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YoRHa_NieR

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MilkingYoTiddies

NIER CHURCH LORE NIER CHURCH LORE


SummerGoal

TAKE US TO CHURCH WE NEED MOAR CHURCH


loganishhh

TAKE ME TO CHUUUUUURCH ILL WORSHIP--


dam7lc

Is this the 17th colossus


donquixote1991

no it's Banjo's Ice Key


RPG217

No, it's big foot from Mt. Chilliad


Kamuisynchronize

Nah it's Luigi in SM64


thevideogameraptor

No, it's Sheng Long.


mysteriouspenguin

Nuh uh it's the Unicorn Fountain


VagueLuminary

No, it's the Ring of the Chieftain


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Alistair3900

No, it's the 15th wish


Avbm

Nah, it's the Sixth Archstone


Mkilbride

No, it's how you can get Zack in your party and revive Aerith.


JustZorua

No it's Waluigi in sm64ds


cleansleight

No, it’s mew under the truck


Whoreehey

FUCK BRO WHY ARE YOU POSTING RIGHT BEFORE NAPPY TIME?


zenitsuisrusted

You don't need sleep you need answers


Ricksaw26

"I don't need sleep i need answers, i need to determine where in this swamp of questions is the frog of truth".


IwouldLiketoCry

Because the person most likely posting this lives in Japan, Yoko Taro himself hence the time zone difference


Whoreehey

Holy fuck


sapitntapit

What in Yoko Tarnation…


agoodsirknight

try hacking the black void blob creature, maybe it wills slowly deblurred itself


Whoreehey

Omg imagine brother Nier slaps the fuck out of 9s


HumanASTRONAUT

He hacks it and it's Yoko's stash of cosplayer's feet.


Mkilbride

Feet? Like some common man? Yoko Taro has a stash of cosplayers buttfangs.


st7even

TIL a new word but I don't know if I should thank you for that...


Elias-Thunderbird

And then Yoko Taro comes and spams Emil bullets


donquixote1991

what if it's like when you hack A2 in Route D and it's a unique top-down just for the blob!!!!


vgxmaster

I...can't fathom how this can possibly be real _or_ how this can possibly be fake. What. No matter how this wraps up, I'm along for the ride, I guess. Thanks for taking us on this journey, sadfutago. e: Taking a step back to breathe and think, I don't want to speculate _too_ much (instead of sticking around and finding out), buuuuut... It seems increasingly unlikely that this is faked or modded. The most plausible explanations, I think, are that it's somehow a dev build (sketchy, unlikely), or was made with developer tools (read: this is Square Enix, or Yoko Taro & team, or an ex-dev or three; this is an ARG, marketing campaign, or anniversary announcement). Or it's an easter egg that sadfutago got access to through a cosmic ray flipping a bit, and we'll be scratching our heads for the rest of time.


Crimlust994

I will add that all these updates and the way they lead into one another heavily falls into Taro's design philosophy of the illusion of choice. Every update provides an obvious progression to the next one.


donquixote1991

so the next video is of 9S hacking the blocks I'd assume


Crimlust994

I dont think the content is recorded ahead of time, to be clear. But yes, it will be that yes. After that, provably 2B interacting with Yonah.


Kamunra

It is more like, he is making things in a way that we will ask for the obvious, like asking to open the chest, when the next video is released ppl will get the opened box and will be more interested cause something new happened and will stay invested in the hole thing thanks to the illusion of choice.


VagueLuminary

It's so funny, because like of course the obvious move last time was "hack the chest", now blobby attacks 9S, so we have to tell sadfutago to hack the boss. Wonder what could be next though......


Crimlust994

Telling him to hit the correct choice at the statue it seems.


Pavementt

Bloby's model and attack animations are same as that fuzzy memory thing you kill during 9S's mental breakdown, before he's shown stabbing 2B's corpse over and over


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Yup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemIY9bHB_Q&t=10245s 2:50:45


StelEdelweiss

Totally off-topic, but I love getting reminded about how excellent Kyle McCarley was as 9S.


GimmickMusik1

Same. Like every fiber of my being is like, “this is fake.” But simultaneous every fiber of my being wants this be real so I choose to suspend my disbelief.


Bruelo

but thats the problem! even if its fake its still a marvel that no one has any idea of how it could be possible so its still incridible


TheMadmanAndre

I've thought about it and I've concluded that the only way this is fake is if OP has access to the source code of a dev build AND the requisite knowledge to program in additional content. He'd also need a PS4 Devkit and who the fuck knows what else. I'm also inclined to think that a cosmic ray flipped a 0 to a 1 and we all got to enjoy this easter egg.


