NieR:Automata. My friends keep promising me themes that I know I will absolutely love, and I’ve managed to stay mostly blind on the story so far, but every time I consider playing it I just go ‘…nah, not now. Later for sure, though.’, and I have for the past several years.

If we’re talking about LISA the Painful, going along the same sort of vibe, I think Fear and Hunger is also worth a mention here. Some of the best gear you can get can become suddenly unusable because you lose a literal cointoss, and then your arm is gone. Some endings can get blocked off because of some bad luck, making you lose a character permanently, not to mention the insane lethality and hard choices you’ll be peppered with constantly.

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Great game, it’s up there with LISA the Painful for games that I think actively hate you.