Hey, just want to thank everyone for the crazy amount of views and such positive comments! I am definitely thinking about doing some more Nier videos in the future, but they're gonna be on the backburner until after I finish Persona 5
RazzleDazzleHour thanks alot , wish you wish you also explained the keyboard control for finisher ( beacuse in pc somtimes it works , somtime dosent ) :/
Black Raison D´etre My initial answer was wrong. I think it's the Shock Wave chip. Parsa Rahbin The finisher on PC is either left or right mouse button (depending on which weapon you want to use) or Shift.
dude this game is awsome and very complex which is good, but takes a lot to learn. You just made the game 10x better as some one just starting out. thanks man for being one of the only in depth video i could fine that has such immersive detail
Six years after the first comment: I play Nier Automata for the seconds time on the Switch and want to play it "deeper" and this. Video is exactly, what I needed. I played the game already and never heard about the charge attack for our little Shooting buddys!
Great video but you missed quite a few things. >Pressing light attack while pod gliding does a spin kick >Pressing Pod attack just after jumping (or double jumping) hurls you in a flying kick forward >attacking from a sprint or dodge has a unique attack >neutral dodging (dodging without pressing a direction) has another unique attack seperate from the previously mentioned one >the combat bracers finisher has a similar mechanic to the small sword in that it makes you airborne AND you can do a rising attack after it for multi-air combos The combat bracer+spear combo attack does the same thing, makes you airborne and can also do multi-air combos.
Hey, I just picked up this game and just wanted to say I can't thank you enough for this helpful guide. Whilst I love how the game throws you straight into the action I can't help but feel like you miss out on some epic moments of gameplay by not knowing some of the combat strategy or by the lack of a tutorial. I'm not used to this sort of gameplay, although I love playing RPGs, but this feels like something new and so this has helped me enjoy the game on a greater level. Your instructions and explanations are clear, easy to understand and perfectly demonstrated. Thanks Razzle.
Just got the GOTY edition of this and was a little confused. Thanks so much for this video as really explained things well and answered all my questions - cheers
Wow! This is probably one of the most useful game tutorials I’ve ever watched! It’s my first time playing nier & I started with ‘hard’... I already died twice before the first save point, but watching this helped a lot, especially the evade mechanisms~I finally got to my first save!!!!! Thanks a lot:D
Tips for beginners.. If you want to enjoy the storyline of the game.. Don't go farming level too much or too high.. Just go enjoy the story.. Sit back.. Relax.. Because during the bosses fight scene.. All the bosses in nier automata level is below 30.. If you play it at normal difficult at the first tier.. Just like what I did.. I just go farming my 2B level until her level reach 99.. No wonder I just can defeating all the bosses in just 1 or 2 hits only.. This will cause the fight scene are very very short.. And you even can't enjoy the story and all of the dialog that the bosses speak in the fight scence.. Yes.. It true.. This game was awesome and You must enjoy the story.. So just go sit back.. And relax.. Let the Pod doing jobs for you.. Enjoy the art.. The story.. Not just the gameplay..
Tip: R1+Jump does a "hidden" jump-kick thing using the pod. Also, I think it's a bummer that Countering costs chip space. Other than the rad animation, there doesn't seem to be any strong incentive to use Counter instead of a perfect dodge, which has more lenient timing, no storage cost, and offers the same finisher opportunity.
Greg Moore I know this is an incredibly late response but, Counter does have the advantage of being used as a Damage-Recovery method. Such as the little spear robots who stunlock you, just parry them with the counter
Greg Moore parrying is also good in the fact that it stops the enemies attack where as parry just moves away from it, for normal attacks this isnt really a major bonus, but when dealing with an enemy that has a long continuous attack that had the chance of damaging you even after countering with perfect evade, it sometimes becomes better to stop the enemies attack and get a guaranteed damage free counter
Greg Moore Counter break enemies' attack animation (especially the multi-hit attacks) so it's useful imo Besides I've been playing MGR:R so counter feels easier the dodge
I kept doing the pod blast by accident. Never could figure out that it was because I dodged right before. Great stuff man! Thanks for doing a video on the more advanced stuff.