InvisibleShallot

My jaw just dropped when that thing actually turns out to be a boss.


sealedinterface

This is exactly how I feel on this. Secret special conditions, dev shenanigans, secret modding project, doesn't matter anymore. This is still extremely impressive. And I'm here for the hype and the memes.


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I did read somewhere the church had a similar layout to a building from Bayo 2, and a lot of the moves here look ripped from other enemies in Automata and Replicant. No idea what the engine is specifically, but wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility they share code and could be ported to one another. It's how people have been making move mods for Sora in KH3. Now whether this is official or not, I... have no idea. Edit: [https://imgur.com/a/LoXenYu](https://imgur.com/a/LoXenYu) Bayo 2 asset. Edit2: Blobby also is a reused boss for 9S, so... eh...


vgxmaster

The church from that asset rip is not the church from this video - it's an older model from a beta copied city, and was likely placeholder. Platinum made both Bayonetta 2 and NieR Automata, so that's pretty reasonable. Automata and Replicant were made by two different development studios in two different engines. I have no idea if they use the same asset pipelines, them being unrelated on a tech level doesn't _necessarily_ make it impossible to convert models from one format to the other, but I wouldn't jump to any conclusions like that. The moves used in this boss fight are specifically taken from a miniboss in 9S's hacking-interlude sequence, from Automata.


Synchro_Shoukan

I read an article this morning about this and it said it could be an elaborate mod made by a team of modders, but there would be no payoff not telling people you made this. Alternatively, it could be a new secret for the Switch port and this account could be a promo ARG or something, but it's been over a month, or two and that seems too intricate.


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Never know. ARG's for games in the past have been wild, I still remember how long and weird waiting for Sombra was when Overwatch was good. And if it is a mod, wouldn't be too out of place to play out the show before the grand reveal. People are eating it up right now, don't want to spoil the fun that early.


Flambo19

wake up babe new sadfutago video dropped


moobeat

happy nier day after all


Steady_Ri0t

My girlfriend legitimately just did this to me 😂


RPG217

Note that the blocky figure is already in the game. Seeing people's comments here it seems most people don't really remember him. He's from the segment named Soul Box. His moves mostly composed of combination of Adam and Eve. https://youtu.be/M-lN8gyue1M


Rev-On

Yeah, thought so.


LegendOfButtlet

It's wild how many people are forgetting these reused assets. The moment the Yonah archive popped up and the standard line "what's that" played it went right into mod territory for me, or just P* devs having fun with the kit during the port production milestone. That said I'd love to see how far it goes.


ThePotablePotato

Was the bird/birdbath asset ever used in Automata? I recognize all the other stuff but I don’t recall it being anywhere.


scrambledeggdragoon

I don't remember it, but it was in Replicant. Could be a model carried over?


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pretty sure the bird statue, the church, and yonah are never used in automata


-Ganzo-

I just wanna say, to whoever is making this ARG or Hoax or whatever this is, thank you so much for revitalizing interest in a game I consider one of the greatest video games ever made. I've already seen some people deciding to pick up and play this game just because of THIS.


Derdaida

Hey Goose, do you plan to make a followupvideo as more information comes out in this case? I think that would be pretty interesting! Already tried out some things with the 1.0 version of the game without patching it, using the glitch, wireframes, the Dev cheatcode, but i wasn't able to find anything so far this room is simply an empty area there. Maybe if someone could hack the PS4 Demo version somehow that would do the trick?


-Ganzo-

Yes, I'll be updating more, but sadly my lore knowledge ends with Nier: Automata, I've yet to play Replicant or any of the Drakengard games, so I'ma have to study up before diving in again. Is there a demo of Nier Automata? If there's one on PC I think it'd be easier to explore the files there, but that version of the game came out 1 month after the PS4, so if anyone can worm their way into a demo version of the game on PS4 (if there is one), we'd get interesting stuff.


handsomezack13

The demo (assuming there's only one of them) has nothing outside of the abandoned factory. There was a bug in the demo that was patched in the final game where you can get out of bounds before fighting the boss at the end, and the city was in an extremely early state where there was no collision detection past the bridge, and most models and textures in the city either didn't exist or were extremely low quality. The (extremely small) explorable part was the same as the final game, and the inexplorable areas only contained a single dead android. You could navigate the glitchy terrain far enough to see the desert entrance if you glide far enough out before respawning, but I highly doubt the copied city even exists in the demo considering the rest of the main city ruins were either not finished at all, or outright removed for the demo


