beautifully written and wonderfully dynamic in its gameplay, I could only wish there was more mech segments. With so many different styles of gameplay to choose from it keeps you entertained and the amazing story that takes on many different inspirations from overall philosophy and many sci-fi series alike. It displays many triumphs and turmoil, I get recommended left and right "this _____ will break you" but I have never stared at the screen while I was playing a hacking minigame, wanting to kill myself due to what I was doing in said minigame. I never get awestruck by a poem that's displayed after I beat an otherwise non-important bossfight the SECOND time. Yoko Taro has written the robot sympathy the most correct way you can fucking do it. While most try to make a story of humanizing robots through the means of oppression, in NieR: Automata I am seeing from within, how androids and machines develop feelings and in the case of the machines, the desire to be human shows an absurdist aspect to this story that is otherwise mostly nihilist. Kingdom Hearts II better though