Nier: Automata is a very strange game, with multiple "endings" necessary in order to actually see its final ending and some of its content actually repeated from a different character's perspective. This all comes together to deliver one of the most memorable conclusions in video games, but one clever player has managed to figure out a way to let you skip nearly all of it. In fact, he uncovered the last secret the game was hiding. It only took four years!
Major spoilers for Nier: Automata to follow!
Once you've unlocked ending "E" in Nier: Automata, you're presented with a final credits sequence that sees other players' save data assisting you in a retro shooter sequence to defeat the text itself. Completing this gives you the chance to sacrifice your own save data--thus erasing all of your progress--in order to give another player the chance to beat the game, too. This is where Twitter user Lance McDonald comes in.
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