@@richardkluin6124 It did that was the part that I don't understand. If you praised it to this degree where did you think was warranted a 1 point deduction?
I have to say i have never heard anything more True this one quote, Nier is a masterpiece, just like TF2 is a Timeless example of what a God tier FPS game is Nier is the god-tier example of how to make games art.
It was Platinum Games’ last hurrah as their company was almost bankrupt and Nier: Automata was going to be their final game. So this was every developer and their family for the final chorus… *And my god it worked*
@@Sanakan.safeguard Me too. Playing through that wndinf and even just hearing that bit of the song on the background of the video makes me get goosebumps
The art of this game is beyond epic The music is legendary The story is deep The interaction is unique The ending is one of a kind This game is Nier: Automata
@@vwtsit’s not deep but the combat is smooth asf, it’s more focused on spectacle. Some won’t like that but playing the game on very hard and not getting hit at all feels amazing
Played this game when it came out, and here I am years later STILL crying when I hear the Weight of the World with chorus. Yeah, it's an effective ending.
It really hurt so much when I made the choice myself. But I was so grateful to get that far with the help of people from all over the world having made that very choice before. Love it.
I think the ending of Nier Automata is an anti-suicide statement. The game doesn't use the words explicitly, and the characters don't use typical suicidal verbal or body language. But If you walk trough the story, everything leads up to the conclusion that would make one throw away their life. And they do precisely that. 9S runs at a sword out of rage fully disregarding himself. And A2 feels relieved to commit a self destroying act of sacrifice. It is subtle, but make no mistake. They are throwing their life away at the end first and doing whatever they are doing secondary. The game is about a war that is artifically kept up from both sides, with non-existing goals and non-existent gods, just for the sake of trying to get away from the absurdly meaningless reality, by using the very same absurdity. Trought the game you see characters attempting to find meaning trough different ways, then either get it taken away from them, or get what they want just to realise it is just as meaningless. Just to name a couple examples. Pascal tried to find meaning in community and pacifism. That got it taken away from him. The forest kingdom tried to find meaning in loyality for a leader, until that leader ceased to exist. Simone sacrificed everything to be enough for social expectations, yet she still failed at the end and went mad. Adam tried to find meaning in personal conflict, but that only worked as long as he didn't mess with someone stronger. Eve tied his meaning in life to admiring his brother, and he couldn't stand alone for himself without going crazy and throwing his life away. 2B and 9S clinged to each other and their strange relationship for meaning. A2 chosed anger and the mindless murdering of machines and yorha units that come after her. In the sidequests the Robo Dojo machine chosed self improvement, but even when he went all out he lost to 2B at the end and couldn't deal with it. Everything leads to the same tragic conclusions. Despite the circumstances 2B refuses to comply at the end by saving 9S, and A2 goes a long way to heal all trough route C, but even that doesn't matter. The game is constantly throwing content at the player that screams either absurdity, meaninglessness or uselessness. The game events scream that the world is cruel, meaningless and all previous widely ranging attemps at fixing this resulted in failure. Then it gives the final blow when the player thinks they might have chosen the wrong character to play as, by leading up to the same tragic result regardless of choice. Then the game asks 3 questions: if you are going to do something about it or just up? if you are you going to accept help about it? and if you are willing to help others who go trough the same thing? And notice, that even after that, the game doesn't give you a happy end. It just gives you a hopeful end. The effort you and the others put in did not fix the problem. But it gave the characters another chance at it. The game aknowledges that there is a high chance that they might end up at the same place again. But there is also a small chance that something can be changed. Reflecting in real life. Suicidal people are often told to just make sure they make it to the next day. Then the next day. Then the next day. There is always a chance tomorrow will be just as awful as today was. But as long as you make sure to see tomorrow, there is always a chance it will be better.
As someone who's suicidal, I cried during final credits. I have no idea if that was made on purpose by Yoko Taro or I am just trying to cope, but it was beautiful. Like someone reached out to me... and said "hey, I know it's pretty hard, but you can do it. Here, look at all these people, all with different struggles, they all came to support you!". This game spoke to me on deeply personal level, I never experienced anything like that.
my favourite game of all time.Something truly special.Yoko Taro is for me the reason im still interested in this medium,since every one of his games no matter good or not so good are projects of true passion. Also amazing vid
Notice how this video has no dislikes, that's because its truly stellar. I love this game with all my heart and it has one of the deepest meanings and one of the most heartfelt ending of any videogame I've ever played. I always love watching content on this game but this is one of the best edited and scripted video I have seen. You definitely deserve tons more subscribers.
