NieR: Automata | Truth About the Human Race
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- While 9S secured an escape route for 2B, he hacked into the machine network and discovered files related to Project Gestalt. This project ended up a massive failure and all of humanity was wiped off the face of Earth. The Replicant data from the project was gathered and fired off to the moon as a beacon. The moon beacon was then used as a relay point to consistently ping messages to Earth and the Bunker to make the androids think that humans were still alive and well.
In order to perpetuate the lie and to keep the surviving androids’ morale from sinking to an all-time low, Project YoRHa was launched. This project sought to train elite androids to help take back the planet from the machines. By lying to the YoRHa units that humanity was still alive, the androids would feel that they still had a purpose and something to fight for as an android’s basic instinct is to serve and protect human beings. Knowing that all humans were dead would inevitably cause the androids to sink into depression, thus leading to their eventual extinction. Only a trusted few were privy to this information, such as the YoRHa commander.
Meanwhile, we see the mental breakdown of Eve due to the death of his twin brother Adam.
Platform: PlayStation 4
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I can never get tired of English 9S's voice. There really is something calming about it
"THIS GUY IS BONKERS!"
Are you 2B?
@dark zeratul Nobody cares about your opinion.
To say that the English voice actors did a fantastic job is an understatement. I don't think the game would leave a bigger impact on me if I switch to Japanese va, I just couldn't understand the language natively and the tones and emotions would've been lost to me. And the English va absolutely nailed pod 042 and 153 voices, they're way too f*cking good!
@@desmondlau1385 at first I thought you were shitting on the english dub before I read your last comment lmao
What if the flower was an alien product
I feel like this scene could also be an allegory for religion, and how religion often uses God as justification to convince others to act. YoRHa are the blind followers, Command the zealots, and humanity their gods.
Noctis has gone nuts :P
Soooooo what about the human in the resistance camp ???
Abo_da7em they're androids of course
Androids. If you speak with the item seller when you go to the resistance camp for the first time, he asks 2B if he can borrow her leg because his leg is broken. (I think, havent't played to game a while)
I thought they were humans too xD
So many quests explaining they are androids too, just less advanced than Yorha
Yeah i could've swore all of them were human but i guess not
This game shows just how important it is to have other people in your life. But it also shows how ugly and painful it is to lose them as well. You can't help but cry with the characters
Their characters Are Loopholes Of despair
This also shows just how important it is to also have your own dreams and ideals, and since most of the androids decided to make individuality forbidden most androids probably wouldn't be able to go on living knowing that everything was for naught
@@kingcrimsonau that’s a trend with artificial beings on sci-fi. They know that they exist for a specific purpose and fall to pieces whenever that purpose is called into question or outright denied. They are racehorse with blinders on; they can’t see themselves or the world they live in
“No one fights without a reason. And we need a god worth dying for.“
Humanity in a nutshell?
Yup thats the whole Humanity in a nutshell......Holy Crusade,War of Allah,Genocide against the Arabs, Expand war of Islam......ETC
Not even for wars it’s about everything
Rather, a game in a nutshell. Chess pieces fighting for god worth dying for, meaning us, the players. So do androids in Nier automata. So do... we?
@@dibelgelo The “god” idea encompasses everything.
@@FirstLast-to6nj Tell us what it’s about then smart ass.
God is dead. For both the androids and the machines. Their war is pointless. That's what makes this scene so powerful.
Can't see how living god makes war poinfull. Being a pawn of such a hostile god is stupid either way.
@@dibelgelo just like humanity killed each other for thousands of years in the name of a hostile god image. so..
God isn't dead
@@rachidachiguer1658 I don’t know if you were making a joke or never played the game.
@@Infinitydev-lh2bo god is the creator of this vast universe and now you tell me that i am joking ?
Funny story, I had a limited amount of time to play Nier Automata the first time, so I set it to Easy, enabled a bunch of auto-chips, sent 2B to the Colosseum, and went to bed. 2B proceeded to fight in my name, all night long, without any oversight or real meaning to what she was doing once she hit the level cap.
Glory to Mankind!
