I’m all for hard games. Better yet, I’m all for hard games with punishing save points (Alien: Isolation, i.e.). This aspect of a game raises the bar and demands the player rise to it.
But god dammit Nier: Automata is difficult. – specifically the first major part of the game that takes you from a 3D Asteroids to a third-person hack-and-slash to a top-down…
