Popular modder and dataminer Lance McDonald discovered this wild secret, which isn’t a glitch, but is instead an actual cheat code programmed into the game.

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McDonald didn’t fully explain what’s going on in the above video, but it shows him beating the first boss, and then after that, he heads to some barrels and begins to input the code. Eventually, the screen fades to black and Nier lets you then sacrifice your save data.

According to McDonald, it took him “hundreds of hours” of reverse-engineering the game’s code and engine to find this final cheat code. And shortly after sharing his discovery, the game’s director Yoko Taro seemed to confirm that this was indeed the final secret.

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The Japanese Nier Twitter account also confirmed this was indeed the final secret. “It seems that the last secret has been discovered.”

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McDonald, who has a history of finding and creating cool things like this, says he will release a full video about the new game-skipping cheat code soon. Until then, you can go beat the first boss in Nier: Automata and then head to those barrels and try to discover the code yourself.

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