XDDD
I remember thinking it was weird we were able to just cheese your way to a high level like that. At first I was confused and wondered why the devs would allow for it. But really it was driving home the point that the fighting doesn't actually matter.
So the biomachines are fighting a war for someone that don't exist anymore versus some androids that are fighting for someone who don't exist anymore.
This is so wrong in so many levels. Damn you Taro-san.
You see that is what philosophically the writers intended. We humans too are no different. we too fight battles in the name of our creators even though we know that they don't exist but cannot withstand that thought and cause violence example Syria, Charlottesville etc
keval shanker shreyas
Uh, the majority of people in the world believe and KNOW a higher power exists. Been like that throughout all of human history, and it will continue to be so. Even if it is a lie that we must believe in order to go on.
@@kevalshankershreyas9672 Who told you the creator doesn't exist? Even scientists believe the universe did not pop up on its own, that it came from somewhere by someone, not on its own.
@@wankyler wrong. keyword: quantum fluctuation
@@MercurialStatic Not all of us, luckily. The desire - or for some the need, depending on some bioneural factors - to believe in a god is an evolutionary thing that will, hopefully, go extinct at some point in our evolution. Though I hope the painful question about our own purpose to live will die first, anything else would lead to the exact dilemma portrayed in this piece of video game art.
We need to learn to fearlessly stand on our own feet, otherwise humanity is doomed by its very own characteristics.
The genius behind this twist, whether truly intentional or not, is that it serves as a lore check for whether or not you’ve played the first Nier. If you start with Automata, humans on the moon are just a thing at the beginning. If you know how Nier ended, you’ll never shake the feeling that something is off until that suspicion is justified here.
Do you mean Nier Gestalt/Replicant?
"The only thing there is a small bit of data relating to the human genome" that alone can give us a sequel
That might probably explain nier re[in]carnation.
@@tyriekcorbett3395 nice teory
There is, in nier Gestalt and Nier Replicants
@@daffanier Nier replicant and gestalt are the prequel.
If they do sequel. The plot of the game should be, Go to the moon acquire this data to clone human. Now 2b , A2, 9s got something to fight for.
Papa NieR did nothing wrong, his replicant in the other hand...
Brother Neir is meant to be the canon neir
@@sykune Both are canon and at the time I wrote my comment, only Papa NieR's verrsion was released in the west.
@@sykune you cant even type Nier right dude. both is canon, get over it. You know what shouldnt be Canon? Nier Automata.
@@faeranni how are they both canon unless its based on the multiverse theory. Papa Nier only exists for Western audiences.
@@sebastianwolf4170 thank you! I prefer to play as the Brother as well, but it doesnt matter for the story a bit.
What's worse, you as the player are responsible for the extinction of humanity as you play as Nier in the first game and kill the Shadowlord who was the only hope for the restoration of humanity lol.... Fucked up series man.
Damn
Shadowlord is the true hero, he fought to save the world and his sister.
Can you explain it to me if it's possible? I haven't played the game u talk about but i wanna know the Lore so hard.
@@Sub-Sownik would probably be better served to find a complete nier and drakengard lore vid but to give you the cliffnotes, In order to save humanity from a deadly pandemic from another world, scientists created a technology to remove soul from body with intent to create souless bodies for the disensouled to inhabit once they found a way to deal with it. Unfortunately these replicants got their own souls and personalities unexpectedly causing obvious issues. Shades running around the world were the disensouled who either went mad or were trying to get their body back. The shadow lord was the soul of the MC replicant body who had the perfect make up for the success of the re-ensouling process. Once he was killed, all hope was officially lost.
So if all of humanity is dead, then that means all the androids, the war for earth, the invasion by the aliens, the machines that they made, and everything that happens in the game utterly pointless. It ultimately doesn't matter who wins anymore. They're just machines. No longer having a purpose. It's like everything that you do in the game winds up being all for nothing because there is nothing to fight for. Nothing at all.
How are they any different? They are humanities successors.
@@xavierlucky397 they were created/programmed to serve humanity as their only purpose
@@CL-jq1xs they were created to convince the world that mankind lives so that the war could continue
and as a failsafe the only people who knew this secret within YoRHA were created to be destroyed when that lie was set in stone
The war is pointless no matter what. They all can live in peace and enjoy themselves.
