The Second NieR + Automata Iceberg Explained

First Iceberg: • The NieR + Automata Ic...
We're back at it again. We got some even more NieR iceberg facts that are guaranteed to make you scratch your chin. Anyways, let's do (another) deep dive and figure out some stuff we never even knew we wanted to. We got some primo wacky stuff in this one, so enjoy! I don't know how to write these please don't find out.
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[@grotus5549]

If Yoko Taro has taught me one thing, it's that everything is depressing. If Yoko Taro has taught me a second thing, it's that everything is canon.

[@KevoDrumsGillespie]

i dont understand when people use the term "canon". Can you light me up here please ?

[@mihai9647]

@@KevoDrumsGillespie Like That Moustache Dude always said, it's all about the armstrong cannon, like this oIo

[@jorgdonald2734]

@@KevoDrumsGillespie It means that something, in most cases some form of extra media, like Star Wars Books or all the Nier Collabs in other games, is part of the main storyline. It means that something actually happened/has to be considered.

[@KevoDrumsGillespie]

@@jorgdonald2734 thanks man !

[@Cman04092]

Third thing... he loves his nier automata t-shirt.

[@kenzie2191]

I feel like the asterisks are everything and nothing at the same time. That if we could magically remove them it would be flashing between the words “kill,” “fuck,” “love,” “free,” and so on to reflect 9S’s confusion on the whole thing

[@WakkaMadeInYevon]

Schrodinger's suffering

[@InsanityOtter983]

I basically just wrote the same thing before I saw this comment, but I 100% agree. Emotions aren't polarized - multiple can occur at once.

[@OaksCU1]

That goes back to what Yoko Taro has said about games in general; it's not the game itself that's important, but what's in the players minds and hearts.

[@woodoolong7941]

Apparently in the other translations of the game, the amount of asterisks always match up to their corresponding f word, but not always for kill, love, or free.

[@strikeromega]

Could be "free" as in if she's dead, she's free

[@dialaskisel5929]

No one: Yoko Taro: NO!!! The box art is Canon and what they are standing on is vital for understanding the themes of the story. It WILL be on the test and I expect a full essay about it and will reference it extensively in the mobile game sequel!!!

[@ThBrando]

Feels kinda like when you watch a trailer for a movie and the scenes from the trailer are missing from the real thing.

[@nyqkqch]

he did a little trolling

[@cyberassassin6241]

@@ThBrando you deserve more subscribers and attention.

[@Nekotamer]

the saddest replacement for the 4 asterisks imo is love.

[@naikou1633]

This comment perfectly represents your profile picture. Nice.

[@avi-sb5lb]

'help' works too

[@Nekotamer]

@@avi-sb5lb hate also works, he wants to but cant. save same.

[@warbaby32]

​@@avi-sb5lb A whole lot of potentially impactful words fit, that's why it's brilliant.

[@TofuSG98]

It's pretty much confirmed to be "kill" sadly, since androids feel the horny through killing and combat. So in a sense, Fuck works too lol

[@EinFelsbrocken]

Man I cant wait for the exclusive lore hidden in the next Candy Crush/NieR crossover; and the special hidden secret written on the soles of the upcoming collection of Versace louboutins! 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

[@ThBrando]

Personally I'm looking forward to the coffee machine collab

[@EinFelsbrocken]

@@ThBrando Cant wait for the NieRspresso! 😁

[@johnburrowes7964]

@@EinFelsbrocken yeah it prints hidden lore on the coffee foam but only in the nier cafe collab event.

[@kingofheroes6847]

What about the next Kingdom Hearts game that will have Sora exploring a NieR world, and it will be canon to NieR?

