i keep being amazed at how good the music is in this game, too, from the nice ambient background pieces with slightly different tones based on time of day and weather:
and the NieR sounding compositions like:
and this like, kinda jazz fusion banger in 3/4 time:
and also this earworm (warning: listen at your own risk)
YES YES YES THE FULL VERSION OF THE CLEAN ANIMAL SONG IS SO GOOD!!!
really unfortunate that the game always cuts it off!!
i just finished this (much later) dungeon so i guess click at your peril for audio spoilers if you care about that
otherwise this whole area is sososo wonderful and has some STANKY bass
this slightly earlier dungeon is also cool for having a pseudo adaptive soundtrack depending on how far you are in the level altho it’s hard to show that with a youtube playlist sadly!
(warning even more STANKY bass)
usually I super don’t care about photo mode stuff in games but I love it here! finding the landmarks is fun, just taking regular pics is fun, and I love doing group photo stuff, and getting tagged in other people’s group photos they did with me
the scale of the towns in this game is real real nice! i’m kind of simultaneously picking at the recent dragon quest 3 remake, and it’s notable there that a small logging village in the middle of nowhere has like, 4 buildings total, whereas the seat of the continent’s kingdom where a massive castle stands that is played off as a whole bustling City has like… six buildings. the two cities i’ve been to in infinity nikki so far (florawish and stoneville) are both diegetically shown as small villages, but, in a twist for video games, actually have more homes and buildings than many rpg big cities! like, florawish has the uptown area with the shops and guild, but there’s also the outskirts so to speak where there are sort of fishermans’ houses, and the ritzier area out east where the cops and mayor are, but it’s all serving a kind of cozy small town vibe rather than pretending each npc stands for a dozen npcs. stoneville has houses dotting the landscape in a similar way but it’s also built on an economy of agriculture and a larger-scale fabric dyeing industry, but again it’s specifically pointed out in the game by the people there that this is a small town in the mountains that is not even close to being as grand as The Big City … and yet! the actual layout of the town covers a lot of acreage and is way closer to what a little hamlet would actually be in real life, rather than the '90s jrpg style of three shacks and a shop standing in for a larger smaller town. none of this is to say that that kind of symbolism is bad – in fact i LOVE a little 2d rpg village – but having a town take up that much space while still in fact being a small town is really cool!
YOOOOOO!! That baseline in the ghost train dungeon goes unnecessarily HARDT. Like the bassist that day too the biggest bong rip then just went cuh-raaazy in the recording session.
NGL I might never play this game because my partner tried it and sort of fell off, and she loves spending time in Genshin’s open world BUT I’m just here for the dope fits.
I saw jackets like this a lot in Japan. I love the trend of cropped Bad Girl Jacket on top of a long flowy dress or the like. Though, is it a trend when Nomura was designing Aerith with that jacket 28 years ago?
I started playing this a bit under a week ago and I’m finding it pretty silly and enjoyable, a good steam deck game that’s low stakes and good for listening to podcasts/audiobooks.
I am also a bad girl jacket enthusiast but trying to embrace the more flowy princessy looks.
Can any of the Nikki fans in here help me work out if I would have a good time here or not? I saw the initial promo trailers whenever they came out and thought “huh, maybe” and then I didn’t see much until after it came out and I see “this is BOTW”.
Problem is, for me, that is a huge negative. I thoroughly disliked BOTW (and even moreso the small amount I tried of TOTK) – but is that just an attempt to find a “gamer”-friendly way to describe this or it is genuinely a BOTW-like?
I’d be all ok with having a breezy hang out game with some light platforming and whatnot to check in with a little bit at a time, and that’s what I first thought this was going to be.
I guess there’s always “it’s free, just try it”… but free time and free space are both limited resources. As well as the cognitive load of simply adding another game to the pile!
What didnt you like about BOTW specifically. Because it has elements of being both like BotW and elements of a breezy hangout game with light platforming.
It is most like BOTW in my opinion in that you’re dropped into this big world with a bunch of shinies to collect that you then use to make the pretty outfits. There’s also the occassional platforming dungeons and a bunch of ‘other’ activities to flesh out the game.
One of the main things I did not like was the combat: not only the (supposedly) tired gripe about not liking the weapon durability, but also I did not in particular enjoy the way it felt like I was continually being harassed where ever I went.
I understand that the game world needs enemy mobs all over the place otherwise there is a high danger of players complaining that it is “empty”. However I felt like – for me – the balance was tipped too far towards always-be-combat. Combining that with the looming threat in my mind that whatever stick I’m currently holding is going to break any time now, I could never find the fun.
There were a whole bunch of other little things about how it felt, or how the stamina worked when I couldn’t climb all the way up a cliff but only learned that 3/4 of the way up. I probably fell in to a “…but it gets good in just a little bit” trap, but I never felt compelled to give it the extra time to show me that it gets good. I recognise that a large number of other people did.
Oh yeah nah, if your main gripe against BOTW was the combat, Infinity Nikki won’t bother you at all. It’s only in the openness of the world and all the little collectibles that it’s like BOTW. You should be good.
ENJOY!
oh my god yall i just got to the abandoned district and the storyline and lore and characters and stuff in this game just keeps digging in and getting deeper and darker and i love it
There’s a whole lot of fancy outfit options, but if Nikki is going to be running around the Great Outdoors or on cobblestones I can’t have her in stilettos.
