Innovative Gameplay Decisions and Presentation
Most action RPGs are content with delivering a pure hack ‘n slash experience where you’ll primarily spend your time swinging a sword around. Not so with NieR: Automata. Aside from the hacking and slashing gameplay, which is a lot of fun, Automata mixes in a ton of other fun gameplay styles and mini games to mix things up. There are bullet hell segments, hacking mini games, and even instances where the game becomes a 2.5D side-scroller. Automata likes playing around with fixed camera angles, giving you a different perspective on the action that’s going on. There are even a couple of text adventure segments that really help to enhance the narrative experience.
Without spoiling too much, even the game’s presentation and the way it shows off certain cutscenes are unique. When you adjust the game’s brightness and volume output settings for the first time, you do so as an android, because that’s what the game wants you to be.