Devil May Cry taught me well, i figured out most of the stuff here myself, just got to the desert part where the robots are fking. Still this is a good tutorial and that Aerial combo thing is indeed an amazing thing to know, one thing i'd like to point out is weapon switching, i treat it like weapon switching in Devil May Cry and it actually works. It can cancel out/stack your attacks to basically make infinite combo, if you're overwhelmed with enemies or you want to keep hitting your enemies nonstop, weapon switching might help a lot
I know it's too late, but instead using claw grip and punish your arms, you can change attack buttons to r1/r2, l1/l2 (attack 1/2, shoot, charge) which alow you to fight and have a free big finger for aim at the same time. I also use L3 to evade (the same stick to move). These controls is like more similar to souls or godowar, but if you spent some time with it you can adapt. And put non-combat functions like pet pod to x,a,y,b.
Thanks for this! I had read somewhere about how the combat in this game was much more simple than in Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; but then that was the impression I first had when I played the early bits of MGR:R itself, until saw Chip & Ironicus' guide and my mind was blown. So I refused to believe Platinum would get lazy like that in such a big project. And clearly they did not.
I managed to beat this game twice without knowing any of this. It's no wonder I had so much trouble with some parts of this and had to spend forever dodging like crazy... I basically just mastered dodging and equipped a bunch of healing chips, while keeping the pod fire going as I was whacking away with the sword ignorant of the whole concept of combos. Also didn't help that I was spending most of the second half of the game trying to master hacking rather than getting better at combat. They have a really solid combat system that you barely have to understand at all to beat the game even on normal.
super glad they stuck with a classic plantnium games style fighting and didnt cop out for stamina management simply because nioh and darksouls im so sick of playing lol
I just finally started playing this game; I feel like I accidentally wasted alot of time, knowing now it takes many play throughs. I really explored the beautiful world, found a sick grind spot out in the desert where I gained about 10 levels in an hour. I spent around 17 hrs on 2B scenario, an hour into 9s scenario and on level 49 already. I found it kinda hard, over compensated and now it's easy.
Bro it’s 2025 and if you look up NieR combate this is the first one that pops up. Crazy great video. Just started the game after all these years. It’s great!
Great video. It has a lot of information I didn't know. However, you don't need to claw grip. You can customize the buttons to your liking. I hold L2 to fire my pod with L1 for jumping and R1 for light attacks. This allows me to keep my thumbs on the joysticks at all times. It's the control scheme I use on all of my shooters.
Was looking for some combo guide and some mechanic I don’t know yet but all I find was beautiful cinematic combo showcases which makes me scratch my head. And then I found this long 30 minute video with a time milestone in the description that actually helped me and commentary along with the example. Thank you.
Best Nier fighting tutorial. Its been frustrating not knowing how I got those knocks into the air. Intro hint: look to minimise damage taken, not maximise cash rewards. Spend money on the healing potions. I've just finished my first run with 2b and I have to say... get that storage and get those chips in. Also, contract and pipe with repeated ground slams is inelegant but very effective against groups. Round them up then blow them apart. If you set 9s to aggressive, he'll effectively tank for you. We'll see what happens at harder settings.
Thanks. I am only 10 hours in the game and your video helps me a lot. I think, by the way, that there is a third type of attacking. I have noticed using a long sword as heavy attack that there seem to be third option: press for normal attack, hold for charged attack (attack after release of the button) AND press the button for about 2 seconds (more or less) 2B throws the long sword to the enemy. I will have a closer look on this. Thanks
You can do ground slam almost instantly if you cancel jump+heavy attack animation (press jump+heavy attack, then immediately press "forward" button and jump+heavy attack again). If you do it really fast it will look like you're doing ground slam from the ground.
Great video man! Appreciate the effort in explaining all this. The game sort of never explains the extent of its combat so it was great to get a comprehensive grip of it
Wow this game has a lot of mechanics, and not a lot of content about it out there, this is great content, I might watch it again, super useful, thank you
Nice video, thanks! Sad you were missing combat bracers; I especially like the 'home run' attack where you can swing your glove into the enemy by timing light combo -> heavy combo correctly. Also, I really like using controllers with bottom-mounted face buttons, like the xbone elite, steam controller, or one of the 'pro' ps4 controllers by razer and nacon. No need for claw grip when you can trigger attacks with your ring finger and pinkie.
