Nier Automata Guide: How To Defeat All Bosses Including The Secret One

Naturally, spoilers inside.

Platinum Games have highly fine tuned combat systems- and these combat systems get their chance to shine during boss battles, which are a speciality of the studio. Spectacular, epic set pieces, these bosses can also quite often be difficult, and require a lot of skill and commitment from the player.

In this guide, we show you how to fight all the bosses in the game, and how to get past them. This includes the secret boss as well- but first, here’s a list of every boss you can fight:

  • Engels Goliath
  • Adam
  • Amusement Park Goliath Tank
  • Beauvoir Opera Singer
  • Engels
  • Adam and Eve
  • A2
  • Goliath Flyer
  • Grun
  • Adam Copied City
  • So-Shi
  • Boku-Shi
  • Eve
  • Engels (9S)
  • Adam (9S)
  • Amusement Park Goliath Tank (9S)
  • Beauvoir (9S)
  • Engels (9S)
  • Adam and Eve (9S)
  • A2 (9S)
  • Grun (9S)
  • Eve (9S)
  • Ending B
  • Hegel
  • Pascal vs Engels
  • 210 Operator
  • Auguste
  • 2B Models
  • Ko-Shi and Ro-Shi
  • 9S
  • A2

Plus, of course, there is Emil- the super secret boss of NieR Automata. The videos below show you how to take him on.

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