Some people will only see this game on a base level when finishing it, being confused and moving on to the next one, but those that read into the lore and try to understand the deeper meanings of everything it presents can genuinely feel impacted outside of the game itself (like I was) and I think it's safe to say there isn't many games out there like that. Great video mate, glad it popped up in my recommended
for those who sacrificed thier save data for me to achieve this ending, thank you so much.. i really appreciate it even I don't know u guys i really can't thanks u enough for y'all sacrifice.. and when I done with all the quest I'll join u guy soon . wait for me yah🥺
i just finished it yesterday and i was bawling my eyes out during the whole time. especially after seeing the messages from all the other players. i'm having to deal with a lot of things in life alone right now so i was also trying to complete the ending alone haha. after i few tries, i gave up and accepted the help. as soon as i saw the others gather around me and the choirs started playing, i started crying tears of joy. i was just so happy at that moment. it meant that after everything that had happened, the characters that i had grown to like were going to be okay!! i decided to upload my data as well to help someone out there who might need the help. no other game has made me feel like this and i'm so glad i was able to experience it for myself. sorry for the long comment haha. amazing video
Also from reddit: SPECTACULAR analysis. Even years after its release, there is still so much to extrapolate from this game. Can't wait to see more from Nier in the future. I really believe that the quote you provided in the end is very relevant and needed in our present day: "Sacrifice is where true kindness happens." Thanks so much for making this
and idk how some people being high and mighty and making fool of those people who make sacrifice without backing up their data first, they said like, "Fool, I made sacrifice and got the ending but i still have my back up, noob!" I mean... they didn't even know the meaning of sacrifice! like what part of _sacrifice_ that required no cost- if it didnt cost you anything then it's not a fuckin sacrifice, yet they still have guts to say, "i did sacrifice!" "but i still have my backup since im a completionist/perfectionist etc!" Im perfectly fine with them having a backup or whatnot, but it triggered my gears when they mock and make fun of people for not making a backup first or when the have the audacity to call themselves that they had already make _"sacrifice"_ too
Dahm bro you made me cry that doesn't happen Much, but I love the nier endings so much. In the original nier you actually had te delete your save to get the real ending. But I think this is much more effective honestly. The ending is Soo good I wanted to get it on my own for like an hour strait, and then I finally realized I could not carry all the weight on my own. I still wanted to get the emil ending, but I decided to delete it all. I started over and have now completed all endings and the dlc.
I Wonder to this Day what happened to the first person that got ending E in Nier:automata, like did the devs play the entire game themselves and their accounts helped or was it Just empty Text because nobody else made it this far yet?
YEAH I've always wondered that too. Either the madlad must've just no-lifed the hell outta the bullet game, or maybe the devs put in their own saves for that reason.
I think it does tie into the story of the main game actually, thematically anyway. the whole thing is soaked in some variant on "why do we do the things we do" and then at the end you're given a chance to ask that question to yourself
You need WAY more subs and likes mate. Explains everything perfectly, no spoilers. I havent gotten to the end yet, but I watched this vid and was sooo sad, and hurt myself even more by actually going and listening to the ending song...it really is, (in my opinion) the greatest and most unique game in the world. Thanks mate, for this video...don't know why I didnt sub the first time.
Oh my goodness, the moment the video started and that first note played and I listened, I started to tear up. Im not normally THIS emotional, but Nier Automata has impacted me in a way like nothing else I've ever experienced.
I have a small criticism. Nier: Automata is not a game about Nihilism, and is also not a game about Existentialism. It is a game about Absurdism. Nihilism = There is no meaning, and we do not have free will, therefore you cannot create meaning. Existentialism = There is no meaning, but we have free will, so you can create personal meaning. Absurdism = There is no meaning, and to attempt to create meaning is absurd and pointedly impossible. Life is inherently characterized by suffering, and you will never escape it. However, in order to find true actualization as sentient beings, we must - rather absurdly - fight against this lack of meaning and be happy regardless of it. The meaning of life is not what you make it (because it cannot be made); rather, it is the simple action of attempting to make it at all and being happy at the realization that it cannot actually be made. I say this because, during ending E, the pods indicate that this whole sequence we have played through will likely happy again. It is a cycle, perpetuated by human nature that resides inside the androids. All of this will happen again, yet they decide to continue anyway. That is textbook absurdism taken straight from The Myth of Sisyphus. While I disagree with the point about nihilism, I do love your narration style. Subscribed.
Since I don't know much about philosophy, I used to say that Nier:Automata is about finding purpose in life, but your definition is the most accurate. Even Emil proves your point during ending Y: "No matter how hard or how painful... They never gave up. They kept fighting because they believed they could overcome someday! Isn’t that right, Kainé!? Even if it’s pointless, you still have to do it! BECAUSE THIS IS THE WORLD MY FRIEND TRIED TO SAVE!" -Emil
@@YoRHa2C Play the first Nier (especially with the Nier: Replicant remaster being just around the corner), and come back telling me why those particular words from Emil in Nier: Automata's Ending Y are positively inspiring in the first place.
