I guess I'll offer a counterpoint here because I was suckered into buying & pushing through this game after reading a hundred comments like this online.
Nier Automata is a game with boring combat that makes you play through largely the same campaign 2.5 times in a row to get the "full story". Gameplay consists of a lot of running around empty levels and bashing health-sponge enemies until they explode, interspersed with mashing the dodge function.
I reached the end of the first campaign and was thoroughly disappointed. Comments online said, no, really, you absolutely have to finish the third ending to really experience the game. So I did. In the second playthrough combat gets even worse, because the most efficient way of killing enemies is a boring 2d bullet hell hacking minigame.
People talk a lot about the story but it legitimately barely makes sense. If you're a fan of anime-style storytelling I guess you might find it compelling. It is not deep. The much-vaunted philosophical aspects rise to naming some characters & bosses after famous philosophers, and nothing else.
Buy it and play it if you want. Maybe you'll enjoy it. But if it doesn't stick after a couple hours, don't continue - really, it does not change or improve at all.
Nier Automata is a game with boring combat that makes you play through largely the same campaign 2.5 times in a row to get the "full story". Gameplay consists of a lot of running around empty levels and bashing health-sponge enemies until they explode, interspersed with mashing the dodge function.
I reached the end of the first campaign and was thoroughly disappointed. Comments online said, no, really, you absolutely have to finish the third ending to really experience the game. So I did. In the second playthrough combat gets even worse, because the most efficient way of killing enemies is a boring 2d bullet hell hacking minigame.
People talk a lot about the story but it legitimately barely makes sense. If you're a fan of anime-style storytelling I guess you might find it compelling. It is not deep. The much-vaunted philosophical aspects rise to naming some characters & bosses after famous philosophers, and nothing else.
Buy it and play it if you want. Maybe you'll enjoy it. But if it doesn't stick after a couple hours, don't continue - really, it does not change or improve at all.