On the other hand, it's like saying playing nier automata is pointless and pure waste of time. Or any other game for that matter, from chess to football or whatever.
"God" is whoever we put Faith in. That's the Choice. Doesn't matter how any form of consciousness came to their Choice; it is their choice to put their faith where. And because of such ... bonds ... any _one true God_ can never exist without force, or rather, imposed Fate.
People who played the first Nier would have known this. XD
Eerie Caligraphy of Human Oddity they are not too connected
Doesnt the ending state that they in fact did go to the moon? No one could have guessed it was all lies
Even the title "NieR" explains already
yeah all 12 of them
@Dylan Weathers "2B" is a code name for her she is actually unit 2E for executioner, she was actually designed to kill other yorha units
Commander be like: Ah this shit again, lets hope 2b does her job this time
I thought those resistance members were humans at first.
If you were someone who reads a lot of military sci-fi, the idea of humans just being on the moon and not fighting the aliens themselves is a big clue.
Whenever aliens are involved, humans are always the first into the fight.
Also if human does live on the moon for a long time, our body would evolve weirdly due to the small gravity. We can't never get back to the Earth again.
@@fakuri913 If people could evolve to adjust into the moons gravity, surely they could re-evolve to match the earths gravity once more, as well?
Maybe the aliens are to strong for a human to fight
@@genesisspace5331 We can make Androids but not cybernetically and genetically augment ourselves like Spartans in Halo?
@@Hemulion dude sorry but are you dumb, you can't teraform the moons gravity and act it'll be similar to earth. I would go further but I don't want to write an essay.
Final Fantasy Type Zero taught that war persist in a spiral
NieR Automata taught that war is ultimately meaningless
we are no longer exist...
Such Engrish.
And neither does your grammar.
@@MadamePianissima pretty sure that's on purpose
We repliCAN'T
If humans are extinct, why did the aliens attack?
Why are the machines and androids even still fighting?
Maybe humans received a warning that the aliens were coming and created the androids to prepare for the war. I have a feeling they were wiped out as the aliens arrived and the androids were forced to keep fighting because of the programming.
Brittany Spiess I’m not super knowledgeable on this because I just played automata. But before the alien invasion, humans were affected by some sort of salt syndrome, where this disease turns people to death as salt. In order to avoid this monstrous disease, humans was ordered to remain unconscious for 10,000 years ,and during those time period androids was created, to observe Earth.
That’s all i know
M Fizz Humans got infected by the result of the remains (called Maso) of the Grotesquerie Queen that Caim fought when they both were transported to Tokyo in 2003 during the final battle of Drakengard 1. The result of this was the White Chlorination Syndrome in which humans were turned into salt.
To rectify this the Hamelin Organization developed a way to remove a persons body (Replicant) and soul (Gestalt) from their bodies as doing so would make it impossible for White Chlorination Syndrome to take effect.
Certain androids such as Devola and Popola were created to oversee both the Replicants and Gestalts, and magical tomes/books called Grimoires were created so that both body and soul could come together once more when the books were activated after a permanent solution to the White Chlorination Syndrome was created (which was found.)
Afterwards this is where the events of Nier 1 take place.
When I played this game they said humans were wiped by a virus in a letter. ( no alien attack)
Every computer serves a purpose if no one is there to give it a purpose than the computer will only follow its last order and function.
So I guess the androids are just following the last given order. Maybe they knew aliens were coming and had no idea if they would be friendly or not. but the virus got them first. I think 🤔
Kavish Algoo the Android are programmed to protect humanity, as stated in Devola and Popola short story, so it’s their duty to fight back to protect the human only homeworld that the android know of. Even though the android did fight back, but it was mainly Emil, the last human, and also a secret weapon who take the fight against the alien. He use all his power to become an 1 man army in order to hold the frontline just so that he could protect the world that his friends tried to save. In the first few thousand of years it was Emil and his clones who fight in the frontline. Until he slowly lost his memory, and reason for fighting, that’s why the machine slowly win the war.Shortly after, Yorha was created with council of humanity, that’s when the Android take the fight against the Alien seriously as they know human is still alive.
