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Analysis
Lust in space: Stellar Blade vs. NieR:Automata
What unites Eve and 2B — and what divides them
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The boy is supine, waiting. She straddles him, shifts her weight forward. Her hands wrap around his throat. They close. The body squirms and shakes and goes slack. Route A of NieR:Automata has ended with a not-so-coy depiction of femdom play that represents the consummation of the game's unspoken yearning. The scene leads into rebirth, into a new relationship, as the characters, symbolically, have sex.
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