[@KANDEN3000]

@@kingofheroes6847 oh man Kingdom Hearts x Nier? My mind it's not ready for that

[@omegazero5884]

okay so from what I understand of Nier as a collective is that if Yoko Taro ever releases a NieR cerial, every box will have one letter scribbled on the bottom of the box and if/when you put every letter together you get a 32 digit code that you then have to plug into a weird gatcha game, that will then lead you to the ultimate question, behind the ultimate question you'll find out 2B's favorite dog breed

[@trevorveillette8415]

Shut up, now I just want emil and YoRHa cereal

[@jacobb3784]

@@trevorveillette8415 Emil head shaped cereals

[@somekid7867]

and the answer will be... "the one that doesn't bark"

[@-._A2._-]

​@@jacobb3784Emil shaped pasta 💀💀💀💀

[@shadowwsk3507]

Everybody gangsta until you met a lvl 99 boar

[@ComradeB31]

the true final boss

[@jamesrustle7536]

I think yoko taro wanted to recapture what it was like to get REALLY into something before the internet existed. Shit was hard, it required research and actually meeting people sometimes to find all the stuff.

[@ThBrando]

An era we can never get back

[@singular9]

I bet its all just a coincidence tbh and Yoko Taru just has delusion of grandeur.

[@BigPapaGanda]

@@singular9 Por que no Los dos?!

[@Mk-it6cr]

@@singular9 i think you dont know what actually delusions of grandeour are, wanna an example? Yourself and the fact you speak this with this level of confidence of "of curse im right and 100% know what im talking about".

[@Th3BigBoy]

​@@Mk-it6crThe irony.

[@Unyubaby]

On the concept of "wizards" during the western comic point, during Replicant, Weiss and Nier discuss "Warp magic" to alleviate the pain of walking everywhere. Weiss then goes on to mention that the sages that attempted such devilry didn't really succeed very well, and that walking was an excellent choice. Now Weiss could have just said 'sage' as in a smart person (ironic considering the outcome of said supposed smart person warping), but I'd like to think there was some element of 'wizardry' during the 2000s in Nier as a result of the Maso particle.

[@TheGabberManiac]

Just finished replicant and thought the same

[@DrRippenShitten]

The irony about the free/kill 2B idea is that depending on how you look at it, they mean the exact same thing... Killing 2B would free her from this endless cycle of having to basically 50 first dates 9S with a blade... Save, free, kill etc etc it's all up to our personal interpretation but the beauty of it is, all those interpretations essentially mean the exact same thing... Even F**K can mean the same thing within this context... Yoko is truly a genius of gaming and language

[@Coldhandz117]

Personally I want to believe that the **** is not to censored and hide the word from us but to show that the word has no single meaning. Its all canon, 9s wants to Kill 2B, Hate 2B, Free 2B, Love 2B. He feels all of those emotions and cant comprehend it.

[@DrRippenShitten]

@@Coldhandz117 I love that

[@tausifturja]

It’s interesting that in ending C and D of Replicant, Nier Bro also has to make a choice in terms of killing Kaine (and ‘free’ing her from her suffering) or saving her, which would end his own life.

[@Danny-mg1hu]

Wasn't there a side story where 9S kills 2B?

[@angulardrift1537]

@@Coldhandz117 love this conclusion

[@Squilurple]

I'd always assumed the missing informant was one of the dead androids at the tunnel before Adam, specifically the one you can interact with.

[@SamHGabriel]

Maybe the asterisks are because it has more then one meaning, he may want to love, kill and free her and share all of those feelings vs a single one.

[@ThBrando]

That could also be a very viable interpretation of it

[@WindrunnerCC]

I think the asterisks could be all the answers depending on which "version" of 9S it is. My theory is each of the 48 9S had their own word fitting in that space from "kill" to "love" to "free" etc.

[@F66x]

"The trio" Weiss: Am I a joke to you? Edit: Ah, the American Nier comic. It was originally only on XBox Live I think? Dad fans don't get a lot so we take what we can get.

[@ThBrando]

Oof can't believe I did Weiss dirty like that

[@F66x]

@@ThBrando S'okay lol

[@truegamerking]

Some NieR trivia I know that hasn't been mentioned here is Kainé's rant being added to the pre title screen cutscene for the English release of the game, when it wasn't present in the Japanese version. I met Laura Bailey at a convention a few years back, and she told me the team liked her delivery of that set of lines so much that they said they had to put it there.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Wait so that's real? I saw some footage of the original Nier, heard Kainé and thought the owner of the channel had edited it in, ain't no way...

