It doesn't work, as it is irish so you should pronounce it "Melow"

It’s an amazing piece of work and Virtuos should be highly praised for another fantastic port

@@TiredOfAllOfThis Another fantastic port? Have you played Return to Arkham?!

@@theinfinitynerd4954 No but I have played and loved Nier Automata and the Bioshock Collection… I have also played LA Noire all of which have had the hand of Virtuos on the them and I think that the play fantastically on the Switch. I have been playing games since the 1970s and I know what I like but more importantly I know how lucky we are today… games are amazing part of modern life… a long way from Pong, Asteroids, Space Invaders and PacMan… we have the opportunity to play some quite amazing games… but no, they are not all perfect but I appreciate what we have.

​@@TiredOfAllOfThis Virtuos also did an remarkable job on porting Dying Light to the Switch as well.

imagined it overclocked

@@MatchStickMad true

Yeah, specially considering that base PS4 and Xbox One both runs the game at 900p

a 1080p game for 0.00000000000000000000001% of the game (taro loves its supid names) and fully 540p (vita is life) for the rest of the remainder 0.99999999999999999999999%. Impressive, indeed.

@@starfox14now 🤣

I would. Next step is Crisis Core FF7 Reunion

shut up that was too good

Oh com'on!

I just Venmo’d you $5

Angry upvote moments

It's worth it, I have two copies here, Game of the Yorha Edition on PS4 and now End of the Yorha Edition on Switch.

Seriously, two heavy JRPG hitters in the same month.

@@DVL_Main These 2 games IMO are easily among the best on the PS4 it's so nice to see more people get the chance to play them. At this rate I think the only thing missing is FF7R.

You just saying that reminds me back in 2017 when both Nier Automata and Persona 5 were first released in the same year just a month or two apart. Good time for gaming back then, and the same just happened again for for Switch only this time they are releasing so close together.

@@theevokeruser2356 And the times only going to keep getting better when 4 and 3 join the party. Between those Arena and Strikers the Switch isnt a bad console at all for Persona 😊.

To be honest, for some it actually is the best version outside PC. Personally I can't play a game with aliased edges, it completely destroys the inmersion for me. This fixes that. For the OLED model playing in handheld, it's probably the best version after PC if you really dislike not having AA.

same, i wish i could erase my memory and play through all the endings again. i still think about this game all the time and i beat it 3 years ago haha

Idk why people find gutted and downgraded versions of games interesting

considering the scale and scope I consider NMS to be the harder to port game

@@omarcomming722 Because it runs on what is primarily a handheld?

@@omarcomming722 because of the technical feats these can represent. one person's 'gutted' is another's 'efficiently compromised'. if you never bought this game, travel a lot or just want to remain untethered, and especially if you have a switch oled, this might be a great buy.

@@omarcomming722 it’s interesting to see what the developers/porting team have to compromise in order to get a game that runs and performs well (Obviously it’s not 100% guaranteed but interesting nonetheless). I imagine some of these ports (i.e. Doom Eternal, The Witcher 3, and Nier) are not an easy process making their ports that more impressive. I suppose it’s similar to the whole, “can it run doom?”

Not only that but PS4 had an unlocked framerate and never really did reach 60fps at 900p. This makes the Switch version seem more stable in some places

@@mspeter97 Well it's always more stable, since PS4 never reach 60 fps

They couldn't have unlocked framerate Game physics and speed are tied to the framerate Since they reworked everything to run in 30fps, the game would run faster if it ever went above 30FPS

@@Plumtopia It depends on what the Switch version is based, if it's a One / PS4 port, unlocked 60 shouldn't be an issue. (But who wants unlocked 60 anyway, outside of VRR users ?)

@@ThibautMahringer it's still tied to the framerate in those versions Look at the PC version, which is a port of the PS4 versions, if your GPU can't handle 60fps most of the time, the game will run slow. You wouldn't notice this on the PS4 or Xbox because it still runs at or near 60fps most of the time, even if it doesn't always hit the target

Persona 5 Royal is looking to be another miracle port as well

@@Boriratrit The og Persona 5 is also on PS3 so it was probably very easy to port

@@Boriratrit in rpg games I think DQ11 is more demanding game

@@Boriratrit persona 5 PC requirements are surprisingly low.

@@Boriratrit Atlus RPGs or most anime style JRPGs aren't that demanding. Persona 5 can probably run on the Vita

How do you continue on to the rest of the game?

