NieR: Automata

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8.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1804 Ratings

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  1. VVhiteCrow
    Jun 16, 2018
    9
    Overall: 10/Great
    Great great great great game!!
    Threw in 10h/day in 2 weekends (couldnt play midweek) and plan to redo all archs soon enough. Great combat, great story, the universe is mehly, great voice acting (play it in Jap, though english is fairly decent, its still weird), great combat (again), great open world to explore. Oh, and, bloody awesome soundtrack! The ost of this game    Overall: 10/Great
    Great great great great game!!
    Threw in 10h/day in 2 weekends (couldnt play midweek) and plan to redo all archs soon enough.
    Great combat, great story, the universe is mehly, great voice acting (play it in Jap, though english is fairly decent, its still weird), great combat (again), great open world to explore.
    Oh, and, bloody awesome soundtrack! The ost of this game is simply magnificient and greatly empowers every scene.
    9 months after I'm still listening to the OST.    … Expand
  2. JapanGamer29
    Jun 13, 2018
    2
    My experience with NieR: Automata on PC has been mostly negative. First, I couldn't set it to fullscreen (it kept reverting to windowed), then it crashed after 15 minutes. After lowering the settings to 720p, I was able to play the prologue. When I got to the first boss, I was insta-killed despite playing on Easy mode, and because there are no save points at all in the first 45 minutes, IMy experience with NieR: Automata on PC has been mostly negative. First, I couldn't set it to fullscreen (it kept reverting to windowed), then it crashed after 15 minutes. After lowering the settings to 720p, I was able to play the prologue. When I got to the first boss, I was insta-killed despite playing on Easy mode, and because there are no save points at all in the first 45 minutes, I had to replay from the beginning, which is just annoying. 2/10… Expand
  3. Bananatak
    May 19, 2018
    10
    Mi juego favorito del 2017 increíble estética gráficos MAGISTRAL HISTORIA si jugaste el primer nier este nier automata te llega al corazón amo este juego se ve mejor en pf q en la ps4 pero disfrútenlo cuando salga a Xbox one x se verá mejor aún con el 4K real
  4. Kosama
    May 19, 2018
    10
    Uff uno de los mejores juegos de pc del año pasado, la música del 10, jugabilidad de 10 y 2B de 10 :3
  5. forfb
    May 19, 2018
    9
    I wondered how's that possible for the game full of stupid bugs, lazy technical solutions and not unique gameplay to achieve such a major success. Each corner you can find invisible wall, game has some issues with its performance, there are tons of bare texts to read, without any voice acting underneath it [yet that was to be expected from jrpg-kinda(?)] and majority of the enemies beingI wondered how's that possible for the game full of stupid bugs, lazy technical solutions and not unique gameplay to achieve such a major success. Each corner you can find invisible wall, game has some issues with its performance, there are tons of bare texts to read, without any voice acting underneath it [yet that was to be expected from jrpg-kinda(?)] and majority of the enemies being boring, uncreative imitation of one another.
    I finished the game with almost all of its endings and I sit in front of my PC, writing this review and thinking...the game was so good. The game was great. Storyline was incredible, main characters where unique and each one of mc had its specific way of expressing feelings. From time to time Automata made me extremely bored but when I got to any of its endings it was such a relief. Every single main ending (out of 5) made me cry my heart out so much. Each time I've felt bored the feeling just vanished when I got to see it.
    NieR: Automata isn't an example of a perfect game. I'd dare to say that due to it's technical issues game makes people feel dissapointed with it at some point. So am I. I feel so painted that I can't say only good things about this game. Nevertheless, if you're considering buying the game - by all means - do it. After all, you won't regret it - I dare you!
    As I've said before; Each time I got disgusted with anything about Automata was just a matter of time to forget about it.
    Isn't that beautiful? That in the end, a few minutes were worth so much. And that - I feel - is the greatest thing I can say about any game.    … Expand
  6. SugarHBear
    May 13, 2018
    4
    A JRPG? promoted as an action game. Unsatisfying bullet-sponge combat, sparse muted-color world, not fully voice-acted, constant manual collecting of crystals.
  7. Metalpizza123
    Apr 9, 2018
    7
    this is a fantastic game, ruined by an abysmal port.
    Nier Automata is another hack n slash from Platinum, with Square Enix's Yoko Taro at the helm. This is a beautiful and deep game, with multiple endings, lots of side content and fantastic critique of human culture and society, while being quite fun to play. the combat is slick, smooth and mechanically sound. It's not DMC4, but each type    this is a fantastic game, ruined by an abysmal port.
    Nier Automata is another hack n slash from Platinum, with Square Enix's Yoko Taro at the helm. This is a beautiful and deep game, with multiple endings, lots of side content and fantastic critique of human culture and society, while being quite fun to play. the combat is slick, smooth and mechanically sound. It's not DMC4, but each type of weapon does have its own moveset. I do wish for more moves, as it gets repetitive very quickly. Some of the side missions also are frustrating and unrewarding. The RPG-esque Chip system is a fun way to tweak your experience and try out some silly playstyles. The story is fantastic and self contained, but ties into other Yoko Taro's work, if you have played Nier or Drakengard. the characters are fantastic, with depth and terrific voice acting to back up their struggle and story. However, you can run the risk of over levelling yourself like crazy, but that's the problem of many RPG hack n slashers. you can perfect dodge everything with skill, or just be a clown with 4x more health than the enemy. You set your difficulty accordingly, so those looking for a challenge should limit themselves.

