Today, we’re talking about how NieR: Automata completely changed my perspective on the world and made me think in a different way. It gave my life a separate meaning that I didn’t know were there. This game has one of the most incredible stories I’ve experienced and I hope you enjoy what I have to share about it.
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Nier automata rocketed into one of my fav games after I beat. I don't play many story games but this one is something else
If you liked Automata you should experience the first game too. I think it's even better than Automata
So… Nier Replicant (Gestalt) and/ or Drakengard (1,3) when ?_? :)👍🏻
Bro that is deep …….😢 but still 2B is hot AF tho
I experienced DEATH by playing Nier. Please, pull a chair, this is going to be long.
I heard so many good things about this game but I never had the chance to play it until now as it's been released to Switch, which is my only gaming platform. I took care of avoiding everything related to this game's content to spare me from getting spoils. So I started it just knowing that the main character is a white haired folded girl.
At first, it was weird that it starts with airships just like those old school games, which, by the way, I'm not a big fan at all. But ok, let's give it a chance. They say this game is amazing, right? So it can't be just airships shooting machines – I hope. And yeah, I was mistaken. The action started a few minutes later when I met the only thing I knew about this game: 2B.
Now I feel better by wielding a sword, smashing and shooting machines. It gave me some Devil May Cry vibes somehow.
A few machines torn apart then there comes that giant enemy covering the whole screen. Classic. Loved it. Again I took the robot, fighted as an airship, then fighted like a mecha. The play style changed so many times in just a few minutes that I could notice this game was really proposing something different. I saw 9S in pieced and thought "nah, this guy won't die already", but then they took their black boxes and just exploded everything around them. Ok, that was unexpected. My first reaction was to think I was playing the end of the game first. But then 2B wakes in a gray room and I got confused. 9S helps with the settings and I thought it weird. Why do I need to set all these things right now? Whatever. Let's do it.
So this was my experience in the first hour of the game. I had not a slighly idea that after 59 more hours playing this game I would be presented to death inside of me.
As I made progress in the game I was amazed with the soundtrack. It's so stunning that sometimes I just stopped walking to pay attention to how gorgeous is the music. And it was in the amusement park that the game made its final move to put me on my knees. The vibe, the pacific machines, the music, the boss, the drama. I was shocked on how everything was just so freaking perfect. From that moment I was convinced this would be on my top tier games ever.
I spent really A LOT of time making some maths and trying to combine the best items to improve my skills. Sometimes I just destroyed machines to try finding the diamond items to be fused. I got a really nice set with skills that healed myself when I hit, when I kill, when I stop taking damage, boosted recovery items to be automatically used, and – of course – damage. A lot of damage. It made the game pretty smoothy as it was really hard for myself to even get closer to be killed. It was really fun to see the combination of skills I could get. Not to mention the manual skills with combos, evading, counters, shooting an enemy while slicing another. And also the Pods attacks.
The game was really fun: nice music, nice gameplay, nice characters, nice environments, nice enemies, nice bosses. But there was something else. Something I paid attention since the very beginning and it was driving me crazy: the story.
As a big fan of plots that plays around philosophy, psychology, spiritualism, I was getting myself addicted to find out what comes next. And I love when the plot makes me think of it even when I'm no longer in contact with it. Just like a book that you read and you find yourself thinking about it before sleep. Or a movie that you watch and keeps reflecting about it hours later. I found the story of this game keeping me interested and trying to understand it, trying to connect it to the real world, to my life.
After getting shocked over and over with the facts during the gameplay, I finally got to the [E]nd of the game. And, phew, I made it. 60 hours. One of my best experiences with video games in my life. And there it is, the final credits. Hey, but this one is kinda fun, it's a game inside the credits, huh? Cool. I just want to beat it and go back to the game play. Now I can select the chapters. I got the final materials to increase the 2 remaining weapons to max level. I got some ideas on how to try different endings. I got to finish all those side missions. Man, there's just so many things I still want to do in this game. I'm so excited. I just need to beat this credits game and return to 2B, 9S, A2. But I'm struggling. This credits game is quite hard. I found a trick that if I stay close to the corner it's less likely to get hit by the purple spheres. But then comes Square-Enix with a massive amount of spheres. No way, it's impossible to beat it. What? If I want to quit? I've come this far, I'll never quit. No. No. No. No… But yeah, I accept some help. Ok, now I got 5 airships with me and this is WAY easier. Boom. That's it, I beat it.
