{"id":41863,"date":"2018-04-12T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/41863\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T00:07:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T00:07:02","slug":"a-comprehensive-reading-of-nier-automata-massive-spoilers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/41863\/","title":{"rendered":"A Comprehensive Reading of Nier Automata [MASSIVE SPOILERS]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4EnbSokFpjQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nFollow me on Twitter- https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thefearalcarrot<br \/>\nSupport The Architect of Games on Patreon- https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ArchitectofGames<\/p>\n<p>Nier Automata was The Architect&#8217;s favourite game of last year. Not because of its gameplay, or even because of 2B&#8217;s sexy thighs, but because of its groundbreaking approach to philosophy and the art of games.<\/p>\n<p>In a departure from the norm, The Architect gives you a crash course on reading a game from a literary perspective. Yeah this totally what all the people who subscribed because of the 40k video wanted.<\/p>\n<p>You Saw:<br \/>\nThe Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild: 2017<br \/>\nPUBG: 2017<br \/>\nNier Automata: 2017<br \/>\nMetal Gear Rising: Revengance: 2013<br \/>\nFinal Fantasy X- 2001<\/p>\n<p>Intersting links:<br \/>\nNier Automata Postmortem- https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/316056\/Video_Yoko_Taro_and_Platinum_Games_postmortem_of_Nier_Automata.php<\/p>\n<p>Article on Yoko Taro&#8217;s Writing Process- http:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/b\/features\/archive\/2017\/11\/24\/yoko-taro-nier-automata-interview-game-informer.aspx<\/p>\n<p>Superbunnyhop saying the same things as me in a third of the time- https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ehM1m5-TG5g<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Follow me on Twitter- https:\/\/twitter.com\/Thefearalcarrot Support The Architect of Games on Patreon- https:\/\/w<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":41864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20976],"tags":[36,3027,3743,3744,39828,39833,39831,39830,7058,39832,28542,416,78,39836,3742,11937,1079,39834,39829,38544,3748,39835,20984,2234,15,501,14844,833,10937],"class_list":{"0":"post-41863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-gaming","9":"tag-2b","10":"tag-9s","11":"tag-a2","12":"tag-adam","13":"tag-adam-millard","14":"tag-aog","15":"tag-architect-of-games","16":"tag-automata","17":"tag-critique","18":"tag-eve","19":"tag-games","20":"tag-music","21":"tag-narrative","22":"tag-nier","23":"tag-nier-automata","24":"tag-nierautomata","25":"tag-nihilism","26":"tag-pascal","27":"tag-philosophy","28":"tag-platinum","29":"tag-postmodernism","30":"tag-ps4-games","31":"tag-review","32":"tag-rpg","33":"tag-story","34":"tag-video-essay","35":"tag-video-game","36":"tag-videogames"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}