After 4 bleak endings, when Pod 042 said "I cannot accept this resolution" I suddenly realized what the game was going to do and I just began to cry. I was so happy.

[My words may not reach you, but even so, I'm rooting for you]

I honestly can't say how much this particular recap means to me. When I played this I was on deployment and getting maybe 5 hours of sleep or so a night. I was able to follow the general plot but wasn't able to grasp any of the finer details, much less have the time to dig in and read all of the ingame lore. I remember that last scene fighting the credits was an absolute nightmare because I didn't have an internet connection to do get the help. Tried for hours over the course of several days without any luck. Finally knocked it out when we pulled into our next port, when I got the help of everyone else. Also I know it's hard, but... we're here for you.

EDIT: There are a lot of passionate NieR/Yoko Taro fans here that seem to be missing the point of the video. This is a story recap of the events as presented in the Game. I am aware there are many lore drops beyond the scope of the game, such as books, interviews, plays, crossovers and concerts, but this is NOT a lore video. This video is only summarizing the plot of the Game itself. Like for MANY videogames, there are additional supplementary materials you can check out, but, again, not the purpose of this RECAP video. Big thanks to the Patrons who selected this, and shoutout to the KZfaq Members joining the club! So, whether or not you have played NieR Gestalt or plan to play NieR RepliCant, I Highly recommend you play Automata ASAP as it's a surprisingly versatile game that hits the gameplay/story balance with a slam dunk. This was ALSO a pain to recap, as normally I slice off most of a game and leave just the most important/relevant/interesting/funny/cool parts of a game and what you is a concentrated version that is usually showing off its best parts. NOT here. There are so many relevant/interesting/funny/cool parts I HAD to cut out to fit this under an hour and so while this is a recap I am proud of, there is so much good stuff I left out and, again, recommend you check out yourself. As of right now, this is the longest RECAPitation on the channel at 57 and change minutes. Please enjoy and I'll see you on the next Battlefield. Next RECAPitation will be: Valkyrie Profile 2: Silmeria

That feeling when you realize that the aliens came to kill the replicants, and not the humans who already died from the failure of the gestalt program that started because an "alien" and his dragon dropped out the sky and turned their "god" into poisonous salt.

Just a little note in case you wasn't aware, yoko taro has stated that the Nier Automata collaboration alliance raid series in Final Fantasy XIV is canon to the world of Nier, so the pod in space ending (ending e?) is the canon ending

This is one of my absolute favorite games. The visuals, quests, and game play were great but the story boosted it to the top. I got attached to these characters so quickly, and I was really interested in finding out their backstories, like Jackass. The second time I played the game for Ending B, I got chills at the revelations we got on his side. Ending C and D were heartbreaking but so satisfying when you learned about the new purpose of the ark. Ending E made my cry for at least an hour. The buildup in the music and the encouraging words from the other players gave me such an adrenaline rush, and I was breathless by the time I bead the credits. When I saw the new forms of 9S, 2B, and A2 I swear it felt like a warm hug. I cried so hard out of both sadness and joy. I didn’t even hesitate to sacrifice my save data. I’m terrible at articulating my thoughts, but the themes, story, music, characters, and lessons will stay with me forever. TLDR: I love this game with all my heart

Just after I finished the game, perfect timing Also an interesting thing to note. The first squadron member that dies with 2b doesn't actually "die". She planned to desert from the beginning by faking her death, which ultimately left her badly injured and not able to make repairs in time even though she did successfully get away.

this game touched me so hard i get sad every time i see it

In honor of the new The World Ends With You game coming in 2021, recap on the first title?

5:50 "....a facade of clothes." HOW DID I MISS THAT?!

I think my favorite part of Automata are the enviornments. It's a story about strife, and perpetual war, and the meaning of life, but everything is green. In the face of the war fought between humans and androids, nature simply doesn't care.

The heck it was released in 2017? Time sure flies...

Ayeeeee... "she takes the tip, but still doesn't appreciate its company." Lmfaooo

"A future is not given to you. It is something you must take for yourself." This perfectly encapsulates the Ending E credits. The Gods (in this case, the devs) decided for all of 3 of them to die. But we the players don't want that so we fight them for it. We are fighting for the future where they will live. _Everything that lives is designed to end._ _"We" are perpetually trapped ..._ _... in a never-ending spiral of life and death._ _Is this a curse?_ _Or some kind of punishment?_ _I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle ..._ _... and wonder if "we'll" ever have the chance to kill him._ Damn. I love this game so much.

this game easily made Yoko Taro my favorite director in the industry

*Looks at run time* Yeah, it’ll take about that long to figure out wtf is going on.

If I understood well: The bunker could have been destryoed at any time but the machines decided to let the fight going to continue evolving. Thus the existence of Yohra only serves the machines. Am I right? Man this game is confusing...

