Collaborations are popping off in the world of anime games these days, and that can’t be any truer for the gacha games market. Most gacha are shitty cash grabs that have to rely on enticing the player with ulterior rewards to spend money rather than simply the game itself being fun and thus naturally earning some monetary spending. Today I’m afraid my point has been proven again as Nikke has announced a partnership with Nier: Automata that’ll be releasing officially come September 1st. Now this actually hurt my heart a little bit and I’ll explain why.
In case you don’t know what Nikke is, it’s a simplistic gacha where you acquire characters, assemble a team, and then use them to shoot enemies while hiding behind a wall. It’s gameplay I suppose, however it’s one of the most watered-down forms of shooting I’ve ever seen. Essentially the TRUE gameplay is watching the jiggle of the hot girls’ asses as they bounce from the weapon recoil. No really, that’s actually the main appeal of the game and what made it have some viral success in the beginning of its life cycle. These days I don’t know anyone who still plays Nikke, I don’t see it ever crop up in my timeline, and overall I forgot of its existence until this announcement. What sucks is that Nier: Automata is a fantastic game from what I played, and beyond my own opinion was a landmark title for the industry. It’s been an easy recommendation for anyone who enjoys action games for years and to see it collaborate with such a piece of shit like Nikke definitely feels like the Nier team got the short end of the stick. Hopefully that means they got the big end of the money bag, because one of these entities is an award-winning juggernaut of the action genre, and the other jiggles ass in your face and hopes you spend some money unlocking other girls whose asses also jiggle in perhaps a slightly different manner. A tad unbalanced from my perspective.
I can’t imagine anyone out there being hype for this. Apparently Nikke fans say the story is somehow actually good. I’ll never know as ya boy could never subject himself to the “gameplay” for that long. Do you still play this game? Does this seem like an equal trade or blatant one-sided cash grab? Will you be rolling on the Nier banner? Collect some girls, load them with weapons from the armory, and get those asses shaking on the battlefield to distract the enemy in the comments below! At least that’s one aspect of this partnership that IS balanced. 2B’s thiccness is not to be underestimated.
