Nier Automata: End of the YorHa Edition releases on Switch October 6th

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mZuzek said:

Hiku said:

I'm sure @mZuzek can testify that I told him I also stopped right after playing through the Demo portion, and then didn't touch it again for a year.

Turned out there was a lot more to the game than the demo suggested, and it became one of my all time favorite games.

I can testify indeed, but there is a key difference here in that what made you drop the game was that you didn't like something regarding the story whereas Vodacixi didn't like the gameplay. The story in Nier Automata is incredible. The gameplay is... well, I think it's good, but it's hardly faultless. I for one didn't like it when the game randomly forced a camera change on me and made me play it like it was GTA 2, thankfully this happens far less frequently after the prologue. Mechanically the combat is pretty solid, but nowhere near as good as the likes of Bayonetta or Astral Chain, it felt subpar for Platinum's standards. Still, I think whatever gameplay issues the game has are minor enough that the story completely makes up for it and then some.

Yeah, I am in the same boat as Vodacixi.  I played the PS4 version for a decent amount of hours, but I didn't care for the gameplay enough to keep playing.  I do not like combat in most 3D games (including this one), and I don't think the exploration part of the game is that great either.  The story to this game may be fantastic, but I didn't like the gameplay enough to find out.