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Nier's dialogue is much stronger, Automata feels much more complete, with many weird quirks in both the battle system+interface smoothed out and a much better coherence between the sidequests and the main story. Hits its emotional beats much more often too, although there are fewer.

Overall, I think Automata wins out, although it's still kinda janky in some ways. Both A and B routes felt less engaging than the first half of Nier and as sci-fi it is too human-centric.