# **Automata**
## **A Profound Existential Experience**
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The world of video games has come a long way since its inception, evolving from simple pixel-based arcade games to highly immersive experience
## **Exploring The Underlying Themes**
The first impression one may have when they look at Nier: Automata on the surface, is "hot android ch
## **Mechanics**
In the game, there are machines that take the form of real-life philosophers, because their specific work seemed most valua
## **Friedrich Nietzsche**
_"Everything that lives is designed to end. We are perpetually trapped in a never-ending spiral of life and death
## **Pascal Blaise**
_“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which
## **Jean-Paul Sartre**
_“Existence precedes essence”_
This idea originated from a speech by Friedrich Schelling in December 1841, and can
## **Simone De Beauvoir**
Simone de Beauvoir (who had a lifelong relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre) wrote of the example of a woman's ident
## **Immanuel Kant**
Admittedly, I’m not deeply familiar with Immanuel Kant’s work but I know this much: Kant wrote of the importance of dut
## **Yoko Taro**
The creator of the Nier franchise agrees with the existential viewpoint that our lives have no innate meaning whatsoever an
## **If you made it this far, thank you for reading!**
A few quick tips to fully enjoy this masterpiece..
For the sake of all that’s holy,
#introductions formally yet, so this is it!
Now here is the list of games I said I was going to provide, not in any specific order, and a short description
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Sources for some of the pictures (I didn’t find all sources, let me know if you made one of these so I can add your name)
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Deep Lion for reading the article before I posted.
Wet Deer
Silent Hare
Condemned Fish
Raspy Condor
Greasy Otter
Defiant Leech
Dangerous Fox
Immense Aardvark
Abundant Cow
Juicy Grasshopper
Grubby Badger
Gigantic Bedbug
Defiant Mackerel
Resonant Leech
Noisy Gorilla
Lucky Ape
Flat Galliform
Helpful Donkey
Modern Impala
Nervous Landfowl
Enchanting Narwhal
Perfect Cat
Cruel Peafowl
Cheerful Galliform
Fresh Cattle
Helpful Caterpillar
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Lively Blackbird
Dangerous Crow
Hot Caterpillar
Troubled Beetle ... show more