These days I usually start games on hard mode or higher. But i remember that was a huge mistake with Nier Automata. Its not a problem on NG+, but without chips, the first play though of the intro is impossible on harder difficulties. After hours of trying to get through the flight, I finally gave in and lowered the difficulty until the first save.

What’s wrong with Supabase? It’s open source and self hostable

My main issue with the game was actually just the grappling hook. For a parkour game. It felt cheap having to use one, and dumb that you could only use it in specific poibts rather than anywhere.

Otherwise, being open world makes it at least worth a play.

It’s a shame they never made a sequel

But they did make a more open world reboot/prequel