@@YoRHa2C So with that, the juxtaposition of Emil's terrifyingly naive words there on what his _friends_ were doing the whole time were most likely meant to emphasize not only the obvious pointlessness of our "absurdist" endeavors in N:A, but also their sheer futile human toll and the situations we've made even worse... ...which by that point we should realize that this whole Ending E nonsense of personally following the Nier dude's footsteps of fighting the Shadowlord and the Shades (i.e., Yoko Taro and N:A's entire staff) to "save" Yonah (i.e., 2B, 9S, and A2) isn't really worth the time, energy, and team effort-that we should instead use that ending's spirit of community and compassion to educate and steer others away from such a deceitful, destructive cause, and become more accepting of the game's reality checks.
NieR : Automata is the single best piece of media ever made. As a form of art, out of any other mediums of showing art, this is what I would say is the best piece ever.
I cried waterfalls while I played that ending and I cried just as much throughout your video once you said ending E. There’s nothing like this experience. Thank you
I wish I could remember my one-liner for the save I sacrificed so many years ago... It made me so unspeakably sad to have to give away every single hour, of every single side-quest, just to let someone who I may still hate, win. But still, even if it's worthless, I hope you got to see it and truly help others... Now please excuse me while I cry over this again...
Yes i just got my E ending and yes i sacrificed all my data, i watched all my data go away in tears. What a fantastic game. Amazing video, i cant belive such a small content creator made it. Much respect.
The soundtrack "weight of the world" also make the emphasis of the ending. The lyrics is it's story of humanity itself. Sure a human can make mistake and the consequence come to them. But human also able to learn from the mistake and chose better way to life. We always search a meaning why we life in this world. Maybe we can find the answer but maybe we can't. But in the end we all human experience the same struggle, the same sufferring. That's why we help each others eventhought we all totally stranger to each others. This soundtrack is not just a song but also a prayer for all humanity to finally help each others and make better future together. I cried like a child when i see this ending credit and also thanks to this game developer to teach us what the meaning of humanity even our existence is seems meaningless in this world.
Finally played this game in 2024, and I'm surprise that the server is still up. I'm glad I was able to have this experience. Sad that in the future when the network is down, a player who happens to visit old game will never know.
I'm pretty sure the game has actually 27 endings, since there is an ending that is not given a letter, but rather a symbol. It's kind of an easter egg.
when reach ending E, pain, sorrow, happiness, and hope come to me at the same time. This is the only fiction that make me so emotional so far. Even RDR 2 don't make me that emotional. Truly master piece of 21 century
It was a friday night. My room was pitch black and only my monitor was on. I was thriled for finally making to the Tower at the end of the game, also, had no rush at playing it at all, spend solid 100hrs to get to the final point. My choice was 9S's ending and it deeply touched me. Seeing Adam talk to 9S on his death bed, asking him to leave all his frustrations behind and to take his hand into a new revigorating peace far above from all that pain had me in tears. After saying yes, the Angelic version of Weight of World comes in, filling me qith emotions to the brim, the camera pans out to show Popolla and Copolla at the root of the Tower then proceeds to show the ruined landscaped which served as our's hub throught the game, finally making it to the end credits, where I could barelly see my reflection on the screen, in absolute awe, after playing this masterpiece.
Here again.. Discovering every Nier Automata video on youtube and cry. I will say that the ending has something to do with the story. Because like androids (2B/9S/A2 etc) discovering new feelings due your gameplay , you also discovering new feelings and things you didn't know in the end, like caring for the rest world, helping. Oh boy no.. Goodnight people!
