But really, what difference will being original or not make? Like the Emil Heads say in their memiors, he's still alive after 500 years. But until someone asks Yoko Taro for a confirmation, I'll keep to my stance that this Emil is another clone. That's like saying he shouldn't have changed into his skelly balls form after fusing with his sister. And really, it's just wishful thinking wanting this Emil to be the original. So there's a good chance that him being the 'true' Emil slipped through proofreading & editing, whereas dialogue would have been inspected more thoroughly, probably by Yoko Taro himself. Unlike Soulsborne, archives in any other game are supplementary readings written after the dialogue.
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But in general, dialogue is more explicit than archive entries which are basically summaries. Also, he tells us he became more fragmented with each clone created, and since we don't know the specifics of the cloning process he used, we can assume the original likely broke himself apart in order to make his armies of clones. The archive entry says he's the real one, but the same entry also says he defeated his clones while making no mention of 2B, 9S, or A2. I know everyone wants him to be the original or 'true' Emil, but I'm fairly certain he isn't. It is faster than teleporting and has a good chance of making him switch routes.ĭesert Zone Entrance & City Ruins: Near Factory Route Another fairly good approach is to walk between the desert zone and halfway to the Desert: Camp access point via moose, then check your map for his icon. Teleporting in and out of access points seems to work. Making him switch routes is - for now - quite unreliable. He has two kinds of items in stock per route, either chips or weapons and materials. He will sell different items depending on where you find him. This generally fills up 90% of the gauge almost instantlyĮmil will spawn randomly in one of three locations near the Desert Zone entrance, the City Ruins: Near Factory access point, and outside the Resistance Camp. This can be abused by letting him try to ram you, hacking until the last second, and then dodging towards him, and immediately dodging away.
Return to the surface, find Emil and talk to him again.
He can be found in the northeast corner of the City Ruins, driving around in a van. When you speak to Pascal at his village, after completing the fight against A2, Emil will start appearing on the map.But after being defeated, he was reduced to tears by the realization that only power matters in this world." Once he discovered who had been stealing from his room, he was incited to fight. While he calls himself Emil, his true identity is a mystery. "This mysterious creature emerged from inside of a machine lifeform and set up a shop afer obtaining a new body. He harbors latent magical power, but most of his memory is gone due to the long years that have passed/making so many copies of himself. Resembles the companion character who accompanied the player in the NieR: Gestalt / NieR: Replicant, but may actually be a copy.