Nier: Automata Player Appears to Be First Person in the World to Find Secret Room

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Of all the inventive JRPGs to release within the last several years, Nier: Automata is one that has turned quite a few heads within the gaming community. Serving as a direct sequel to the original Nier and subsequently revitalized the series as a whole, Nier: Automata has managed to stand out amongst numerous successful titles. Though, for how popular Nier: Automata has become, it's also incredibly experimental in terms of its design.

As is the case with most games directed by Yoko Taro, Nier: Automata possesses numerous eccentricities that are extremely unique. To the point where most players would be hard-pressed to find the same degree of creativity from a lot of other games. However, now it seems Yoko Taro has been hiding a secret in Nier: Automata for the last several years that was only discovered recently.

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Over on Twitter, a user named Lance McDonald posted gameplay footage taken by a Reddit user named sadfutago that shows A2 entering a secret room within the Copied City. The room is quite small and contains a single iron ore that the player picked up in the video. At the far edge of the secret room is a ladder the user goes down, which leads into a long hallway with spires coming out of it. Just as the player starts to run down the hallway, the video ends.

Further research shows that sadfutago made their Reddit account only a couple of months ago and has only ever posted about locating what they describe as the «church hallway» in Nier: Automata. This secret door evidently leads to some kind of church location in-game that as far as nearly everyone in the Nier: Automata community can tell, no one has ever discovered until now.

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