‘Nier: Automata’: The Wrenching RPG is 2017’s Game of the Year—Here’s Why

Late in Nier: Automata‘s runtime, the game takes an unexpected break from sci-fi action to share the backstory of two minor characters. It does so by turning itself briefly into a text adventure, the sort of thing you’d find in Twine, that tells you how these two came to be where they are. The pain …

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