Then I've been asked to add some message to other players. "Proposal: By the way, never give up!"
And then, I've been asked to delete my data in exchange of helping some unknown people. Oh man, I got this far. It was so hard to beat that credits game. I guess I'll never do it again, so if I decline then I'll never know what could've happened if I accepted. And it can't be serious about deleting ALL data. It will just wipe my current save slot. But that's no problem, I got another one almost at the same spot. So let's see what happens by saying YES. Then, I'll go back to try new endings.
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Hm, it feels like it's really deleting everything…
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Well, the game doesn't have auto-saving feature, so I may just restar- [look at the top of the screen: "Saving…"] – What?
No way. It must be kidding. No, man… really? I lost EVERYTHING? Are you seriously? I pressed all the buttons – there must be an easter egg that restores your data. No success. Then there must be something hidden in the options. Nothing. Ok, maybe if I start the game it will just show me how to restore. 9S helps adjusting the settings. And nothing at all.
Ok, I submit I'll have to google it regardless if I get spoils. Yeah, it's confirmed. My data is completly lost. No turning back now.
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There are no words to describe my feelings. It's impossible to express it. No matter how hard I could try it. No matter how long would the text be. How many words I could spit out. Nothing could get closer to that feeling. Emptiness. Just emptiness.
I remembered how many hours I spent fusing items to get the best of them. How many hours I spent destroying machines just to up to the next level. How much I loved the gameplay, the characters, the music, the story. I remembered the lore I didn't read. The side missions I hadn't finished. The ideas I had to try getting different endings. All is lost. I can't stand this. I just can't handle it. I feel so bad… I lost everything I tried to hard to get.
Is that what Death means? You are just excited living your life, you struggle to get the best version of yourself, you try and fail everyday, you spend hours to make choices, you have plans for the future. You have dreams. And then, all of sudden, death just comes and take everything from you. All the efforts you made to have a life more comfortable, all the decisions you thought so hard to make. All the sweat and tears. The hard work that reached the bottom of your soul. It's simply gone. Meaningless. Is that all? Is that how life should be? Just working hard for just a sudden moment of maybe a choice you weren't even totally aware of the consequences just rip everything apart? How hard is to overcome death? To accept you're dead. Man, I can't accept I lost a save state from a game. It's just a game, right?
Right?
…I guess it's teaching me something. Am I taking my life too serious? Am I really enjoying the "gameplay"? How I want to live my life? How am I going to face the death of me? In my last breath, will I accept it and let it go? Or just regret about what I haven't done or what I was expecting to do? Am I going to grieve?
But I just remembered something… I uploaded my data. So even as dead as I am for this game, my airship will remain. It's going to still be there. And maybe someone will find it. Maybe someone will need it. And it will help them to experience the [E]nd. So just as a grain of sand in a desert. As a star in the vast outerspace. I am still there. I am part of it. I am a spark of hope for someone. And together with all other sparkles of people that "died" before me, we will shine. We will shine bright and smash that f*cking credits. I will not see it. But I'm glad that again my tiny airship will someday will be there. To show to this game that we can beat it.
Maybe I found what life is about. Of how important is to build a legacy. How even the smallest atom when combined and move entire galaxies. As so our little acts and impact the mankind.
And I could realize this by experiencing the DEATH of me through this game.
Thanks, Nier.