This game is really depressing. A god dies or becomes weakened when believers die and prayers are never sang. Faith and prayers are the main fuel for religion. The fact that humanity is extinct means all them androids are dying for no absolute reason. 9S loses the one who gave him the meaning of life, 2B carries the pain of having to kill the person she deeply cared for due to the amount of time they spent together, and A2 still broken about losing her squad in Pearl Harbor. A story full of tragedies, a story of being trapped in the never ending reality of life and death. Yoko Taro truly gave us a masterpiece.
I found it strange that the commander told the truth so easily without having any worries that 9's would go and tell 2B
... Well, it makes pretty much sense after while. Go little Nines, go tell 2B what you know...
I assume she felt that that iteration of 9s would have learned too much, thus been culled and replaced by another 9s
@@MrJamieRose I think she broke it to him the way she did because the war was in its final stages. If not for the Logic virus YoRHa would have "won". 9S was kept as a model even after needing to be killed by 2B *48 times* for his high curiosity and problem solving critical to paralyzing the machine network. So the Commander took a gamble he would continue to fight if not for YoRHa then for 2B and the other androids he had formed relationships with.
We extinct already omg
Because we just repliCAN'T
Yeah Humanity is dead, but they have the genome, and possibly a lot of samples, they could clone back humans after winning the war, after all they are advanced A.I.s capable of deceiving themselves. Just my opinion. I finished the most of the game, but I always refused the last ending, I will not destroy my save... too many hours invested, and also I guess I am a selfish person... sorry guys :S
You don’t need to destroy your save to get ending e you can say no and still get ending E
You can’t clone humans without the soul
@@oculism5158 Yes. Danm you Nier.
Thanks, nier
The previous game Nier Replicant/Gestalt explains how humanity went extinct set thousands of years before Automata
Thank you for uploading these cutscenes. :)
My pleasure. ;)
1:48 lmao
humans never landed on the moon conspiracy intensivies
I wonder if I were to be the last human alive in nier automata
xXSw4gmite 3000Xx You will most likely be kidnapped by YorHa, experimented, and forced to say a dialogue for propaganda purposes (aka morale booster), you will also be under restraints and caged in a room of some sort while they perform mental training on you. The fact that you are on the earth and not up there already screams about the lies of YorHa.
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But the Good side is: You will always be near Commander White-san, which is worth every pain
They would go all «Glory to you!» on you.
Davy Jones I don't know about Kidnap and Torture. I mean to both the Androids and the Machines Humans are like gods to them which is why the theme of the game is "Become Like gods," which to them means to become Human.
The worse case I could see is them being overly protective of the human to the point where they won't allow the human to leave the resistance camp or bunker for the humans own safety from getting kidnapped by the equally curious machines who may want to either study the philosophy of humanity or dissect the human (like what Adam wanted to do) to understand them.
On the bright side you'd get to hang out with Devola and Popola or the Commander.
Emil is the last one
@@facua1551incorrect, a human be how god for they the androids, nothing of the torture o experimental
commander is so beautiful
Is my waifu
Any humans here ??
Nah
Nope, they're all gone
3:11
"Nano machines, Jack! You can't hurt me!"
That moment when your like wait...what the fuck and it was only the beginning of everything falling apart.
She looks like the Doll. Have faith good Hunter.
Strange...
Considering all the infromation from Drama CD's and etc...
Project Gestalt wasnt a total failure.
I mean the place where Nier took place was just a part of the whole world.
And there's info that in some places Project Gestalt was succsesful.
So why is humanity extinct?
I mean yeah , techincaly those who managed survive the whole orderal with the project , arent human anymore , but a new species.
Wait , how can they be androids now , if in some parts of the whole world Gestalts joined with their respective Replicants.
I mean they are still should consist of flesh and bones , not from whatever androids are made of.
Tough may be those humans that survived Gestalt Project died when aliens invaded?
I wondered what that black thing was on Eve...
Tough how can that be?
Doesnt that mean that Eve should have his own Gestalt too?
Black Scrawl comes in symbol's on the body of the Replicant whose Gestalt started to Relapse(i.e going berserk)...
