NieR Automata, discovered the latest secret of the game after almost 4 years

Inside Weekly Famitsu No. 1527, published last March 2018, the director of NieR Automata Yoko Taro had stated that there was a "last secret of NieR Automata" that players had yet to discover. Just during the day today, to be exact three years and 10 months after the release of the game, the mysterious mystery in question was discovered: it is a trick that allows the player to skip the whole main storyline and face the game ending. He was the first to shed light on the issue in particular Throw McDonald, a video game modder who made the revelation with a video in one of his posts, which you can find at the bottom of this news:

I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that essentially allows you to skip to the last ending right after killing the first boss and unlock bonus modes. I'll do a full video soon. It is not a technical problem, it is a real code integrated within the game engine.

Taro confirmed that this is the last secret he talked about so much. The official Japanese Twitter account of the NieR series added further confirmation with a warning tweet, which quotes: “The latest secret of NieR Automata has been discovered. It contains spoilers, so if you haven't played yet, be careful on social media “. NieR Automata was first launched for PlayStation 4 in Japan on February 23, 2017, followed by the North American version released for the same console on March 7 and in Europe on March 10. Up PC means Steam was released worldwide on March 17 of the same year, while the players of Xbox One they were only able to get their hands on the game a year later, on June 26, 2018. A "Game of the YoRHa Edition" was launched for PlayStation 4 and PC worldwide in February 2019. In addition to that, you may also be interested in the announcement relative to the launch date of NieR Reincarnation, happened just a few days ago.

I found a cheat code in NieR Automata that allows you to skip to the last ending immediately after killing the first boss and unlock the bonus modes. I'll do a full video soon. It's not a glitch, it's an actual cheat code hard-coded into the engine. @yokotaro pic.twitter.com/FtuNPovq6F

- Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) January 3, 2021