Just making a post to see if anyone else would like to learn to run Nier at all and or learn with me as well? It's a fairly unknown game thanks to poor press and localization, but it is a very underrated and overlooked game. It's part of the DrakenGuard Series of games, its a spin-off one of the many endings the games have. ( there is also no DrakenGuard Series section either but again mostly due to being unknown. )
Anyways I'm currently going threw my lastest runs and the WR one done by Omnigamer. I am writing out notes/guide to assist in learning the game for newcomers and to hopefully teach new tricks and optimal splits/routes. ( think of it as a spring board to get people going, that just have not played the game enough to know all the stuff. ) Anyways if you are interested you can check out the official post here: http://www.speedrun.com/NIER/thread/gfwny And drop a message or w/e and I would love to see more interested people maybe pick it up or watch and or compete in the runs.
Anyways thanks guys and looking forward to working more with the community of runners in the future ahead. =) ~ M A S H
Sadly the game is only on console yes. =( But if you have either a ps3 or 360 getting the game might be a bit challenging to find, you could buy it online for a bit more then $10 for the 360 version and around $20 for the ps3 non Jap version. I'll be getting the other versions at some point down the road, till then I'll use what I have currently. But thanks for taking a look.
I also put up a snippet sample of the Notes/Guide I'm almost finished writing for the game. It explains a fairly complex trick that is easy to do but very hard to do right, failing it usually results in lost time.
Maybe in the future you will play the game even just for the enjoyment of stories and fairy-tales? =)
I love Nier so much, I haven't played it in a long time but I would be up for learning this run at some point.
I have both versions of the game (Gestalt PAL version and Replicant JP Version) and am wondering if there are any differences in terms of speed between the two?
How long would a run take on average for a new player too? That's the other thing that would get in the way of me running this game. That said, I've followed your twitch so I'll be bobbing in to check out the route and stuff, I'll happily join you if I can =D
on average for when i first started took a few casual runs that were around 7 or more hours each just to get the swing of the mechanics etc, still nor perfected movement and pathing myself yet but I've come down to time more recently in around 4:30:00 that's 4 hrs and 30 minutes, the World record being 3 hrs and 15 minutes if I recall. The main differences between the versions is the regular one PAL, US etc any of them that are not JPN are using the same version of the game, the JPN version will obviously have faster text speeds and also differ by story-line a bit considering they altered the backgrounds and design of the main characters for that version only.
I have yet to official run Replicant myself but from what I have seen the times from that one to the Gestalt version is significant enough to have me think to be separated as it stands to be only for ps3 and in JPN only.
I have notes that I have finished up, I am following them myself and looking over them encase I missed something which i could have easily. another thing is they currently are not pretty at all but detailed enough to walk pretty much anyone who has not played the game through it I think without actually spoiling anything major as far as story goes.
I currently only run ANY % myself but, I am working on doing 100% and other ones down the road. Be nice to see more people enjoy this game with me as well and who knows maybe someone will figure out some more interesting tricks or w/e that Omnigamer has not yet, currently he only uses 2 known tricks, 1 of which does not really matter much, the other is sorta tricky but uses some of the basic set up from the smaller one.
Get a hold of me on Twitter as its to best way to keep in contact and we can discuss things more etc, maybe do some fun runs or races, or I can even walk through the game with you if you'd like sometime and explain what I have learned etc.