You Need to Deep Dive NieR Replicant & The Climb 2

Now that you’re done hustling for the day, time to kick back, relax, and sweat it out with these games that are far too demanding for their own good. Here’s M2’s review on The Climb 2 and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139.

The Climb 2

You’d be surprised how much of a workout climbing an imaginary cliff could be. The Climb 2 is a sublime VR title on the Oculus Quest 2 you definitely need in your library. It’s a game that’s easy to learn, but hard to master. Chalking your hands at regular intervals to stop from getting bloody palms and managing your stamina are just two of the thoughts you need to juggle while scaling a building or one of nature’s obstacle causes. Half pressing the grips on a hand hold is a “technical hold” that doesn’t use any stamina, but doing it gives you the nagging thought you might accidentally let go at any moment. Mastering this puts you into a zen state of mindfulness, while scaling that I’ve yet to see done so elegantly in any other VR title.

NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139

That name looks like a joke I know, but if you’re familiar at all with the NieR games, then you’ll roll your eyes and say “Oh you” while comically shrugging. I’m sure they did it just to see who had the balls to waste perfectly good page real estate printing it. Replicant is a remake which brings the original to a new audience who were introduced to the series via NieR:Automata. I don’t even know how to start describing these games. It’s somewhere between bullethell and 3rd person action adventure. Automata changed the way I thought about games and Replicant is a worthy pilgrimage to learn how it all started.