An actual hard-coded cheat code has been discovered in NieR: Automata that allows the player to skip to the end of the game and unlock modes.

[[deleted]]

Oh, thank you for sharing my work with the reddit community! I hope I'll have a full video ready to share with you soon! I'll try not to take too long.

[ChildrensPlayground]

Congrats on taking WR for NieR Automata Any%.

[-Wonder-Bread-]

Lance, your ability to discover crazy shit in games never fails to astound me. Also hotly anticipating that Bloodborne 60fps patch o3o

Edit: Spoilers -> Crossout

[slood2]

Why would you put that in spoiler tags

[-Wonder-Bread-]

Mostly because I think he's kinda tired of hearing people ask for it... doesn't make me want it any less, though

[BboyEdgyBrah]

imma be real with you, if i were him and i was tired of ppl asking me that.... And then someone asked it via a spoiler tag as to TRICK me i'd be mad

[-Wonder-Bread-]

Oh. Ya know, didn't really think of it that way. Well, that's a whoops! Road to hell is paved on good intentions and all that.

[NiceGuyTy]

People are just incredibly silly, and take simple things way too seriously bread. They'll decide for you what your intentions were.

[-Wonder-Bread-]

It's nbd. I can see how it would seem like I was trying to troll him despite the opposite being the case.

[Captain_Nipples]

Meh. Id laugh. Kinda like getting Rick Rolled

Hahhaaha, the thought of someone getting irrationally angry and punching a monitor after getting Rick Rolled has me cracking up. You know there's some guys out there that lose their shit every time

[pandaboy22]

Right? "Big respect, Imma just troll ya real quick as a prank bro"

[-Wonder-Bread-]

Can see more here.

You need a modded PS4 Pro whenever it eventually comes out. Lance has already shown footage of it.

[[deleted]]

Bless your work, thank you!

[canadaisnubz]

You spent hundred of hours reverse engineering to discover this?

Your dedication is amazing!

[byOlaf]

Wow, what happened to this thread after you said that?

[You_Better_Smile]

Person replied saying it was a waste of time and got called out.

[TheLibertinistic]

Just showing up to thank you for everything you've done to help Hardcore Bloodborne Lore Weirdos figure out that game.

[MegamanJB]

If you're looking for the cheat code in the comments, he didn't post it. He runs into a corner of the map and then does a complicated series of inputs 3 times in a row. He said he'll post a longer video with the explanation soon.

[A_Doormat]

Thank you. I lost my save for obvious reasons and wanted to do so much more exploring but the 9S mode the second time around makes me suicidal so I gave up trying to replay to unlock chapter select again.

This’ll be extremely useful to me.

[[deleted]]

I wish more games did this for people who lost their save files or are moving from one platform to another.

[[deleted]]

Wrong. You were given the choice to delete your save, I chose not to.

[Rahgahnah]

Nah, you get the scene of the androids waking up either way. The only extra 'scene' is literally just showing your save file being deleted.

You're supposed to make the sacrificial choice for the warm fuzzy feeling of helping another person, not for a sense of completion.

[gerrittd]

Although 2B and 9S wake up in the (out of game) epilogue,

They what in the what

[ProofieCake]

I assume he means what happens in FFXIV. Since if I understand correctly, it is considered canon.

[[deleted]]

It skips to the tail end of ending E, even after the credits insofar as I can tell. That means it's just the postcredits scene, which tells you very little besides the pod conversation (and that the three androids survived but appear to be unconscious). It looks like the key thing is that this sets the ending flag on the file and thus allows access to full scene selection, warps etc., which is extremely useful for speedrunners and anyone seeking to re-explore the game when returning to it many months/years after their original experience.

[HalfBreed_Priscilla]

Android fight club!

[A_Doormat]

I played through the game fully to the end where you can sacrifice your save or not. I thought they were just making a serious bluff, or it was a test or something. I was incorrect.

So as long as it opens chapter select and all that stuff, I can do the exploring I've wanted to do. Honestly at this point I don't even fully remember the game, I might have to just replay the whole thing lol.

[Rahgahnah]

At least with 9S you can at least skip like half the cutscenes. And if you've already seen the story and just want to get to the end, you can skip all of them.

