With the help of 9S and his flight unit, 2B eventually manages to defeat the Goliath, though she ends up getting injured too. However, the Goliath is a pretty tough machine, and 9S ends up taking a serious injury while trying to protect 2B from getting hit. 9S is a scanner model who meets 2B at the factory, and he tells her that he’ll be providing recon support during her mission.ĢB eventually tracks down the Goliath. However, her entire squad is shot out of the air by the machines, and only 2B survives.

The game begins with 2B infiltrating an abandoned factory to take down a Goliath machine on Earth with fellow Type-B models. Our story starts with YoRHa units 2B and 9S. These elite androids are tasked with helping the android resistance force on Earth to battle against the machines. To take back Earth from the machine lifeforms created by the aliens, the YoRHa androids were created. From this, we can infer that Project Gestalt must have been a success. However, Automata tells us that aliens have invaded Earth, and because of this, the humans have been forced to take refuge on the moon. At the end of NieR, it was unclear whether Project Gestalt was a success or not, especially when you take that game’s multiple endings into consideration. NieR: Automata is set centuries after the events of the original NieR.

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