Yup, this game is just everyone trying really hard to avoid loneliness lol
Thanks for all your help in the OT thread. You and the regulars there have been great.
No problem, glad I was able to help.
NieR: Automata Spoiler Thread
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Yup, this game is just everyone trying really hard to avoid loneliness lol
No problem, glad I was able to help.
Evil Monkey DTT
Banned
Yes you were.
Don't give up, we are with you!
Note: The bullet hell gets impossible (probably) after a time. Keep going.
YunFang1130
Member
Done with route B and I'm working on Route C. Route C's killing me though with what it's doing to 2B 
Done with route B and I'm working on Route C. Route C's killing me though with what it's doing to 2B
Finish it before coming here D:
Just wait till you see what everyone else goes through.
DrunkShogun
Member
I need to get back to that. Left the weapon % at 94. I've seen a friend beat that boss and boy am I not looking forward to hear Emil suffering.
If only papa Nier was around to give a hug.
ScherzoPrime
Member
Does anyone have a good handle on the Android chain of command? I saw a thing on TV Tropes that implied there were several factions controlling different parts of the Earth, but was wondering if that could be corroborated.
Also was the Moon Server just created in A2's series time, or merely the myth that there were actual humans there? It seems it'd be weird to claim that humans just suddenly appeared on the Moon some 5000 years after they'd been last seen.
Also was the Moon Server just created in A2's series time, or merely the myth that there were actual humans there? It seems it'd be weird to claim that humans just suddenly appeared on the Moon some 5000 years after they'd been last seen.
ScherzoPrime
Member
Well I mean, the Council of Humanity is just an automated server right? Or is it a functional AI network?
Either way, people had to institute them right? It seems bizarre that the YoRHa would be solely responsible for the organization that would then destroy them.
Uhh, I forget tbh, but I'm pretty sure it got recently revealed who came up with Project YoRHA.
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No wonder why I link Wretched Weaponry to sadness, it's the song that plays when you find Pascal by his lonesome in the destroyed village...
ScherzoPrime
Member
Curious, has Yoko Taro, or the developers themselves, talked more whether there'll be story content in future DLCs? I don't really need any post-E content for the main characters, but I'm interested in the androids and machines trying to make a world for themselves.
BTW, any recommendations for NeiR Expanded Universe stuff I should read first?
BTW, any recommendations for NeiR Expanded Universe stuff I should read first?
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
https://www.reddit.com/r/nier/comments/69mrzd/niera_supplemental_materials_compilation/
Here's a good compilation of supplemental materials to the lore stuff, but for your question there's a person who setup the YorHa plan who just planned to keep it going, but there's a certain someone who installed the backdoor and created the destruction plan because he hated the fact that him and the other yorha units are made of machine core black boxes, and thus created a plan to sacrifice himself and the rest of yorha to establish a new "god".
Not fully compiled yet because it's only being translated by faithful fans who are putting in a lot of effort, but hopefully they'll get there.
I just realized Auguste was the robot you see in the beginning of Route B, where his brother was trying to revive him.
Could you spare him I wonder...
Yes, actually. You can just walk out of that room.
Whoops... Lemme try that again.
EDIT:
Looking up videos for stuff like Operator 21O and Auguste are hilarious because the majority of people just murder them ASAP
Memory Thorn got translated, it's a sequel to Memory Cage.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/148fzzBcSJA_loQc9KkReOImbDXNisEJ98mowLvnHkCE/edit
How delightfully twisted
https://docs.google.com/document/d/148fzzBcSJA_loQc9KkReOImbDXNisEJ98mowLvnHkCE/edit
How delightfully twisted
That one passage ("Goodbye, 2B") demonstrates a really simple and effective way they could have shown the effect of 9S remembering his various deaths without doing a direct montage when A2 explicitly states the truth - after every storybook sequence in Route B, they'd show an animation of two figures in hacking space; one stabbing the other in the same way 2B finishes off Eve. As the route progresses; initially it's hard to discern anything's being said at all, or if the figures are even human(oid); at the very last repetition it's clearly 9S and 2B, but the setting would still make it unclear whether they're literal representations of memory or something more metaphorical.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
... is it sfw?
To its detriment, yes.