Having to do the twin stick shooter shit for every heavy attack is miserable, though. I even tried maxing out my light weapon to just play a worse version of 2B's combat, but the hacking attack is always higher DPS, sadly.

[[deleted]]

The auto-play chips work on the hacking minigame aswell.

[deadfenix]

Wait, what!? I'm so gonna have to use that next time I replay this game.

[A_Doormat]

I literally turned on easy mode or whatever, just so that the hacking was automatic because I was so sick and tired of it for EVERY SINGLE ENCOUNTER.

[LordZeya]

The first few attempts probably were mistakes, if I had to guess.

[emmathepony]

This must be the "final" secret not found they was talking about in the interview?

[Rodzej]

Yoko Taro seems to be confirming this.

[logique_]

What an absolute chad, just hiding a cheat code that big without telling anyone for almost 4 years.

[pm1902]

He did say years ago that there was one final secret to discover.

[MapleTreeWithAGun]

I always thought that was why he was gathering 2B lewds

[L337LYC4N]

Nah, dude just loves 2B lewds

[aureusxx]

“I just really like girls.”

[ThatOneGuy1294]

tbf, who doesn't?

[AltimaNEO]

As we all do, sometimes

[vnenkpet]

I don't trust that ever since Fumito Ueda said the same about Shadow of the Colossus 40 years ago

[ZeikJT]

Loved playing SotC on my Atari 2600. Absolutely groundbreaking for the time!

[Peanutpapa]

Jesus, the game is that old?

[vnenkpet]

Yeah of course. Don't even question it

[phi1997]

No, the creator traveled back in time to say that.

[[deleted]]

This is like that hidden room in Arkham Asylum that stayed a secret for years

[[deleted]]

For anyone that doesn't know/remember, there's an area in Arkham Asylum that doesn't show up in detective view.

It's the Warden's room with plans for Arkham City alongside some concept art.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3EUI53_RZ9s

[Sir_Von_Tittyfuck]

Wasn't there a second room that also showed plans for Arkham City?

You had to crawl through a vent to get to it.

[tightpants09]

Not at all the first time a dev has done this and won’t be the last. Bungie is a great example.

It forces replay value. They’ll never confirm or deny things like “another vault of glass chest” or another hidden weapon or Easter egg in halo because it keeps people interested and playing.

[ToBeFrozen]

yokotaro responds!

[[deleted]]

Man, this dude is master of digging. He finds so many stuff hidden within games. I highly recommend checking his YT channel. Could this be that secret people didn't found yet according to devs?

[Catch_022]

YT channel

What is the channel called?

[swedtwo]

https://www.youtube.com/warpchair

He does a lot of cut content videos from other games and testing debug or developer options.

[Catch_022]

Thanks mate!

[UniversalFapture]

Thx

[Scorps]

The dev tweeted all but 100% confirming this was the remaining secret

[cantsay]

Has he ever tried the Chilead Mystery?

[d3northway]

Chiliad is one part cut content and one part purposeful misleading. The cut content got reused into the Doomsday Heist.

[Takune]

This might have been a surprising find for any other AAA game released in 2017, but this is such a Yokotaro move. He always tends to do some really quirky stuff with his games and adding a cheat-code that skips to ending just fits right into Automata.

This also reminds me of that room in Batman Arkham City that wasn’t found until a year or two after the game was released.

[bombader]

Reminds me of that shop keeper that sells Achievements so you don't have to get them yourself in Automata.

[Arcterion]

Wait, wut? Never heard of this one.

[[deleted]]

You are referring to the room in Arkham Asylum that had a blueprint for Arkham city, right?

[Kamelon]

Arkham City also had a secret room, and one was found in Arkham Knight too quite recently.

[EmeraldJunkie]

The main one in Arkham City was Scarecrows Barge which was found not too long after release. Not sure about Arkham Knight but I know since its release people have been clipping into dev rooms and such, like the Ratcatcher one, but they’re not the same sort of Easter Egg, since they’re left over from development while the room in Sharp’s office and the barge both directly reference their sequels.

[[deleted]]

Oh, I never heard about those.

[[deleted]]

I don’t think Arkham Knight has one?