Thanks for this. Love difficult games but felt confused with the opening of game and the whole restarting business. I felt scummy for turning down the difficulty to clear the prologue but I wish I would have just been given a chance to learn how to fight First. Some of the auto attacks on easy were super cool and I wish I just knew how to do those. I dont mind the whole restarting over and over no save gimmick if I would have just been taught how to fight First.
This is a really good video. Didnt know the combat had so much depth to it. Really learned alot, fav has gotta be the move where you get an enemy into the air using a heavy weapon. Thanks alot!
So as a latecomer to the game I started playing recently and while doing the Jackass side quest where she wants you to kill all enemies in 30 seconds I kept jumping up into the air and I had no idea why. I kept losing because of it and I could not find an explanation why it was happening which was really frustrating so I figured I would learn the combat more in-depth. Thanks for teaching about finishers, as a player of games like bayonetta it feels completely natural to do perfect dodges which is what kept me in the air. Going to try the challenge either without light blades or while remembering not to use light blades after dodging because the arena is a bit too narrow to not dodge and the time too short to be in the air all the time… Alternatively I could come back later after upgrading my gear but that is a weak mindset to have :P
Now might be a perfect time to make another video on this game, since it's on PS Now for the time being. Reading through the comments, I saw a lot of praise for this video, but also some negative criticism (some valid, some misguided). While I think there's stuff you could do better, I'm sure you've already thought of it a million more times than we ever could. And since I had such a great time watching this, I wanted to comment. I'll just offer two ideas for the next video: do it on something in the game you find interesting, and don't worry about covering every single little detail. I don't recommend these because you failed at them, but because they're things I think of when I create anything. The first one is important because I think your enthusiasm came across in this video, and it made it feel less like *learning* (you gotta trick people into learning things). The second part is important because if you focus too much on covering every topic under the sun, or trying to explain the tiniest details of a concept, you'll get analysis paralysis. By the "tiny details" part, I mostly mean explaining things for beginners. Hypothetical example: "to do that perfect dodge into a knock-up move, I pressed R2, then square"). I say this because I saw people complaining about how you didn't explain enough. When you make a video, you have to assume people have a base level of knowledge, and I think you did a great job of that. And you even went into the comments to break things down further, which is where I think those little questions are better left answered. Thanks for the video!
Late to the party,got this game on sale. Total new experience, especially when you said pressing the L3 stick. I'm on Xbox and clicked both sticks and... Sitting here like, "WTF just happened?!"
Best ps4 game... Not just for ps.. the whole generation. I adore this unique ( just like everything else in this masterpierce ) j-rpg, hack n slash like battle system. And the video awesome! U help ME a lot
I am almost mad that this is your only video. You explain stuff pretty clearly. Would have subscribed, but it seems it won't be of any use. I'll just drop a like. Good stuff man
Just like the strong knock up into the air attack (jump then quickly strong attack) you can do a pod swinging attack where you hang onto your pod and swing kick then torpedo kick by tapping jump button and then quickly tap your pod attack button. I was excited to discover this while watching this video and seeing that it was an unknown move! :P
Thank you so much for this video, it was full of information and you were amazing at explaining things so it was easy to understand! So looking forward to more videos if you get around to make more. A video explaining chips and what is good/not optimal would be cool as well :D Thx again, and have a nice day.
Thanks for posting this. I just starting playing this today on PS4 & Im so noob lol. Reminds me of DMC & Ratchet & Clank & Dark Souls lol. Learned a lot from this video.
I'm gonna put some control advice to avoid having to use claw grip here just in case someone gets to this game late like me, watches this video AND reads a lot of the comments. You don't need to use claw grip or give up being able to use the camera. Bind light and heavy attacks to R1 and R2, dodge to L1 and fire to L2. Special pod attack can go on square, and lock on on triangle if you're playing on easy or normal, otherwise it's just a free button without much use. That way you can always attack, fire, and dodge however you want while being able to control the camera. This made hard mode so much better for me.