And so after 40 odd hours spent on this game, I have finally managed to complete the game (all 5 endings). Phew This game has truly been a journey. A feast to not only the eyes but also the spirit. Rarely do you get games like this where the not only the story but the experience of playthrough itself makes you think and ask the big questions - what is the meaning of life? Is there a God? Cliche questions indeed. Vague too, which is also precisely the reason why there is so much in both depth and breadth to such questions. And probably why there isn't, and never will be an answer to it. Perhaps you whom sit there and read this review will think to yourself, you have an answer. You know what you wish to do with your life, and you believe that perhaps God is all a hoax, and that destiny is fixed with no possibility of change. But not I. Nor many out there, and neither do I think the characters in the game truly knew either. But they did at the same time. When we first met 2B and 9S, they knew the purpose of their lives. They knew what they had to do, and they had a god. A noble cause to fight for. When we first met A2, she too knew the purpose of her life. It was for sure, a change from before her renegade ages but she had one. Yet in the end, it was all meaningless. Their god was a lie, a hoax, a made up story to which so many of their comrades lost lives for. Perhaps the characters did know all along, even at the point of death. The moment of enlightenment that took place just before their consciousness fades away to nothingness. Pitiful, yet heartbreakingly beautiful. The game left a melancholic ring as I watched the final sequence play out. I watched all 3 protagonists die before my eyes, and the final panning shot of disabled A2's body leaning against the window, looking out at the desolate, crippled, deteriorating forest of concrete and leaves left nothing but a small hole in my heart. There will be no epilogue. There are no happily ever after. Project YoRHa is over. The story has finished and it had ended on a note that rang hollow. Perhaps that was also why I decided to give up my saves. Sure, I had found many weapons, collected many chips and unlocked all pod skills, but the sense of emptiness made me feel like I don't want to go back. I don't want to go back to the world where there are no longer a meaning. It felt lonely - being alone is one thing, but feeling lonely is another. I feel like I will put this game away for a while. A week, a month, a couple even. The game is breathtakingly beautiful, yet I cannot bear the sensation of going back into that world again. I do wish to 100% this game sometimes in the future, but not now. Not until this draining pit of emotional carcass buries itself into the back of my head. But then again, who knows. Perhaps I will open this game up 10 years down the line and it all will come back. The memories, the emotions, the philosophical afterthought. 2B, 9S, A2. Thank you, PlatinumGames. Thank you, Square Enix. Glory to Mankind.
For me. Just only the thought that I can help unknown player to reach the true end is the best thing I ever do. Ok, my save are gone, but my memory and my soul player go beyond. I'm a human and I have an heart, I'm not an automata. We have ours lifes, sometime can be the same day, day by day we do the same things, but in the end we can do a different choices for other persos. Because the journey of ours life can be different if we decide to live the happines of our life. Thank you for the video. We are human and not biomachine.
The game opens with the line “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 get the chance to kill him” In ending E we are killing the game’s creators and are effectively killing the gods of this world. By deleting our save data we’re effectively removing ourself from the world killing the final “god” to the characters and truly ending the neichzien cycle of eternal recurrence.
Automata is a modern masterpiece, from story, music to how deep mark it will leave on you after finishing it. If history ever forgets this game, then fck history
how i see ending E in a way that is, we are here because of the sacrifice others made. not for us directly, not for themself, but for their family and or future generation.
Minor critique; Nier’s ending isn’t about nihilism, it’s about absurdism. While nihilism says life is completely meaningless, absurdism says we can still create meaning for ourselves and that while finding inherent meaning may be impossible the pursuit of it is still worthwhile.
Can anyone tell me, if this game is all about 'Nihilism' then why at the outro song of this game, you have the lyrics "Tell me *_'God'_* are you punishing me?"???
Nier automata fue el motivo por el cual me compre mi ps4 y fue el primer juego de esa consola que tuve, sin duda todo eso ayudo a que deje una profunda marca en mi.
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Felt pretty bad when that final choice was given to me because my stubborn ass kept denying the help and say shit like "fuck off I don't need help". Had to make the sacrifice in order to make up for cussing out those people who sacrificed their save data in order to help me.
On top of how this game feels playing it as a stand-alone.. play replicant, and research drakengard and how the story ties in if you don’t have access to the games. And suddenly you feel complete, and peace, and content. Comfy. Knowing the full picture it’ll feel like your life is comeplete for awhile. But regardless if you experience that or not.. the music still made me cry countless times before I ever knew myself. And made me feel things that I can’t ever put into words other than ones that make me cuss just because of how fucking good it is. I just laugh because it’s such an overwhelmingly good feeling that if I’m being honest with you, I’d give my life to feel. These games helped me cope with what was going on in my life and gave me new meaning. Changed it forever. Possibly even saved me. To all of you who have taken the time to play this game in its entirety, and give up your time. Thank you, you are unique, and one of few who feel this gift. And I can’t think of a bad person ever fully feeling this game and story to it’s fullest and understanding it. So if you really do… you are an amazing human being, and just a reminder :) keep on living for those who died so you can live. Glory, to mankind.
People say that there are 5 endings, but I only saw 4. Am I missing something? Are they talking about the phase endings where they make you change characters?
Ending A: Finish the first run as 2B Ending B: Finish the second run as 9S Ending C: Pick A2 and defeat 9S Ending D: Pick 9S and defeat A2 Ending E: Once you obtained both C and D, POD will tell you about erasing the memory data. Say yes, credits rewind and complete the credits to obtain “The [E]nd Of YoRHa”
God im such a lil bltch this shlt got me in tears this game is a masterpiece and will always be on my top 5 game. I hope in the future we will have the technology to erase my memory of playing this game so I kind play it from the beginning again.
You mistake nihilism for existentialism. Nihilism is the absence of intrinsic meaning, but existentialism is the building of one on top of that absence.