@@MrsBlaileen1 there are multiple endings, endings b-e are main endings. The rest f-z are hidden endings that are kinda more fun, but still memorable ones

@@nicholasotto2882 I was under the impression that the early “endings” were not real endings and that you play through the credits and continue on…

@@MrsBlaileen1 I'm trying to avoid spoilers here, but some endings are from different characters perspectives and others quite literally continue the story after other endings. Part E is the true final ending and you must play through a-d to get to it.

@@nicholasotto2882 Thanks very much. As long as it’s obvious how to continue past the “fake” endings (apparently they have fast scrolling credits), then I’ll be ok. Just hope it’s not confusing. I’m very early in the game…just finished first amusement park area/initial visit to robot village.

Batman backstory

I never really had frame pacing issues with Automata but by that point I already knew about RTSS and how to get it to work to smooth out the frametimes. You should give Rivatuner Statistic Server a try and cap your framerates with that tool to clean up frametimes. Even makes 30FPS playable on PC too.

Hope you discovered special K and FAR for nier automata.

Yeah the average fps was unchanging 59-60, BUT there where very noticable and terrible stutters all the time! Made me realize that average fps is useless. Its the minimums which matter.

Is it fixed on the Microsoft Store on PC since that version is different from the Steam one?

Actually had that issue on ps4 before. Very wierd, after restarting it worked fine though

@@yepthatsme1671 I just kept playing after I fell and it was fine, lol.

Exactly. Simple answer pure laziness.

'Even on the Steam Deck, it’s very difficult to get 60 fps without serious quality degradation.' I just saw Steam Deck footage of Nier Automata on KZfaq. Maxed out and basically locked 60 FPS at 800p. The only "serious quality degradation" (if you can even call it that) is using SMAA instead of MSAA. Miles better than Switch version and at double the framerate. But you call it 'serious quality degradation'. How do you call Switch version then? Catastrophic quality degradation? :D

@@ukaszp2333 How far into the game was the video? I see one too but it is right at the beginning, which is the same as the Switch. Try playing some of the later areas/boss battles and you absolutely will NOT be at at 60. And believe me, it wasn’t a knock on the SD. I love mine! Was moreso just a comment on the relative graphical inefficiency of Automata. And I agree that Switch graphics are not going to be great. The pop in especially is rough in the Switch vids I’ve seen. But if you don’t have any other way to play it, at least Switch owners get to experience it! It’s a hell of a ride. 😊

For me, the real number 3 priority isn't graphics. It's aesthetics. A game can have the most pedestrian of rendering techniques and technical scene complexity and still look amazing. Just look at all of Valve's games. Aesthetics, that is, the actual artstyle and imagery you're trying to evoke with the graphics tech is where it's at. More graphical horsepower should only serve to get closer to the original artistic vision. Not just jam more graphics tech just for the sake of it.

@@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7 I would actually consider that part of graphics, but if you want to separate the two then graphics overall would come a distant fourth with aesthetics coming third. Looking at all the games that had cel shading, think Wind Waker, it doesn't take the latest and greatest tech, but it still looks great. And then there are games like Psychonauts, it's not realistic looking, but the aesthetics of the game give it a distinct style that I love.

@@anon_y_mousse Exactly. I separate aesthetics from graphics because the first is about the artistic vision, while the other is about the technology used to approximate that original vision as closely as possible. I consider it important to have such a distinction. A game without good aesthetics is a game that doesn't look good. It doesn't matter how much graphical tech you throw at it if the artistic vision just isn't there. But a game with great artistic vision can still look amazing even decades later, if the graphics tech that is used approximates that artistic vision very closely. The latest-and-greatest rendering tech definitely helps, but depending on the aesthetics chosen, it might not be necessary. Nintendo's games from the Wii and GameCube era (again, think Wind Waker) upscale amazingly to 1080p when under emulation. Those games weren't designed to be HD, but they stick the landing, and you often come across details that aren't as clearly defined on their original hardware. Nintendo uses texture tiling a lot, and in very clever ways to create complex layered effects that cost literal pennies in terms of GPU power, but scale wonderfully even to massive resolutions the games were never designed to run at.

@@anon_y_mousse graphics and art direction are two very different things like completely not the same... Art direction is the drawings artists do before even sending their creation to the developer team, the ones that do all the graphics and stuff...

@@talion7268 Okay. When did I mention art direction?

Which version is there an official Series X version, and is it a goty edition or the regular?

@@AsgerJ It came out for the Xbox One (digitally) in 2018. It's called "Become as Gods Edition". I don't think it's the GOTY that came out a year later for the PS4.