I love this game so much. It's still on my mind constantly. I cried so much during the ending when it clicked and I was completely overwhelmed. I'm 31 now and feeling more and more alone as I have been seeing my friends less and less over the last years. I was sitting alone on a Saturday night, 30 kilometres from where I had build my life but had to leave due to health problems. It still makes my heart race, after all this time the effect it had on me has not diminished. This goes beyond a game and I consider NieR_Automata an experience I hope for all people to experience as well.

I wanted to add that the male voice for the Girl on Red is a reference to The Watchers and Manah being possessed by one. Data they had from Angelus's body and memories

So NieR is just space invaders with very deep philosophical meaning?

You want to **** 2B. Never felt more called out by a game in my life.

"Do you think RECAPitation videos are just silly little things?" -->No Yes

God, there is just no better feeling than when you go through both ending C and D feeling like utter crap and crying because of how sad it is just for 042 to pop up out of nowhere being like "you know what, fuck this shit we're going happy ending. "

The scene of when the Red Girl splits into 2 different ideas and ultimately destroys herself was so powerful. It was like watching the beginning and end of mankind in like 5 minutes. Conflict arises from differing views/ideas which leads to war until one side wins--or until they destroy each other.

anything nier related i click. im so happy people still talk about it

When Despair kicks in...(Emil's boss music)

I just want to point that you get 3 choices with Pascal, you can wipe his memory, kill him or just leave and do nothing.

Excellent entry into this series. I look forward to these videos. Please do the Dragon Quest series eventually

Yes it was deep and really philosophical... I remember hating the ending because of the overwhelming amount of "nothing matters, it doesn't matter what you do, nothing matters." It was still an epic game

Amazing video as always, Oni. This game's story really is a piece of art. Sidenote, I noticed that Gathering Keepsakes was not mentioned in the video, but Emil's death was. May I ask why?

This is my game of the decade. So god damn good!!!!! You did the story justice, a very well done recap of the events.

This video is amazing. The game is deep and insightful and im glad you chose this one. Hope to see more from you soon thanks!

I broke down crying when Emil finally remembered Kaine it would even more heart crushing if in his final moments Emil called A2 Kaine

I forgot how much I loved the end of automata

I think its so interesting how emotional i get about popo and devola sacrificing themselves and helping 9S get into the tower. Moments like this only land if you understand the charakter and most importanntly their motivation. D and P are motivated by shame and redemption, they want to atone for their very internalised sin. Its touching af

I never thought of video games as a form of art til i played this game.

Oh, right on time haha I finished the game yesterday and was very curious to look into the lore to see if i missed anything Great vid!

This game will always be in my top 5 games ever! it was just an amazing experience that truly did evolve past a simple video game experience

The first game i genuinely completed with a 100%. I was so invested with the storyline that i got every fish, every intel, endings and weapons. And after having to delete my savefile for the final ending, i was swept with so many emotions like i have never experienced before. Nier automata is a masterpiece of a game.

Not developed as others comments but just wanna congrats you for that video, It is amazing, good job :D

Now I need someone to explain how this relates the their appearance on the world of Norvrandt. Because I REFUSE to see the two events as unrelated.

To think that all of this started because a dragon and its rider killed a goddess in modern day Japan, which unleashed a plague that gradually wiped out humanity. Then roughly a few millennium after that, aliens invaded earth for some reason.

When you came for the "plot"...but, in the end, you enjoy more the real plot...

"Do not feel bad about it. We are alive, after all. And being alive is pretty much a constant stream of embarrassment." I felt that....

"It asserts that not everything has to have an answer, and as the wills of others connect together to break through the struggle of fleeting futility, the pods conclude that within the perpetual cycle of life and death, it doesn't matter why you were made or how it concludes, as life is about the struggle within this cycle." Beautifully put.

I like letting Pascal to learn from his mistakes

I finished the E ending immediately after getting c and d and willingly sacrificed my save for others before touching any of the then unlocked postgame options. At first I thought I was calling the games bluff. Even as I watched it delete my saves I thought it couldn’t be real. I will never forget how that made me think about it for a long time. I started up a new playthrougj briefly intending to get there again and actually go back and take advantage of the ability to replay any point in the game and find all the other endings. Didn’t get too far before I just needed to stop... for now. Almost about to go back and finish that second playthrough watching this.

Thank you for the good content also this is one of rare video which I don't need to speed up to 2x to enjoy unlike most of the video out there.

Amazing video , DIDNT miss a thing

Definetely, one of the greatest games ever made. It's a truly unforgetable experience

i love how you make videos from the perspective of the player with things like "a person named kaine" or "another talking head"

Drakengard may fade into obscurity at this point, but even so, will you be doing a recapitation on the Drakengard series as well? At least to tie in the lore of Draken/NieR?

"They find robots wearing a façade of clothes." Ha, I see what you did there.

I know what I'm doing when I get off work tonight

God .. i wanna cry i miss this game soo much

Nice choice of words. 2B crashes into a “junk heap”. Machines curiously wearing a “Facade” of clothes. I see what you did there.