[@truegamerking]

@Fermin-hw5pd yeah, 100% real. It was very surprising to hear when I first put the disc in. I thought it was there in all versions until I met Kaine's voice actress and she told me about how they liked her delivery so much that they said "we need to put this as the first thing anyone hears"

[@VermilionRen]

2B and 9S' poses on the boxart remind me of when 2B carries him out of the Copied City. Not sure if that's what it's referencing or not.

[@gaiaotaku-chan2523]

i love getting to know more and more about this universe man. i loved your first nier iceberg vid, and i was pleasently suprised that i saw another one i my feed this morning. the first one was things i mostly alredy knew, but this one was almost all new stuff to me. i love the bizzar and small details, and the weird wonders of the yokotaro mind. thnaks for bringing me one step closer to enlightenmend

[@ThBrando]

Damn thanks a lot! Glad you liked it!

[@NitroMorrison17]

2 videos, almost an hour and 0 mentions of Drakenard 3. That flower really got you.

[@samuelgarza2466]

I would’ve at least expected Accord in the Kingdom of Night being somewhere in both icebergs.

[@ThBrando]

@@samuelgarza2466 This was mostly a NieR thing with Drakengard when it connects to NieR, but you right, you right

[@a_d_z_y__]

In the first video he talks about some DOD3 stuff I think?

[@kimzee59]

@@samuelgarza2466 if you want to talk about Accord, you can also talk about how they're referenced in one of the diary entry things you get from Yonah in Nier. How she says a mysterious seller showed her things from her bag and said her name was Accord.

[@julianworkman8340]

When Replicant comes out, imma be going to your channel for all the Nier deets

[@ThBrando]

I hope to provide

[@Vyran]

"dropping kayfabe for a sec" Uh oh, this is a shoot, brother.

[@ThBrando]

Hope McMahon can overlook it this one time

[@southofheck]

I think the four asterisks are supposed to be kill, but are censored so it could also be a jab at the audience who undoubtedly would smash. It’s the most reinforced theory, as 9S is depicted killing versions of 2B multiple times later in the game. The two I can remember and I think the only instances are where he’s attacked by like 20 2B’s in the tower and kills them all while screaming like a mad man. The second time is in the soul(?) box, where he’s stabbing the thing (I forgot what) while hacking it from outside, and it turns into 2B, and 9S keeps stabbing it over and over while crying. I mean it could theoretically be anything, but It’s a lot more likely it was foreshadowing for 9S more than likely subconsciously knowing 2B has killed him multiple times, combined with starting to go insane because of seeing 2B die, losing his reason to fight the machines, and eventually getting the logic virus thru 2B’s arm, and getting those emotions intertwined with his love for her. But I support the “free” theory as well, because of one line in automata. In the fight I mentioned earlier where 9S has to fight a bunch of 2B’s, he says something along the lines of “it’s going to be okay 2B, I’m going to kill you now!”. This could be his “logical” way to free her. He knows he is going to die, and he wants to “free” her and take her with him, even though she is already dead. It’s hard to figure out the logic of someone who’s gone insane, but I think this is about as close as we can get.

[@Nadeli0]

God that is poetic and depressing, another reason why Nier:Automata is my favorite game And yes, 100% would smash 2B

[@Paandaas]

FFXIV's last NieR crossover raid came out . . and it had MAJOR references and all but one of them was really interesting to me. The final boss in the raid is a direct reference to the final boss of Drakengard 1, Queen Beast . . or Drakengard 3, Flower [or both]. Red Girl [N2] basically transforms into something akin to those two called "Her Inflorescence" But to what extent / how is Red Girl knowledgable about the watchers, as she is able to replicate or imitate those bosses. Also -please- do a review on that quest series specifically at some point, it's amazing. I honestly only bought FFXIV solely for the NieR content and I did not regret it at all. There are so many tiny details and nuances to it.

