Super late, but the machine rising from the volcano storybook is actually a reference to the event that gave the machines sentience as described in the short story 'the flame of prometheus' in the novel Short Story Long. The P-33 unit in question who transmitted the meaning of life to all the machines was a boss in the original Nier, and many of the more confusing elements of Automata are directly tied to that game and Drakengard, another one of Yoko Taro's games. Everything in Automata makes a lot more sense when looked at in the context of the rest of Taro's games.

Man, im still at part 2 and im loving your guide. Your comentary is briliant!

I find these videos fascinating so far, really enjoy the commentary.

15k visualisations, and only 400 likes? This playthough and your other earlier works are too underrated!

Great work this was a huge help!

Hey I enjoy these vids and am trying to do a Very Hard playthrough also. I think (after having died like 30 times XD) that melee only is the way to go vs Adam. He does not fight back on level 3-5 because he is staggering (maybe its because of shock wave, but I didn't check.) And on level 5-7 its best to use shockwave at a mid-close distance to get him to put up the barrier, and if you keep melee-ing, he will hit back after 3-4 strikes, which is easy to dodge and you can counter. Then you just repeat and dodge whenever you need to on 7-10. Although you did beat it, so your way obviously works too. I was just letting you or anyone else considering a VH run what I did

I disagree with you on the part where you said that the androids are killing innocent machines. I think you contradicted yourself, since earlier you said that its basically two evils in the game which I do agree with but you sort of gave the wrong explanation. The machines trying to kill you are part of a network and they can't tell what exactly they are doing. Adam and Eve's mission was to destroy all androids and their emotions and thoughts were still linked in the network which in turn transferred those emotions to the rest of the machines. Keep in mind too that androids are outnumbered from machines almost 1000:1 and they have tons of factories throughout the world whereas androids are extremely expensive to make and in very limited quantities but its true that they are smarter than the machines due to YorHa allowing them to have a conscience. Also, the machines are the ones that started the war, not the androids. When the aliens arrived they are the ones trying to annihilate whatever other life was left on Earth (because remember, humanity by then was already extinct), flesh or steel. So innocent...I don't think I would use that word for the machines either lol mindless would be a better description.

Emil is gonna go crazy

So you didn't use taunt just because it's overpowered? For me it's the only mode where it's viable, because you are always focused on not dying. But when you use it on lower dificulties, you will die in one hit just like very hard mode. Great guide thanks!

I like your commentary. :)

i'm a bit late but I love your commentary :P

Oh no I didn’t miss that we was the bad guy in this story. But also just remember if these robots was still a part of the connection that is talked about then they must likely would be killing us innocent or not.

Top notch Sir,, much obliged,,, 👌👌 Is it possible to share your control scheme. Any hints for the camera or you use the default settings. I finished the game on normal mode, it really was easy, i sacrificed my save data, and now doing a complete run on hard just to adjust & develop new tactics, next will be very hard.

I got hit by one pellet,one!

Excellent! Please allow me a little perspective on expressions, I mean no disrespect. In fact quite the opposite. Maybe refrain from using expressions like 'that was gay' or gayish? We need every level of well-being in our individual lives, and everybody want the same things in life: to live our lives to the fullest before we die. We wish for love and meaningful relationships. We hope to be able to be the very beings we were born into being. We need freedom. We thrive in freedom. I know many homosexual gamers, and when their sexuality is brought up in a demeaning way its always such a disappointment. They want to relax too. We all do. I don't give shit about polical correctness, fuck that BS, but I care very, very much about other human beings,their feelings. Their circumstances under which they - we - all live. It's all about love. It really is. It's got nothing to do with sexual orientation. That's just a little bit of fun to do while we're here striving to do better, to be kind. Accepting. Sincerely, Poul