A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS]

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1. EXCELLENT VIDEO MATE.Perfectly explained.Despite that I do have an objection on your offered solution of sharing the meaninglessness.Nowadays most people have vastly become shallow shells,incapable of understanding this by default meaninglessness of our existence,due to their lack of cognitive and emotional capacity.Sharing this would actually become a very hard thing to do statistic-wise.But we can all clinge to this hope i guess before we reach the point of having nothing left to deny but ourselves. This kind of videos actually make me realise that people like us do exist and gather around such experiences as nier automata and thus make me feel less lonely. Thank you for that Adam! 🙂

2. 29:45
   "You're thinking about how much you want to KILL 2B, aren't you?"

3. I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

4. The whole philosopical aspect of this story wasn't as interesting to me as the actual way of telling it (I didn't find it that deep). I think the little differences in the routes A and B, the story getting expanded little by little is why this game broke ground as art. The actual story is nothing new, even in the context of games, But it does convey emotion really well, albeit the anime-like presentation make it harder to relate with.

   Plus the music is 10/10 (a tad emotionally overcharged, but still genius).

   I can't agree with the first third – route A – of the video (there is just too much I interpreted differently), but the rest of it is on point. For me the ,,humankind is dead" part came as no surprise. the first time I heard their propaganda speech I was sure they didn't exist.

5. I never realized Nier Automata was so deep. Amazing breakdown.

6. We came for the thighs and the waifus, we stayed for the history, and we ended with a cronical emotional wound

7. 0:20 Bioshock is disgusted with this

8. This is one of my favorite games

9. I thought that the religious machines going insane was the result of Pascals proximity. It as another example of the machines combining different ideas in random ways. Pascal had recently read Nietzsche and they added the "gods are dead" to their directives that already contained "become like gods", so they killed themselves.

10. I can't wait until this reading continues, and Adam has to tell everyone how a rifraff of scantily clad adventurers led by two small people wearing helmets with beards on them confront the machines again in the place that the bunker crashed down somehow on the surface of one of many alternate realities of a magical land that has no relation to any previous nier canon.

11. I now have an existential crisis

12. I wanna watch this so fucking bad but I haven’t even played it once 🤣🤣🤣I’m like a 3rd of the way through my first run

13. Awesome video!

14. Fantastic video, I never comment but this deserves one.

15. I finished this game a couple of weeks ago and was honestly lukewarm on it, but I can't stop watching explainers. This one is the first thing that taught me something about it that was non-obvious. The Maslow's Heirarchy piece and the part about the characters that are together finding meaning were new to me.

16. "I believe in a universe that doesn't care, and people that do."

    -The best Night in the Woods character.

17. The ending of route E kind of reminds me of Albert Camus and his philosophy of absurdism. An oversimplified version for the uninitiated: Camus wanted people to acknowledge the meaninglessness of the world, and go on living as an act of defiance.

18. In my opinion, you are sentient when you are able to question whether you are sentient or not

19. adam and eve are my favourites so route when they are safe and together in the network is the best for me
    and i guess we get those shorts in the route b from the machine network because it's mostly about machines idunno

20. Yup most comprehensive and great to fall asleep to, it’s interesting don’t get me wrong ❤️ but non-US english ie 🇬🇧 🇦🇺 accents help me sleep 💤.

    Blame nature documentaries

21. This is a damn good game and a damn good video

22. To anyone out there I might have helped with my saved data: I hope you managed to beat the game and I hope that it became an important part of your life just like myself, and I hope you could find meaning in your life through it 🙂

23. B-mode is actually extremely useful when either using items or using chips that heal you when hurting enemies. Basically required to do the hardest bit of the dlc.

24. I don't know if I should play the game or watch your video. The demo didn't impress me at all, too much spectacle, too little substance, pretty generic action gameplay… But I keep reading and listening that it is a great game, and the first 12 minutes of your video sound intriguing.

    Is there really something that makes the game stand out, not story-wise but gameplay-wise?

