NieR:Automata™ Reviews

at the risk of sounding stupid, i found this game incredibly frustrating to navigate. i try to go to quest points and locked in by buildings and invisible walls. i want to enjoy the story but i personally find this hard to look past. maybe it is a better game to watch then play for the navigationally challenged lol

This game is so overrated. The combat is so boring and repetitive, literally just spam Attack and spam Dodge when enemies' starts glowing. Exploring is not fun because there are so many invisible walls, you want to cut corners/jump off a building to save time? oops you can't, you need to use the stairs because... idk, there's literally no reason to. The world building and story seems interesting but with how boring the gameplay is, I feel like it's better to just watch a playthrough or even a lore video instead. I really want to like this game, i even gave it 7 hours but it still not fun so i just drop it.

Incredible game, with a touching story. It has a lot of great story moments and big reveals that will make you breathless. Maybe starting to get a little dated, but still stunning visuals. All the areas are distinctly different Gameplay pretty good, and has a lot of variety throughout the game. I will definitively come back to this game to clean up all the side-missions and I want to learn more about this world! 9/10

[h2][b] Glory to Mankind[/b] [/h2] https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2951177726 It's been a long time since i finished but it will always stay with me. I really hope they will eventually port Drakengard to PC as well one day since i really want to experience everything this world has to offer. The Nier games are very unique and i feel like a lot of people tend to be wary of JRPG because of how it can often be cheesy and riddled with fanservice. At least i know i tend to be wary because of this and even though both Nier games has to some degree fanservice (like you can look up the girls skirts like an example) it's easy to ignore since they both have an amazing storytelling and it really grips you even the SIDE QUESTS can make you emotional or laugh and even if it is over two years since i played it i still remember some of the side quests so well in both games. With Automata the world is beautiful and so unique and the soundtrack that plays during the different areas of the map really enhances the experience. 2B and 9S has an amazing chemistry and i love their banter. you get so attached to them. 2B is a very serious android who takes her duty very seriously while 9S is more easy going and chatty. Their dynamic works so well. I shipped them both so hard tbh The negative thing with this game is that you'll be left wanting more of Nier and when you have finished both Automata and Replicant you will just have to accept that there is no game around that really captures the feeling of Nier :')

I found a chest behind a waterfall, interrupted a weird robot orgy and went to an amusement park all with in the first 4 hours. This game has everything! Def going to finish it.

The combat's not the main draw by any means, but it's nowhere near as bad as people often make it out to be. The dodge being spammable sort of is the point, since the game really plays like a bullet hell mixed with a 3rd person action game. It's unfortunate that the scaling on the hard difficulty setting is completely out of whack, cuz damage being actually threatening without out-right 2 shotting the player + no lock-on actually makes it a lore more fun. Enemy variety holds it back from being comparable to other dmc-likes, but what's present really perfectly fits the theme of being a combat android with inhuman reflexes and semi-autonomous weapons. Couple of pointers for anyone going in; - If playing on keyboard & mouse, get the mod named NAIOM. - Avoid using lock-on! Try to aim the podfire manually using right stick, it'll be less efficient, but so much more engaging to be manually managing both melee and ranged at the same time. - Play risky for melee hits! You can spam the dodge and be practically invulnerable, and heals are dirt cheap to buy 99 each of - Experiment with different attack strings and input combos. Pressing heavy attack right after jumping leads to a launcher! Consider swapping light and heavy atk buttons to make this easier to do. Each weapon type has a different moveset on the light and heavy slots, feel free to try things out! - Get a counter chip, even if only for the extra telegraphed hits (such as when you break Adam's shield) - Consider bumping the difficulty up to hard if you manage to get around +50% hp off of chips; there's no harm in bumping it back down if it's not fun.

i saw a lot of positive reviews for this game so i bought it. I can't say that i like it, the combat so far for me has been extremely repetitive and boring. most of the time i just hold down shift while spamming left click until theres nothing left. Fighting in this game to me feels like a chore and i often skip combats just to progress with the story, cuz it loves to throw mobs at u. Oh and the mandatory bullet hell, boring ass hell. I know that it is a deliberate choice that the enemies are supposed to look overly simplistic, but man do i feel uninspired to fight any of them. as of this review i have not finished the entire game with its 26 endings, so i cannot say that the game is bad. But i can definitely say it is not for me. music is great tho

NieR:Automata is one of the greatest games I have ever played. Any amount of glazing I can do doesn’t come close to describing the absolute cinema I witnessed over 30+ hours of gameplay. 10/10 WILL GOON AGAIN.

My favorite feature was: "*This game does not support auto-save. Play the game to find out how to save." And then I played the game and found out how to save.

Story is peak, gameplay is peak, soundtrack is peak, 2B is peak. Would highly recommend.