4 different pods? what? i thought it was 3. wtf is the 4th one, i recently started playing the game over on hard mode and i had found 3 and only heard of 3 through the npcs, never anything about a 4th. now im curious
Massive help, I’ve learned so much and am actually excited to engage in the combat system now. For the longest time it was just spam the light attack button and hit heavy attack when I remmmember Wanted to ask though, a lot of times I find that I miss my finishers after a perfect dodge which is unfortunate given that it’s how i play through the game. I know you made this like 4 years ago, but any advice would help lol
DUDE, I bought the game yesterday, it's fucking amazing...idk, it's so refreshing and fun, the music is excellent, 2b is hot as fuck, everything is great about this game so far. Definitely a must if your thinking about getting it
I’m pretty sure all weapons of the same class have the same moveset; the reason ancient overlord only had light combo:4 and virtuous contract had 5 was because VT was upgraded to level 2. At level 4, all small swords have light combo: 7.
great video dude, quick thing I'd like to ask... do you intend on making a sort of "advanced" combat tech video? I've managed to get dodge cancelling down, but I don't know how to suicide cancelling or the pod slow fall technique. it's not really combat but I can't get the infinite long jump either xD
Pod slowfall is really only useful in a couple very specific situations, most notably the Speedstar race. You hold down the pod special fire to charge it (24:10 in the video) and then jump, and the game will go into slow motion while you retain a pretty normal movement speed while in the air. I haven't actually heard anything about the infinite longjump though, I might look into that a bit more later
Hey great vid, My friend came over to play the other day and he accidentally managed some kind of animated finishing moves. I asked him how he did it and he said he pressed circle at some point. However i cant recreate the move. Do you happen to know what i'm talking about?
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This man really posted one masterpiece then dipped from UA-cam 🏃♀️
his girlfriend doesn't like when he plays video games
Nah he digitized and got sucked into the persona 5 game world and has been trapped ever since.
@@Brek_Kelstro nah, he got sucked into a TV
@@SendirianAja nah, he got sucked
@@schpeidermann nah he got
Hey, just want to thank everyone for the crazy amount of views and such positive comments! I am definitely thinking about doing some more Nier videos in the future, but they're gonna be on the backburner until after I finish Persona 5
RazzleDazzleHour when you do moves it looks like projectiles come out of your sword, is that some kind of chip?
RazzleDazzleHour I noticed you have no other videos I’ll subscribe anyway hoping there will be more stuff, your commentary is really nice
RazzleDazzleHour
thanks alot , wish you wish you also explained the keyboard control for finisher ( beacuse in pc somtimes it works , somtime dosent ) :/
Black Raison D´etre
My initial answer was wrong. I think it's the Shock Wave chip.
Parsa Rahbin
The finisher on PC is either left or right mouse button (depending on which weapon you want to use) or Shift.
Please play metal gear rising! It's probably platinum games best game to to date. I love it to death.
You can taste the excitement at 12:00 lmao
I love this comment
I really pushing for this one! He seems cool
Yup
More like 30:00 in the back
after this i saw this video i immediately tried that combo. One of my fav
dude this game is awsome and very complex which is good, but takes a lot to learn. You just made the game 10x better as some one just starting out. thanks man for being one of the only in depth video i could fine that has such immersive detail
Just started out today and i feel exatly the same as u 3 years later
It s awesome by the final route A you mostly learn everything and in route B C you can have fun with everything you know
Six years after the first comment:
I play Nier Automata for the seconds time on the Switch and want to play it "deeper" and this. Video is exactly, what I needed.
I played the game already and never heard about the charge attack for our little Shooting buddys!
Great video but you missed quite a few things.
>Pressing light attack while pod gliding does a spin kick
>Pressing Pod attack just after jumping (or double jumping) hurls you in a flying kick forward
>attacking from a sprint or dodge has a unique attack
>neutral dodging (dodging without pressing a direction) has another unique attack seperate from the previously mentioned one
>the combat bracers finisher has a similar mechanic to the small sword in that it makes you airborne AND you can do a rising attack after it for multi-air combos
The combat bracer+spear combo attack does the same thing, makes you airborne and can also do multi-air combos.
Thnx for the tips bro, tho i can never get the pod air kick off consistently
@@ronin_4075, I think it is because you have to keep holding the x button while pressing the square button, on PS4.
I can't believe this video has under a thousand views. I'm on my second playthrough and I didn't know half the things you explained. Good shit!
Hey, I just picked up this game and just wanted to say I can't thank you enough for this helpful guide. Whilst I love how the game throws you straight into the action I can't help but feel like you miss out on some epic moments of gameplay by not knowing some of the combat strategy or by the lack of a tutorial. I'm not used to this sort of gameplay, although I love playing RPGs, but this feels like something new and so this has helped me enjoy the game on a greater level. Your instructions and explanations are clear, easy to understand and perfectly demonstrated. Thanks Razzle.