[@lylesinstrument-7908]

Free makes sense. Going in dark i felt like the first play through has that feeling that 9s starts feeling bad for the robots and doesn’t want a war to continue and that’s part of the reason he start snooping around in the yorha data base to find out why they are still fighting and he obviously cares for 2b and wants her to be free from the fighting too

[@Kyzoren]

Knowing NieR, there's probably hidden implications to the 2B costume in Gravity Rush 2...

[@miorionomichi]

Anything NieR im immediately curious

[@kimzee59]

I would love for someone to talk about the ultra powerful boss you can fight after the end of the DLC in Automata. In one of the coliseums you can do an extra trial of fighting enemies and stuff after you complete the DLC. The ending is thus ultra hard boss which has some of the angelic characters surrounding it which really reminds me of a shade from the original Nier. But you never hear anyone talk about it.

[@Paladont]

New iceberg entry Ahnamanha Referencing how no one can agree on a pronunciation for this game

[@ThBrando]

Point: In the original Japanese it's written the way I say it. Counterpoint: Automaton is pronounced not like the way I say it and it's the word the name is based on. Both are probably valid.

[@TheWeightOfUwU]

Going back after Automata to play the other games and delve into the side materials and connections was really fun for me, and it's cool how you're bringing that stuff to more people. Are you planning on doing a third one?

[@ThBrando]

Maaaaaybe. I'd have to come across enough to make it worthwhile.

[@maxlvl912]

Was planning on making a Nier iceberg vid but looks like you beat me to it twice over! Great content man, covered a pretty wide spectrum of the Taroverse with this.

[@ThBrando]

Haha, thanks, sorry I snatched it. Liked the MAG video!

[@maxlvl912]

@@ThBrando thanks man! Think you'll cover Replicant when it drops?

[@ThBrando]

@@maxlvl912 Maybe. If it's just a graphical and gameplay upgrade, I don't think I can add anything that hasn't already been said. If there's a significant amount of new content / plot changes, I might give it a go.

[@SaturnSnapple]

18:40 Doesn't the flying robot type that you mow down in Shmup sections level scale as well? I remember being level 99 and going through the Dark Colossus fight over the ocean and all the little flyers were level 99.

[@-S.a.k.]

And who knows what the hell Accord is up to on the dark side of Earth in Automata.

[@alexterieur8813]

Whos accord

[@-S.a.k.]

@@alexterieur8813 An android introduced way back in Drakengard 3, I forgot the NPCs name in Automata but they talk about Accord being on the other side of the earth stuck in darkness in casual dialogue.

[@alexterieur8813]

@@-S.a.k. there were androids in the drakengard series? Did the androids in automata comes from the drakengard universe then?

[@-S.a.k.]

@@alexterieur8813 Hard to say without spoilers for D3 and the true ending for it. Not much gets explained with her though tbh. Besides that shes an Android working under a mysterious organization, probably Yorha, but she keeps record of what happens in D3. My guess was convoluted time travel because Yoko Taro. Edit: I'm hoping the next big Yoko Taro/Nier game actually explains that more

[@fg009letyrds8]

@@-S.a.k. No, YoRHa is just a disposable Organization created by Androids that are meant to fully remove hostile Machine Lifeform presence from Earth, there are still other Android Organizations in Earth like the Night Kingdom which exists in the Eternal Night side of the Earth, which we never traveled to (both Replicant and Automata took place on the Eternal Day side, even the same Area too).

[@brinzul2769]

I should`ve taken that job as a cookbook while i had the chance

[@ThBrando]

That's a good line my dude

[@brinzul2769]

@@ThBrando My dude!? I say! Do not address me as some common peon! I am Grimoire Weiss! Haha jk, love the channel man!

[@ThBrando]

@@brinzul2769 Haha, thanks a lot, glad you like it!

[@eminiclam]

wouldn't surprise me if one day, yoko taro decides to add an unique piece of lore into a SINGLE COPY of his next game and it's up to the lucky player who buys this copy to shere its content with the rest of the world. Plot twist: the copy is actually among the ones who haven't been sold yet.