Xbox series X has all 3 games. Neir xbox 360 is available to buy and has FPS boost

its cpu bound as mobile performance isnt really much different, so downscaling resolution wont help

@@TheWretchedEgg12 darn, i see

That just means the game had garbage optimization or none. Virtuous just finally optimized it

It's fixed now on pc.

I finished this game 2 times with a 1060 6GB, R5 2600 and 8Gb RAM, first time before the big steam patch using FAR mod and 2nd time after the steam big patch, nowadays i can play it 1080p full graphics locked 60fps... sadly the game was terrible terrible optimized, i remember a few weeks later the game came out and there were some benchmarks, 1080ti was going below 40fps in some areas, it was insane. Currently playing it for the 3rd time on switch.

I still have a 1070... and play on monitor with 1440p. Not tried this game yet.

I still have have my 1070 and this game with it, played the game on my pc about 2 years ago (i think) It was a fantastic experience Now as a relatively new Switch owner i wanna replay this amazing game

I honestly think the switch will have a very long life, with a lot more anticipated games will last at least another 2 years imo

ASSUMING his life cycle is over soon.

Just get a steam deck then.

@@HermesBlRD why would anyone subject themselves to torture

@@YUGAMISEKAI Yeah, why would anyone get something just $100 more than the Switch to get like 10x the performance and non-shitty versions of games that rely on mountains of compromises to still look like a blurry mess??

If Witcher 3 was ported, then anything from the same gen can be, with minor exceptions like GTA V and such.

@@StefanConstantinDumitrache One could argue that the PS3/360 version of GTA could be ported to the Switch with little issue if it was done right

@@noahdavis7406 Switch could run the PS4 version of GTAV. they barely enhanced the game. IDK why people think GTAV or PS3 games in general of all things would have issues running on Switch when there's games ported from PS4 and 5 running just fine

@@TheMalioman Because GTA V is a full open world game. The Switch would definitely have to cut back on the visual upgrade that the PS4 and Xbox One version brought about, and it might just end up making it look worse than the PS3/360 version if they do.

I got about one minute into the intro and the American VO has next to no emotion (basically reading from a script without context) until she says "50 kilometer".. sounded angry about that :P Music was.. present? It might be bloody solid, gameplay wise, but I'm not seeing an epic narrative journey, especially not right in the opening moments?

one of the most overrated games ever imho. Very boring, shallow and incredibly repetitive. Dropped it after about 10 hrs.

@@phattjohnson it’s almost like different opinions exist or something idk

A lot of devs nowadays get paid based on the amount of code they write. So there's an incentive to write the most code rather than the most efficient code. It's unfortunate, but executives really don't understand technical aspects of specific jobs (an example from another industry, I applied to a video editing job where they wanted you to work on a provided Lenovo Thinkpad with 8GB of ram and an i5) executives are completely numbers focused, and every creative industry suffers from it.

Kingdom hearts *coughs coughs*

Agreed, not only the dev.s but also allow us to overclock. I don't mind myself upping things up for a little bit more battery drain.

@@DeadPhoenix86DP I can see why cause Resident Evil games were made for native PS4 hardware which is significantly more powerful than Switch. But come on, Kingdom Hearts 2.5 HD was a PS3 game, even Wii U could run that. Pretty fcked up imo

On xbox series X you can even buy Neir xbox 360 game. So xbox has the most complete Neir experience. 4th game is on mobile

Without question. Even a full maxed out PC experience streamed to the switch would not be nearly as good as this

Honestly, framerate is overrated. People crying on social media seriously expected 60fps 1080 for this Switch port? If people survived 30fps with Bloodborne for this long, then I am sure people will be fine with Nier being 30fps all things considering inferior hardware.

@@cbgg1585 60FPS is rather useful in games that move really fast. And Nier is a game that has a tendency to do that.

Not bad, better than the sound crunch that was dark souls. Really the sound is quite fantastic

Xbox series X has all 3 games. NEIR xbox 360 has fps boost

Ahh, the mighty Switch beggars and their forever hope for "future patches"

@@gabrielgoncalves2763 Ahhh the mighty console war bro who can’t just be happy that more people will be able to enjoy a good game P.S. : people also hoped for a future patch when this game released on PS4/One with the same framerate issue, and also when it was released on PC with awful optimization

Followup: Played through toward the end of the second playthough. Overall, still runs great. Fighting at the reduced framerate still feels like a slog at times. Slows down quite a lot when doing heavy attacks at a group of enemies but it's not deterring me from playing. I'm pretty happy with the game as it is, being able to revisit this in a portable format is a dream.

early 2023 will be 6 years since the Switch came out so I am sure a Switch Pro or Switch 2 will come out soon

⁠@@reallybigmistake The Tegra X1 is from 2015, the same year the iPhone 6s was released. Of course the 6s CPU was twice as powerful as the X1 was at 2ghz, and Nintendo is running the X1 at 1ghz… of course the X1 is nearly twice the GPU performance as the A9 in the 6s, but with 1/4 the CPU, it was always limited.

well, it is better than the ps4/xbox one versions in many ways... higher resolution, proper frame time, anti aliasing... just the textures are messy but if you play on the oled screen thanks to the lower resolution it might be one of the prettiest ways to experience this game.

