New NieR Automata Secret Door Confuses Entire Community

Ethan Dickinson July twenty seventh, 2022 – 1:13 PM

For the previous 5 years, PlatinumGames’ 2017 hit NieR: Automata has proven the gaming group a grand (and bizarre) time, boasting an motion RPG stuffed to the brim with wild secrets and techniques and hidden endings, most of which the group appeared to have discovered. That is, till a month in the past, when Reddit person u/sadfutago joined the principle NieR subreddit to ask how you can entry “the church,” additional elaborated on to imply “the place in the underground copied city where you fight the boss adam.” Additionally, whereas Sadfutago can entry this space, their good friend cannot. After their Reddit put up, this sentiment seems to ring true for each different NieR: Automata participant on the earth at this level:  nobody is ready to entry “the church” other than this single participant. 

Now, this isn’t precisely overseas to the world of NieR: Automata, a recreation that incorporates numerous loopholes to entry numerous endings, from merely consuming an “exquisite” Mackerel that paralyzes and kills the participant to a choice to go “on a walk” at key plot factors, successfully ending the sport. Yet, when a well-liked data-miner and modder named Lance McDonald discovered a loophole to the sport’s “real” ending final 12 months, even director Yoko Taro confirmed this because the “final” secret. However, after Sadfutago’s put up, this might not be the case. 

While Sadfutago’s preliminary posts went unanswered, many disregarding this so-called “church,” the Reddit person escalated the stakes, posting a video captured on a mobile phone displaying solely the doorway to the antechamber on the finish of the church. The major video, which follows character A2 as they entry a secret passage and enter a protracted spiraling hallway main down to an enormous church door, appears respectable, from voice strains to cutscenes, however a lot of the group remains to be suspect. Though modding instruments are exhausting to come back by for this recreation, many followers on the NieR subreddit discover that the potential for it being pretend is far greater than the choice; consequently, your entire group is scouring proof for both aspect. 

In assist of the legitimacy of the invention, many followers make the case that that is merely minimize content material, because the group has been conscious of an alternate pre-Beta model of the Copied City and the same church in the same location for the reason that recreation’s launch. Additionally, it’s now confirmed that Sadfutago is utilizing a PS4 and dealing with the 1.00 model of the sport, a lot of the unique content material may nonetheless be there, having not been up to date in 5 years. However, that different church was fairly totally different visually from the one Sadfutago has found. To see whether or not the church’s addition is even believable by means of modding, individuals like Discord person Meowsandstuff have been mocking up comparable church buildings with their NieR modding capabilities, indicating that’s considerably potential however lacking quite a lot of textures and property. People are even dissecting u/sadfutago’s identify to attach it with the sport lore, although the person in query has denied most of the connections skeptics have made. 

Nevertheless, so many extra followers stand in opposition to moderately than for, taking quite a lot of conclusions from the person’s social media interactions: at this put up, most imagine them to be a baby with a Naruto-inspired username who appears simply to echo feedback moderately than reply to them, indicating a decrease grasp of English. Further, Sadfutago has made just a few unintended feedback supporting the discover from their most important account, main many to imagine they’ve an alternate account used for remark assist that they merely forgot to change to. While there are a number of arguments in opposition to Sadfutago’s discovery, readers can discover a complete account of those within the Meowsandstuff-led Google Doc exposé, which was described as a “group effort” by members of the group. For now, nonetheless, the key persists; nobody has been capable of explicitly debunk or assist the random Reddit person’s questionable discovery. As goes the Internet, the dialog will proceed till a proof will be shaped, some extra cynical members of the group believing it to be a easy advertising tactic for the Nier: Automata port coming to Nintendo Switch this October. So, hold your eyes peeled, as there could even be a $500 bounty for the primary individual to place forth any true proof.