This is extremely useful. I had no idea that you could combo both light and heavy attacks together. It's annoying when games don't explain that.
Just got the GOTY edition of this and was a little confused. Thanks so much for this video as really explained things well and answered all my questions - cheers
there's a bit of corruption in the viedo, where it skips over some stuff. like one at 3:03
Wow!
This is probably one of the most useful game tutorials I’ve ever watched!
It’s my first time playing nier & I started with ‘hard’... I already died twice before the first save point, but watching this helped a lot, especially the evade mechanisms~I finally got to my first save!!!!!
Thanks a lot:D
On perfect dodge, use the pod counter when you're countering a long range attack.
Tips for beginners.. If you want to enjoy the storyline of the game.. Don't go farming level too much or too high.. Just go enjoy the story.. Sit back.. Relax.. Because during the bosses fight scene.. All the bosses in nier automata level is below 30.. If you play it at normal difficult at the first tier.. Just like what I did.. I just go farming my 2B level until her level reach 99.. No wonder I just can defeating all the bosses in just 1 or 2 hits only.. This will cause the fight scene are very very short.. And you even can't enjoy the story and all of the dialog that the bosses speak in the fight scence..
Yes.. It true.. This game was awesome and You must enjoy the story.. So just go sit back.. And relax.. Let the Pod doing jobs for you.. Enjoy the art.. The story.. Not just the gameplay..
My eyes..
Why the hell would you grind to 99 in route A lmao...
@@hoshii.8533 Maybe he really wanted to finish off all the arenas.
Tip: R1+Jump does a "hidden" jump-kick thing using the pod.
Also, I think it's a bummer that Countering costs chip space. Other than the rad animation, there doesn't seem to be any strong incentive to use Counter instead of a perfect dodge, which has more lenient timing, no storage cost, and offers the same finisher opportunity.
Greg Moore I know this is an incredibly late response but, Counter does have the advantage of being used as a Damage-Recovery method. Such as the little spear robots who stunlock you, just parry them with the counter
Greg Moore parrying is also good in the fact that it stops the enemies attack where as parry just moves away from it, for normal attacks this isnt really a major bonus, but when dealing with an enemy that has a long continuous attack that had the chance of damaging you even after countering with perfect evade, it sometimes becomes better to stop the enemies attack and get a guaranteed damage free counter
Greg Moore Counter break enemies' attack animation (especially the multi-hit attacks) so it's useful imo
Besides I've been playing MGR:R so counter feels easier the dodge
Wait which R1 tho? there are different set ups
@@pumpkinkunkun pod attack
I kept doing the pod blast by accident. Never could figure out that it was because I dodged right before. Great stuff man! Thanks for doing a video on the more advanced stuff.
Devil May Cry taught me well, i figured out most of the stuff here myself, just got to the desert part where the robots are fking. Still this is a good tutorial and that Aerial combo thing is indeed an amazing thing to know, one thing i'd like to point out is weapon switching, i treat it like weapon switching in Devil May Cry and it actually works. It can cancel out/stack your attacks to basically make infinite combo, if you're overwhelmed with enemies or you want to keep hitting your enemies nonstop, weapon switching might help a lot
I know it's too late, but instead using claw grip and punish your arms, you can change attack buttons to r1/r2, l1/l2 (attack 1/2, shoot, charge) which alow you to fight and have a free big finger for aim at the same time. I also use L3 to evade (the same stick to move). These controls is like more similar to souls or godowar, but if you spent some time with it you can adapt. And put non-combat functions like pet pod to x,a,y,b.
Thanks for this!
I had read somewhere about how the combat in this game was much more simple than in Bayonetta and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance; but then that was the impression I first had when I played the early bits of MGR:R itself, until saw Chip & Ironicus' guide and my mind was blown. So I refused to believe Platinum would get lazy like that in such a big project. And clearly they did not.
you dont need to use clawgrip if youre playing on hard difficty since you can just remap the fire button to the lock on button which is the LT for me
Watched this video and was set for my first 100 hours an year ago, watching it now for my next. You are an absolute gem of a person.
