History Awesome / NierAutomata

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura Stahl and James Anthony (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans and followers of Kyle's channel, specifically the users Jhei_, Emil3361, Avatism, and depotagents.

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura Stahl and James Anthony (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans and followers of Kyle's channel, specifically the users {{Jhei}}_, Emil3361, {{Avatism}}, and {{depotagents}}.

** As of this edit, it has gone on to be the 9th best selling game on the Playstation 4. A very impressive feat for the sequel to a fairly obscure spin-off that was a cult classic at best.

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura and James (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans and followers of Kyle's channel, specifically the users {{Jhei}}_, Emil3361, {{Avatism}}, and {{depotagents}}.

* Pod 042's method for dealing with [[spoiler:Terminals attacking A2's Logic Circuit]] inside the Tower: [[spoiler:feeding them ideas of diversity of life and evolution, which leads to both Terminals' Red Girls (a HopelessBossFight until that point) ''annihilating each other'' over difference in ''opinion'']]. In other words...

** It's also worth noting that this dub was a ''cold reading''. The group wanted to experience the same amount of shock in regards to the revelations in the script that the people watching did, so they didn't read any of the script until the actual reading. The fact that they were able to do so and stay completely in character almost the entire time really speaks to how good this group is at voice acting.

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura and James (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans and followers of Kyle's channel, specifically the users Jhei_ , Emil3361, Avatism, and depotagents.

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura and James (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans and followers of Kyle's channel, specifically the users Jhei_ ,Emil3361, Avatism, and depotagents.

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura and James (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans on Reddit.

* One for the developers for daring to put classic ShootEmUp gameplay on mainstream market and make it appealing to the masses.

* One for the developers for daring to put classic ShootEmUp gameplay on mainstream market.

** Hell, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMKskuvJTcs the song alone]] for the boss goes above and beyond some boss theme in recent video game history. The vocals of Nami Nakagawa, Emi Evans, and newcomer J'Nique Nichole truly shine in the song along the instruments used for the Opera Singer.

** Hell, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIeVc1yE4TY the song alone]] for the boss goes above and beyond some boss theme in recent video game history. The vocals of Nami Nakagawa, Emi Evans, and newcomer J'Nique Nichole truly shine in the song along the instruments used for the Opera Singer.

* Pascal going PapaWolf and taking down a whole army of machines [[spoiler: by hacking controlling a Goliath-class Engels machine]].

-->'''A2''': "Heh. [[spoiler:They're acting like humans...]]"

* Another meta example: The stage play that was performed in May 2017. Stage plays for Japanese franchises are not rare and serve as a means of expanding the universe (other franchises that have done this include ''Franchise/AceAttorney'', ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', and ''Manga/DeathNote'' which was a stage musical), but the trade-off is that these things get very little attention overseas. However, for the ''Nier: Automata'' stage play, a FanTranslation was done for all 5 acts, which ended up catching the attention of Creator/KiraBuckland and Creator/KyleMcCarley. End result was that the two of them, along with Kyle's wife Katelyn (playing A2) and their two roommates Laura and James (playing Pod 153 and [[ActingForTwo Pod 042/Zinnia]], respectively), ended up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0y083mMHA doing a 2+ hour-long "dub" of the entire stage play in English]], even going ''well above'' and beyond the call of duty to add appropriate mood music and sound effects with the assistance of big ''Nier'' fans on Reddit.

** To add onto that: as of April 4th, the game's shipments and sales have exceeded ''1 million'' in just a little over a month! (For a Yoko Taro joint, this is ''literally unheard of''.)

** To add onto that: as of April 4th, the game's shipments and sales have exceeded ''1 million'' in just a little over a month!

* Pascal going PapaWolf and taking down a whole army of machines [[spoiler: by hacking a Goliath-class machine]].
-->'''Pascal:''' Fear not A2, I can handle this!
** Followed by him going toe to toe with [[spoiler:another Goliath called Engels]].

** Extra shout-out for anyone [[spoiler:who've done it ''solo'' without dying... And still chose to sacrifice their save file afterwards.]]

* [[spoiler:The final boss fight between A2 and 9S is a real nail biter, regardless of who you choose to control during the fight. If you choose to play as A2, 9S will actually [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration try to hack A2 in order to slow her down]] (which screws around with the HUD if you let him do it too often) during the fight. He may just be [[NonActionGuy a Scanner unit]], but he ''does'' put up one hell of a fight.]]

* Pod 042's method for dealing with [[spoiler:Terminals attacking A2's Logic Circuit]] inside the Tower: [[spoiler:feeding them ideas of diversity of life and evolution, which leads to both Terminals' Red Girls that are HopelessBossFight until that point ''annihilating each other'' over difference in opinion]].
-->'''A2''': "[[spoiler:They're acting like humans...]]"
* Meta example: The game has had the best weekend opening sales of any Yoko Taro game, on par with Platinum's other best selling title in Bayonetta, in Japan alone.
** To add onto that: as of April 4th, the game's shipments and sales have exceeded ''one million'' in just a little over a month!

* Pascal going PapaWolf and taking down a whole army of machines [[spoiler: by hacking a Goliath level machine]].

* The credits scene of ending E: [[spoiler: you have to shoot the credits who are in BulletHell mode. By the time you reach QA team the credits will be untouchable and the shots are too chaotic to win, with the retry options taunting you how meaningless it is. If you are connected to the network however a message will appear after a few deaths saying message received and you'll see the message of everyone who has beaten the game, then you can accept the help of one after many deaths which will lead to a TriumphantReprise of the song in the title page when six ships spins around yours and helps you trouncing through the credits.]] Doubles as heartwarming when it's revealed [[spoiler: the person that helped you deleted all their save files to provide assist to other player and you are offered the same choice.]]

* The surprise lvl 99 boss that no one expected: [[spoiler:'''Emil'''. He hits like a ''truck'', even with plenty of defense chips equipped, and his heads (which he can practically flood ''the entire room'' with) can easily OH-KO you if you aren't prepared. Oh, and did we mention that this is required for HundredPercentCompletion? Or that you're forced to do this fight as 9S, whose attacks are weaker than 2B and A2's, since he's the only PlayableCharacter that can steal from Emil? Good luck!]] Don't steal his stuff, you naughty kids!

** Extra shout-out for anyone [[spoiler:who've done it ''solo'' without dying.]]

** And then you realized [[spoiler:a mere Pod just outwitted it's creator...]]