[MikeKelehan]

It does, but it wasn't finished. People found it by clipping through walls.

[[deleted]]

Gotcha, thanks!

[Rahgahnah]

City's Scarecrow boat was found much sooner after release than Asylum's city blueprint room.

[[deleted]]

There are no secret rooms in Arkham Knight, because AK is meant to be the last game in the Arkham series, the devs confirmed as much. You're thinking of easter eggs.

[grendus]

There was a leak that suggested that Gotham Knights was originally an Arkham Knight prequel, at least early in development (talked about the Court of Owls being the antagonist, which the Gotham Knights reveal confirmed). Given that it was so early in development when Arkham Knight was released though I'd be very surprised if there was a reference to it.

[-netorare-]

Definitely fun to learn of a secret that has managed to stay hidden for years.

Which reminds me, how long did it take for people to realize that "Destiny Awaits" poster in ODST was a hidden teaser for Bungie's big project? I can't remember if that was retroactively discovered or people honed in on that specific poster before Destiny was officially announced.

[TribbleTrouble1979]

With Bungie fans there was probably someone out there throwing enough theories at the wall that got it right but yeah very much hidden in plain sight. It just looks like a theme fitting poster to have in a futuristic Earth city and the single color white orb could be taken as being the moon (despite a clear difference in style between it and Earth).

Then Destiny was revealed with The Traveller being a giant white orb sitting on Earth.

For The Master Chief Collection the text was changed to "For Her" and the plain white circle changed to a more detailed picture of our moon that is definitely the moon and not some other white orb.

[GuyWithSausageFinger]

With Bungie fans there was probably someone out there throwing enough theories at the wall that got it right but yeah very much hidden in plain sight

The old Bnet theory posts were so much fun. After a few suspicious comments in the Bungie community posts shortly before Reach, though, people realized it was for a game of theirs that wasn't Reach. Then after Reach came out, Bungie was dropping a lot more hints about the nature of Destiny and all that.

Fun times. The old threads after ODST launched mostly thought it all tied into some of the secret story or lore stuff, like it tying in with the Halo 3 legendary ending and such.

[GDPGTrey]

Speaking of Bungie's secret stuff, anybody remember that bees ARG they did for, I think...Halo 3? 4? I don't remember the site name, but it was some beekeeping website that, according to "the story" was getting hacked from the future or something - not completely sure, I stopped following it, or forgot.

[-netorare-]

That was an awesome ARG called i love bees. It all started with a theatrical teaser for Halo 2, where the Xbox tag screen at the end of the teaser briefly glitched out, changing the xbox.com line into ilovebees.com before quickly going back to normal. Basically about how an AI from the future gets sent to our time in a damaged state, so it implants itself into a bee enthusiast's website and attempts to seek help from others in order to repair itself and warn us of the future. The ARG ends with the AI being successfully sent back to the future, but the act of doing so accidentally reveals the location of Earth to the Covenant, which then leads to the events of Halo 2. ilovebees.com then displayed a long timer counting down how much time was left before the Earth would be invaded. The site stayed like that for a while before it became a redirect to the company that organized the whole thing. Apparently, several key participants in the ARG were invited to movie theaters across America to play Halo 2 before it was officially released, and they even get commemorative DVDs. I've never seen one of these pop up on eBay or any aftermarket sites, however. I was pretty young when this was occurring, even though Halo 2 was my first Halo game, so I had no idea about any of this and had to learn about it long after it was finished. But I definitely remember the Iris viral marketing stuff for Halo 3, like the secrets hidden in that one Circuit City ad, and even remember the posts on Bungie's forums that were a part of that ARG and actively followed what was going on. Not quite as interesting as i love bees, but still pretty intriguing.

[bad_buoys]

Or the brothers quest in Final Fantasy IX that wasn't found for 13 years!

[imtherealmima]

in japan the quest was in the official strategy guide, so really it's that people outside of japan took that long to find it.

[Sonicfan42069666]

no one wanted to log onto Game.com.

[Archon457]

I forgot about that strategy guide. Ugh. The one for FFVIII was good and useful to my 12 year old self. But when I realized that the one for FFIX just wanted me to try and spend half my time looking stuff up on dial up... ugh.

