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AU News Wrap, September 27 - What happened today

I'm about to disappear from your sight - but console yourselves with an outline of what I did today.

I feel like I spent all day playing catch-up - emails up to the eyeballs, admin work to do, preparation, chasing leads - rather than writing for you. And when I look at my list, I see this is absolutely true.

Today's header image is from Nier, Cavia's final JRPG before dissolution. The soundtrack was playing as I was getting this ready, but I think it will be the start of a new Wrap theme for me - my favourite games. I love Nier, like, near romantically: I'm extremely keen on the kind of subtle narrative it offers.

It's not that the plot pull a massive swifty on you (although you can predict it if you pay close attention); it's the canon surrounding the game and buried in secondary materials and alternate endings, being gradually unknotted by fans. The game has cross-title ties with Cavia's other games, which is pretty post-modern, and features some amazing flights of fancy - a text adventure, for example, and an in-game decision which deletes your save files. For real. I'm not saying you'll necessarily like it - but I do.

Stay tuned for the Bulletcast, and bone up on yesterday with Johnny's European wrap up.

We kicked off this morning with a number of posts from Debabrata, which was the best breakfast an over-tired newsbot could have.

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Brenna Hillier

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Based in Australia and having come from a lengthy career in the Aussie games media, Brenna worked as VG247's remote Deputy Editor for several years, covering news and events from the other side of the planet to the rest of the team. After leaving VG247, Brenna retired from games media and crossed over to development, working as a writer on several video games.

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