differences which might not have much bearing, but we'll see: -You don't fight a Goliath Flyer in the opening descent. -The Engels didn't talk in the game opening. -The Engel you fight in the opening wasn't newly built (it was being repaired/retrofitted) and fights you waterside with the other ones popping up from the water. -I'm kind of sad 2B didn't complete the opening monologue with the best part of the line: 不可解なパズルを渡した神に I often think about the God who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle いつか、私達は弓を引くのだろうか？ and wonder if we’ll ever have the chance to kill him. -2B's "history" with 9S is a lot more apparent from the get-go with how she reacts to certain lines he says. -9S wasn't leading 2Bs reinitialization in the Bunker after the black box explosion. They skipped straight past it. -2D wasn't the unit downed before 2B took command of the initial descent. It was 1D. -I don't believe there are any neutral robot units in the opening mission. They're all hostile. So that scene with the yellow eyed bots was new. A lot of this can be explained by just adding some unit diversity and exposition compression. But the fact is, the initial monologue of the game deals with the cycle of life and death. Despite this episode being pretty rote, I'm still expecting it to go off the rails by episode 3. It's version 1.1 for a reason. The OP was hilarious though. It looked liked something from the mid '00s, but I'm a sucker for Aimer. So, I'm going to be watching it every episode, anyway. 
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I don't have the energy to dissect the OP animation though. There were definitely some characters flashed in it that aren't major players in the main game story.
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I'm seeing how long I can hold out for a dub announcement before caving to watch. If it's not doing anything crazy at the start at least I have a bit of time before I'll feel I need to catch up to see what wild poo poo Taro is pulling this time.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:Watched the first ep. Disappointed it seems to just be a straight adaptation of the game rather than Yoko Taro doing some insane retelling, like an alt timeline where the heroes are actually the coked up androids in the desert or something. Yoko Taro apparently said in an interview that his involvement in this is minimal.
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It's not like Yoko Taro can tell them to make it look good
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Tighten up the graphics on episode 2
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Stairmaster posted:It's not like Yoko Taro can tell them to make it look good He'd be more likely to tell them to make it look bad anyway.
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Not to be a negative nancy, but I strongly disliked the first half of the episode. Coming from never playing the game, but loving the visuals from stills on Twitter, I took a look at this anime and was a combination of bored and disappointed in the terrible CGI bits. But the voice-acting is lovely and the premise is strong enough for me to keep going. I loved the puppet pals moment at the end.
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Pan Dulce posted:Not to be a negative nancy, but I strongly disliked the first half of the episode. Coming from never playing the game, but loving the visuals from stills on Twitter, I took a look at this anime and was a combination of bored and disappointed in the terrible CGI bits. But the voice-acting is lovely and the premise is strong enough for me to keep going. I loved the puppet pals moment at the end. the first half is like an uglier version of the game but they added anime explosions and removed the part where you're playing a video game, so that's pretty understandable
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Terrible CGI, budget constraints and cut-corners... A faithful CAVIA experience
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the second episode was a lot better imo, more world building and going into interesting parts of automata and less reliance on cgi
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This is a lot more of what I was hoping for from this series, it was 80% brand new stuff. Including stuff that's conspicuously different than in the game. I wonder what the implication is that Lily is the resistance leader in this timeline, not Anemone?
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Yep, this episode was better, and now I'm looking forward to Jackass exploding poo poo. The puppet show continues to be the best part of the anime.
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Ammat The Ankh posted:This is a lot more of what I was hoping for from this series, it was 80% brand new stuff. Including stuff that's conspicuously different than in the game. Think it just trims the cast down a bit for the sake of adaptations, really. I don't think we're going to see much like this episode but maybe we'll see a small number. Definitely bodes well for more A2 (best droid) content.
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Josuke Higashikata posted:Think it just trims the cast down a bit for the sake of adaptations, really. It doesn't, though. Lily wasn't in the present day action for Automata at all. Lily instead of Anemone is changing the leader of the Resistance in a way that stands out to returning players. What's more, it can't even be a VA availability thing since Anemone's Japanese VA also plays 21O in the game and the anime. It feels like it's supposed to be an early warning that the show's going to go in its own direction later on. But then, that might be my Yoko Taro paranoia talking.
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Really liked this episode, much better than the first one and it definitely confirms we're getting different information and stories in the anime. Can't wait for the next one.
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