Zero Punctuation: Nier

[RaphaelsRedemption]

I could trawl back and find the comments, but seeing as they were pages apart, I'm just going to say I saw several comments criticising Yahtzee's "raspy" voice. Maybe he has a cold? Give him some slack, he still DID the review!

 

[Jay Cee]

Nier, far, whereeeever you aaaare...

 

[Kinokiro]

BOOSH!

 

[Benjamin van Beuningen]

Nier means kidney in Dutch

 

[sukotsuto]

Oh shit he referenced Illbleed lol. A strange Dreamcast horror game that has the main female character come really close to full nudity, yet it slipped past the radar.

 

[bachterman]

boosh!
haze was shit, too.

 

[JimJamJahar]

"I called up all the people I knew and neither of them had heard of it either"

One my new favourite Yahtzee quotes

 

[Zudarkness]

Good job. Do the new pokemon game for the DS. tehre just something wrong with remakes of an origional game.

 

[haaxist]

Hmm I've actually heard of this game for a while now. Didn't know what it was about. Now I do. Guess I know where my paycheck is going tomorrow.

 

[Ambrose von Carstein]

Sometimes, I wonder why I like Zero Punctuation. It's not new anymore, it's not particularly clever or funny, and, while it has it's moments, most of the time it's just simply entertaining. So why do I come back every week?
Well, I've just read the Dethroning Moment Of Suck page for ZP on TV Tropes, and I realized: I like the way he's trolling. All those butthurt fanboys raging, pathetically trying to prove him wrong; Yahtzee really knows to kick where it hurts. After every episode, I imagine all the poor sods assaulting the forums, smoldering with RAGE lulz.
But it's not (only) because I like to see stupid people being upset, it's the right to criticise anything that's flawed, even if it's popular. I don't understand why something I like should be always perfect. Is it not possible to like something in spite of, or indeed because of it's flaws?

 

[Jabaxaro]

Heh Awesome Review, especially liked the German Puns

 

[Codemaster]

Damn it! Ever since this episode came out everyone keeps asking me "What the @#$% is Nier?". And I don't even know what it is either.

 

[Grampy_bone]

Yahtzee bought a Square-Enix game just because of the label, knowing nothing about it?

FANBOY.

 

[theelcaminodude]

was that a pregnant gremlin in the last bit?

 

[th3xile]

Did anyone else catch that he compared the boss to a Wind Waker boss, when the one in Wind Waker was just based off one in OoT?

 

[Aptspire]

HA! Nier death-experience lol

 

[Pyotr Romanov]

As previously stated in the LAST review of this game, this doesnt sound that bad. Even yahtzee said "meh" instead of shitstorm. Since most games are shitstorms, i think ill give this game a try. Yes, its probably tiring or something.....but it has some very unusual....varieties, which is good, which youll find if you try to look some of the characters up. very....new character types....


not that anyones going to read this 5 pages in

Heh, you're in luck, I just randomly clicked on page 4. Aside from that, I really recommend picking this game up, I really liked it.

One thing I didn't like about this ZP is that Yahtzee was wondering wether the boss ripoff thing from Zelda was a homage, which I find stupid because the game literally tells you "The mouth? Such an obvious weak point" and "Where have I seen this before?" If that's not obviously homage...
"Someone should probably call them out on this" about Kainé's lingerie. The game itself makes jokes about that... Really, I don't mind Yahtzee badmouthing a game I liked, but this is just silly.

Ah well, it was still yet another funny ZP.

 

[ENKC]

This video caused me to look up Illdeep, and the costumery was indeed eyebrow raising. I am getting the impression the game might have a Fable vibe to it, with this video being my only knowledge of it.

 

[cj_iwakura]

I was just thinking of Illbleed when you mentioned the masking tape.

I've actually beaten that entire game.

It's certainly something else.


^Illbleed is survival horror. Campy b-movie survival horror, that is.

 

[Hunter.Wolf]

"Someone should probably call them out on this" about Kainé's lingerie. The game itself makes jokes about that... Really, I don't mind Yahtzee badmouthing a game I liked, but this is just silly.

Ah well, it was still yet another funny ZP.

Yeah .. about Kaine's clothes .. i loved how the in-game characters comment on it .. specially the flying magical book (forgot his name) ... he goes like "as strange as a boorish woman fighting monsters in her under-garments, hah" .. lols .. that book character is really priceless.

Yeah .. and for all the people calling Square on this one .. get your facts straight people .. this game is developed and designed by CAVIA not Square .. square is merely overlooking the development from a distance and doing the publishing .. like many other square games made by other minor studios (Star Ocaean with Tri-Ace and Drakengard with Cavia)

Oh .. and i don't know why yahtzee ignored that .. but this game has -hands down- the BEST sound track i heard in years ... it's pretty damn good.