The NieR + Automata Iceberg Explained

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  @costadinover · 5 years ago (edited)

  Even deeper iceberg level: We live in the canonical future of Nier Automata millions of years later, and Yoko Taro is, in reality, Emil, chronicaling his ancient history.

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• XE

  @xenohans9364 · 5 years ago

  Yoko Taro is shitposting personified. "Next I'll drop some lore on someone's voicemail. Let's see if anyone notices" I could see happening.

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• EN

  @EnteringMyFlopEra · 4 years ago

  9S keeps forgetting to turn incognito mode on when he scrolls through YoRHub, thus leading to 2B killing him. Perfect theory

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• CH

  @chaincat33 · 3 years ago

  NieR Automata's Final Secret is a cheat code that was used by the developers to flood the servers for ending E with save files. Ending E isn't randomly generated, the people who help you aren't a grab bag of names. It's all actual people who deleted their save data. But, that begs the question, who helped the first person to ever beat Nier Automata? To answer that, the devs scrambled to put the cheat code in (hence why it's hard coded into the engine) and on launch day at midnight, the dev team went on a mad dash to finish the tutorial as fast as possible so they could upload their saves to make sure the first person to beat the game would have someone to help them. The cheat code doesn't just put you at the end of ending E, it puts you at the prompt if you have any words to say to people trying to get through ending E

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• FL

  @fluffykitten077 · 4 years ago

  2P (the character that ended up being in the FFXIV events) was &quot;born&quot; in SoulCalibur VI. Bandai were showing off 2B to Yoko in a mirror match. In fighting games if you pick the same character you&apos;re usually forced into a different colour. One was black with white hair in 1P (player one) position, and a another one with a white outfit and black hair in the 2P position. Yoko asked &quot;What&apos;s that?&quot; &quot;Oh, that just means player two&quot;. <br>He liked it so much he decided to make 2P her own character. And eventually put her into FFXIV raids.

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• SA

  @Salence · 5 years ago

  TBH, this ALL stems from one thing. Yoko Taro just wants everything to be canon. Anything and everything gets fanfiction, and no matter how weird it gets, Yoko taro just Oprah meme&apos;s it up with canon. &quot;You&apos;re canon. You&apos;re canon. Everything is canon.&quot;

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• CD

  @cdm966 · 5 years ago

  Something else worth noting about SINoALICE is the fact that the whole game literally takes place in the DrakenNier canon.

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• PA

  @panele3525 · 5 years ago

  NieR imo has the R capital cuz backwards<br>ReiN is short for Reincarnation, a shared theme in a lot of Taro’s works, obv including the NieR sequel

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• XS

  @xsmoelf · 5 years ago (edited)

  In the ending of nier automata (E ending). it says that destiny is for people that don&apos;t fight for their own future. alot of the everything is canon meme, could maybe explain why he says everything is canon. He want you to choose your own future.<br><br>Ok that got pretty deep, but it wouldn&apos;t surprise me.

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• DA

  @darielvillatoro8365 · 5 years ago

  SinoAlice got a collaboration with Drakengard 3 too. And that collab is actually a sequel for that game in a strange way, and had a cliffhanger that might be important in the future for Drakengard or even NieR. Yeah, I love Yoko Taro as much as I hate him.

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• AI

  @aidan8473 · 5 years ago

  Ending E no longer constrained to a book!

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• SE

  @sen8368 · 5 years ago (edited)

  i really love the idea that the line is actually &quot;your thinking about how much you want to LOVE 2b&quot;. 9s struggling with his feelings towards 2b after what she has done fits perfectly into their personal narrative and relationship

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