#Final NieR: Automata Secret Discovered Nearly Four Years After Launch

“#Final NieR: Automata Secret Discovered Nearly Four Years After Launch”

It's always intriguing when a game that's been a fan favorite for years still has some tricks hidden deep within it. That's been the case with NieR: Automata for a while now, but one diligent player finally uncovered the last hidden secret, three years and 10 months after the action game's initial 2017 launch.

The secret in question is a cheat code that lets players skip to the last ending and unlock bonus modes right after beating the first boss. According to @manfightdragon, who invested "hundreds of hours of reverse engineering" into this discovery, this isn't a glitch, but a hard-coded cheat.

Here's the tweet about the discovery, which was shared by game director Yoko Taro. If you've yet to play NieR: Automata, you'll want to stop reading now to avoid spoilers and, hey, why not play it? It's an incredible game.

I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that allows you to skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes. I'll do a full video soon. It's not a glitch, it's an actual cheat code hard-coded into the engine. @yokotaro pic.twitter.com/FtuNPovq6F

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) January 3, 2021

And, as promised, here's the full video showing the trick in action:

Looks like we'll soon have a bunch of new any% speedrun records!

Via Destructoid

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his brand new comic, MONSTER FLIGHT, at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

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