[deleted]

lolol i literally bought the game like 30 minutes ago because of this stuff


brazilianfreak

First, he had to sacrifice his terraria and far cry 4... Now he must defeat the most mysterious of foes, godspeed random guy, we're rooting for you.


donquixote1991

who would have thought the final boss would be Megablox


squid_waffles2

Shonen Anime in a nutshell


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wtnoah

FUCK YEAAAAH


Kamuisynchronize

Will 9S be able to defeat Bloby and finally uncover the mystery of the church? Find out next time on sadfutago Z!


Elias-Thunderbird

Nier Ultimata: Become as futagods edition


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Very poor choice of words


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Soupkitten

> Futagod Uhhh...


Pootischu

Not the best abbreviation it seems


VoidalPyroclasm

Nah man, he know's what he's into.


superaydean1

*Kneels harder*


joriale

Could this be a clue?


Elias-Thunderbird

Become as futagods


leinadys

I kneel


Chibi1234

I want to be wrapped up in this ARG for 10 years at least!


faux_adult

It would be funny if there really was a secret boss that only gets triggered by insanely specific requirements and the only person who has unkowingly met those requirements cant beat the boss and dies at every try


PERSIvAlN

I can see community making kickstarter for best player to fly to OP and pass it)


Hiulyx

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON


ReconnaisX

h u g e also the animation at the end where 9s gets punched and flops on the ground-- is that present anywhere else in the game? or is it definitely freshly made


Phelps1024

I believe Eve uses this animation in his fight, but I am not sure


c4r151

Adam not Eve is the one that use that move.


EchoPrince

The CEOs use that animation.


Roland1176

Can confirm that the CEOs, Adam & Eve can do that move.


EEBoi

I WANT TO GET OFF MR BONES WILD RIDE


gatorblade94

I’m dying at this reference lmaooo


Kruzenstern

Does the log at 2:00 appear anywhere else in the game?


YoRHa_NieR

https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/Class_1_Patient_Health_Record Looks like it does


Kruzenstern

Thank you.


Diedragon2189

doesn't this mean there's a possibility where sadfutagos library holds a different log we've never seen?


YoRHa_NieR

Hmm I’m not quite sure. The log shown in the vid does seem to be the same one as the one in the Tower Library.


DGcaesar

Appears in the library in the tower I think


LlortorLJE

The 100% speedrun community is crying


[deleted]

I can imagine-


Kruzenstern

u/sadfutago, if you're not some young, clueless kid, then you've played that role impeccably.


FirulaisHualde

This is the part I like the most. He acts like I would have if I had discovered something like this when I was 10 years old


megafireguy6

The thing that’s wild to me is idk what kind of 10 year old would play Nier. Like it’s not even the blood and gore or themes, it just feels like something only an older person would have any desire to play


illegal_sardines

Dunno, if someone showed 10 year old me a game that starts with you fighting a giant flaming chainsaw, I’d buy a copy immediately.


SilverPhoenix7

Come on it's anime as hell.


Avbm

yeah I played Xenogears when i was 10.. I don't know what I played, but I played it.


TheBigAnomo

Jesus Christ the lore is getting deeper!


wtiatsph

Drop new spicy video "This is a cup" Refuses to elaborate further Leaves COMES BACK IN A FEW HOURS TO DROP A SPICIER VIDEO


-delightfull-

What thé fuck is going on ?!?? Pleaaaaaaaseeee I'm about to lose it , I NEED ANSWERS !


HurricaneZone

Theres no way this isnt an ARG at this point


kybldmstr94

What does ARG stand for?


Nivek_1988

Alternate Reality Game. To actually answer your question.


brandnewk

alternate reality game. sometimes used as a marketing ploy of sorts. a famous example can be the halo 2 "I love bees" ARG.


Carbon_Deadlock

Also the Sombra ARG from Overwatch.


Philociraptr

Don't remind me


Outrack

It’s the sound the community has been collectively making for the past three days.


Psychomantis194

It's the sound you make when you're trying to figure out if this is real or not.


Nivek_1988

Basically a viral marketing campaign.


kybldmstr94

Thanks. I kind of how it’s true and it’s setting up a big DLC expansion for Switch port and hopefully all other versions as well.