I managed to beat this game twice without knowing any of this. It's no wonder I had so much trouble with some parts of this and had to spend forever dodging like crazy... I basically just mastered dodging and equipped a bunch of healing chips, while keeping the pod fire going as I was whacking away with the sword ignorant of the whole concept of combos. Also didn't help that I was spending most of the second half of the game trying to master hacking rather than getting better at combat. They have a really solid combat system that you barely have to understand at all to beat the game even on normal.
Holy shit what a fucking legend. Blessed us with this single masterpiece and then returned back to where he came from.
Over a year later... just found this masterpiece of a game on Steam. Awesome!!! Thanks for sharing this.
Death by Zombiez Gaming didn’t expect anyone here lmao
Same. Looks like a good game, but I have school! :(
@@deutschlandmeinvaterland1568 always the weekend.
@@grim9653 same same. =)
2 weeks later here i am 😂
super glad they stuck with a classic plantnium games style fighting and didnt cop out for stamina management simply because nioh and darksouls im so sick of playing lol
Yeah dude androids dont need stamina
This has to be one of the best video game tutorials I have ever seen. And I have seen al LOT.
Thank you! So hard to find this information. Your video was clear, to the point, and with examples.
>Basics
>35 minutes
Damn lol
Take notes if needed plos class
I just finally started playing this game; I feel like I accidentally wasted alot of time, knowing now it takes many play throughs. I really explored the beautiful world, found a sick grind spot out in the desert where I gained about 10 levels in an hour. I spent around 17 hrs on 2B scenario, an hour into 9s scenario and on level 49 already. I found it kinda hard, over compensated and now it's easy.
Bro it’s 2025 and if you look up NieR combate this is the first one that pops up. Crazy great video. Just started the game after all these years. It’s great!
Absolute legend. Exactly what i was looking for mate. Thank you🙏 so many useless videos on this out there, this one spot on
you can really hear his enthusiasm in certain parts of the video
Great video. It has a lot of information I didn't know. However, you don't need to claw grip. You can customize the buttons to your liking. I hold L2 to fire my pod with L1 for jumping and R1 for light attacks. This allows me to keep my thumbs on the joysticks at all times. It's the control scheme I use on all of my shooters.
Another tun combo is run + heavy attack then followed by jump + heavy attack for an uppercut swing.
Was looking for some combo guide and some mechanic I don’t know yet but all I find was beautiful cinematic combo showcases which makes me scratch my head.
And then I found this long 30 minute video with a time milestone in the description that actually helped me and commentary along with the example. Thank you.
im playing on PC without joystick i was getting mad really bad this help me out a lot thank u
Best Nier fighting tutorial. Its been frustrating not knowing how I got those knocks into the air.
Intro hint: look to minimise damage taken, not maximise cash rewards. Spend money on the healing potions.
I've just finished my first run with 2b and I have to say... get that storage and get those chips in. Also, contract and pipe with repeated ground slams is inelegant but very effective against groups. Round them up then blow them apart. If you set 9s to aggressive, he'll effectively tank for you.
We'll see what happens at harder settings.
Played this on PC a few years back and for some reason wasn't enjoying it. Picked it up for switch last week and now I'm in love. Great video
Lots of cool mods on PC make the camera insanely better and basically fix what was broken when it launched.
Thanks. I am only 10 hours in the game and your video helps me a lot. I think, by the way, that there is a third type of attacking. I have noticed using a long sword as heavy attack that there seem to be third option: press for normal attack, hold for charged attack (attack after release of the button) AND press the button for about 2 seconds (more or less) 2B throws the long sword to the enemy. I will have a closer look on this. Thanks
You can do ground slam almost instantly if you cancel jump+heavy attack animation (press jump+heavy attack, then immediately press "forward" button and jump+heavy attack again). If you do it really fast it will look like you're doing ground slam from the ground.
Great video man! Appreciate the effort in explaining all this. The game sort of never explains the extent of its combat so it was great to get a comprehensive grip of it
Thank you ! You are a life saver. This was done in such a way anyone could understand.
Just started this game on Switch. I wanted this video almost 3 times. Thanks!
2:58 Not even 3 minute in and I already have to give you a like and tell you that this helps a lot.
Wow this game has a lot of mechanics, and not a lot of content about it out there, this is great content, I might watch it again, super useful, thank you
Nice video, thanks! Sad you were missing combat bracers; I especially like the 'home run' attack where you can swing your glove into the enemy by timing light combo -> heavy combo correctly. Also, I really like using controllers with bottom-mounted face buttons, like the xbone elite, steam controller, or one of the 'pro' ps4 controllers by razer and nacon. No need for claw grip when you can trigger attacks with your ring finger and pinkie.
