Nier is a difficult game to REALLY love.
While there's a great story, reasonably interesting characters, cool combat and even fun boss fights to be had (and I usually hate boss fights), the rest of the game unfortunately ends up becoming a tad repetitive with boring shopping-list side quests and far too much backtracking around four or five locations. Add to this the fact that there's no actually useful fast travel means your adventure becomes a bit of a tedious slog after a while. However, I did enjoy my time with Nier and would recommend it for those looking for something a bit different to the usual, generic western action games. Nier gets a lot of things right but sadly also gets a lot wrong.
While there's a great story, reasonably interesting characters, cool combat and even fun boss fights to be had (and I usually hate boss fights), the rest of the game unfortunately ends up becoming a tad repetitive with boring shopping-list side quests and far too much backtracking around four or five locations. Add to this the fact that there's no actually useful fast travel means your adventure becomes a bit of a tedious slog after a while. However, I did enjoy my time with Nier and would recommend it for those looking for something a bit different to the usual, generic western action games. Nier gets a lot of things right but sadly also gets a lot wrong.