Yoko Taro, the creator of the Nier and Drakenguard video games, has been awfully quiet these days. Although he is labored on some smaller initiatives (writing eventualities for Voice of Playing cards, and some cellular video games), the dearth of a correct Nier follow-up or different new main recreation from him has been getting beneath followers’ pores and skin. However in keeping with Taro, he has been working on initiatives. They simply hold getting canceled.
This comes from his remarks at Korean gaming conference G-Con 2025, which had been reported on by 4gamer and translated by Automaton. The panel, which featured Taro and Bayonetta and Okami director Hideki Kamiya, noticed the pair requested for updates on latest initiatives. Kamiya talked about the upcoming sequel to Okami, whereas Taro stated he’d been very busy with new initiatives, they only hold getting canceled partway by means of.
“I usually get advised stuff like ‘Why aren’t you making a brand new sequel to NieR’ or ‘Yoko Taro isn’t doing something,’ however that’s as a result of not too long ago, quite a lot of initiatives I used to be concerned in received discontinued halfway by means of improvement,” he stated.
“I’ve truly been working on some stuff, it’s simply that it by no means ended up seeing the sunshine of day. I received paid for it, so I personally don’t have any points with that, however folks appear to suppose that I haven’t been doing something simply because not one of the work I’ve completed is being launched.”
Nevertheless, Taro is not discouraged by this, apparently. He continued, saying he’d slightly fail repeatedly and ultimately create one thing good, slightly than put out a number of mediocre works. “I imagine that if I’m going to launch one thing bizarre, I’d be higher off not releasing something in any respect.”
So, doubtlessly not *nice* information for Nier followers who had been hoping one other Nier recreation was proper across the nook. Particularly since Nier: Reincarnation, which was successfully a sequel to Nier: Automata, continues to be utterly unplayable by advantage of being a cellular gacha recreation that is since been taken offline with seemingly no plans to rerelease.
So good luck to Taro, hopefully we see a brand new venture from him that makes it to launch sooner slightly than later.
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