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8. Choosing To Delete Your Save, Just To Help Someone Else - NieR: Automata

From one hell of a rush to another of pure melancholia, NieR: Automata's lengthy 40+ hour runtime is all about conveying all sorts of questions as to the meaning of life.

What does it mean to be human? What "are" emotions, and why do we have them? Can any of the various elements that make us sentient be harnessed, copied, utilised and passed down, or are we deemed to repeat the same problems as those before us,such as war, famine, religion and conflict?

Creator Yoko Taro ultimately concludes that although everyone dies, you can "do your part" by helping out your fellow human, and passing on whatever life lessons you've learned along the way.

How does the fragility of the above manifest in NieR? Well, by the game literally asking you to delete ALL your save data. Every last thing.

The trick is, this will enable your "memory" to actively help another player during the final battle. You'll get to leave a little note saying something like "You can do it!", before you're resigned to nothing more than code forever - the only memory of playing being remembered within your own mind.

Kinda insane, but also the most unique use of a game and save data you've ever seen.