Agreed the only benefit PS5/Series consoles have over PS4 and One is 4k and raytracing which to me is kinda pointless since I value framerate over resolution and rendering gimmicks

@@ThatNormalBunny Tbh most of the games with raytracing so far have been slightly shinier and that’s it. I’m really not that impressed by it. Consoles are becoming iPhones

@@ThatNormalBunny loading times are a massive improvement and is way more revolutionary than higher resolutions or high frame rates.

new consoles finally have decent CPUs instead of shitty jaguars which automatically makes them a giant leap, let alone the SSDs (with PS5's SSD in particular being faster than 90% of SSDs you can even buy for a PC) decent CPU will hopefully ensure 60fps games for the whole gen and SSDs go way beyond just faster load times, whenever everything becomes current gen only

120FPS modes in MP games is a game changer. I wish more devs targeted 120.

The game is boring, and poorly made.

@@will891410 why do you say so? what’s makes what you’re saying true?

@@will891410 cmon man

@@will891410 Congrats, you have an opinion. Do you want a cookie for it?

@@murilokleine Yes, why not.

I had a chance to check out the game on my Deck, and it was able to hit 60 FPS without issues (and it looked great!). As an aside, my first play through was via Intel's Iris Pro integrated graphics when the game first came out. I am pretty sure that Switch owners would have a better experience than I did with my integrated graphics journey.

That would be an interesting comparison although I think the settings for when it is not plugged in would have to match the battery life on Switch to be an honest assessment of real world expectations.

You needed a question mark at the end of that sentence. You can't just forget it lol

*would have, or would've.

Whats the point woudnt it just run at max settings at 800p ?

@@nickblack2006 the point would be to compare the two options of playing this game on the go...

Steam deck is a pc after all (portable but still a pc)

@@nickblack2006 you can dock a steam deck and play on either a monitor or tv at higher resolution

I never played this game but you're giving me the final push to buy it for my switch lol, now the debate is, digital or physical.

@@endame90 get the physical version, I got mine that way, zero regrets. Gonna warn you, this game hits you HARD! I mean, like a damn freight train hard! The story is just superb the more it opens up, and adding to this, there's 26 endings to obtain. You're in for an amazing time, but also for one hell of a gripping story.

clearly the switch version is the worst that is to be expected for the least powerful console out their..

Things like this make me realise how unnecessary are the constantly over-sold GPU upgrades, as far as value for performance is concerned

@@null140 naah man, it's a good port but this doesn't make a GPU upgrade unneccessary, wtf.

@@meisterwu8922 I didn't say 'GPU upgrades are unnecessary'; I tried to point out that by looking at what can be achieved on *extremely* dated and limited hardware, it should become obvious that the 'best of the best' newest--often expensive--upgrades are in fact overhyped by an industry that wants as much of your money as they can get, despite offering quite poor value for what that hardware upgrade will *actually* get you, qua overall gaming experience compared to the kind of experience you can in fact get from lower-end hardware. If you can't run a game you want at as high a level of fidelity you want, then obviously yes, a GPU upgrade will be 'necessary' for you.

@@null140 Ran a GT640 2gb until a few months ago when I finally got a RTX2060 12gb. As long as I have maximum textures I don’t care about the rest. Shadows low, antialiasing off, everything else off. Textures make zero impact to performance if you have the Vram for it. Just Cause 2 looked super amazing on a GT220 1gb, maximum textures 720p. So much better than the PS3 which ran it at 480p with very poor antialiasing. Lost Planet 2 looks amazing on PS3 because it *doesn’t* use antialiasing.

@@Trainboy1EJR Exactly. It's a convenient consumerist machine that many people think they need the latest and the best, forking out hundreds or thousands for ultimately small, incremental experience upgrades. The stats don't equate to the game experience, and this is something we'd do well (and tech companies wouldn't do well if we were) to realise.

What pisses me off is resident evil 2 remake cloud on switch looks like a damn switch port anyway. Doesn't looks like a ps4 or xbox version. Looks bland so why isn't it a native port if it looks like crap?