NieR has all the time been a kind of franchises that intrigued me but it surely all the time felt like an enormous time dedication to really begin taking part in the video games. So when NieR:Automata anime was introduced in early 2022, I used to be thrilled. Lastly, somebody would adapt the extremely praised story and we’d be capable of take pleasure in it in anime format. Skilled gamers raised concern in regards to the adaptation format, saying it is perhaps too troublesome to efficiently adapt one thing with so many endings however as extra details about the employees and the studio got here in and the primary promo supplies began popping up, I grew hopeful. The hype was actual and I turned part of it. After ready for the premiere to drop on Crunchyroll all day I lastly sat down to look at it and I have to say that the end result wasn’t what I hoped for.
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First off, let me say that the premiere might not be indicative of the remainder of the anime however proper now I’m solely going to concentrate on it as a result of it’s all we have now. The entire episode felt uninteresting, for lack of a greater phrase. We acquired a (very) temporary introduction to the world of NieR:Automata, we meet 2B and 9S and we watched them get to know one another and struggle. However this complete expertise felt like a slideshow; a recap of the sport’s highlights from this particular quest if you’ll. It didn’t really feel notably partaking and I discovered myself checking how a lot was left.
So far as the animation goes, it was devoted to the trailers (9 of them) and it featured some pretty spectacular motion scenes. The CGI was first rate and it didn’t stand out an excessive amount of. The beige and brown actually helped convey the setting, however we nonetheless have little details about it so this simply feels oversaturated at instances. 2B was given numerous love and her battle scenes are the precise duplicate of the cutscenes within the sport – if you happen to cherished these, you’ll take pleasure in these within the anime, as they have been very satisfying to look at.
General, the episode wasn’t unhealthy simply underwhelming. It’s attainable the hype acquired the very best of us and it is extremely probably that the expertise will enhance because the story goes additional. I hope the subsequent episodes will concentrate on worldbuilding and character improvement, as an alternative of making an attempt to repeat the sport’s motion scenes, which whereas spectacular, don’t do a lot for the non-players who will not be aware of the background. The trouble and high quality (most likely the final finances too) are there, this adaptation simply wants just a little little bit of soul.
NieR:Automata Ver1.1a is streaming on Crunchyroll.
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