History Funny / NierAutomata

* Speaking of fishing minigame, unlike in most games where you usually use a fishing rod and bait, here you instead order your Pod to float in the water waiting for something to drag it under before you can pull it out, all the while your android character just stands there doing nothing.

** The fight uses a special variant of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-37MWw9nyR0 Birth of a Wish]]... That's been edited into a StupidStatementDanceMix

-->'''2B''': '''''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MADE.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis IT.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WEIRD.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis EMIL.]]"'''''

-->'''A2:''' ''(snarling)'' There's machines everywhere...
-->'''Pod 042:''' Analysis: This is a colony of pacifistic machine lifeforms led by the unit known as 'Pascal'. It is therefore logical to expect machines to be present. [[ServileSnarker This unit is developing doubts on Unit A2's predictive skills.]]

!The Game

-->'''2B''': '''''"[[PunctuatedForEmphasis YOU.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis MADE.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis IT.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis WEIRD.]] [[PunctuatedForEmphasis EMIL.]]"'''''

!Meta

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhDL3Q86ofY Yoko Taro selling t-shirts as a preorder bonus.]] He starts rolling around shouting "NIER AUTOMATA T-SHIRT" for several seconds before ending with "[[BitingTheHandHumor S*** SQUARE-ENIX!]]" The person holding the camera can be heard audibly {{Corpsing}} at Yoko Taro's behavior.
** For bonus funny, Taura Takahisa, a Platinum Games game designer, is initially wearing the shirt. Yoko asks him to hold the mic for a moment before proceeding to take advantage of his hands being occupied to ''steal the shirt off of him.''
** Why did Yoko Taro curse? Turns out, they made him do WAY too many takes of the rolling around on the ground! The curse was unscripted!
* According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6wHZxETQBY a Square Enix interview stream]], the game designer and the modeler got into a fight that stalled the development... [[ForWantOfANail over 2B's]] [[SeriousBusiness bust size]]. In the end both sides have to compromise by giving 2B a relatively conservative chest and wide hips.
* Due to copyright issues, Sartre is renamed Jean-Paul, but instead of redoing dialog they just put a loud beep every time someone mentions his name. Especially funny since Sartre is a pretentious loon and it looks like 9S is calling him a swear word for it.
* The stream where Taro talks about how Atlus asked him to promote their own RPG project. He starts by lambasting Atlus for having the balls of asking a Square Enix employee to promote ''their'' game, and to illustrate the market, he shows a graph of Fantasy vs. Modernity and Idealism vs. Realism and showing where ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'', ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'', ''VideoGame/{{Yakuza}}'', ''{{Franchise/Danganronpa}}'', ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'', and lastly, ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'' and ''[[Franchise/{{Drakengard}} Draken]][[SelfDeprecation whatsits]]'' fall. He then shows that Atlus' project is slowly shifting over from the traditional ''Persona'' spot to overlap with ''Nier'', which will kill the franchise. So he immediately declares he'll pre-empt this by taking over ''Persona''[='=]s spot, turning ''Nier'' into a high school drama, until he realizes this won't stop Atlus from making more ''Persona'', killing ''Nier'' one way or the other. So he ends begging Atlus to stop with the fantasy RPG nonsense, and if anyone is listening out there, [[ShamelessSelfPromoter could they go out and buy a copy or ten]] of ''[=NieR=]: Automata''?
** He also notes that the target markets for ''Persona'' and ''Dangan Ronpa'' might be overlapping but he doesn't care since it's not his IP.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLNXM_9u1G8 A message to NieR: Automata fans]]. Also doubles as a SugarWiki/{{Heartwarming Moment|s}}.
* Close to the game's release, a controversy began when a screenshot showing that 2B had a modeled anus under her panties appeared on the internet. [[ManipulativeEditing It later turned out to be doctored]], but Yoko Taro's response? [[http://nichegamer.com/2017/01/08/nier-automata-creator-yoko-taro-responds-to-protagonist-butt-controversy/ Complain that finding and gathering all the lewd artwork that came about because of this controversy is a real pain and ask the internet to help him collect them all.]] Then the fans did ''exactly that'', leading to Taro to tweet his amused bewilderment.
-->"When I said that I wanted people to gather images of 2B and put them in a zip file for me, the tweet got all kinds of exposure. Now people are actually collecting them. The internet is amazing."
* Creator/KyleMcCarley did a livestream series of himself playing the game from his home with other voice actors from ''Automata'' joining him as time permitted, which were Creator/KiraBuckland, Creator/EricaLindbeck, and Creator/RayChase.
** While playing through Route B, Kyle narrates the [[https://youtu.be/pYgKdIZY3Q4?t=14037 infamous line]]:
---> "You're thinking about how much you want to ＊＊＊＊ 2B...... [[BigWhat WHAT?!]]"
** While playing through Route C, both Kyle and Kira were quite surprised at many of the events that happened in A2's story since neither of them had recorded dialogue for that path and were thus unaware of the plot developments there. They were both quite shocked when the children in Pascal's village committed mass suicide and they wiped Pascal's memory. That's not funny. What turned out to be ''hilarious'', in a very BlackComedy way, was that just as they began checking Pascal's items for sale, Kyle's wife arrived home and Kira, who was cosplaying 2B at the time, got up to talk to her and show off her 2B dress. As they are [[{{Squee}} squeeing]] over Kira's costume, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TszeUg671Qc&t=83m20s Kyle is staring at the screen]] in ''[[MoodWhiplash total shock]]'' because he sees that Pascal is selling the children's cores. [[CrossesTheLineTwice The livestream chat was cracking up at this]]:
---> "Kyle's having [[ThousandYardStare Vietnam flashbacks right now.]]"
** When the stream reached the end of the game, and its notoriously difficult shoot-'em-sequence, Kyle and Kira humor chat and provide some [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRhREyaKy_U&t=9743s "anime grunts"]] and calling out the other's character's name... [[ThatCameOutWrong until they realize what it sounds like and quickly stop.]]
* The English language release of the two novels actually has one on their respective back covers. Instead of the usual plot synopsis, you'd expect, you instead find sales pitches from Pods 042 (''Long Story Short'') and 153 (''Short Story Long'') about the idea that the novels are interesting and you should buy them. It's as awkward and humorous as it sounds.
* On July 26th, 2022, more than five years after the game was released, someone posted a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nier/comments/w7iq02/hello_here_is_the_video_for_the_clip_i_recorded/ video]] to Reddit of them discovering a secret room in The Copied City. Speculation began running rampant over what this could be (especially because Yoko Taro had previously stated that all of the secrets in Automata had already been uncovered), with guesses ranging from a simple hoax to Yoko Taro doing viral marketing for the upcoming Switch port of the game, viral marketing for some unannounced future Neir/Drakengard entry, to the truly insane possibility that Yoko Taro updated one single person's copy of the game to include this hidden area just to fuck with the fanbase. Meanwhile, Yoko Taro... was tweeting about Nendroids and refusing to answer anyone's questions.
** Later turned out to be a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvHS8LLLgs demo/announcement of fan-made open-source modding toolkit for the game that admittedly got a little out of hand]]. Bonus points for the team's Blender tool creator Woeful_Wolf who initially just wants to fix Lunar Tear model.

