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>>25047745
Automata was very different from his previous works when it comes to the "message"/story. The previous games had pretty much in-your-face messages you could get through gameplay (like Drakengard and the reason behind violence) and Replicant was a play on common tropes in the jrpg genre and had its cheesy references. Not saying that Replicant had a simple story but it was very heartfelt and got to the point + you could enjoy digging for more info, everything revolved around the idea "are we actually doing the right thing?".

Automata had some much more convoluted plot elements and felt like a huge ramble and a heap of ideas thrown together. Like, he references some concepts from Beauvoir's work (the three women in love), but does a cringy take on her philosophy where I've even seen fans do huge mental gymnastics to interpret it positively. Same with the other philosophy references, it's like they followed some rule of cool but wanted to be a bit deep. A lot of fans blame the change in tone on his co-writers for the game changing as one of the writers left the series before Automata to write novels.

Also him repeatedly expressing his dislike for hot guys. And spewing bullshit on twitter.