holy shit i never thought about that!

dreadrath Lots of Routes A and B foreshadow Route C. There're the suicides at the factory when 2B/A2 return later with Pascal, the game beginning with black box detonation, 9S getting a virus at the end and then someone dies, Pascal having his speech on machine unpredictability in the same spot he'd later cast away his pacifism out of fear for the children's safety, the Copied City and the Tower sharing such visual similarities, a battle in the city ruins causing a change in the geography (the giant hole in A/B, the Tower growing in C)... there're definitely others I noticed but can't recall at the moment.

Don't forget that hilarious Romeos and Juliets play.

Not only that adam literally told 9s he was all about hatred and everything before his inevitable descent

Can't say I'm surprised. History repeats.

He's the star of this, I'll be honest, all other English VA in this game is pretty tame compared to him. He's really on point on the character.

Kyle McCarthy is a God among men. Seriously, his voice acting is amazing.

yeah that is me i the voice actor of 9s hehehe jus kiding

I'm a little bit late here, but I also reckon Operator 60 sounded neat.

Everytime I hear 9S' haunting line "shut up, shut up, shut up!" makes me cry everytime. It's been more than a year and it still does make me cry. His pain is just too realistic.

In the prequel novel one time 9S closely was able to kill 2B once, when he made a trap. Though every other time he was easily killed off.

​@@BigBoss-gb4cxwhen did 9s get killed?

truly very talented guy... i never heard he's voice in another movie, anime or game, but damn, he a damn good voice actor. obviously there is another story in which he are soliciting someone. I'm looking for it, he must be genius with his voice in something else.... In my country he very unknown synchronous sound, its so sad, I rarely hear such talent like he...

To be honest, I laughed at that as well because she(?) is completely right.

GammaRhea I never got that. why is it embarassing?

Sorry I need to analyze it

@@MrShazaamable because it's the same cycle over and over. You always make the same mistake over and over, which is very embarassing. We just replaying the failure, as if the failure is like the object itself (like 9S said).

I think it’s supposed to be funny.

Vviolet Bleach What TF is your problem? You shut the hell up. You fucking ass.

Grape Bone 9s: shut up! Shut up! Shut up!

sebamk i dont think thats what happened

sebamk Not exactly, metaphorically they do but the 9S and 2B that are revived are still the same ones we met throughout the game, just given another chance at life. There's actually a concert script detailing what happens after ending E. If 9S doesn't go on the ark, he never wakes up, and 2B sort of shuts down forever in constant mourning. If 9S did go on the Ark, his data is somehow transferred to his body, and the two get a presumably happy ending.

LightAndDarkMdness02 fuckk thank you sooooo much for commenting this. I never knew the concert expanded on the ending. Now i feel bad for not going to the ark and trying to be romantic about it with 9s script.

From watching it multiple times, it looks to me more like A2's sword slips and 9S falls on it to me. I could be wrong tho.

I think it is more than just 9S slipping and falling onto A2's/2B's sword, what exactly it is I can't be certain about but I think it is 2B in some way wanting to save 9S from himself and the logic virus and somehow willing 9S to slip up. I mean 9S isn't a combat type model so he may have very well just slipped but after going through the whole game without making any mistake like that I find it odd that he would now of all times.

He's more falling on the sword than slipping. When jumping on A2 and stabbing her, you see she lifts her sword (not to kill him, just because of her fall), and he impales himself on it. He's so blinded by revenge that his own life was less important and he didn't even notice the sword.

According to an Q&A with Taro in the Japanese guide, swords have very little space on them, 2B probably had just enough space to provide A2 with the context to her dysfunctional relationship with 9S, and why she wishes for her to protect him, after all the shit she was forced to heap on him. Taro said it to shoot down implication that "She's" in the sword. Also, 9S might not be a combat model off the production line, but unlike other Androids who are programmed with their skills, this bastard actually trained and has self-taught himself sword fighting over his countless incarnations(the ability was deemed beneficial, so it wasn't deleted along what made him, "him", whenever 2B killed him, quite the opposite - it stacked up and became more and more refined with each successive incarnation). If him just plowing straight through the horde 2E spares and standing up to A2, despite, if supplemental material is to be believed suffering from upwards 80% system corruption from the Cyber-AIDS he contracted from 2E arm is of any indication. Then, whether you're a Combat Model, Executioner or Machine Goliath - an unhinged 9S, who's cut loose and is fighting with nothing to lose, is NOT someone you wish to cross blades with.