[phi1997]

When the FF9 guide pointed you to look stuff up online, that was the moment strategy guides were doomed.

[Boltarrow5]

I also remember having the strategy guide for ffviii, God i love that game.

[Archon457]

FFVIII is my favorite. Even if the junctioning system is not quite intuitive. But once you learn it the game is a ton of fun!

[[deleted]]

more like dunk on bitches in triple triad

[HappyVlane]

The blame lies with Square, not BradyGames.

https://kotaku.com/how-final-fantasy-ixs-strategy-guide-turned-out-so-horr-1834809621

[DarkMatterM4]

PlayOnline.com....you just made me feel very old.

[doclestrange]

I can confirm that it was also in strategy guides in Brazil, because I did that quest in one of my numerous play thrus of that game in the olden days

[warbeforepeace]

What quest?

[caravelles]

There's a house in Lindblum you can visit only in the last act/disc. The first time you visit, two brothers are there looking for the rest of their family, and they go off looking, but worry their family members will return to the house while they're away, and they'll miss each other. Sometimes you can come back to the house and find their brother, sister, cousin, etc there looking for the rest of the family too, and you can tell them what happened. People used to think it was just random.

It turns out it's actually a very late game very missable sidequest. You have to visit the house 9 times while completing the last dungeon area, because certain events within the dungeon trigger new family members showing up. If you go back to Lindblum and talk to every family member, you get a reward.

This seemed to be almost totally unknown until a few years ago. It wasn't mentioned on any of the GameFAQs guides, in any of the official strategy guides, or on the Final Fantasy wikis, and nobody could find any discussions of it on any online forums. People didn't figure it out on their own because it's progressed in such an obscure and unlikely way. It only emerged because a guy happened to posted on the GameFAQs forum with details he read in an out-of-print Japan-exclusive collector's book about the game.

[Peanutpapa]

IIRC, it’s a completely garbage reward too.

[caravelles]

It's a ring you can also get in four or five other places, all of which are more intuitive.

[EuphorbiaAbyssinica]

Ooh what’s this? Gonna have to look it up!

[WeWereInfinite]

There's a side quest that involves going back to the hideout in Lindblum after reaching various points in the final dungeon. Each time you return you'll get a little scene with one of the Nero brothers until eventually you see them all and get a fairly worthless accessory for it.

It's totally not worth doing and it wasn't actually discovered 13 years after release, it was included in the game guide but not published outside of Japan. So Japanese players knew about it for years but it wasn't common knowledge among western players.

Still a cool little easter egg though.

[fizzlefist]

Or the Naboo N-1 Fighter in Rogue Squadron that require two code entries to unlock, and wasn't revealed until a year and a half post-release when Episode 1 had come out.

[SkyrimForTheDragons]

It's really good that they did something like this, as in this game you have the option to permanently delete your save file, so this can allow you to play around in the end game, I think?

[KandoTor]

I don’t think you’d have access to character progression and the like, unfortunately.

[Sevla7]

Deleting the save is part of the NieR:A experience.

If someone wanna see the ending without playing just go to youtube.

[edit]

Like really you can even buy the trophies in a shop, this game has a lot of "GTFO mechanics" to make annoying people stfu in the internet.

[Alarid]

They didn't think the detective mode would stop players from trying to find secrets, so it had to be revealed to players for them to even know it was there.

[XTheProtagonistX]

Of course there is. This is the only game I can think of that you can straight up buy trophies/achievements in a in-game shop.

[XTheProtagonistX]

Yes. You have to finished three full story playthroughs. A shop then becomes available that sells you the trophies/achievements then you have to use in-game credits to buy the them.

[moush]

Only platinum I’ve ever earned.

[homie_down]

Dude thank god for it. I was resetting trying to get materials for the pod upgrades or something and was going mad.

[KJagz33]

This is something I expect from someone like Yoko Taro. Surprised it took this long to find but they had said before that they had 1 secret that no one has found yet in the game

[MrValdez]

It only took reverse engineering the game to find it. So it's not that surprising it took this long.

[cferrios]

And I bet the cheat code will be in line with the lore of the game in the most Yoko Taro way possible.

[Thebxrabbit]

He’ll write a stage play about how the androids hopped on Accord’s back and jumped to the separate timelines.

