There are Yoko Taro fans who argue that the old Drakengard games have bad gameplay on purpose as we’re not supposed to enjoy playing such hyper violent characters in a crapsack world.

As far as I’m concerned the Nier raids gave us some nice outfits and hair.... and that’s about it. Writing the story so it couldn’t have any lasting lore impact, unlike all of the other raids, ruined story potential. It would’ve been better off being a seasonal event and using that dev time to go into some deep lore on the world of the First.