NieR Replicant has fantastic gameplay and a deeply moving story that will stay with you long after finishing. Seafront is one of those locations that really shows off how thoughtful the level design can be. The whole coastal town feels lived-in and melancholic. The distant wind turbines in the background are especially striking: they’re these huge, slow-turning shapes against the hazy sky, and at first you just register them as part of the scenery, but then you keep looking and suddenly you’re kind of stuck on them. The blades move with this calm, unhurried rhythm, catching these faint glints of light whenever the sun breaks through the haze. They feel ancient and patient, like they’ve been turning for decades without anyone really paying attention anymore. Standing on the pier, watching them rotate, you start to feel how much they contribute to the mood: that sense of quiet endurance, of something still functioning long after its original purpose has faded. The parallax as you move around the map makes them seem so far away, yet they’re always there in the frame, steady and unchanging. Every time you return to Seafront, after a side quest, after fast-traveling, they’re still spinning at that exact same deliberate pace, like nothing in the world has managed to stop them. It’s such a small, understated detail, but it ends up carrying so much weight: the passage of time, the persistence of things humans built, the melancholy beauty of something that keeps going even when the town around it is slowly emptying out. I find myself pausing in the middle of whatever I’m doing, just staring at those turbines for minutes at a time, letting the whole atmosphere of the place settle in deeper. They’re not loud or dramatic; they’re just there, turning forever in the background, and somehow that makes the entire zone feel more real, more poignant, more heartbreaking than almost anything else in the game. The music and sound design are also outstanding, perfectly complementing the game's emotions and world.

The constant dopamine drip is great but my favorite part is it loads almost instantly. I can launch it and be in a game in under 30 seconds. Some games take so long to get to the main menu that I spend too much time with my thoughts and end up closing the game before I even start playing. This game is the opposite: I can boot it up and start playing before I can realize that I have a hundred other things I should be doing instead.

Very enjoyable. Makes me feel like I'm genuinely good at card games.

I quite like this game!

The gameplay is fun, the artstyle and graphics are pretty nice. I like most of the characters, (I just wish they'd delete doomfist from the game, but them gimping him into the dirt is good enough). I do like the idea of the lore, but I haven't really been following it too closely. There isn't really even a map or gamemode that I hate, much unlike every other shooting game i've played. You can enjoy this even if you're bad, all you gotta do is turn off all communications, which is quite easy, only like 2 buttons need to be pressed.

Overwatch league was an interesting idea but let's be honest: professional esports is kinda ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame.

If you gave me five bucks for every hour I spent in this game, I still would not have gotten my money back from all the loot boxes and skins I've bought. I'm part of the reason Blizzard is acting this way and I wish I could say I was sorry.

This game makes me feel like I'm good at games (which i am not)

A number goes up at different rates depending on what you decide to click on. If you think that's a stupid idea for a computer game, you're right. This game made me realize that all video games are just clicking on things for no ♥♥♥♥♥♥ reason. What's the point? Oh hey I shot a guy and my score went up by 1. Oh hey I leveled up and now my punches do slightly more damage. Oh hey I clicked on the cookie and now I have more cookies. None of this matters. When you think about it, video games are just a massive waste of resources. I could be doing something productive with my time instead of staring at a glowing rectangle clicking on cookies, but what's the point of even that? Going out and meeting people, making money, learning valuable life skills, travelling the world: none of it makes any difference. You can spend your whole life working your way to the top. You can have an amazing career with an entire fleet of expensive cars but you'll still be flesh and bones with an expiration date. "Fun" doesn't mean anything. Cookies don't mean anything. Life is just a series of dopamine hits until poof it's all over. I'm tired.