Watch Out for Fireballs! 203: NieR (Part 1)

Watch Out for Fireballs!

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🗓️ 2 August 2018

⏱️ 164 minutes

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Summary

Take a look, it's in a book. NieR released with a resounding thud in 2010, neither selling well nor pleasing critics. But since then, it's become a cult classic for people who like experimental narrative and varied play. Nier is a father who is desperately searching for a cure for his daughter's terminal illness. Yonah has the Black Scrawl, and a prophecy about a pair of magical books might be her salvation.

The problem is, the game isn't very fun to play, and while there is some really neat narrative stuff going on (with some very likeable and memorable characters), the juice might not be worth the squeeze.

This first episode covers the generalities of the game, and we go up through Nier's adventure in Facade.

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0:00.0	We would like to extend special thanks to Jarese Wicklund, George E Mathis, Michael Brewer,
0:07.6	Matt, just Matt, and Pat Doherty.
0:11.6	All of these are people who have gone to Patreon.com slash Duck Feed TV
0:16.5	and supported not just the show but this entire network of shows. If you want to be like them go to Patreon.com slash Duckfee TV
0:26.3	and kick us a couple of bucks a month if you can every little bit helps. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh, The My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to
1:29.5	watch out for Fireballs. It is a Games Club podcast., and this week we are beginning our coverage of Near, just the original Near, not Automata,
1:38.0	which is an action RPG developed by Kavia or Kavia and published by Square Enix for the PS3 and
1:44.8	Xbox 360 in 2010. Yeah, yeah and that that distinction is important so near
1:52.3	not near automata. Right. Like maybe someday, but right now, just the
1:56.4	O. G near. I'm playing near automata now. So, so there's that, but no, not for a show just for fun no this is the
2:04.2	o-g near and one of the reasons why I want to do this is because I do I do want to play
2:08.3	automata but I have a disease where I want to play the original game first yes a k A K. K. Butterfields Lament.
2:15.8	Where like I just got this.
2:17.1	Butterfields.
2:18.1	Yeah, I just want to.
2:19.7	It doesn't, yeah, it doesn't make sense.
2:21.7	I shouldn't. Yeah. you know me trying to squeeze
2:24.1	myself through Kota or again is not going to be a good ending you know but it's just I
2:27.2	just feel like I should right and then you know because I want to get to go to or
2:31.0	too. This is the same kind of thing. It was a good reason to pick it. And we also picked it because we like doing a
2:40.0	JRPG in the summer and we picked this one something that was kind of like action oriented just because it wouldn't be like a big random encounter grind and I'll cop to pushing for that pretty hard.
2:51.2	Yeah.
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