---> "You're thinking about how much you want to ＊＊＊＊ 2B...... WHAT?!"

** Later turned out to be a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvHS8LLLgs demo/announcement of fan-made open-source modding toolkit for the game that admittedly got a little out of hand]]. Bonus points for the team's Blender tool creator Woeful_Wolf who just wants to fix Lunar Tear model in the beginning.

** Later turned out to be a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwvHS8LLLgs demo/announcement of fan-made open-source modding toolkit for the game that admittedly got a little out of hand]].

** Later turned out to be a [[https://reddit.com/r/nier/comments/wayrjg/full_ze34_zinnia_stream_vod_with_chat_live/ demo/announcement of fan-made open-source modding toolkit for the game that admittedly got a little out of hand]] (warning: safe-for-work video stream but NSFW Twitch chat)

** Later turned out to be a [[https://reddit.com/r/nier/comments/wayrjg/full_ze34_zinnia_stream_vod_with_chat_live/ demo/announcement of fan-made open-source modding toolkit for the game that admittedly got a little out of hand]].

* On July 26th, 2022, more than five years after the game was released, someone posted a [[https://www.reddit.com/r/nier/comments/w7iq02/hello_here_is_the_video_for_the_clip_i_recorded/ video]] to Reddit of them discovering a secret room in The Copied City. Speculation began running rampant over what this could be (especially because Yoko Taro had previously stated that all of the secrets in Automata had already been uncovered), with guesses ranging from a simple hoax to Yoko Taro doing viral marketing for the upcoming Switch port of the game, viral marketing for some unannounced future Neir/Drakengard entry, to the truly insane possibility that Yoko Taro updated one single person's copy of the game to include this hidden area just to fuck with the fanbase. Meanwhile, Yoko Taro... was tweeting about Nendroids and refusing to answer anyone's questions.

* The English language release of the two novels actually has one on their respective back covers. Instead of the usual plot synopsis, you'd expect, you instead find sales pitches from Pods 042 (''Long Story Short'') and 153 (''Short Story Long'') about the idea that the novels are interesting and you should buy them. It's as awkward and humorous as it sounds.

** Speaking of trophies, you can get two trophies involving 2B, 9S, and their clothes. 2B's is "What Are You Doing?", which involves angling the camera just right so you can sneak a peak under her skirt 10 times in a row. 9S's, on the other hand, is called "Not That I Mind...", a CallBack to his comment about modesty where you need to play as him in his [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] for an hour.

** Speaking of trophies, you can get two trophies involving 2B, 9S, and their clothes. 2B's is "What Are You Doing?", which involves angling the camera just right so you can sneak a peak [[DangerouslyShortSkirt under her skirt]] 10 times in a row. 9S's, on the other hand, is called "Not That I Mind...", a CallBack to his comment about modesty where you need to play as him in his [[WhoWearsShortShorts short shorts]] for an hour.

* Among the idle chatter you can hear on the Bunker is one Operator unit telling another about the fact that she's been working out lately, and asks her how she looks. The second Operator sheepishly tells her that she hadn't noticed. [[DontExplainTheJoke They're androids, so they can't visibly put on or lose any muscle.]]

-->'''9S:''' [[LampshadeHanging That's....harsh.]]

-->'''21O:''' [[BrutalHonest No, I'm simply pointing out that you would be a liability in combat.]]