Curious, he decided to pursue more knowledge, and landed in theNiermodding Discord server.
It was dubbed the “church mystery” or “sadfutago’s posts”, among other monikers.
Discord’s terrible search function also, unfortunately, makes it challenging to review past info.
My second theory was what everybody else thought: that sadfutago was just a Canadian teenager."
Foxy: “The theory that I had throughout the entire thing was actually a legit teaser.
All of these things felt extremely accurate and legit.”
Daniel Griffiths: “Honestly at the beginning I had no idea what to think.”
“That’s what we wanted,” Devolas said, in regards to users asking for more proof.
They are the talented trio behind the church mystery, the mod - yes, a mod!
- that sparked endless speculation.
But Nier: Automata is the first time Woeful really dove in deep and made his own modding tools.
Woeful’s entry into Nier: Automata’s scene was actually due to a single object.
“So I started googling to see if I could edit the model.”
Devolas met Woeful through the Nier modding server back in January 2022.
It was then that Devolas proposed that they add a little mini-church before releasing Woeful’s tools.
RaiderB joined in June 2022.
Before Woeful and Devolas came up with the church plan, Woeful had already given RaiderB map modding tools.
It showed A2 traveling through never-before-seen hallways with structure sticking out of the sides.
But the church mystery videos Devolas posted under the moniker sadfutago didn’t immediately blow up.
This was the “oh, shit” moment for Woeful.
“When Lance McDonald found the whole thing and made his post on Twitter,” Woeful said.
From there, players were off to the races.
They were armed with the determination to yank initiate the church door.
Threaded in-between sadfutago’s posts were memes and community creations of the highest quality.
The theories were fun, yes.
Captainspended: Made a video of 2Bfinding the church door in Garry’s Mod.
Daniel Griffiths:Re-created the church area in Unity.
Then again, the placement of the church made a lot of sense.
Everything taken together contributed to people like Foxy thinking it was an official, legitimate teaser.
All the theories had, to an extent, solid reasons why they could be the right one.
Or the wrong one.
“It couldn’t be real because there were no files in the game for the church.
So whatever theory you went with there was no safe bet.”
July 25 - July 29: Chaos And…
These posts were intentional.
The question now was: For what purpose?
about to be announced officially, instead of, as some people previously believed, Switch promotions.
“If someone as dedicated to the franchise was a modder, then they could make something spectacular.
Postmortem
The mod was surprisingly challenging to make.
“I’m sure they are part of Drakenier lore now, haha!”
The church mystery similarily felt like a joint effort in exploration.