Pascals fate will always break my heart.

Amazing crazy ass game. Nice Recap Oni! (as always)

Thanks for the recap, I listened up to 14 minutes now I remember where I was in the game. I'll be resuming the game where I left off and see what happens after that point.

hello thank you for this. love it. question will you do the new nier replicant when it comes out? 4/23/21

A lot of people overlook the machine research report. It's good of you to include that.

Not enough people doing this content. You're a pioneer.

the moment where devola and popola suppose to attack the enemys around the tower and u need to hack the door to the tower i had a bug. One of those girls keep attacking the door insteed of the enemy so i was no able to hack it myself because nobody hold the enemys off. It really ruined this sad moment for me, and i never encountered this bug again but still it was my first encounter to the situation and i will never forget that :/

Thank you! I really enjoy watching your works!

Funny thing (and small plot hole by yoko taro ) the dlc data on a2 for her backstory details that they destroyed a chunk of the machine network (rebuilt by the time of the game) in a mountain technically there should be one final ending where 9s essentially becomes the lone king of an empty throne all servers for the network destroyed all machines dead doomed to walk alone for eternity and a world empty of what was

I refuse to acknowledge the timelines where Pascal is either mind-wiped or mercy-killed. A2 left without doing either, saving Pascal from both oblivion and infinite recurrence.

Amazing video for an amazing game. The summary was good but anyone who hasn’t played it had to themselves a favor a check it out. It’s my favorite video game narrative yet.

Nier: Automata (Become as Logs Edition)

Wow, I missed a lot of plot even though I read everything the game threw at me. Everybody has their moment that makes them cry, and although I also cried at the end credits scene, the story of Debola and Popola really touched me. How they only had one another in a world that hated them for no other reason than bearing the same face of another pair that fucked it up. Made me feel really sad for them.

Anyone else noticed that Pod 153's SN is every digit on 042, and 42 is the answer for life, universe and everything?

My boy Caim needs some love after that fighter jet shot him 😭

Thank you. Please keep them coming

Great video as always. Thanks for doing this one on one of my favorite games of the past decade 👍🏻

Yes! I always look forward to your uploads.

The next installment will follow the replicants P0W, Z4P, and 84NG in Nier: Onomatopoeia.

Hands down the best game I've ever played. Everything about it is perfect.

I truly enjoyed this episode. What a wonderful recap!

Brilliant work as usual dude, thank you for the recap!

Pretty sure the androids created yorha, and the backdoor so they could be replaced at regular intervals without learning or exposing the truth. The machines just happened to gain access to it and use it once they’d gained data; it doesn’t exist for their benefit. As far as i know the war doesn’t continue just for machines. The androids do seem to be a distinct party, perpetuating the war because it’s their purpose, despite humanity being wiped out. Yorha just happen to be disposable and to exist for morale purposes and to maintain a deception.

In Ending D: 9S dies from A2 but from 2B's sword meaning that 9S dies from 2B even at the end, which I found quite fascinating.

I was so confused at the beginning of the game, people talked about it as an hack n slash and here I was playing a top down arcade shooter lmao 😂 10/10, would recommend

Best ps4 game You should be hired by a TV Channel. Such a good content diserved milions of views 👏👏👏

thank you for the effort on recap. it makes me enjoy the game more

Any chance you can do Radiant Historia? That was one of my favorite RPGs on the DS. And the 3DS remake ain't too shabby either.

really good video man i watched the whole thing

I literally cried when i finished all the main endings. This game is a masterpiece

So when the games says "eating" it means they're just kind of doing the thing Necron where they rub meat on their faces?

I can't believe I never picked up on the fact that the desert machines are clothed in similar fashion to the desert guys in NieR Replicant/Gestalt (then again I've never played the original NieR).

I wish I had time to play these games 😭 thank you for recapping these games

"Hostile machines wearing a facade* of clothes" Nice one

Staff member: "So how many people the community loves die or get memory erased?" Developer: *yes*

I’m gonna enjoy this! Thanks

I thought Adam and eve were the manifestation of the network and the highest forms of machine life. I was quite confused when terminal showed up

Thankyou for summing this all up, I tried playing the game but got lost in the city with the resistance....

I tried my best with this game but I just couldn't get past the first ending. So many people find it so special that I came here to figure out why. What was I missing that made me not connect with it. I watched the whole thing. This video is amazingly done. I'm so glad that this game has touched so many people as deep as it has. But I'm glad I didn't go on to find the next endings though. I got bored just by following this video. My mind kept disconnecting by how little I was caring about it as events were being explained to me. I tried my best, but sadly, I'm not one of those people that got touched by the game. But I'm glad it exists. So many people feel so much for it it's clear it's a special one.

Keep up the good content!

this video is how i found out the robots in the desert were imitating birth, let alone literally replicating sex

Nier:Automata - if depression were pixels

Great video mate