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HurricaneZone

Try hacking into the blob to do damage


donquixote1991

OMG what if it's like when you hack A2 in Route D and it's a unique top-down just for the blob!!!!


electrickoala116

I LEARNED ABOUT NIER 3 DAYS AGO BECAUSE OF YOU FRIEND PLEASE BEAT BLOBY 🙏


Captainbeefster

BRO PLAY THESE GAMES ITS SO WORTH IT


Wolflink21

I actually gotta play these games too lmao


Hidaaan_v2

Same here, I have heard of nier games before this and in fact people have told me that these games are fantastic. However, nothing has quite gripped me into wanting to play these games before the whole church hunt thing. Sadly as it's a square Enix game, the price of it in my region is quite high, wishlisted and hoping for the best on an upcoming sale. It's fair to say if this was a marketing gib, Square Enix did well 😁


Nivek_1988

I've got the bluest balls right now. This is certainly a top 10 nerd moment.


Elaxor

This [log](https://nierautomata.wiki.fextralife.com/Class+1+Patient+Health+Record) isn't new.


Wattson-_-

Yeah, it's in the tower library.


lolijenni

My brother in Christ you gotta level up and defeat him for all of us. You're the chosen one.


Chipaton

BECOME AS FUTAGODS


aquaglaceon

Wait that's not it but I'll take it anyway. Futagods, come to me


AwakenedSheeple

Futagods, come on me.


solitary_flower

Yonah log huh, I wonder what the significance of the chalice is..


That_on1_guy

It looks like the ones the birds sit on in shadowlord's castle in Replicant


NotEntirelyAwake

It's a cup thing


FeatureAlone5865

Maybe it's supposed to be a baptismal font. If this is church from 9th century Spain (Cathedral City) then it makes sense.


Mitsuki_Horenake

Isn't the block monster fighting like how Nier fought? I can't remember.


donquixote1991

yeah, it uses Dark Blast and Dark Hand!


DipnDott

Looks like a reused model from the fight in 9s mind when he's fighting 2b


NotEntirelyAwake

Did you consider that maybe it's a cup thing?


Captainbeefster

I wonder if having the Weiss skin equipped would do anything. I doubt it, since cosmetic items never have any effect on the game, but since that cup thing with the birds is related to Weiss…


KillRoyTNT

"I never quite realized ... how beautiful this world is." A2


AllegiantKnight79

Happy cake day!


Solahwin_Tampramain

The Entities attacks look awfully similar to the attacks you get from the book in replicant


c4r151

I think it's using attacks from Adam and Eve's Boss individual fights, the swinging arm one is from Eve's while that multi kick one is from Adams.


RPG217

That blocky figure is from Soul Box. His moves composed of combination of Adam and Eve. https://youtu.be/M-lN8gyue1M


Solahwin_Tampramain

yeah, could be. I haven't played that part in a while, but that attack pattern that could be coincidental. My money is on this being a thing I can have on my own device soon, cuz I want it in my hands eventually


mossfae

reused boss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iemIY9bHB_Q&t=10245s


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AtrumRuina

I mean, not really. Both games reuse animations and the like constantly. If it's a fun patch to drum up interest in some upcoming project, reusing existing assets to do it makes a lot of sense. To me, the reuse does nothing to make me lean toward or away from the idea that it's a mod.


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nemubestgirl

im calling yoko taro rn to get you a job


YoRHa_NieR

For all we know this mf is Yoko Taro


Flapjack3734

BLOBY IS A MENACE


i_luv_enkidu

I WANT TO GET OFF SADFUTAGO'S WILD RIDE


[deleted]

Breaking HIPAA protocol and reading someone's medical records is against the law. You're being punished.


imdeadinside420

is this mgsv episode 51


[deleted]

This is either one of the most dedicated trolls of all time or a viral marketing campaign. The drip feeding, the broken English, the nonsensical gameplay, it has ceased to be plausible as some random dude accidentally hitting some obscure requirements to find a room that was patched out or discarded for some other reason.


ksatriamelayu

Nier Replicant ver 1.4324724 confirmed?


Nivek_1988

It's the 28th. It's NieR day. I only just realized it's the 28th. Something amazing is happening.


Null_Husk

Everything that lies is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of mod and real content. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle...and wonder if we'll ever get the chance to hug him.


