In a world without gold, we might have been heroes!
—Blackbeard, Assassin’s Creed IV
Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death. Is this a curse? Or some kind of punishment? I often think about the god who blessed us with this cryptic puzzle…and wonder if we’ll ever get the chance to kill him.
—Blackbeard, Assassin’s Creed IV
—2B, Nier Automata
—GLaDOS, Portal 2
NieR: Automata is pure love, joy, and sadness, mixed with action and philosophically induced emptyness.
And this quote is just the perfect example of how strong it starts.