Side Quests in Gestalt/Automata
I’m playing Nier Gestalt rn and am just having some thoughts so I thought I’d post them, cause why not. Forewarning, this isn’t deep or funny or anything. Just thoughts and me geeking out over these games lol.
Playing the “Missing Girl” sidequest in Façade gets me a little ‘cause when I found the bloodstain all I could think of was the “Amnesia” sidequest in Automata and I was preparing for a really sad end to the quest. Both seem to involve a murder mystery of sorts that requires you to wander around talking to a few different people to figure out what has happened. The Nier Gestalt sidequest is more subtlety effed up (the question remains why he thought it was a good idea to hide the “body” instead of telling the family or getting help; it’s little off if you ask me) but Amnesia seems sad yet lighthearted at first (there’s a lot of cute 2B and 9S banter throughout the quest) yet ends up being easily the most disturbing side quest in Automata.
As a writer/storyteller, it’s just interesting to compare these two similar (ish) sequences in these two related games and see how they differ tonally and thematically.