[@dekumo]

Ngl these iceberg videos were super dope. Let me give you this fat subscription

[@joshuasmith6909]

Man, we need to compile the whole ordeal of Nier + Drakengard to figure out everything, because YIKES it is hard to access a lot of this stuff.

[@kingabe221]

I normally dislike ice berg videos but these were great man. Keep it up.

[@ThBrando]

Thanks a lot!

[@QXZ9027MKII]

Much obliged Sir,,, 👌👌 Strangely i watched part 1 yesterday, really enjoyed it and when you said you gona do part 2, I was like I hope he does. I opened youtube it was recommended to watch, uploaded 27 hours ago. Finished the game today everything 100% except fishing & the third coliseum in the forest. I wish they make a sequel, platinum games is a must, Yoko Taro is genuis indeed, but it all stops at platinum games they nailed it, never had this much fun since Super Metroid, Mario 64, Ace Combat 3 electrosphere J version, Metal Gear Solid PS1 & Ace Combat Zero The Belkan War.

[@ThBrando]

I'm hoping we get to see more of NieR as well. Replicant Remaster drops in 3 weeks!

[@QXZ9027MKII]

@@ThBrando Same here, got it on pre-order PS4, really excited. 😄

[@Andrew-vy3lw]

I’m surprised nobody has ever mentioned the parallels the game has to WWII, such as the war starting in 11939 and ending in 1945, the flight unit having the same name as and looking like (from the top) the Ho229, a Nazi experimental figher plane, the STG rifles everywhere in the camp, just to name a few of the many that are there.

[@cassandramaccarthy3337]

I agree with you that we're not meant to know what verb nines wants to do to 2B, but I also agree with Clemps that it's most likely BOTH kill and fuck, if it had to be anything

[@Danny-mg1hu]

Android feel a lot of things when they kill, including being free of things and some sort of sexual pleasure. It had to be kill more than anything.

[@zadayaz]

watching my friends play the replicant remaster along with this video, ive learned that boars are the true antagonists of the nier series. also great vid! lots of interesting stuff, just when you think you’ve heard everything about this franchise you learn something new

[@todd3143]

my assumption of the original box art is that it depicts the outcomes of ending e? the characters have rose above the cycle of death and destruction, so that’s a hopeful thing, but 9s is somehow broken and a2 just walks a separate path from 2b and 9s

[@khloekara8853]

I played nier automata about 2 years ago and i just found out there was a prequel and how real ending was in part 5 of a concert??? Im so lost LMAO

[@shork1096]

the opening quote from 2b in automata includes "Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never ending spiral of life and death." i think free would fit the 4 asterisks pretty well based on this, or maybe i'm just linking two things that have no reason to be linked. great video though

[@ThBrando]

That's a good point, could be that yeah.

[@peperoni_pepino]

I think that is also one of the last sentences in ending E, said by a pod? I played ending E, nuked my safefile, restarted a new safe file and 2B said the same thing a pod had said mere minutes ago. Also, 2B says she wants to kill whatever god forced this fate on her (which doesn't make sense at the time as you have just started the game) which directly ties in with the 'weight of the world' song (English version) where she asks god why he has to make her suffer so.

[@Toksyuryel]

Most of the shmup segments have level scaling. Real-time level scaling too, if you level up during them all the enemies immediately level up with you even the ones that are already on screen.

[@xXYamiHeatXx]

That Deadly Premonition whistling song at the end of the video. 👌

[@Kyle-bu3og]

An all Christopher Lambert film adaptation would be awesome! I'd watch it at least twice.

[@gangganggang2219]

But how would you see ending C, D, and E if you stopped there?

[@Dylan_Otto]

YES!!! I knew the answer was animals! I never really checked their levels but subconsciously found it wierd that they take so many bloody hits from you no matter how overpowered you are.

[@ThBrando]

Nice guess my guy

[@AnMComm]

That's actually because the animals aren't an enemy, they're a mount. And since they serve as a weapon as well, they have to be scaled to the player character to be viable.

