Deny: Automata’s game-hopping cheat uncovered almost four years after release

Nier: Automata is a very strange game, with multiple “endings” needed to actually see its final ending, and some of its content actually repeated from a different character’s perspective. It all comes together to deliver one of the most memorable conclusions in video games, but one smart gamer has managed to find a way to let you skip almost anything. We are not really sure Why you would like, but it is apparently possible.

Major spoilers for Nier: Automata to follow!

Once you’ve unlocked the ‘E’ ending in Nier: Automata, you’re presented with a final credits streak that sees other players’ save data helping you in a retro firing streak to defeat the text itself. . Completing this gives you the option of sacrificing your own save data – thus erasing all of your progress – in order to give another player the chance to beat the game as well. This is where Twitter user Lance McDonald comes in.

McDonald’s hasn’t fully detailed the inputs you need to activate the cheat, but has promised a full video will be coming soon. In the teaser above, it shows that you have to kill the game’s first boss, which is at the end of an action sequence required to open the game. After that, it moves to the back of the game. arena, jump a few times, then have the option of sacrificing their save data without playing the rest of the game.

It’s the game’s “last secret” that the developers teased several years ago, that the Twitter account for Japan revealed shortly after its publication. Deny: Automata has over 20 endings, most of them jokes, and five are required to see the actual conclusion. Game director Yoko Taro appeared to confirm the cheat with a response from him on January 3.

Nier: Automata’s predecessor, Nier: Replicant, is getting a re-equipped and remastered version called Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139 … on April 23. The game will be released on PS4, Xbox One, and PC, and features reworked combat more similar to Automata.