25. Got to say, this game deserves wayyyyyy more credit than it gets.

26. I loved to see tour take on the shin megami tensei games

27. 0:24 NO NO NO NO NO AMATOR ,PLANESCAPE TORMENT 1999 BEST STORYLINE – philosophical GAMES EVER MADE , XENOGEARS 1998 BEST JRPG STORY LINE EVER MADE ,MASK OF THE BETRAYER 2007 BEST DLC STORY EVER MADE , WITCHER 3 AND NIER AUTOMATA IS BORING COMPARE THIS OLD GAME AMATOR

28. French post-modernists don't like to talk about what they were doing during the period 1940-45. Funny that.

29. Pubgah

30. Masterpiece.

31. I want to live in this world

32. It's disappointing to know that many people will not play this game, let alone make the endeavor to seek deeper meaning in the madness.

    Great video btw!

33. The cutscene where 9S charges A2 on the bridge at the beginning of C might be my favorite cutscene of all time. All of the VAs did amazing, and the animators and writers really let you know how much this event has broken 9S.

34. 29:50
    Fuck or love?
    It could be that love is censored because emotions are prohibited and 9S refuses to see it in plain text

35. I tried very hard with Nier played 30 hours and got to ending C. I quit several times along the way, once on each ending disappointed in its lack of answers. Once I quit after a joke ending forcing me to load a save from two hours age out of annoyance.

    Each time I came back to the game I felt it took a dump on me all over again. Disrespecting the time I already put played by revealing it was all meaningless. I had been holding out for some big pay out and I got a choice between one character I barely knew and one character who’s goodness had been crushed.

    I wondered for a long time if I’d go back and search for more before I watched this video. Now I’m glad I didn’t to play the same sequence again and choose D to then get the “real” ending E. sure it sounds pretty good but is it worth another 6 – 8 hours? Does it justify the last dissatisfactory 30? I’m not saying the game was bad, the mechanics were enjoyable to use although I got tired of 9S hacking. But i felt I was being stringed along by a sci fi narrative that felt like it was written by a committee that met every few months to write the next segment. Can you blame me for giving up on this one?

36. what a great game, gives me nice things to think about at my minimum wage job while i realize its just a product presenting pixels in a way that looks like characters

37. Me after finishing the game for the first time: Uhm. Impressive. While there is still much to be said, the game was alright.

    AG: That was the epilogue

38. Best Neir review ive seen

39. PUB'Guh? no dude. PUBG. Pronounced "pub jee."

40. I wasted nearly an hour on this and I'm not saying that as some sort of joke on the whole everything is pointless theme of the game. I didn't care about these characters or their story from the start (its a bit generic a lot of the time) and then the game basically slaps you in the face literally spelling out how it never mattered and basically reinforcing my initial thoughts how I really shouldn't give a fuck about anything that's happening.

    Its ironic when people buy games so that they typically care to some extent about the world they are playing in for whatever purpose, but the game is designed specifically to invalidate all of it just to throw in some philosophical messages, none of which i find clever or interesting.

    As a game what am i supposed to enjoy? It gives me no reason to like anyone, it has messages that directly attribute to the idea I should not care and by extension have no connection or reason to enjoy.

    As much as everything is pointless one fact remains: We only have a limited time here so i value that which is a resource that is finite, so having to waste time is truly aggravating. I can only thank you for making this video so that I can understand what this game is so I can effectively never waste my time or money on what would have been the most disappointing moment in my gaming life.

    That ending is such bullshit too (on top of cheesy as hell friendship is power). How can I find it satisfyingly to pretend to kill the authors when it has no effect on the fact I endured the existence of their product. It doesn't actually make me change the game into one that's actually good.

    In the same metaphor of deleting your save (which is an act of heresy to completionists…. why would you do the unspeakable to us) I effectively get the same results by throwing the game into a shredder, to which after I simply move on and play another actually good game (honestly I would play terrible games over whatever this mess is.

41. I was taking a bit of a break from this game, I got a bit fatigued from having to play through it twice in a row with arguably worse mechanics the second time, but this video pushed me to get the first 5 routes. I’m so glad I did, and I plan on going in, experiencing everything I need to experience, and giving up my save file to help whoever may need it in the future. This video is an absolute gem that pushed to experience and understand one of the greatest pieces of literature I’ve ever seen.

42. This glory to mankind to become as gods cannot continue.

43. I played the demo and didn't enjoy it. Is the demo an actual indication of the complete game?

44. But japan have soo many VN and considered as a game
    I'm sure one of them already toe to toe with movie and philosophy enough

45. What, that was an hour long?

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