I am not joking when I say you've made my week by making this video
Thanks for this. Love difficult games but felt confused with the opening of game and the whole restarting business. I felt scummy for turning down the difficulty to clear the prologue but I wish I would have just been given a chance to learn how to fight First. Some of the auto attacks on easy were super cool and I wish I just knew how to do those. I dont mind the whole restarting over and over no save gimmick if I would have just been taught how to fight First.
This is a really good video. Didnt know the combat had so much depth to it. Really learned alot, fav has gotta be the move where you get an enemy into the air using a heavy weapon. Thanks alot!
So as a latecomer to the game I started playing recently and while doing the Jackass side quest where she wants you to kill all enemies in 30 seconds I kept jumping up into the air and I had no idea why.
I kept losing because of it and I could not find an explanation why it was happening which was really frustrating so I figured I would learn the combat more in-depth.
Thanks for teaching about finishers, as a player of games like bayonetta it feels completely natural to do perfect dodges which is what kept me in the air.
Going to try the challenge either without light blades or while remembering not to use light blades after dodging because the arena is a bit too narrow to not dodge and the time too short to be in the air all the time…
Alternatively I could come back later after upgrading my gear but that is a weak mindset to have :P
Now might be a perfect time to make another video on this game, since it's on PS Now for the time being.
Reading through the comments, I saw a lot of praise for this video, but also some negative criticism (some valid, some misguided). While I think there's stuff you could do better, I'm sure you've already thought of it a million more times than we ever could. And since I had such a great time watching this, I wanted to comment.
I'll just offer two ideas for the next video: do it on something in the game you find interesting, and don't worry about covering every single little detail. I don't recommend these because you failed at them, but because they're things I think of when I create anything.
The first one is important because I think your enthusiasm came across in this video, and it made it feel less like *learning* (you gotta trick people into learning things). The second part is important because if you focus too much on covering every topic under the sun, or trying to explain the tiniest details of a concept, you'll get analysis paralysis.
By the "tiny details" part, I mostly mean explaining things for beginners. Hypothetical example: "to do that perfect dodge into a knock-up move, I pressed R2, then square").
I say this because I saw people complaining about how you didn't explain enough. When you make a video, you have to assume people have a base level of knowledge, and I think you did a great job of that. And you even went into the comments to break things down further, which is where I think those little questions are better left answered.
Thanks for the video!
Late to the party,got this game on sale. Total new experience, especially when you said pressing the L3 stick. I'm on Xbox and clicked both sticks and... Sitting here like, "WTF just happened?!"
I finished the game yesterday and had no idea about this I only dodged, left click and spam heal
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@@illusma7822 hear me out I finished it a 2nd time and i'm much better now💀
I'm so Obsessed with this game is another life i wish i get my hands on it I'll Do every move you showed thanks for making video and working on it ☺
why? it's so overrated
Best ps4 game... Not just for ps.. the whole generation.
I adore this unique ( just like everything else in this masterpierce ) j-rpg, hack n slash like battle system.
And the video awesome! U help ME a lot
Thank you for making this vid! I’ve never played a Nier game (or a Platinum game since Bayonetta for PS3) and this information is critical.
I am almost mad that this is your only video. You explain stuff pretty clearly. Would have subscribed, but it seems it won't be of any use. I'll just drop a like. Good stuff man
Ah man thanks so much i was about to give up on this game ,but i love it ,so this video was exactly what i needed ,thanks again ,subscribed
Surprisingly, the only finisher I knew about because I kept accidentally doing was the pod one XD
Just like the strong knock up into the air attack (jump then quickly strong attack) you can do a pod swinging attack where you hang onto your pod and swing kick then torpedo kick by tapping jump button and then quickly tap your pod attack button. I was excited to discover this while watching this video and seeing that it was an unknown move! :P
Most of those combos I figured out myself. All I do is smash as many buttons as possible and then be like, 'Hmm. Neat. How did I do that?'
i came here for the guide and then realized that i can glide with the pod 🙂. anyway, awesome video dude 👍
Thank you so much for this video, it was full of information and you were amazing at explaining things so it was easy to understand! So looking forward to more videos if you get around to make more. A video explaining chips and what is good/not optimal would be cool as well :D Thx again, and have a nice day.
please play the metal gear rising game. That game plus this one, made me fall in love with the game engine of platinum games. They are incredible.