For me what I got from this game that you didn’t touch was what it meant to be human what it truly meant to be a human and what emotions and feelings come with it and when I was watching it I took being human for granted because these robots are doing anything to be closer to humans with the poor mocking display of human activity and the androids rejecting the feeling of humans it all just made me wonder what if a real human did exist in that world how would everyone react to a real human
For me, this is the best videogame ever made. Like I fell in love with 2B 9S, A2, Pascal and every character in the game; the ending E made me whimper and cry so much at the moment. Thanks to everyone who made the ultimate choice at the end. The soundtrack was so good too, really deserved the Game Awards for best music in its year.
Thanks you, really thanks you for this wonderful video.
You should try Nier Replicant then
I think that is the best way to experience the game, I also was just swiping through game pass and it caught my eye, I finally decided to download it while knowing absolutely nothing and never even heard of it before. The journey was like nothing I've ever experienced and I was constantly left in awe. Even after playing it still sounds so weird saying that it's a game about Androids and robots with no a single human and yet it somehow was able to make such a strong emotional impact on us and really is the definition of a masterpiece, unfortunately the game is no longer on game pass so I'm waiting for it to go on special again so I can pick it up
I actually liked the Touhou-esque mech segments. Am I crazy?
I was planning to play all the sidequests after the game ends but then the game hit me with that ending where you need to lose your save file to help the others. I thought about it for a minute but then i click yes to sacrifice my save file because eventhough i won't be able to play the sidequests and other contents, it felt genuine to help others at that moment. I don't regret it. Still the best game i've ever played.
What the heck? First listener here, I just want to say something. I've been watching videos where people seem to have the notion that it's not okay to cry over certain mediums, which I'm not sure why that is, and apologize over it. No matter what it is, it's if a story is a story and is made for your to think and actively react to the context, who care? All of it is valid, don't try to hide that. It doesn't matter if its a kids movie, an animated film, or video games, if any of those manages to tug on your emotions, then go ahead and let it. Anyone who says otherwise is a a goddamn boomer oozing with toxic masculinity.
I’d like to play this someday, the music in the Nier series is amazing. I’ll come back and watch the rest of the video once I’ve played the game!
Automata is trying to say you should create meaning in your life. Do not feel obligated to fulfill your purpose in life decided by others/religion onto you. Existence precedes essence. Both androids and machines are put onto Earth by their creators who they've never seen (allegory to God) to fulfill a predetermined purpose but as we see from various characters in the game, they ended up choosing a different route in life and create meanings in their own ways. Even the pods betrayed their purpose and chose to support A2 and 9S.
I have both NieR: Automata and Dark Souls Remastered. Any thoughts on what I should play first? I do like how each time the game is played is different and has sort of a man vs machine feel to it. Not to mention losing everything if it means helping someone is deep. And was recommended to pick up Dark Souls. And yes, I saw that video too. I feel like encouragement can be found in both game communities.
It's OK to cry at a video game. It's also OK to cry at a YT video about a game, because it put words to, and resonates deeply with one's own past experience with said game.
It's a perfect day for raining.
dont even get you started on what???
I consider this game a masterpiece.
Consense: everyone who played nier series, miss the person who they was before.
The whole game is based on the Mahayana Buddhism's concept of detachment and compassion. Anything you do it for ego's sake will ended up causing more suffering. With true, self-less compassion to help others w/o any expectation of reward, you free yourself from the attachment of your own ego. Even erasing the proof of your own existence will bring true release from the pains of ego-clinging. Not many game or any other media has based itself on Mahayana Buddhist teachings, and to do it in this fashion, with millions of players not realizing the underpinning philosophy is actually dharma teachings, it nothing short of astonishing. Yoko Taro is a true genius.
The only game ever where I cried my eyes out while going through the ending credits.
It is totally okay to cry as a man. What did we do there to boys and men telling them, that we are "strong" and therefore we mustn't cry?! Instead, when we feel helpless we get violent. When we get violent that means we feel completely helpless and we are afraid of something.
Being authentic and expressing your emotions, sharing them with others needs courage and is strong. And by sharing how we feel, we connect.
I know, it is embarrassing for a lot of us to do so, but that's due to the treatment we got in our past.
I really want to share, that it is okay to share your inner state (thoughts, emotions, feelings, etc.).