[@ThatGuy-uw3yf]

I always thought anemone was the informant XD

[@toreole5831]

I love yoko taro, dude is such an enigma

[@MajorSpam]

Wasn't the original NieR supposed to have no connection to Drakengard and some somber game about fairy tales but later got changed, hence the names for the bosses? And wasn't SINoALICE supposed to be the game NieR originally intended to be but Taro decided to change it into it being the remaining human memories that are stored in the server but have to relive their life over and over again until they're put into androids or replicants / new humans?

[@TheShadowraith]

Yoko Taro seems to love dualities and playing on words so, I am in the camp that the blanked out word. Some would say it's definitely, "kill". That would make sense, since the driving motivation of Adam seems to be hate. However, he mentions how he is fascinated about how humans can hate and love in equal measure (paraphrasing majorly). So, I think it means both kill and f***. Hate and love are also possibilities but, make less sense in the sentence. Also, recall that after Jack Ass does one of her "experiments" she concludes that killing to androids feels like sex does to humans. This would make the duality an interesting irony.

[@MrReplicaNt]

Commented on the last video before I saw this one but apparently Father Nier and Brother Nier are both Canon but everytime I research it it contradicts itself and doesn't make sense due to the opening and Emil etc. Maybe make a video? Could be a fun topic

[@ThBrando]

Dunno if you saw my other reply, but its definitely a topic I'd like to check out. I wanna get familiar with brother Nier more first.

[@MrReplicaNt]

@@ThBrando hey nah I didn't see it I realised there was this video so I thought you'd respond to a more recent video. But Coolio. I'm also keen to experience brother nier.

[@ThBrando]

@@MrReplicaNt Comments come to the same inbox no matter what video they're posted on, so I can reply from anywhere!

[@aeden1001]

Trio? Don’t forget my boy Veiss.

[@OgamiItto70]

That Christopher Lambert playing everyone in the NieR movie idea wouldn't work, unfortunately. It would require multiple Christopher Lamberts to play all the parts, and... ...There can be only one.

[@shanedixon5845]

6:00 so Yoko Taro is definitely a fan of RWBY, right?

[@TheOneAndOnlySame]

5:47 the word is kill/fuck/love/free/and more . This is all the emotions 9s might feel about different aspects of his relationship with 2b, dependant as your interpretation as the player . The word(s) is the word(s) you feel should be there.

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

Why would NieR without Emil be weird? It’s not like he’s a supremely powerful magical weapon with borderline immortality. He never even does anything of any significance in either game especially during the alien invasion of 5012. I could see him being relevant if during the alien invasion he’d done something drastic like idk making around 85 million copies of himself to fight but he never does.

[@oreganue]

I'm sure the box art for automata is a reference to Michelangelos pieta, a sculpture of Mary holding a dying Jesus

[@Sl4wt3r]

>what do you think about the * * * * word? I think it's all canon.

[@MDJeez888]

3:30 standard uni room, mine came with important plot details

[@wellardsharks]

Wait, are you sure that first plotline in Automata about the missing informant? The commander asks 2B and 9S to do some recon, and then also look for the missing contact. So they go do recon in the desert, have the boss fight with Adam, then report back, after which they go to the Amusement park and fight Beauvoir/Simone, who's been eating/killing YoRHa androids. I thought the implication was that the informant was one of the poor androids she ended up killing?

[@OaksCU1]

14:14 The Flame of Prometheus was put in the Short Story Long novel too, so if you buy the book from the image in the top row, second from the left, you'll get that story in something with "NieR" on it 😛 Really digging the channel btw, are you gonna make any videos on the NieR/Final Fantasy XIV crossover?

[@darkhobo]

Bro. Elvish was a fully realized language before Tolkein even started on the Hobbit. He wrote a book to have a place for his many made up languages. Dude was a Linguist.