    However, Square Enix has decided that this game doesn't need a good port, and unfortunately comes it many, many problems. 1080p and above doesn't work properly, forcing a bordered 720p image and creating a blurry mess. The game also locks itself improperly to 30 FPS all the time. fullscreen doesn't work correctly, and the game is poorly optimized. Digital Foundry on youtube has a much better explanation on the problems of the PC port.
    HOWEVER, there is a fix, one that solves all of these problems and makes the game a fantastic experience. Kaldaien's Special K mod for Nier:Automata fixes many of the games' problems while also allowing even higher quality options for those with an extra beefy rig.

    This game is worth it. i want to give it a 9 or even maybe a 10.However, it is currently broken on Steam and therefore does not gain my approval for anything higher than a 7. Fan-made mods do not change my score, as it is not part of the product.

    TL:DR grab it on sale, google the fan made patch, have fun.    … Expand
  8. Karkoza
    Mar 29, 2018
    3
    Bad combat system, same type enemies, bad graphicrs and atrstyle.Good music and story,but you need to play 30 hours to understand and its like press "E" 30 hours to begin reading 451 fahrenheit. Good marketing and Weeaboo's overhype made this game popular
  9. Kenshiro13
    Mar 17, 2018
    9
    I didn't get the game when it was released and now I feel bad about it, got it from a recent steam sale.
    I liked to story, it made me think multiple times, mostly about philosophy but admittedly sometimes the story felt predictable but just as often I felt genuinely sad for the characters.
    Combat was excellent and didn't get boring during the 30+ hour that i have spent thus far. I have    I didn't get the game when it was released and now I feel bad about it, got it from a recent steam sale.
    I liked to story, it made me think multiple times, mostly about philosophy but admittedly sometimes the story felt predictable but just as often I felt genuinely sad for the characters.
    Combat was excellent and didn't get boring during the 30+ hour that i have spent thus far.
    I have heard that a lot of people are having problems with FPS, but I never got them often enough to effect my enjoyment, few times yes but not that often.
    This is a must buy game in my opinion.
    As for why I didn't give 10/10 is the multiple small things that annoyed me, for instance the story bits when you were unable to fight due to story reasons and thus get killed by trash mobs and forcing you to lose progress. (Got my revenge on the trash mobs later on)    … Expand
  10. g-of-harrenhal
    Mar 3, 2018
    10
    Stunning game. Amazing Gameplay, unreal soundtrack, addictive as hell. Best game I've played in a long time.
  11. kamhagh
    Feb 23, 2018
    5
    Supper buggy and the performance is more than unacceptable! The plot so far till my second play trough is really awful too. it's just awful so far. The music is good though! but there aren't many different tracks (it's ok though I love them anyways!)

    I think the robots look silly but oh well. Looks really lazy in terms of design. I also hate the camera sooooo much, it forces you to    Supper buggy and the performance is more than unacceptable! The plot so far till my second play trough is really awful too. it's just awful so far. The music is good though! but there aren't many different tracks (it's ok though I love them anyways!)