TheKain202 I recall in one of the Novelas he actually kicked 2B's ass, and 2B was forced to use a virus to paralyze him. 9S just keeps getting better and better with every incarnation, so 2B started to have to become creative with how she killed him, like tricking him to do certain things and expose himself to viruses created by the Commander.

Only if they get Platinum Games to work on the gameplay again :p

Affirmative!

I mean, given how Platinum's team are fans of NieR, the possibility is suitably probable.

I think ending e is great and a direct sequel will very possibiliy ruining it so if they do it id prefer it to tell a story about other Android that exist before or way after automata

Oh no...you have been infected by the "Let's-go-back-to-the-roots" virus. Analysis: Virus saturation at contaminated regions of the brain at 99.9%. Proposal: Retract the desire of another sequel. Let us end the possibility of an active continuation. I love the game but man, Nier:Automata is already a title that won't be needing a number/anything fixed next to it. Let your mind pave the way for the future of ending E :)

remixofdestiny to be fair he also found out his entire existence and everything he thought he knew was a lie

He didn't fall into insanity. He just remembered who he always was.

He was weak. He lost his love, it sucks but it happens everyday to people, but you move on. You miss them but you keep going. Others will say "He lost his purpose! It was all a big lie!" Yep, cry me a handful. Why are humans here now? Does everyone believe in some higher purpose? No, by and large humans make their own purpose. Usually its daily routine for survival and we try to have a little fun when we can. If we are lucky we create extended purpose by passing on our genes and knowledge to children and others. Or we record it for whoever or whatever in the future can use that knowledge. 9S could have created a new purpose but he was to mentally weak. Personally I would have preferred an ending with A2 beheading 9S.

@@user-zf4qv4mu3p thats why its a good decent into madness, everything he's know and loved has either been taken or was reveled to be a lie all within the span of like a week. his, lover, best-friends, people he trusted,all gone like that,even someone who is mentally strong can only handle so much and for so long and so quick, and what purpose can he make knowing that it will all be for nothing and that none of it even matters. not to mention he was infected with a virus that messes with his logic of thinking. u don't have to like 9s while in this state and he's in the wrong but his pain and loss and the pain of some average everyday person is not comparable

​@@user-zf4qv4mu3p"we move on. We keep going" ... such big words. I know what they mean in fact. It's called the survival instinct. The core biological mechanism of all living things, humans included.

Poor little 9S, little did he know that his god creator - Yoko Taro is perfectly alive and well, and his soul - the players will live on for quite a while keeping his memories safe.

*same Also I love your videos.

Yeah that was a nice touch :p Thanks, glad to hear you like them! :3

The reason why Yoko Taro does video games is that there's a lot of things that you can do in the video game medium that novels or movies can't do, which is why his stories flourished more using the video game medium. Though Taro has done a manga story before, forgot what it was though

MrVince329 I know why he does it. His stories just feel like you're reading a tragic novel. Its very real yet unreal I guess

Xavior Evans he there are novels too, stage play (with A2 past), and a manga

Xavior Evans He's written novels, a manga, am audio drama, and a stageplay detailing A2's backstory that also has some techno rock music based off of WWII battles. He's done a lot of shit.

The manga he wrote is 君死ニタマフ事ナカレ /Thou Shalt Not Die

Most of that credit goes to Yoko Taro, Platinum just handled the gameplay which is very important no doubt, but the creativity, characters and story are all Yoko Taro.

Aaaaaaand I have a new religion!

Rikuo86 Omega became as gods

It really is. The pathetic squirming, his cries of agony, and the complete lack of any other sound like music besides the disturbing squishing sounds. I'm typically fine-ish with gore, but that death made me cringe.

did u mom walk in and the walk out in the speed of light? coz my mom does.

@@wahedasamsuri9248 what's your mom say at that time?

When he screams "None of this matters!" it always gets to me. I feel so bad for him... :'(

souleatingpanda i

But in that ending A2 dies, at least in ending E she's rebuilt. Although now that I think about it that may not be necessarily a good thing for her since it's obvious she's tormented by her past...