[@shorty685]

rewatching these to see how many of these little details will be in the anime

[@astrealbrizbee9815]

With the ending of the new arc of Reincarnation, it makes me wonder if that game takes place 500 years after Automata and the android in black is 10H and her new party members.

[@normal6483]

*Fun Fact:* The Celestial Language isn't actually a language, but a cypher. It's just English with stylized Hebrew letters. (If you look at the Celestial Language, all of the letters correspond to a letter in Hebrew, and the sounds they make correspond pretty much 1:1)

[@warbaby32]

14:00 Mind f-ing blown... suddenly I feel a whole lot better about the Beepy fight.

[@SCloud-yy6hn]

same, im glad he made it

[@AninRose8]

Me too, but I feel bad about the baby shade

[@OatmealTheCrazy]

@@AninRose8 Kalil deserved better 😔

[@tuckernutter]

The party wasn't a trio because I count Weiss as a party member even if he's bound to Nier. His verbous input and relationship with the other three is enough to solidify him as one of the group. Hes not like Tyrann and only heard by Kainé, so Tryann wouldn't count

[@Ragmondy]

I thoroughly enjoyed these two videos thank you so much, god it's 2 am and I have work in the morning, but it was worth it!

[@ThBrando]

Stay strong on the grind

[@yu-gh-oi4677]

18:19 i was not surprised that i got this right. the first time i wanted to upgrade my sword i noticed if this thing hits you twice you're not getting up

[@aegisvis3713]

For the NieR Automata box art, I thought 2B holding 9S was a reference to how she holds him when leaving the Copied City.

[@ElliotKwan]

I think there was an audio clip somewhwre on the net where 9S describes his difficulty with the hardest enemy

[@jinji_xo]

Weiss be like: This baffoon said trio

[@nik021298]

I do think free as well as f**k and kill can be viable options, I do agree with your point that it's meant to be ambiguous when playing the scene.

[@nfspbarrister5681]

But the context and the way the sentences structured in japanesse translation....i think this is the developer just trolled us to see how many nier's players are the degenerates. 😂

[@cruiser332]

All fights in the battle suit are also level scaled for whatever reason

[@Fionnualaohagan]

A little detail I love but I've never seen anyone else point is is how the Black Boxes have the same pattern on them that Shades have over their bodies

[@pyro2708]

7:15 for all the theorizing this game has I'm surprised how little attention is given to how all of the important events in the game are directly related to Adam (and later Eve but it was Adam's absence that set Eve into motion).

[@boldnbrash7028]

Brando thanks for everything nier you've done. I'm a massive fan

[@Aurwenn]

Oh man, the last nier raid on ff14 is a big wth is happening moment

[@ThBrando]

Man my entire timeline is blowing up with it. I've got that mad FOMO

[@Onibi369]

@@ThBrando If you really don't want to spend the 200+ hours it would take to play through the 3 expansions to unlock it, you can buy a story and level skip to get you up to Shadowbringers, which is then only 1 expansion to tear through before you reach the NieR raids :D I actually found these videos while trying to look up Drakengard stuff to find where I needed to start to grasp all of the references in the final raid haha.

[@gerryw173ify]

Perhaps the cover art represents after Ending E they overcome the endless cycle of the android machine wars. Yorha has been destroyed and the machine network is down after the ark fired.

[@djtoxicdhg]

Lmfao he made the R capital just cuz it looks cool lmfao

[@cooltraineralex9711]

Small brain: FVCK Big brain: KILL Astral ascension: FREE 🤯

[@joshuagerber8362]

Did i get this right? The "Aliens" attacking the planet, was Beepy coming back from a space vacation ?

[@daruru42069]

Not sure if this fits with the "scaling" topic but I've seen a pair of robots in the abandoned factory who are level 99. I was at that level too when I first found them so idk if they scale when you're lower but that encounter just felt so random. They're just in a secluded corner you wouldn't normally go to, and it's kinda dark there during route C/D so if you don't have the flashlight on you'd be surprised you suddenly got one-shotted by a normal looking mob.

[@makayladevine9439]

thank you for the effort put into these videos.