    I think the robots look silly but oh well. Looks really lazy in terms of design.

    I also hate the camera sooooo much, it forces you to look at 2b's underwear like a pevert all the time. I keep making the camera look at it from behind or slightly above but it keeps looking at her underwear from bottom to top. I can say that 2b is a huge waifu bait :|
    The combat is boring and when you play as the cute guy robot it gets even more insanely boring.    … Expand
  12. JessTurner
    Feb 12, 2018
    10
    Extraordinary. Very little in _any medium_ comes close to this. Its creators have... become as gods.

    My only complaint: levels serve no purpose in a game like this, really in no game other than table top games and text based games where technological limitations required a RNG to essentially play for you since there was no means of performing combat yourself. Instead levels completely    Extraordinary. Very little in _any medium_ comes close to this. Its creators have... become as gods.

    My only complaint: levels serve no purpose in a game like this, really in no game other than table top games and text based games where technological limitations required a RNG to essentially play for you since there was no means of performing combat yourself. Instead levels completely destroy the replay value of the game and the entertainment value of completionist playing since you become totally overpowered compared to whatever level the enemies were set at.

    Proposal: allow difficulty to be entered as a number for 'damage multiplier'.

    People giving this other than 9+: did you beat it the 4 times required to see the full story? It gets _way better_, and you also need to read some key data files for the really deep story.    … Expand
  13. Hack
    Feb 9, 2018
    8
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. After 27 hours I have just finished Nier and I'm not sure how I feel about it, overall it was good but it was heavily tarnished by certain bits.

    Nier starts off so, so well, route A was some of the most enjoyable gaming I have done in a very long time, almost everything about it was perfect, it's rare I enjoy a game so much in fact. At the time I was sad the game was over because I wanted more, but be careful what you wish for because route B almost killed the game for me, it was repetitive, filled with tedious hacking mini games and boring asteroids gameplay. It definitely caused me to burn out and enjoy the rest of the game less as a result, it would have been a far better game without it. Route C was decent, although once again filled with hacking mini games which I didn't enjoy at all, 9S in general wasn't very fun to play IMO. I would have much preferred just playing 2B throughout, although A2 was obviously fine as well.

    The main highs of the game for me were the music and combat, which is why it was even more annoying being tossed into mini games, I just wanted to kill machines as 2B, I didn't want to be taken out of the action to play asteroids either. As for the music it was just fantastic, it had me humming along or tapping my feet throughout, I need to listen to the OST after making this post. I also enjoyed the dialog, the banter was really good at times and some of the interactions were hilarious.

    Overall it was a roller coaster, it went from an extreme high to an extreme low and finished somewhere in the middle.    … Expand
  14. Andrea9922
    Feb 5, 2018
    10
    perfect game, beautiful story, perfect songs, wow! i never tougth i will love it that much! great work!!
  15. KayNeko
    Jan 22, 2018
    10
    Amazing story, versatile game play and beautiful music.
    Glory to mankind!
    Thank a lot to Yoko Taro for this masterpiece.
  16. Obsidanse
    Jan 21, 2018
    10
    Nier Automata is a post apocalyptic anime action RPG. It contains a wide variety of control styles.
    3rd person fighter, 2 1/2D side scroll platforming, bullet hell....
    It's approach is oddly similar to Dark Souls though a lot less focused on one hit deaths and hair trigger reactions. Obviously, being anime in style, you're unlikely to see much rooting in realism with your combat too. If    Nier Automata is a post apocalyptic anime action RPG. It contains a wide variety of control styles.
    3rd person fighter, 2 1/2D side scroll platforming, bullet hell....
    It's approach is oddly similar to Dark Souls though a lot less focused on one hit deaths and hair trigger reactions. Obviously, being anime in style, you're unlikely to see much rooting in realism with your combat too.
    If you're looking for the very latest in graphic effects and the highest texture resolutions known to human-kind, you'll be disappointed... If you prefer a more holistic attitude to how something looks, this game will enthral you. It's not low res at all, just modest at times.
    The music is also completely endearing throughout and bosses often have their own 'theme song'. It's clear a great deal of care was put into that one area.
    There's a lot of highly negative reviews on here for very superficial or circomstantial reasons ("it looks crap", "I died and had to start again", "The graphics look old", "It doesn't work on my machine" - this is for reviews, not tech support) and despite that, this still has a user score of over 8/10 (as of 21/01/2018)
    If you like the look of this and EVEN if you couldn't enjoy a Dark Souls game (secret... I flipping hate them with a passion) give this a go... I'd advise PS4 if you can, but this works fine on a good PC with the FAR patch. A mindful Googling can find it easily.    … Expand
  17. xXxJigSaw
    Jan 21, 2018
    0
    Piece of **** game, crashes every 5 minutes, not even an autosave for the trouble. screw you square Enix!!
  18. MalFet1999
    Jan 14, 2018
    10
    Nier: Automata is 2017's GOTY. It is an experience that transcends the medium. To describe it at all would tarnish some element of the player's time in the game. Jaw dropping, heart pounding, tear jerking, and mind bending. Play this game.

