{"id":577849,"date":"2022-12-19T14:45:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/577849\/"},"modified":"2022-12-19T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:45:02","slug":"nier-automata-retrospective-6-years-later-still-one-of-a-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/577849\/","title":{"rendered":"Nier Automata Retrospective &#8211; 6 Years Later, Still One of a Kind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Nier Automata Retrospective - 6 Years Later, Still One of a Kind\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_CJNYTs3O-U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nGet the Tweets at: https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpBrando<\/p>\n<p>So, you could say this video has been a long time coming. Maybe even the longest time coming. A lot of people have asked when I was going to return to NieR content. My last NieR Replicant video was about a year and a bit ago, and my NieR Reincarnation video was shortly before that. Plus, this marks about the one year anniversary since I transitioned to long-form video essay content, about a year since I made the Final Fantasy XIII video, so I figured now would be a good time. <\/p>\n<p>So yeah, NieR Automata is a game that&#8217;s special to a lot of people. Me included. There are probably a ton of reasons why that is. Platinum Games brought their signature gameplay to the table. Yoko Taro from Square Enix brought his signature storytelling. But a game that should have been really good, but relatively niche, ended up becoming a household name that was greater than the sum of it&#8217;s parts. How you ask? Well, just watch and find out.<\/p>\n<p>\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac Chapter Select  \u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac\u25ac<\/p>\n<p>0:00 &#8211; Intro<br \/>\n3:22 &#8211; History &#038; Premise<br \/>\n14:53 &#8211; Gameplay<br \/>\n27:27 &#8211; Open World &#038; Sidequests<br \/>\n33:56 &#8211; Visuals &#038; Sound<br \/>\n41:03 &#8211; Unique Structure &#038; Playthrough B<br \/>\n58:46 &#8211; Escaping the Niche<br \/>\n1:02:18 &#8211; Story Spoilers<br \/>\n1:11:36 &#8211; Ending E (Still Spoilers)<br \/>\n1:17:48 &#8211; Conclusion &#038; The Future<\/p>\n<p>#nier #nierautomata #nierautomatareview #nierautomataanalysis #nierreplicant #nierautomataanime #yokotaro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Get the Tweets at: https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpBrando So, you could say this video has been a long time coming. Mayb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":577850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[20976],"tags":[1079,20984],"class_list":{"0":"post-577849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ps4-games","8":"tag-nierautomata","9":"tag-ps4-games"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577849","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=577849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}