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

[Lawlight]

MTZehvor said:

Libara said:
Western combat is usually more strategic and requires more skill/forethought whereas Japanese games usually have combat that just requires button mashing.

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. 

That's exactly how I finished MGR - by button mashing my way through it.