    Don't give up. Maybe I'll save you.
  19. Garpery
    Jan 3, 2018
    10
    one of the best game I have played.
    1.excellent action game.
    2.good story
    3.good music
  20. KesslerE
    Dec 26, 2017
    10
    Ok - I love this game.

    The story in itself is probably one of the best to have ever come out of a game. If there is any reason to buy this game, it should be for the story. But if there's anything to keep you here, it's the gameplay. While it's true some of the "2.5 dimensional" gameplay bits can be somewhat annoying at times, the vast majority of the game takes place in normal 3rd    Ok - I love this game.

    The story in itself is probably one of the best to have ever come out of a game. If there is any reason to buy this game, it should be for the story. But if there's anything to keep you here, it's the gameplay. While it's true some of the "2.5 dimensional" gameplay bits can be somewhat annoying at times, the vast majority of the game takes place in normal 3rd person. The combat is very satisfying, especially when you successfully do a dodge attack.

    This is all without mentioning the visuals. This game is absolutely beautiful. The world you'll find is very immersive.

    Do be warned though - this game takes your emotions directly from your brain and crushes them right in front of your face. So if you don't like that feeling, this probably won't be the game for you.    … Expand
  21. redne7
    Dec 16, 2017
    10
    I have played many games in the past. This is the first game that evoked such strong emotion from me that after finishing it, I used chapter select to go back and finish the many quests that I ignored in the first playthrough. And I savored every little interaction between the main characters during these quests.

    The only other experience comparable to this one that I can recall was    I have played many games in the past. This is the first game that evoked such strong emotion from me that after finishing it, I used chapter select to go back and finish the many quests that I ignored in the first playthrough. And I savored every little interaction between the main characters during these quests.

    The only other experience comparable to this one that I can recall was playing through FF7, MGS1, and watching Neon Genesis Evangelion. But back then I was still a teenager so I was easily impressed. Now I'm in my thirties.

    One thing that I regret was letting the costume design and fan-service aspect of the game mislead me into underestimate the game initially. What I had dismissed as lazy-writing and cliched dialogues during some of the scenes turned out to be pure gold.

    The mechanics aspects of the games are far from flawless, as many review sites will tell you, but to me, judging this game based on things like how much it scores in the graphics or music department (which is epic) is completely missing the point. Nonetheless, I do want to mention one technical point of the game that completely blew my mind: the animation of the female characters. Such elegance, style, and beauty. Hats off to the mocap actors and animators. If this cannot be called art, I don't know what can.

    To summarize, this is a game that transcends the norms, and pushes games as an (albeit young) art form forward. It will be a yardstick that future titles will copy from and be compared against.    … Expand
  22. lizardwizard
    Dec 2, 2017
    9
    Game Is amazing, one of the best action rpgs I have played to date. The way they combine hack and slash, bullet hell, 2d side scrolling is nothing short of amazing. The game is super pretty and most part runs smoothly. Only experienced some bad frames at end of 9s end where I was hacking boss and then coming out of it frames went down pretty hard.
  23. Jdankens
    Nov 29, 2017
    9
    You can tell the game was done on a relatively low budget. The combat could use more variety, as with the enemies. The NPCs and world are relatively bland.
    That said everything just clicks in this game. A very memorable gaming experience overall.
  24. EpicJessey
    Nov 27, 2017
    9
    NieR: Automata is by no mean a flawless game, It didn't had a big budget in terms of "Triple A" and the development time was short from the early concept arts to release.
    You can clearly see the lack of enemy varity and the empty "not so detailed" world filled with invisible walls and it runs on a **** in-house engine...
    But yet, imo, it has more character and uniqueness than anything    NieR: Automata is by no mean a flawless game, It didn't had a big budget in terms of "Triple A" and the development time was short from the early concept arts to release.
    You can clearly see the lack of enemy varity and the empty "not so detailed" world filled with invisible walls and it runs on a **** in-house engine...
    But yet, imo, it has more character and uniqueness than anything else seen in past few years.

