Nier.
"So what if Yahtzee hated it?" I asked myself as I eyed it on the shelf, reduced to only five dollars for EB Games' Christmas sale. "Yahtzee hates JRPGs, and it's been several years since I got to play one. It was made by Square, how terrible can it be? Besides, one of my friends played it and he said it was fantastic, and he has good taste."
Oh boy. I could deal with the slow plot, and I liked the combat system. The dungeons were bearable. While the voice acting was shoddy and kept vanishing and re-appearing almost randomly, I still loved Weis' voice.
But oh sweet Lord, the character design. The main character looked silly, but I could deal with that. Then the heroine was introduced. She wasn't even wearing clothes, she was painful to look at. The only thing she had covering her ass was a flimsy mesh thing. The game seemed to be proud of this, because the camera kept showing me her ass, shoving it at the camera like a child begging for praise. I couldn't even look at it, and every time I looked away from the screen in disgust my immersion was shattered.
Fortunately, that scene ended, and I went on. Determined to give the game my friend had praised so highly another chance, I pressed on. An hour later, I was forced to do a fishing minigame. I spent almost an hour trying to figure out how to do it, following the instructions perfectly, before giving up.
I haven't touched it since then.
The worst part is? I could have gotten Alpha Protocol in that sale.