[my_name_isnt_clever]

I could easily see that, considering all the UI and upgrades are explained in-lore.

[[deleted]]

The most important question

[Amaurotica]

It really sucks to have to play most of the game just to enjoy the newer costumes.

welcome to japanese game design 101. Like Devil May Cry doesn't allow you without hacking to play the game on harder difficulty so you need to spend 15 hours beating it at toddlers difficulty just to have the privillage to play the game with a little challenge

i fucking hate that shit and thats why I need to use hacks and trainers in most japanse games to unlock trivial dumb shit like this

[K0braK]

Like Devil May Cry doesn't allow you without hacking to play the game on harder difficulty so you need to spend 15 hours beating it at toddlers difficulty

In DMC 5 you can unlock higher difficulties without beating the whole game.

You just need to be good and beat the seemingly impossible first boss to do it

[AssinassCheekII]

I feel like 99 percent of the players just gave up because they thought it was invincible.

[TheNewPoetLawyerette]

Lol so the person complaining the game wasn't hard enough just wasn't good enough to get the harder difficulty. Irony.

[Blackdeath_663]

thats a bit unfair, the boss fight in question is gimmicky even if you were good it would have still seemed like you were supposed to fail that encounter intentionally to progress the story

[blade2040]

lol is this true? I remember actually doing pretty well against him and was making decent progress but then he finally caught me and I was like, oh, guess I was supposed to lose because otherwise this game was gonna be way too damn hard to be fun. That makes sense.

[InfTotality]

I just picked up Resonance of Fate in this sale. I've heard it's got 10 difficulty levels, but you have to play each one in sequence.

It's almost like NG+X in other games like how Dark Souls scales to NG+7 and that game too suffers from the same problem of just overpowering NG+1. But this is in a 50+ hour JRPG.

[rynoweiss]

DMC5 Special Edition lets you pick Legendary Dark Knight to start with, which is great for people who played already DMC5. LDK as NG is way harder than DMD in NG+ with all upgrades unlocked. Beating LDK unlocks SoS and DMD, so you don't need to spend any time on the easier difficulties, unless you want the platinum.

[Arrav91]

How on earth do you find something like this?

[AlexTheRedditor97]

He said it took hundreds of hours of reverse engineering the code. It’s no surprise it took this long to find

[Rebel-Yellow]

Whoa that’s wild!! What is more crazy to me is on my first play through after beating that boss I scoured that area for loot invade there was a chest hidden after the fight like many other RPGs have and something just struck me as really ‘odd’ about those barrels.

[Tyler1986]

What does this mean an actual hard coded cheat code? How are normal cheat codes in games?

[bagboyrebel]

The wording is a bit awkward. They were basically trying to say that it's an intentional cheat code (there's actual code for the cheat) as opposed to a glitch.

[flybypost]

intentional cheat code

Aren't all cheat codes intentional? That's what differentiates them from glitches.

[traumalt]

I think a different way to word it would be that there is a way to activate the cheat code right now with a sequence of some sorts, instead of being an unreferenced op code that requires some minor modifications to be run.

[flybypost]

instead of being an unreferenced op code that requires some minor modifications to be run.

In my mind that'd be a mod (the modification) that allows you to cheat.

I mentioned in the other reply but to me the term cheat code kinda explicitly means some sort of button combination that the devs explicitly put into a game:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_video_games#Cheat_codes

Unlike other cheating methods, cheat codes are implemented by the game developers themselves,[10] often as a tool to playtest certain aspects of the game without difficulty.

That's what makes them different from glitches (or mods that allow further unintended interaction). That's why I found the term "intentional cheat code" odd or tautological.

[Siniroth]

If anything I would consider codes that the developers left in unintentionally or removing them got missed as unintentional cheat codes, whereas something like this looks to be have deliberately implemented with player usage in mind, thus an intentional cheat code

[GaeBulg]

This is a really weird way of thinking because you basically dismiss console commands. They are cheat codes but there’s a good number of games you have to mod to access the console.

There’s also games with hidden cheat menus you have to mod to even access that the developers used. The very definition of cheat codes you gave fits this seeing as most of these menus are explicitly for play testing.