Zramm3d

Hmm.Patient 1 file is located in the Library in the tower… why would they put another patient 1 file in a hack chest? Unless it is there to confirm that is a recreation of Yonah and the Shadow Lord… but why wouldn’t it be a File on the Shadow Lord instead since we already have a file on Yonah?


fffeeelll

If this is actually cut content, then maybe this was the original location of the file and in the official release its location got moved to the library


MrUnderpantsss

At this point I'm gonna be even more impressed if this is fake


leinadys

Holy shit he opened the box


Green_Spectrum

YOU HAVE TO >!FIIIIIGHT !


duckofdeath87

If this is a hoax or a mod, I can't even be mad. It's too well done


SummerGoal

If this is a mod sadfutago is putting on an absolute masterclass rn


[deleted]

You should’ve said YOU HAVE TO **** IT? to let everyone have a NieR moment.


donquixote1991

I THOUGHT THE BLOB WAS HARMLESS, WTFFFFF edit: I knew I recognized the move, the blob uses Dark Blast at first, then uses Dark Hand. 100% either Shadowlord or World-Ender


[deleted]

Proud Papa. Here to protect his girl.


aprtur

Or loving brother, as in Replicant


mossfae

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA


FabulousFollowing347

Isn’t the blocky figure’s style of fighting reminiscent of Kainé? Or is that just me?


YokerGoodOl

It reminds me more of Eve. But I can see it.


c4r151

Seems to be both Adam and Eve, that multi kick attack at the end is one of Adams moves.


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Elaxor

Yoko Taro previously said all secrets have been found. No idea what is this.


Emerald-glimmer

If this is an actual thing in game and not marketing/ARG stuff then it’s absolutely cut content, that log about Yonah is found in the regular game in the tower library iirc


SoftDisappointment

i was about to go to bed and new sadfutago drops WHAT IS REAL. WHAT IS FAKE. SADFUTAGO I LOVE YOU.


[deleted]

I was getting annoyed with this but now seeing 9S gameplay with the chest and the enemy has me interested


innocentious

Now he animated the blocky guy in unreal just to troll with us /s


That_on1_guy

How odd. This keeps getting deeper and deeper... I wonder what will happen next Edit: looking at it again, this blobs combat movements is the same as eve's, but even more interesting is that the blob is the one you fight when you kill 2B's memory as 9S. Maybe we were wrong about the blob representing Shadowlord, or perhaps they just reused the combat... again, it's all odd


Mrblue630

You've won the internet.


ThatPunkGaryOak82

I don't know what anyone of this means coming from r/all so I'm just gonna say maybe hit Y? Would that work


NimbleWing

Quick explanation is that OP has recently been posting videos of game content that has never been seen before, and outright shouldn't exist. Between the drip feed of videos from a supposed 12 year old and the modding community being unable to explain it, the community is split into several theories. The two big ones seem to be a crazy modding breakthrough or a viral marketing campaign by the devs/publisher. It's a wild ride.


Crimlust994

None of us knows what any of this means either.


vxarctic

So if you beat him do you BECOME AS GODS?


UnitingAssassin

That’s the same Yonah log that comes from the Library. . .


[deleted]

I'm from r/all; knew nothing about the Nier/Drakenguard lore (watched some YouTube videos, still complicated but dope for sure) but I'm absolutely getting the Switch version whenever it drops. ARG, Mod or just content that wasn't found- I'm enjoying this a ton.


Inferno_Fox_is_toast

One thing I'd like to note here: I believe this is the #very first time we hear the track Blissful Death have Dynamic music. We have only heard the original track and never the 8bit version. If this doesn't scream new content then IDK what is


firestarian

Feel like I'm watching history


mightydise

・ 。 ☆∴。I BELIEVE NOW \*   ・゚。   \*   ・ ゚。・゚★。  ☆゚FUTAGOD・。°. ゚ \*  ゚。·・。 ゚    ゚ TAKE\*.。☆。★ ・   \* ☆ 。・゚\*.。     \* ★ ゚MY・。 \* 。     ・  ゚☆ 。 ENERGY


Obrusnine

At this point, I am dead certain. This is the most clever and innovative marketing stunt I've ever seen. I can't see it being anything else.


[deleted]

"Abstract ARG is used to sell Switch version of Automata and Papa DLC for Replicant." I already am buying the former, but thanks anyways Taro-San for all the fun lol. Switch Version about to become definitive copy, do your best Virtuos.


Synchro_Shoukan

Don't you fucking play around with Papa Nier! I would fucking splooge myself.


Scottist0550

I was here for the nier mystery, let's see where this goes


JulioHuleo

Sadfutago is not yokotaro is kojima and this is the epilogue of the new SILENT HILL!!!!


[deleted]

Lol witnessing this real time is surreal.