Scrolling through Twitter, Daniel Griffiths’ interest was piqued when he saw a post describing a mysterious phenomenon being shared in the Nier: Automata community: A2 opening a hidden door in The Copied City and strolling into a secret, never-before-seen area. Curious, he decided to pursue more knowledge, and landed in the Nier modding Discord server.
Like him, many other Nier: Automata players who caught wind of the phenomenon sat upright – metaphorically and perhaps literally – and flocked to both Reddit and Discord to check out what exactly was up with the secret area. It was dubbed the “church mystery” or “sadfutago’s posts”, among other monikers.