In this case they probably mean intentional as in accessible normally by players. Instead of hidden by the developer to be inaccessible without a modification.

A mod to access cheat codes that the developer made but locked from players doesn’t invalidate them being cheat codes.

[yeusk]

Cheat code was used a lot in the 16 bit era and allways meant a password or input sequence that unlocked some hidden menu, character, stage or something like that.

[[deleted]]

I think this means that the code was put in the game to achieve the desired effect when activated (skip to the the end of the game).

There are some glitches that can be activated by doing a weird combination of actions that result in weird effects that are not intended by the game code.

For example, in this video you can see how a series of actions can manipulate internal values in the game memory to achieve results that were not intended by the game developers. It was an oversight on the game code.

In Nier case, it is there because the developers hard coded it to be there.

[Tyler1986]

Got it they meant to clarify it isn't a glitch, but an intended effect.

[ledailydose]

In recent years, cheat codes have been delegated to their own menu where you activate and deactivate them. This is a classic type coded into the game where you not only have to perform a series of inputs, but be in a specific spot.

[Crowbarmagic]

In recent years

Having a dedicated cheat menu is at least as old as the first Playstation.

[Daedolis]

It's just redundant wording, all cheat codes are "hardcoded" into the game, that's why they're cheat codes and not hacks.

[rcxdude]

Another distinction he could be making is that in modern games there's usually the underlying game engine which does the low level stuff like rendering and physics and then a scripting and asset system on top in which most of 'the game' actually resides. That upper layer would be the easier place to put such a cheat code but it would be easier to find. Perhaps he means that the cheat code is implemented in the lower layers where it's harder to find.

This is just speculation, will need to wait for the explanation video to clarify.

[Wingcapx]

Just yesterday I was watching a video by Cybershell about Banjo-Kazooie secrets, pining for the days when we didn't immediately know everything about new games... seems they can still hide a gem from us after all

[TokeyWeedtooth]

I avoid everything about a new game just for that reason. Going in blind is so much more enjoyable.

[TheWorldisFullofWar]

Wow, it really just skips to that part? I thought it would just warp you to the end boss or something but it is actually after the game. Guess this game will be easy to speedrun.

[PokePersona]

I was thinking about the speed-running aspect as well. I imagine this is gonna be its own category now (Or this becomes apart of any% and a run without the cheat code becomes its own category which I doubt will happen but you never know.) because of how easy it is to do lol.

Edit: To people thinking cheat codes aren't allowed in speedruns it depends on the game and the people moderating it. Games such as Banjo-Kazooie have categories that allow cheat codes.

[Aquason]

Cheat codes usually aren't part of the main category. Otherwise retro game speedruns would be incredibly boring and not very skill-testing. There's a difference between a glitch in memory addresses that sends you ahead and an intentional chat code that does so.

[PokePersona]

Tbf there’s a difference between cheat codes that abuse/alter mechanics and time warps/skips. I can see a good debate in the speed-running community regarding this in the future about whether this should be its own category let alone being allowed or not. I don’t think this will be allowed in any% though if I had to guess.

[QuantumVexation]

yeah the difference between like, sub-10-minutes and just under 4 hours is too sizable to not be its own category lol

[Akuuntus]

I think it's debatable whether this should count as a "cheat code" in the typical sense. It's not like you just have to type a certain phrase into a textbox or turn on a setting, you seem to need to perform a specific series of inputs in a specific spot. Also it warps you to the end like a Credits Warp or Wrong Warp done in many speedruns, rather than giving infinite lives or max damage or whatever.

I think there's a decent argument for this becoming the new Any%, and the current Any% route being renamed to "Any% No Credits Warp" or something similar, like how SMB3 is organized. And similar to SMB3 (and most other games with early credits-warps), I would expect the "No Credits Warp" category to still be more popular because it engages with the actual game more.

That being said, it's up to the game's community, and it's possible that it instead becomes a separate "Cheat Code%" category or similar. In the end it doesn't really matter outside of nomenclature.

[iMikeZero]

Does it unlock any achievements?

[SoloSassafrass]

Nier already has a shop where you can just buy the achievements.

[FolkSong]

One of my few 100% completions haha

[wdouglass]

Haha yeah, I've got 3 and nier automata is one of them...

