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Nier

…the body.

Sinan Kubba’s “Nier the Caregiver” (another accessible only by Wayback) is a brief, more personal, piece, looking at Nier’s role as caregiver for his daughter Yonah, a perspective similar to, but distinct from Christian Nutt’s earlier take. The NPC barks in Nier’s home town are well-meaning inquiries into Yonah’s health that become grating over time, reinforcing Nier’s lack of control over the situation, a sentiment Kubba can relate to.

Though Kubba’s speaking of providing care for someone with an ongoing, debilitating illness rather than necessarily a father caring for a child, it may be interesting to…

May 23rd

…instead, there is the hope that in challenging the player in their ideology, that the player becomes less vulnerable to the whims and ways of each day. In either case, the path forward is shown to be something that can’t be argued in a discourse or written in a book but that must instead be lived out in the world.”

Replicant in Review

Bullet Points has two new pieces this week, unpacking ideas and themes from not just the latest Nier-make, but from the wider Nier and Drakengard series as a whole.

  • Tragedy of the…

January 9th

…efforts involved in building the tools for better Black hair representation and expression in games.

“By recruiting all Black artists and making the database free, Darke plans to create an anti-racist, anti-capitalist, and feminist approach to the portrayal of Black hair as well as a sense of unified ownership and investment in how the hairstyles are used.”

Nier to One Another

Two meditations this week on Nier, frendship, family, and fate.

  • The Replicants and their Friends Between Apocalypses – Uppercut Trevor Richardson studies the non-normative, found families of the Nier series and…

This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2021

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  • Tragedy of the Ancients | Bullet Points Monthly Julie Muncy expands upon the song–and characters–which bind the wider Nier series together.
  • The Dreadful Weight of Feeling Seen in Nier Replicant ver. 1.22 – Uppercut Trevor Richardson unpacks the queer subjectivity of Nier‘s Emil and Kaine.
  • Nier Replicant Still Portrays Queer Bodies with Brutal Honesty – Paste Austin Jones looks for queer community in Nier‘s slow apocalypse.
  • Nier Automata and The Queer Experience of Its Bushes | Gayming Magazine Trevor Richardson traces the queer allegorical ramifications of those gods-damned bushes.

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    April 16th

    …fear that the hierarchy between ourselves and our devices may be less immutable than it appears.

    Ghosts of the Living…

    These pieces explore the concept of death in both real and fictional contexts.

    • “Breaking the Cycle in Nier: Automata,” by Reid McCarter – Bullet Points Monthly (Major spoilers for Nier: Automata and the Ghost in the Shell manga/anime) Reid McCarter compares the plot of Nier: Automata to the Buddhist concepts of samsara and nirvana.
    • Exploring Death in ‘Nier‘ with Procedurally Generated Elegies – Waypoint Janine Hawkins reports on the NierDeathExperience Twitter bot, which collects…

    This Year In Videogame Blogging: 2017

    …In defense of Mass Effect: Andromeda and other messy games | Polygon – Sophia Park Sophia Park understands that Mass Effect: Andromeda and others are messes, but takes issue with how we discuss, evaluate and ultimately dismiss them as if they had nothing to offer.

    Nier: Automata

    • Yokoo Tarou’s Eternal Recurrence: Transhumanism in Nier: Automata | A Fun Derangement of Epitaphs – Kastel Kastel delves into the myriad existential ideas in Nier: Automata, as the robots and androids contend with what it means to be human.
    • The Erotic Death Drive of Nier: Automata | Bullet…

    October 4th

    …Replicant and connecting with Queer history | AIPT Trevor Richardson reflects on the erasure of history, in and out of game, for queer characters and queer players, in coming back to OG Nier.

    “A major theme of Nier and Nier: Automata is discovering an erased history and learning about your identity and how it has been validated or contradicted by that history. It can be a discovery that reifies your existence, but for both queer people and the characters of the Nier games, it can also be one that unveils the ways your people have been murdered,…

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    March 5th

    …NieRly Incomprehensible

    • What you missed fron NieR | Youtube (video: subtitles) George Weidman summarizes the game and canon of NieR to prepare for the coming release of NeiR: Automata.
    • Nier, Part 1 | Something in the Direction of Exhibition Vincent Kinian likewise does his part to explore further metatextual aspects of NieR.

    Drawer of Oddities

    • Breathing life into Seaman | GamesIndustry.biz Brendan Sinclair reports on the post-mortem of one of the Dreamcast’s most bizzare games, Seaman.
    • Remembering the Identity Crisis of Licensed Video Games, Through the Lens of ‘Alien 3’ Mike Diver

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    Queer Games Criticism in 2021 (so Far)

    …three very different games.

    • The Beauty Of Abby’s Found Family In The Last Of Us Part 2 | TheGamer Jade King’s reflection here on TLOU2–rightly critiqued elsewhere for the labour conditions of its development and the fridging of all its named Black characters–highlights what I think is an earnest strength of the game’s story–Abby and Lev’s bond, which survives through the rest of the game’s horrific trials and ordeals.
    • Nier Replicant Still Portrays Queer Bodies with Brutal Honesty | Paste Austin Jones’ article on the recent redux of Nier Replicant looks at how queerness is inscribed on

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    June 2021

    …Jacob Geller uses the fractured narrative of blink-driven Before Your Eyes to the think about the relationship of memory to artificially preserved moments in life, the films of Richard Linklater, and long-running documentary series 7-up. (Manual captions) [embedded advertising]

  • NieR: Automata critique – Pixel a Day (53:02)

    Kat finds the themes, ideas and character development in NieR: Automata to not quite live up to the critical praise so often heaped on it. (Manual captions)

  • Three Endings Of My Time With Nier Automata – Talen Lee (21:58)

    Talen Lee sketches the beginnings of three essays about interpreting

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