> How is (spoilers follow) the choice of deleting your save file to help another player through the credits bullet hell the same choice that the main characters

> How is (spoilers follow) the choice of deleting your save file to help another player through the credits bullet hell the same choice that the main characters go through? There are many instances of 2B and 9S "deleting their save file" to help others. For example during the intro sequence both 2B and 9S nuke each other to destroy the giant factory robots. I believe 9S is the one that didn't get backed up before that, so he essentially deleted his "save file" to help save humanity. And just like the main characters it isn't like "death". You can still play again. But you've lost a set of "memories" that you can never get back. Just like 9S will never get back those memories and experiences he lost from the beginning of Automata.