5 Profound Reasons Why Nier: Automata Will Forever Stay in Our Hearts
Some games are fun. Some are unforgettable. But every once in a while, a game comes along that reaches inside your soul and refuses to let go. For me—and for so many others—that game is Nier: Automata.
I still remember the silence after Ending E. My controller slipped slightly in my hands, my eyes welled up, and my heart felt... heavier somehow. But not in a bad way. In a deeply human way. That moment didn’t feel like the end of a game—it felt like the end of something personal. Something real.
The beauty of Nier: Automata is that its emotional weight isn’t carried by a single element. It’s the perfect storm of everything—music that lingers like a memory, storytelling that unfolds like poetry, battles that feel like dancing through chaos, and characters who bleed emotion with every breath. This game doesn’t just show you feelings—it makes you live them.
The sadness here isn’t loud or exaggerated. It’s quiet. Intimate. It’s in 2B’s soft whisper: “Everything that lives is designed to end.” It’s in 9S’s slow unraveling, the grief buried in his fury. It’s in A2’s silence, heavy with guilt and purpose. It’s the kind of emotional depth that sneaks up on you—philosophical, painful, and all too real.
In this article, I want to share five heartfelt reasons why Nier: Automata is more than just an action RPG. It’s an experience—crafted with love, loaded with meaning, and unforgettable for anyone willing to feel deeply.
So if you’re ready to dive back into the broken beauty of YoRHa’s world—or see it for the first time—come with me. Just know: it might break your heart a little. But somehow, you’ll be grateful that it did.
5 Reasons Why Nier: Automata Is One of the Most Emotionally Powerful Games Ever Created
When gamers talk about emotional stories in video games, you’ll often hear names like The Last of Us, Life is Strange, or Red Dead Redemption 2. And yes—they’ve earned their place. But if you’ve ever wandered through the haunting beauty of Nier: Automata, you know there’s something different about this one. Something deeper.
This game doesn’t just make you sad—it makes you think. It makes you feel in quiet, unexpected ways. The sorrow isn’t loud. It’s in the empty spaces. The lingering notes of a distant melody. The questions you can’t answer. The combat that feels like both a dance and a breakdown. The characters who seem more human than we are, even when they’re machines.
It’s grief layered over philosophy. It’s beauty in destruction. And it stays with you long after the credits roll.
Here are five heartfelt reasons why Nier: Automata isn’t just emotional—it’s unforgettable.
1. These Characters Are Broken... and That’s What Makes Them Real
2B. 9S. A2. These aren’t just names on a screen—they’re stories we carry with us. Each one is fighting their own private war, burdened by pain that goes deeper than we ever expected from a game about androids.
2B wears her strength like armor, but behind her cold precision is a heart quietly breaking under the weight of duty. 9S begins as curious and bright, but the more he learns, the more that light fades into confusion, anger, and unbearable sorrow. And A2? She’s a ghost of vengeance, but beneath that fury is regret—raw and human.
What makes them unforgettable isn’t just what they’ve been through—it’s how they try so hard to stay whole while falling apart. They hold in the tears. They pretend they’re okay. They lash out at the world, and sometimes at each other. And when the dam finally breaks, it’s not dramatic—it’s devastating. When 2B chokes out, “I... I didn’t want to kill you,” or when 9S loses himself in grief and rage, it hits harder than any cinematic cutscene ever could.
They may be androids, but their emotions are all too human. We don’t just watch them suffer—we feel it. Because deep down, we’ve all been there. And that’s what makes them real.
2. The Music Speaks in Ways Words Never Could
Keiichi Okabe’s soundtrack isn’t just background music—it’s the beating heart of Nier: Automata. Every melody, every whisper, every echo feels like it’s telling a story words could never fully capture. It doesn’t play beneath the emotions—it *is* the emotion.
“Weight of the World” isn’t just a song that plays during the credits—it’s the final breath of a story that’s been aching to be heard. It’s a farewell, a cry, and a promise all at once. And it stays with you long after the final note fades.
From the haunting emptiness of “City Ruins” to the eerie beauty of “Amusement Park,” each piece mirrors exactly what the world—and your heart—is feeling in that moment. And when the layered vocals begin, in languages both familiar and unknown, it feels like lost souls reaching out through time. It’s not just music. It’s memory.
There are times I put on “Vague Hope” and just... stare into the distance. Not sad. Not happy. Just *feeling*. That’s the kind of power this soundtrack holds. It doesn’t just support the story—it *is* the story.
3. It Dives into the Heart of Human Emotion—Without a Single Human
One of the most brilliant, heartbreaking things Nier: Automata does is this: it shows us what it means to be human—through those who aren’t. In a world where humanity is long gone, what remains isn’t empty. It’s full of emotion, longing, confusion… and something that feels deeply, painfully real.
Androids weren’t built to feel. Machines weren’t meant to understand. And yet… they do. A robot ends his own life, unable to cope with the silence of a “brother” who no longer responds. Machines mimic love, parenthood, friendship—not to mock us, but to understand us. To find meaning in the echoes we left behind. Androids, bound by orders and logic, still break those rules—because they fall in love. Because they hurt.
And none of this is done for shock value. It’s handled with tenderness. With empathy.
Throughout the game, you’re asked—quietly, again and again—what does it really mean to be human? And by the time the credits roll, you realize: it’s not about flesh and blood. It’s about feeling. About grieving. About choosing to care, even when it hurts.
Nier: Automata doesn’t shout these questions. It whispers them. And those whispers stay with you, long after the world has gone quiet.
4. The Story Doesn’t Just Tell You Something — It Cuts Deep
Ending A leaves you with a knot in your stomach—confusion that lingers long after you put down the controller.
Ending B starts to unravel your heart, thread by thread.
Ending C shatters your spirit into pieces you didn’t know were fragile.
Ending D crushes the last flicker of hope you were holding onto.
And then Ending E… offers something unexpected: forgiveness.
And the final act? When players you’ll never meet join forces to carry you through a brutal, relentless bullet-hell—sacrificing their own progress just to help—you realize it’s more than emotional. It’s almost sacred.
In that moment, you understand: even in the darkest digital worlds, kindness survives. That’s not just a plot twist. That’s a blow to the soul.
5. It Pulls You Into the Story—Making You Part of the Journey
The most unforgettable—and haunting—thing about Nier: Automata is how it knows you’re there. This game doesn’t just tell a story through its characters; it reaches out and speaks directly to you. It asks you to make choices drenched in moral gray, to walk the line between mercy and violence, forgiveness and grief. You’re not just watching a narrative unfold—you’re living it, breathing it, carrying it.
When you decide to delete your save during Ending E, sacrificing your own progress to help a complete stranger, you’re not chasing XP or trophies. You’re acting on hope. Hope that someone else can make it through the darkness. Hope that, even in a fractured digital world, connection and kindness still hold meaning.
That act—selfless, painful, beautiful—is the game’s way of making you more than a player. It makes you a part of its soul.
Final Thoughts
Some games entertain us. Others challenge us. But very few manage to reach inside and leave a mark that lingers long after the credits fade.
Nier: Automata is one of those rare, unforgettable experiences. It’s far from perfect—and that’s exactly what makes it so powerful. It’s messy, painful, beautiful, flawed, and utterly human. It dares to ask the questions most games won’t even whisper. It dares to make you *feel*.
For those of us who’ve walked through its shattered world, who’ve wept alongside 2B, screamed with 9S, and stood silently beside A2—it’s never just a game.
It’s a wound we willingly reopen, again and again.
And honestly? I wouldn’t want it any other way.
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