Hmmm...
Techicaly humanity could be revived , but only if they will use they DNA that is stored on Moon server.
Also who exactly tough out all that bs with Cycles , to make more advanced androids whlist still making the illusion that humanity survived?
Androids would give up very fast whitout a reason to fight , so some1 came up with plan to advance Android techology for something , but for what?
Humanity is dead...
Unless that someone wants to attack the Alien homeplanet?...
Spiro Dra
I do believe the "Alien Homeplanet" is the world in which Drakengarde took place, so unless they have interdimensional travel, then they can't reach it.
No no.
Alien Homeplanet cant be Drakengard world.
Aliens are aliens , nothing more , nothing less.
Drakengard have the main antagonists , Gods(or just 1 god according to Japanese lore of Drakengard)
Aliens just another species.
They dont have magic , or more accurately its called Maso.
Spiro Dra
Ah, my bad. Been awhile since I visited the lore. Mistook that the aliens were created by the Watchers. Well, thanks for clearing that up.
Meanwhile in the Frontier.....
Soldier: Fuck, we shouldn't left earth! I bet they're having a better time than us!
(For all of those who played Titanfall 2)
Fulcrum 67 stand by for goliath class robot.
They used poisonous gases, and they poisoned their asses!
Omnywrench binary solo
@@davidszekedi2107 100000110001100011000001
Adam and Eve is both male it define that humanity will never be restore and will forever be gone
Imagine you were hit by truck kun and was isekai'd into the nier automata universe
If the giant was transported to the aliens it would hitting 2 birds with 1 stone
IT WAS ALL A LIE!!!
How to get that cut scenes and get the gameplay?
Did u need to play as 9s?
Play New Game Plus. You'll be able to play as 9S, and then you can receive the cutscenes and additional information from his perspective. But it's not over after you finish playing as him, trust me.
Ok but what is the significance of the little picture book at the start? And why was it in the Factory AND the moon server?? It's so cryptic...
3 years late but for the people who are still curious, it's explained in a novel that took place between Replicant and Automata (heavy spoilers obviously).
Shades are the primary mob you face in Replicant and it is revealed deep into the story, that they are the souls of humanity that were separated from their physical body. Reason for this was due to White Chlorination Syndrome, a disease that effectively could not be cured and forced humanity to come up with this method. Humans came up with the idea of separating body and soul (called Project Gestalt) and while this seemed like a good idea, the bodies (named Replicants) started gaining sentience and their own sense of will and thus made it extremely hard for the souls (Shades) to fuse back with them. Through centuries, the Shades started going berserk and only a few people knew about Project Gestalt by the time Nier Replicant took place.
P-33 was a robot that managed to befriend and understand a young Shade. Nier and his crew attacked P-33 and killed the Shade because a client of theirs gaslighted himself into believing P-33 and the Shade killed his brother, when in reality they had nothing to do with it (they just happened to be there at the brother's accidental death). P-33 survived Nier's attack though, went to space, and came across the Aliens' machines and taught them sentience. He was revered as "Prometheus" and was the founder of the machine's complex mind.
@@kaz7690 Thank you for that summary, it's great actually.. but that's not what I meant... although the message itself could refer to that, of course. It could also be Number 9 losing his mind and seeking salvation when he's rid of his body. (death) My question is why Number 9 (9S's distant predecessor), as you can see in the Anime, put this message in the Bunker, but it was also in the Moon Server. (yeah I think I worded it badly 3 years ago) He was the one who prepared the backdoor for the Machine Network to enter and destroy the Bunker and YoRHa, why include this message there? Is it what gave him such despair? Or anger that the wanted all YoRHa gone? (Or I guess, maybe he wanted to defeat despair by keeping the lie that humanity is alive, alive) Who did he intend to see this message? The Machine Network? The YoRHa soldiers before their end? a future predecessor like 9S himself? _That's_ my question. 🤔🤨🧐 quite cryptic Mr Taro.. but it wouldn't be one of his games or stories otherwise.. Also, ALL these storybooks are narrated by Number 9 right? Except Emil's ofc.
