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A story about one machine lifeform and a flower. Takes place before the game's events.
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Revision as of 20:36, 2 October 2017

Strategy Guide
Nierautomata-strategy-guide-book.jpg
Book Cover
Official Release Date Apr 30, 2017
From Dengeki online
Language Japanese
Pages 304
Strategy Guide is a second book released after the World Guide book. Its content is arguably the most important lore-wise.

Novels

Memory Thorn

A story about one of 2B and 9S missions together. Takes place after Memory Cage novel and before the game's events.

Read it here: Memory Thorn

A Much Too Silent Sea

A story about YoRHa android 10H on an underwater facility. Takes place before Route C.

Read it here: A Much Too Silent Sea

Small Flowers

A story about one machine lifeform and a flower. Takes place before the game's events.

Read it here: Small Flowers

Ciphered stories

Some pages in the book have stories written with hexadecimal codes.

Story 1

A short story about 9S taking place after Ending A/B.

Read it here: Strategy Guide/Ciphered Story 1

Alternative translations
External Link Discussion Author
Full translation /u/RekkaAlexiel

Story 2

A short story about Pods going fishing after Ending E.

Read it here: Strategy Guide/Ciphered Story 2

Alternative translations
External Link Discussion Author
Full translation /u/RekkaAlexiel

Game Chapters Comments

The book features a lengthy re-telling of each of game's chapter with additional characters thoughts. Everything is also illustrated with in-game screenshots.

Note Fun fact: Fun fact: key cutscene screenshots have some of the dialog lines printed in 3 languages: Japanese, French, and English.

External Link Discussion Author
Translated Snippets [Reddit post] /u/Merutan

Q&A with Yoko Taro

The book has an interview with Yoko Taro answering 50 questions.

External Link Discussion Author
Full translation [Reddit post] /u/Merutan

Timeline

At the end of the book, there is a timeline of the universe events before and after the game's story.

External Link Discussion Author
Full translation [Reddit post] anon

Art

art goes here