NieR: Automata is deeply philosophical, uncomfortable, and bleak at times, but also cuts it all with an extremely weird sense of humor. NieR demands that you examine it closely, that you interrogate its assertions and commit to playing it thoroughly, and if you see it through - which, at times, can be taxing - you’ll be rewarded with a definitive conclusion that’s among the most moving and genuinely surprising in big-budget video games. Yet for as smooth and compelling as NieR’s gameplay shifts can be, they’re also the least interesting thing about the game - because NieR isn’t telling you everything.
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You play as 2B, a member of the elite YorHa squadron of android warriors dedicated to eradicating the machines in a genre-bending action game that pivots from hack-and-slash combat to a more classic arcade-style shooter that feels a lot like Galaga. In the far future, humanity has abandoned an Earth overrun by alien machines, leaving behind humanoid androids to fight on their behalf. Smashing action figures together couldn’t be more satisfying. Injustice 2 offers an incredible range of excuses to keep you fighting, from a steady stream of gear that’ll change your characters’ stats and appearance, to the Multiverse mode that comes with an array of timed challenges for you to take on. It also helps that NetherRealm has more or less perfected their cinematic approach to fighting games, with a story mode that plays like an action movie. Injustice 2’s story is still pretty dark, and not all that far from the Batman v Superman vision of the DC Universe, but it’s also crucially unafraid of being silly or fun. Injustice 2 takes place after that regime’s fall, with Batman attempting to rebuild society, only to find the world threatened by an alien invasion.
Set after the events of the first game, which depicted an aggressively dark narrative about Superman - tricked by the Joker into murdering a pregnant Lois Lane - killing the notorious villain and imposing worldwide martial law with the help of other heroes. The sequel to 2013’s Injustice: Gods Among Us marks the return of NetherRealm Studios (the shop behind Mortal Kombat) to the DC pantheon of heroes. Injustice 2 (Playstation 4, Xbox One, iOS, Android) That’s a fun enough premise, but Gravity Rush 2 has a surprising level of ambition in its storytelling, using its bright, sunny world to prop up a fable about class and wealth, and how the concerns of the rich are often addressed at the cost of the poor. Point in a direction, and that direction is now “down.” With this strange, specific power, Kat can approximate flight and becomes a superhero of sorts, eagerly helping everyone she crosses paths with while looking for her friend and fellow gravity shifter, Raven. You’re a girl named Kat, imbued with the power to change the direction gravity works. Remember the scene at the end of Toy Story, where Buzz Lightyear looks like he’s actually flying, but he’s really falling “with style?” Gravity Rush 2 is all about falling with style - and how good it feels.
For much of it, we can thank a spectacularly resurgent Japan: After years of dire speculation about the state of Japanese game development, 2017 has opened with a string of modern Japanese classics, from Zelda to Resident Evil 7 to NieR: Automata, all wildly different, all immensely entertaining. It’s been at least a decade since video games had a year that started as strong as 2017 - here we are in June with a list of games that would do most years proud in December. This week, Vulture is looking back at the best releases so far in 2017.
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