Yoko Taro, the creator of the NieR and Drakengard video games, has been extraordinarily quiet currently. He is labored on a couple of smaller tasks (scripting for Voice of Playing cards and some cell video games), however the lack of a correct follow-up to Nier or another new main recreation from him is getting below the pores and skin of followers. Nevertheless, based on Taro, have Engaged on a venture. The cancellations simply maintain occurring.
This comes from his remarks at South Korean gaming conference G-Con 2025, reported by 4gamer and translated by Automaton. Taro, Bayonetta, and Okami director Hideki Kamiya appeared on the panel, and the 2 had been requested for updates on their current tasks. Mr. Kamiya talked about the sequel to Okami, whereas Mr. Taro stated that he was very busy with new tasks, however they saved getting cancelled.
“I typically get requested issues like, “Why aren’t you making a brand new NieR?” or “Yokootaro is not doing something,” and that is as a result of just lately, the tasks I have been concerned in have typically been canceled halfway by way of,” he stated.
“I’ve truly labored on some issues that simply by no means noticed the sunshine of day. Personally, I haven’t got an issue with it as a result of I used to be getting paid for it, however folks appear to assume I have never executed something simply because not one of the work I’ve executed has been printed.”
Nevertheless, Taro would not appear to be discouraged by this. He went on to say that he would reasonably make a collection of failures and in the end produce one thing good than to provide numerous mediocre works. “I consider that if you are going to launch one thing unusual, it is higher to not launch something in any respect.”
So, probably not “nice” information for Nier followers who had been hoping one other Nier recreation was simply across the nook. Specifically, “NieR: Reincarnation,” which is basically a sequel to “NieR: Automata,” remains to be utterly unplayable as it’s a cell gacha recreation, and has since been taken offline, with no plans to re-release it.
I want Taro good luck. I hope new tasks by him are launched quickly.
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