Will you be doing an in-depth combo video? Maybe showing off some combo concepts and cancels.
this video should be IN the game
Thanks for posting this. I just starting playing this today on PS4 & Im so noob lol. Reminds me of DMC & Ratchet & Clank & Dark Souls lol. Learned a lot from this video.
Charging your attack with any pod for long enough will also summon the other two to join the attack. That fuck you laser gets huge.
I'm gonna put some control advice to avoid having to use claw grip here just in case someone gets to this game late like me, watches this video AND reads a lot of the comments. You don't need to use claw grip or give up being able to use the camera. Bind light and heavy attacks to R1 and R2, dodge to L1 and fire to L2. Special pod attack can go on square, and lock on on triangle if you're playing on easy or normal, otherwise it's just a free button without much use. That way you can always attack, fire, and dodge however you want while being able to control the camera. This made hard mode so much better for me.
hard to get into combat when im sprinting constantly on hills with 2B
4 different pods? what? i thought it was 3. wtf is the 4th one, i recently started playing the game over on hard mode and i had found 3 and only heard of 3 through the npcs, never anything about a 4th. now im curious
Just bought this. And had to look up some good tutorials. Thanks
That directional counter mechanic is straight up Bayonetta. Platinum ftw
Don't really already need that knowledge, but it's very good review of combat system of the game, definitely like it!
Thanks Bro, really enlightening... I was having trouble dealing with Yorha mobs... Thanks!
Awesome video. I’m sure I’ll reference it quite a bit as I play through.
Great video, you have a talent for this stuff
Thanks for the video man. My tactic of just pressing left click is outdated . There are so many moves DAMN.
trust me, sprinting is faster
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spams dodge to the desert.
Thanks for the vid! Really helpful and in-depth!
Massive help, I’ve learned so much and am actually excited to engage in the combat system now. For the longest time it was just spam the light attack button and hit heavy attack when I remmmember
Wanted to ask though, a lot of times I find that I miss my finishers after a perfect dodge which is unfortunate given that it’s how i play through the game. I know you made this like 4 years ago, but any advice would help lol
Did you finish the game?
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Nice work!
Very educational video m8, really good work
why you stop making videos. u give the most helpful guide
Very in-depth, thank you very much ♥️
Finally, someone explained this. Thanks! 😉
DUDE, I bought the game yesterday, it's fucking amazing...idk, it's so refreshing and fun, the music is excellent, 2b is hot as fuck, everything is great about this game so far. Definitely a must if your thinking about getting it
How was it? 😂
I’m pretty sure all weapons of the same class have the same moveset; the reason ancient overlord only had light combo:4 and virtuous contract had 5 was because VT was upgraded to level 2. At level 4, all small swords have light combo: 7.
Nothing covering using the pod spin kick?
Thank you, man, this guide is really heplfull!
Good luck!
Fantastic video man. Great job
All good info outside of pod charged attacks. The pod info was incorrect on multiple aspects.
I'm just learning to play this game and I'm not very familiar with this genre in general, and this video was very helpful, thanks n
great video dude, quick thing I'd like to ask... do you intend on making a sort of "advanced" combat tech video? I've managed to get dodge cancelling down, but I don't know how to suicide cancelling or the pod slow fall technique. it's not really combat but I can't get the infinite long jump either xD
Pod slowfall is really only useful in a couple very specific situations, most notably the Speedstar race. You hold down the pod special fire to charge it (24:10 in the video) and then jump, and the game will go into slow motion while you retain a pretty normal movement speed while in the air. I haven't actually heard anything about the infinite longjump though, I might look into that a bit more later
so much efforts in this video .. thank you so much
Bro, make some more videos. Nice detailed info guide. Aces💯
just got into the game very helpful thanks!
this was very helpful. thanks
Hey great vid,
My friend came over to play the other day and he accidentally managed some kind of animated finishing moves. I asked him how he did it and he said he pressed circle at some point. However i cant recreate the move. Do you happen to know what i'm talking about?
Amazing guide, thank's dude.
Thank you for this indepth video.
Thanks for this great video , really helped me out!