Wait, aren't the Resistance people (the ones at the camp with the AK-47s) humans? Or are they androids too?
theyre androids but not yorha androids
@@onlyougi thats why their not affect by the virus
Best game
if this happened, is 2B and 9S alive? ;-;
only 9S
@lord of the onion rings I mean what I say only 9S is alive
@lord of the onion rings I'm refering to the true ending
@lord of the onion rings oh wait shit nvm I'm wrong haha
You don't need a God for a purpose, you make that choice.
Now i know that the commander of Yorha really tasty.... Pure donut and more Yummmy.....😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
The human race died out then the aliens, it was an android robot war
“small bit of data relating to the human genome” oh yeah, the entirety of project gestalt and the replicant server is just a small bit of data
If humans are already dead, then what is the point in fighting anymore? Why does the Commander still want to take back the Earth if the purpose of doing so was to serve their human masters? What are they gonna do if the do take back the Earth?
*le shrug* populate it with androids I suppose
┐(￣ヮ￣)┌ start "families"
Androids were already around when the aliens invaded killing almost all of them, A couple thousand years before the aliens invaded androids started a human heritage restoration program, which tried to rebuild and protect the old world, i'm guessing they didn't want that to get ruined and probably wanted revenge, about a thousand years after that was started is when humanity went extinct.... atleast i think i'v only just started getting into the yokoverse.
aliens are probably chilling in their home planet laughing their asses off.so machines are still technically fighting for something that exists.
Aleins are dead
@@youamazing41 read my comment again.
@@MenderSlen579
Why did the Aliens came in the first place to earth and invade it ? Because their planet is destroyed it's obvious
Bruuuh.
I accidentally skipped this part. thanks!
its not a far stretch to say restoring the human race is the new objective if you want to maintain legitimacy. The genome data is enough. Defend it.
can someone help me at 2:26 im stuck here and didn`t get cutscene all i had to do is wait ....
Kaizer Deku to them, the council of humanity is their god and its there so YorHa stays in line and have a cause, while also trying to take back earth
I'm just now thinking I could probably have inserted that chip on the menu
okay so would bacteria re evolve into humanoids
this is so bittersweet!!!
drakengard lead into nier
Fun fact: Humanity died due to a pandemic that turned them into salt. People fought over the quarantine restrictions and anarchy basically tore the remnants of humanity apart.
Sound familiar?
God just stop!
Covid is just like any other virus on Earth. This is all manufactured fear so you are willing to give up your freedoms to men who couldn't care less about you! Hell Fauci literally made up false information about HIV to make people more fearful!
@@fenrisvermundr2516 Couldn't say better myself. The only pandemic we have is mass manipulation, fear and panic over mild flu.
@@dibelgelo Imbeciles.
fun fact cause by big giant baby with big dragon
Black scrawl Right?
which recording device or software do you use for PS4
Capture with "share" button & edit with Adobe Premiere.
Thnk god I was so shocked by this plot twist that I didn't notice the Commander's poor voice acting. Exspecially compared to 9S.
The voice acting is great
@@genesisspace5331 Nah. Sorry but not here... here it is clear the voice actress is reading her line from the paper. Which gets the job done and her tone matches the character. But defnitely does not match the quality of the main characters including the PODs.
@@markkocsicska2590 I disagree
@@markkocsicska2590 I think you sound stupid
At what point of the game this happens??
Just bought this game but still haven't played it. Is this a huge spoiler that will cause me to not want to even play the game now?
No, play it anyways. But stop looking at anymore spoilers.
No, there's more to the story.
This is the moment that nearly ruins the entire game for me.
Why because it takes away the purpose of fighting or because you think it’s bad storytelling? It’s not bad storytelling this is brilliant
@@janterri3539 The first one. It makes everything you do in the game seem utterly pointless.
@@zaragachizanparo4948 Did you finish this game yet? Because if you haven’t then you are in for a treat. It’ll feel hopeless at first but you’ll see that it has a bittersweet beautiful ending no matter what route you do.
I was wondering something, after you switch back to 2b before she... Y'know, can you read the truth about project yorha to her?
This game is one giant commentary on how america needs to LEGALIZE OPIATES