Amon-Lau
Member
It's sad really, one cool thing about it is that it changes the enemy unit data entry for Friedrich saying instead of:
"In the heat of battle, this unit begged for his brother's life to be spared--only to see him cut down without mercy."
You get:
"In the heat of battle, this unit begged for his brother's life to be spared-a requests A2 granted for unknown reasons."
Oh true...
Kind of annoyed I replayed the sequence, because nothing changed. Thought I'd get a new cutscene lol
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Welp, beat the game a 2nd time. Was nice doing all (okay, most, there were 2 I just Youtube'd) of the sidequests, and seeing all the little hints regarding the truth of 2B and 9S's relationship that I missed the first time around. Now to ponder if the DLC is worth it, and if bothering to do the last Emil sidequest is worth it...
I also see that post-credits of Route D, I see someone's sword in what appears to be the Forest Kingdom, as a tomb of sorts. Does that belong to 9S?
Playing 2B's arc is squash match central now haha. Which kinda sucks because she's the one that technically got shafted gameplay time-wise.
Radical Edward
Member
My only gripe with this gameFuck the game not scaling the bosses to your level lol, I wasn't able to get the final hacking sequence against A2
It's even more dumb considering the regular mobs scaled to my level...
Not unless you're willing to help the weak lol
Although even then, most of the scenes are pre-rendered, so the silliness of the costumes also gets neutered in that regard.
SomewhatGroovy
Banned
Going through these quests to 100% is a pain.
But Holy shit at the secret song that plays when you reunite big and little sister.
But Holy shit at the secret song that plays when you reunite big and little sister.
There's a bunch of "sidequest songs"
The best one is the Emil's Memories one, although that's more tied to the location. Runner up is the one that plays whenever you realize you fucked up by helping that person.
That one is always so unsettling.
You need to give him the chips to complete the mission. Which sucks cause I didn't want to give him but it's not an option.
If you refuse he just stay in the same place until you give him the chips.
As someone that got familiar with the original Nier through a crammed 2.5hr YT analysis, can I get specifics on what that particular location meant for the original gang?
It's where Kaine lived in the first game.
It's her theme that plays there - she was one of the only people Emil grew close to, and the incarnation we see in this game can only vaguely remember she existed until he's on his deathbed. Restoring her house and growing the Lunar Tears around it are an attempt to reconstruct his memory of her (and Nier/Weiss by proxy), but his fragmented consciousness makes it difficult.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I don't know if it's right to post it here or not, but there is a full rip of the concert out there.
You can find the link on another big nier community.
I really hope they sell this on blu ray one day.
I gotta say there is a massive chinese community for this game.
You can find the link on another big nier community.
I really hope they sell this on blu ray one day.
I gotta say there is a massive chinese community for this game.
Dr_Boris_Goltz
Banned
Just finished the game:
Question, why were the YorHA around only to be killed? To what end?
Did I miss something? It seemed pretty ridiculous... Why create an elaborate time table to eventually kill off the YorHA?
If everyone is gone, who gives a shit?
Question, why were the YorHA around only to be killed? To what end?
Did I miss something? It seemed pretty ridiculous... Why create an elaborate time table to eventually kill off the YorHA?
If everyone is gone, who gives a shit?
Dreams-Visions
Member
yea looks like you missed quite a bit sir.
I'd offer more but it's 5am here. I'm sure someone will fill you in or slide you a good link to read over.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Because there won't be a link that can verify that the council of humanity on the moon is fake all along.
Also the androids don't actually want to end the war, so the backdoor is there so the machines can destroy YorHa if they feel sufficiently threatened.
that's the tragedy, it's all 'meaningless' by human approximation
the fact that they've all largely found meaning already but fail to recognise it is just... man.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
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Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'd say it's more that it's "meaningful" by human approximation.
It's only meaningless when we extrapolate it out and observe as third parties.
if humanity is the 'god' by which meaning is derived from then the lack of humanity means all effort in the game is meaningless since there are no humans around to give a shit about anything. however since i think we implicitly accept that both androids and to some extent machines are 'alive', then it is meaningful because there are actual entities around whose thoughts and opinions and actions we/inhabitants of the world find meaningful
...i think