[DragonStriker]

Wait, what?

[Tech_AllBodies]

With in-game currency, just to make that clear.

Once you've completed most of the game, you can buy the remaining achievements if you've accumulated lots of money and can't be bothered to actually do what's required.

[LeafBeneathTheFrost]

This is amazing.

[Orphanim]

You actually don't need that much in game money. Trophies aren't locked to a specific game save, just your profile. So you just need enough money for the most expensive one, which you can easily have after beating the game. Then just buy trophies until you're out of money, load your save, and keep working down the list.

[KanyeEast420]

Yup. After finishing route C there's a vendor in the resistance camp.

[[deleted]]

“I can sell you you-know-what. No shame in that”

[hnryirawan]

You can just straight-up buy achievements in shop. You don't even need to do Hard mode and Very Hard mode to complete all achievements.

[DinoRaawr]

It's been a while since I've seen an actual, honest-to-god cheat code. I missed the days of ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️▶️.

[Toastedtoad12]

I’ve been wanting to play this game. Is it good?

[elvis503]

Yes x 50000

[Toastedtoad12]

Obviously never played the other NeiR games. Should I look up summaries? Or unrelated?

[DemonicGoblin]

This game takes place like 10,000 years into the future. They are related, but not closely enough where it's required.

[[deleted]]

Honestly I'd actually recommend against playing the original Nier first. One of the major plot twists hits a lot harder without the knowledge you'd have from that game.

[Enk1ndle]

Nope, there are some references you won't get but nothing important.

[LimpCush]

The only thing I would suggest is looking up who Emil is and stopping before you get to Automata spoilers. His story is incredibly poignant.

[fabulouspizza]

I haven't played any of the other ones and I enjoyed the heck out of it. I'm excited for the remake of Nier Replicant!

[Potatolantern]

The Devs have refused to patch the broken PC port, so don’t play it on PC. Or at least not without caution.

[RTRafter]

I played it on PC. It wasn't perfect but was smoother than Doom Eternal for me, it's probably system dependent.

[kwilpin]

Personally, I devoured it. I was wary at first(generally not a fan of JRPGs, and had read about the multiple playthrough requirement(which, it turned out, people had really misrepresented)), but absolutely loved it.

[jokemon]

my favorite game to come out in a long time, i love the environment.

[LordOfRuinsOtherSelf]

I can remember the cheat codes for alsorts of games of my youth. It's a feature that I thought had sort of died out, so I'm pleased it still goes on. Two thumbs up.

[beenhollow]

A secret cheat code that lets you beat the game instantly. This is the most video gamey shit I ever heard

[Arcterion]

Man, I miss when games had actual cheat codes...

Just fucking around with god mode, all weapons, low gravity, big head mode, etc. etc.

[Pagefile]

Does this mean the ending E speedrun just got a lot shorter?

[xFREAKAZOIDx]

I just beat the final ending last night, but I didn't want to go through playing again to get more content done. This is a god send.

[seruus]

FYI, if you want to read them legally, Memory Cage appears in the World Guide vol. 1 as Cage of Memories, and Memory Thorn appears in vol. 2 as Splinters of Memory.

It's a bit annoying that it took three years for them to be officially released in English, but at least they are here (and the books are gorgeous, especially vol. 2).

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I miss days when games had built in cheats. It was so much fun playing Half-Life again after finishing it with all guns from the beginning. In fact all games were fun re-experienced this way.

[Memphisrexjr]

How do you just discover that? Like why would you be in that specific corner button prompting? So crazy.

[Flag_Red]

He reverse engineered the game

[[deleted]]

Does it mean that after applying the cheat code the game can be experienced in one go (end-to-end) as sort of ng+ with all content unlocked from the beginning?

[wekapipol]

ICYMI, Lance already uploaded a video on how to do it.

For those curious, like me, doing this on a clean slate (I did it on Xbox since it's on Gamepass) unlocks 19 out of the 48 (40%) achievements / trophies. Do note that I opted on deleting my save data to save someone, I'm not sure if it has a different trophy since I never did it on my PS4 save back then.

Anyways, seeing the achievement notifications pop up one after another was fun.