Storming the Forest King's Castle, Maxing Weapons, and... A2... - NieR: Automata

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Published on June 24, 2019 5:30:00 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2UNXACkpAI

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Nier: Automata (2017)

Duration: 25:27

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After a few fragmented quests, here is a full proper exploration of the Forest King's castle! And holy hell did quite a lot happen here. We found the blacksmith who can take weapons to their max level (as if I wasn't hitting hard enough already), and curiously it's a machine. It's just like how that machine who you help with the "Lord of the Valley" quest is able to fuse your plug-in chips beyond +6. Seems like the ones who are the best at a job are machines...

And we also ran into another rogue YoRHa android, A2. Not the first rogue android that we've had to deal with, but thankfully this one has more importance, because she survived. A2's last words, coupled with the conclusion to the "YoRHa Betrayers" quest, would have anyone suspicious about the orders we're being given. It doesn't make me necessarily think that our Command is evil, but it is clear that there's something they're trying to keep under control. Likely some kind of information.

I would normally think "Oh maybe those other YoRHa were in fact bad and A2 is also bad", but A2 showed no intention to attack us until we attacked her first (well, until 9S attacked her, because he wasn't set to Passive). I really didn't want to fight her, which is why I spent all that time just dodging or countering her. Plus I knew that in terms of game mechanics, my overleveled self would've wrecked her too fast to catch any potential dialogue.

And don't worry. You will see the story behind the Iron Pipe. Had I left it in this video, it would've made it over an hour long, and I feel it would've killed the momentum of this adventure and the story here if I'd taken 40 minutes to go on a detour right in the middle of it.

But if I did as good of a job putting the next vid together as I hope I did, all I can say is "prepare to cry".

I am also aware that there are places I saw but never found the way to get to in the castle, and there's still those chests with the machine parts that I couldn't collect. That is something I get to later.

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