Playing Nier Automata makes me sad for the sad state of combat in Western games

[MTZehvor]

Libara said:

MTZehvor said:

Good luck getting through something like Metal Gear Rising or Devil May Cry by just mashing buttons.

O/T: I think this is more of a divide in genre than countries. Take away the hack and slash genre, and sword/melee combat in Japanese games isn't exactly deep either. Stuff like Zelda and FFXV have pretty simplistic combat systems. It's more of hack and slash titles really only being made by Japanese devs currently, which is kind of a disappointment. 

Ive played through most if not all DMC, love the games but to say that western games have worse combat is purely opinion. They play very different, some prefer wester, some Japanese games. I like a mix of both but will prefer Western as it feels more real and skillful, something like Witcher 3 which requires preperation and strategy than a game like DMC, not saying that you don't need skill to play a hack n slash.

Of course it's purely opinion. Any determination of whether something is "better" or "worse" requires, at the very least, a subjective definition of good and bad, and is therefore opinion. I'm simply saying that the games referenced in the OP cannot be beaten by simple button mashing, that's all.