    Platinum Games satisfying smooth and action packed combat system from 3D to Side-scrolling to Top-Down with ideas that have never been in a video game before combined with definitely one of the best soundtracks out there (over 40) that come in many variations +8 Bit versions! (And not a single one of them is weak, no wonder they are giving concerts for them.) and crazy Yoko Taro's way of telling you a mature story with some hilarious and questionable moments was what made this game unforgettable.

    You don't beat the game, the game beats you.    … Expand
  25. alekseyburakov
    Nov 26, 2017
    10
    Уже давно меня ничего не могло поразить. Кино, книги, аниме, сериалы, комиксы, манга, ранобэ, Казалось бы, всё, изжили своё творцы. Так и было... пока не появилась Nier Automata
  26. Balager47
    Nov 25, 2017
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I could discuss things like the combat system (fun) the animations(superb), the music (fantastic), 2B's butt (also fantastic), the PC controls (this is how you properly do them) or the optimalization (this is NOT how you do it), but that would be irrelevant. In fact, almost everything about Nier Automata is irrelevant when a rude emotionless robot mourning an irritating and slightly racist robot's death can make you cry. And it absolutely will. The game has some strong points and some issues as well. But it also has a soul.… Expand
  27. wpadka
    Nov 19, 2017
    10
    One of the best Games i ever played 10/10. I know that this game have some cons like pretty bad port and bugs but plot,world,music make up everything. Long time i didnt think so long about game after ending it. This game is made in it own unique style and this is made in the best possible way. This game is must to play. I hope that now there will be more gameslike this.
  28. GameMode
    Nov 12, 2017
    5
    The game has a deep, intricate story that ties up to the start of the Drakengard's time-line, so it isn't short at the story or lore department, controls are meant to be responsive and fast paced, OST is just there on the expectations and art-style is just wonderful, but the PC version of the game has GAME-BREAKING bugs and crashes across most systems, the game is just broken, and the soThe game has a deep, intricate story that ties up to the start of the Drakengard's time-line, so it isn't short at the story or lore department, controls are meant to be responsive and fast paced, OST is just there on the expectations and art-style is just wonderful, but the PC version of the game has GAME-BREAKING bugs and crashes across most systems, the game is just broken, and the so promised patch never arrived, they just turned their heads and just pretended that nothing happened, the promise of a fix for the vast count of bugs was just the Square Enix PR doing some good old damage control, that is it, the perfect example of a masterpiece thrown into the mud for the sake of the fast cash-grabbing and the struggle of the community in order to try makeshift fixes for a game that should have been fixed by platinum ASAP.… Expand
  29. RagingPoet
    Nov 7, 2017
    8
    Nier: Automata is a good game, but I couldn't bring myself to finish a second run while the game was clearly designed for multiple playthroughs. Gameplay is just not fun enough to make you play for another ~30 hours. And hacking mechanics introduced in second playthrough is very boring.
  30. eeDymon
    Nov 2, 2017
    10
    Despite people complaining about technical difficulties, to me the game worked perfectly. It's actually one of the best games I've played this year. Intensely deep and emotionally rich. Tons of plot twists
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84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. PC PowerPlay
    May 11, 2017
    90
    Sometimes frustrating but always compelling, Nier: Automata is a wondrous and strange experience that could only ever be a game. [Issue#261, p.60]
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 10, 2017
    91
    This unusual action game set in an offbeat world created by Taro Yoko is a treasure trove of pleasant surprises. It's not often that we meet such a stylish, offbeat, memorable game.
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  3. IGN Spain
    Apr 5, 2017
    70
    There is no doubt that Nier Automata is a great game, but the PC version does not do it justice. A new case of a shameless port for PC.
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