I must say... I'm quite pleased with NieR. Combat's OK, the quests are rather tedious, graphically not too impressive, and the music's awesome. One quest chain is quite a tearjerker, that's for sure. It involves Seafront, the lighthouse woman and the mailman. The old woman's afflicted with the Black Scrawl disease, and has been waiting for her love for 50 years to come back from his journey. So, she waits. All while receiving letters from time to time. She comes off as quite a bitch when you first meet her, but she means well. Eventually, you learn that the letters were written by the mailman and his father for the past 50 years. The entire town was in on it, just to keep her happy, because they knew that he was dead. She can't stand just reading the letters, and wants to leave the lighthouse to see her love. The mailman insists that she stays as she's the only one who knows how to operate the lighthouse. The mailman asks you to reason with her, but you find out about the disease and that she just wants to see him as a final request. You eventually see the parcel full of her letters after figuring out the conspiracy and are asked to deliver the final letter. You can keep the lie going, or tell her the truth. I opted to tell her the truth, and it turns out that she had the suspicion that the entire thing was a lie. She actually appreciated the effort the townspeople put in to keep her happy all this time, so she tells you not to tell them that she knew. To continue as she "were none the wiser." She eventually succumbs to the Black Scrawl during the quest "Closure," and that she had died with a smile on her face. I think this is one of my favourite quests from all the games I've played...
Also. The butler Sebastian. It was probably wasn't intentional, but amusing nonetheless.
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