Wait... The way Omega made his choices, [E] ends with both: 1) 9S joining Adam and the machine's memories in the Ark, and 2) 9S remaining with 2B as they are reconstructed on Earth.

well, now that there's peace, she might find hers whence she wake up

Nythrain In a scene from the play written by Yoko Taro, which takes place after ending E, it actually describes two endings (good and bad). If you choose to go with Adam, 2B wakes up first but can't recover 9S' memories, so she cries over his body for eternity. If you choose to stay, they both eventually wake up.

nah, if you choose stay, 9S won't wake up, you can reread the bad ending of script5 to confirm this.

I think I liked the Original's better, mostly cause the twists and turns were more fresh to me back then lol Here they were kind of expected. Gameplay is obviously won by this game though, can't go wrong with Platinum :p

omegaevolution I lobe Platinum but for some reason... I.... actually enjoyed the original's combat more lol. I felt Automata is too easy and flashy combos were not useful?

Well A2 seemed to know too. But that wasn't at all what he was doing. 9S was after revenge and nothing else. Ironically, just like A2. Both their goals was to keep destroying machines until they themselves are destroyed. An endless one way revenge quest.

@@anxiousearth680 A2's inability to understand that their very existence was a mockery is why she is not the hero like 9S is. 9S alone recognized that everything they fought for, all their aims, were lies, and that their endless suffering in the pursuit of this goal--in his case, his repeated death--was not only meaningless, but an insult.

"That's alotta damage!"

Bruuuuuuhhh (Rotate counterclockwise and you'll see it) that's fucking stunning

Except in this case it is done after you get ending E to help other people get ending E like you did.

Then you truly never learned from this game

hence why he gave us ending E, which is garbage. D was objectively the best ending, everyone dies and the moon base is destroyed. But there are surviving androids (non Yorha) and machines who exist, to forge a new fate.

It probably only just looks like blood but serves an unknown function (we know its different from real blood because of the mackerel item desc. calling it fluids which congeal when androids eat mackerel). Looking like blood could've been done on purpose too since the androids want to model themselves after humanity

The power of Yoko taro

Orion Wade it deletes all three

look after. if she meant to defeat him then a2 wouldn’t hesitate to stab him in 4:13

The quest is not bugged, you can go back to a past chapter since you unlock the chapter select after you beat the game.

That doesn't work, if it did, I would have tried that already lol. What happened is that the game is counting the quest as completed in terms of letting me not redo it, but its not counting as done in terms of quest completion, and even if it did count, the game wont let me open the elevator with the key to enter the secret room. It's in my inventory and wont go away. The quest is bugged as I cant redo it but I also cant complete it. The only solution I've been able to find is either reloading to a save before the bug is triggered (from what I know, I triggered it by finding the last lunar tear in the city right before you enter the flight units to fight the goliath) or just restart the game.

Don't worry, I had the same problem, but is not bugged, you still can do it. Just make this, go to a chapter playing as 2B where you can already find Emil running near the desert area entrance. Speak with him. Next, you should go the shooping mall area (should have a quest mark in your mini-map, if I'm not wrong) and find the first Lunar Tear flower in this area, then Emil will appears and will speak with you about the flower, so you will start the quest again. Even you already having they key of the elevator, you will need to complete the quest again to allow the key to work.

Just tried this out, thats so strange. I've talked to Emil before at different locations at the same selected chapter before trying this and the quest never popped up. Thanks a lot for this by the way, I spent at least 2 hours searching for any forum or anything for people who had this issue. Didn't think the quest was specific to that one location for Emil. I guess they made the elevator locked to the quest rather than to the key itself, as I believe the quest as a whole closes up once you fight Grun. Well this fixes like the only issue I've had with the game, and thanks again for saving me like 30-50 hours of replaying the game back to where I was lmao.

I'm glad this helped you! But remember, this isn't the only quest of Emil, he have other quest that doesn't show in the quest menu.

When he took 2b arm

@@toddwilliams699 no when he discovered the truth

Oh lol

@@withoutname9575 he probably couldn't purge all traces of it and only slowed its progression down

@@zaqareemalcolm yea remember when be hacked himself it said only 95% exginguished, he still had traces and it more then likely j reformed itself