8 Video Games That Turned Out Nothing Like You Were Expecting

5. Nier: Automata

The origins of the Neir series of games is something that should be a video in of itself, beginning life as a spin off from the Drakengard series and evolving into one of the most bizarre and self-reflective action games I’ve ever played.

You know that something special is going on when the ending of the first game literally has you making a choice that will affect your real world interactions with it (I won’t spoil it because it’s that good), but even then when Neir: Automata was announced, no one knew what to expect because quite simply put:

It was seemingly a bit of everything.

Action hack and slash, Sci fi epic, personal tale about what it means to be human, Top down twin stick shooter. It’s a game that on paper that should have clashed with it’s own ideas so much that it simply wouldn’t have worked, and yet, it totally did.

Neir: Automata received mass critical acclaim for its ability to tell and engaging story while at the same time switching up it’s formula so often that you never got bored. With tonnes of different endings and a tongue in cheek comedy styling there is literally something here for everyone. And I bloody loved it.