NieR:Automata Ver1.1a is one of the most interesting adaptations I’ve encountered in a long time, and I’m still not sure if that is a good or a bad thing.
For one, on most given days of the week, if someone were to ask me what my favorite video game of all time is, NieR:Automata would be my answer. You’d think that this would make me a prime mark for a shiny new anime version of my favorite video game story, but my love for NieR runs so deep that I am skeptical that its stories even could be adapted to a non-interactive medium. Everything that makes it a masterpiece is intrinsically linked to what it can accomplish as an interactive work of fiction. While this means that there is no possible way for me to approach this anime from a newcomer’s perspective, I will be doing everything in my power to keep things as “objective” as possible. I’ll be…
