I don't see what everyone else sees in this game or really the NieR series at all for that matter. It's a repetitive slog with shallow and unbalanced combat. On normal mode it's nearly impossible to die, on hard mode I was getting one-shot from full health so much I found the game unplayable, so there was no "balanced" difficulty where the game actually provided a fair challenge. The combat does not offer a lot of diversity since you fight every enemy by doing a precision dodge and then attacking it with an overly simplistic system that doesn't offer enough options compared to other character-action games. The story is good but it makes me think this game is hitting a very young target audience because it's giving an existential message in an extremely on-the-nose and melodramatic way. People talk about this game's story like they have never seen or read any decent piece of media about the apocalypse before. This game has a lot of opportunity for environmental storytelling due to its post-apocalyptic setting, but it instead decides to not take that to its advantage at all and tell the entire story through cutscenes and the setting is mostly a drab backdrop.

The OST I think is the only part of the game I loved as much as everyone else, but I can just listen to that by itself without actually playing the game.