[@jamesducharme1711]

the beepy lore has left me with my head in my hands

[@SneakybeakyScrub]

so glad you mentioned ligma drag-on dragoon

[@juanmanuel7305]

Maybe the asterisks were the fri[E]nds we made along the way

[@InsanityOtter983]

I think the four asterisks is intentionally left that way because there isn't supposed to be just one word that could fit there. In my opinion, I think kill, free, fuck, love, etc. are ALL appropriate answers, and can all be true simultaneously. Emotions are complicated, and Automata goes to great lengths to show that decidedly inorganic androids can develop feelings that are just as complex as any human's - "humanity" is not truly lost because it lives on within the androids (and the machines, to some degree). People can have mixed feelings, so I don't see why 9S couldn't have felt all of those things about 2B at the same time.

[@asbehsam]

Your videos are just ..... GOLD.

[@elvenmonkey2219]

on the 4 asterisk topic, what if the asterisks have multiple meanings at once it means free, kill etc. at once.

[@lastsin3171]

You know, there is always one thing that bugged me other than the questions people most likely will also have after playing Replicant / Gestalt and/or Automata. We learnt in the game that the Desert we go through in Automata is where Facade once was. Given the obvious references with the outfits that the Machines wear, the masks, in the DLC, # of rules, trials and probably weapon stories. Then you see "modern" buildings, a playground in the next area where you first encounter Adam. But if you compare the landscape (if that's the word for this) in Replicant / Gestalt and look around the surroundings when you're in the same desert area, You see no "modern" buildings near Facade at all. The only area where you do see them is in the Shadowlord's Castle and even then if I recall, it's directly underground the Shrine where Hansel & Gretel and Weiss was at. So how did these buildings even appear thousands of years later? Was there some sort of Illusion Magic casted by the Shadowlord? Did the war between Emil / his clones and the Aliens somehow destroyed the land deep enough for the buildings to pop out? Even if the 2nd well, "theory" I just said is it, how are the buildings not completely destroyed and it's just moderately damaged? This question is probably already answered in some other media or a book or I'm thinking a bit tooooo much on some minor detail. Which also reminds me on why does the Shadowlord's Castle looks so pristine as well.

[@valemontgomery9401]

Maybe the machines built them to emulate humans?

[@lastsin3171]

​Plausible. Though this would lead to another question of "Where did they find the time and effort to do so". Because all the "modern" buildings we see in Automata are clearly moderately damaged and aged. Definitely sat there for at least 10s of years. Which speaking about time, it wouldn't make sense for the same buildings that was shown in Shadowlord's Castle to be standing after thousands of years even if we exclude the factor of "Emil vs Alien War" that may damage or destroy the buildings. I'm no construction worker but I doubt buildings can last that long without any sort of care. I wonder if I dug myself a rabbit hole when I asked myself this building questions.

[@nikodokars8315]

G O D D A M N B O A R

[@ThBrando]

B I G B O Y

[@angulardrift1537]

I like to THINK its "Free" but I KNOW it's ambiguous and we don't ACTUALLY know what it could be. It's like calling Protagonist from NieR: Nier. His name isnt confirmed and is ambiguously left to the reader/player, but I think his name has to be Nier

[@kabrozkabroz]

Gee, Brando! How come your mom lets you have TWO Icebergs?

[@v4n1ty92]

The only reason boar and moose level scales with yours is because you can ride them. If there was no option to mount them they'd be like every other thing in the game

[@JAOResnik]

Enemies in the shmup sections have level scaling too

[@Herr_Gamer]

The lvl 99 boar is the same one Nier rode in Replicant

[@0sn4ke0]

Nice.... Now I need to yet again open my notebook.... And write some more about nier. Ofc. Don't worry. When we will fully know everything about nier. The book shall be finished and become a family heirloom.... And yes.... It will be in the future 1000y.....hopefuly.

[@spikedwallman]

The one about the bedrooms, you used the wrong reference. Nier's bedroom is on the first floor, and it has a much closer resemblance to 2B's room than yonah's does.