Nier automata crack progress series#
Like the tunnels leading into the city, the submerged superstructures at the back of it inform what remains – it’s history in a series of stark images, the subconscious recognition of disparities in scale acting as a kind of instinctive guide to understanding the area. As you venture further in, you’ll need to flit from falling bridges to sunken high rises, battling some particularly roguish machines who have somehow managed to wind up making their home here. While my favourite part of this location is the front section, the grandiose skyline of decaying buildings looming large over the nature that conquered it, I think the whole area is equally important. Narrow, truncated, and long since desolate, these small and sordid structures feel grisly compared to the far greener City Ruins – this is intentional. Venturing down leads you to a set of sewers, which are mostly unimportant aside from their function in creating a kind of environmental paradox. After City Ruins, the heart to Automata’s many meandering veins and arteries, changes in Chapter Five, a new set of caves that wrap around the back of the Resistance Camp opens up. It’s worth mentioning our first encounter with this particular locale in order to articulate the sheer gravitas it’s charged with. No matter how many thousands of hours I’ve played across hundreds of games, nothing has ever come close to eliciting the same wonder and dread as Nier: Automata’s sublime Flooded City. This uncanny, Roadside Picnic-esque ensemble of alien esoterica allows the accompanying piano to double as a sombre haunt, sifting sweetly but sinisterly through the air like some sort of siren song to certain death. There’s something quite ethereal about the scene – gross monuments to humanity and progress being reduced from metropolis to Atlantis before the plummet, ambiguous rubble like cheap decorations in a fish tank. Water rushes through cracks long since battered into hulking heaps of concrete, roaring from the source before softly spilling into a calmer basin.
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