so i recommended Nier Automata in a sarcastic manner to some dude on r/JRPG who asked for recommendations and it spawned a shitshow.

All I was saying is that the dialogue where she jumps and says, "why don't you die already!!!" is super, super cringeworthy. If you disagree, fine, but I'd say you have very low standards for good dialogue then.

While I think the person overreacted by posting about your exchange on this subreddit, I think judging the entirety of the game's dialogue by one line, never mind turning off the game because of it, to be kind of silly. Not to say the script in this game is flawless or anything, but frankly if you find this one pretty harmless line that cringeworthy, I imagine you'd find most JRPG's to be unplayable given they have dialogue that's on average noticeably worse than this game's.

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