If you saw the railing I gave the game in the preorder? thread then yes. Also yes its been considered a letdown by the JP fans. Games design and story are pretty bad.
Nier was actually a good game story wise that tried so many different things which became the point of irritation for some.
DD3 isnt anything like the first 2 in design and seriously is lacking overall. Only few good things was the character design, voice acting and music. Story and gameplay is shit.
The previous 2 games still had a better story. Not to mention the unique system of being able to ride your dragon whenever you wanted outside is gone in 3. That and as stated multiple times go read the impressions by JP fans, they think its shit too with poor writing and the gameplay is just bad.
Considering how many people in Japan use amazon these days pricing of games is a pretty good way to judge its worth when combined with ratings once it passes 100. Game is now around 3500-4000 JPY with 2 and a half star ratings. When a game thats fairly new drops to a price like that its a sign that retailers are trying to get rid of it as it just is not popular. Game had dropped in price pretty fast too. Brick & mortar places cant really do the price drops as fast just because they have all the extra overhead to pay for. While there are wagon sales most common with sofmap, still for the most part unless they really are overloaded with stock, its harder to make a judgment on what is / isnt selling from those compared to online. That and retail outlets generally carry less physical title stock these days than in the past considering how much of a beating they are getting from places like Amazon and Rakuten. Unless its a major title they dont go big with orders like the old days. So when more niche things sell out in a retail outlet, its more than likely due to low stock numbers than actually being popular. Then from there depending on the retailer they might not even bother to restock said title. Its more with the stores that deal with both used and new are the ones who tend to not restock or do it as quickly, vs places like Yodobashi and Bic Camera.
Call it hyperbole all you want, but when a game is fucking shit I say its fucking shit. You want someone to go talk "kittens flowers and sunshine" with go find Ryouga, since thats his bit. Yin & Yang right here.
*Edit
In short general consensus is that its not a game for fans of the series. Is the one recurring statement from Japanese gamers.
