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Big cool weirdo Yoko Taro may or may not be working on something that may or may not be Nier(Laughs.)
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Image credit:Square Enix
Image credit:Square Enix
Fans of odd games with multiple endings and themes of identity and oppression, rejoice! Or, maybe, not rejoice. Time will tell. In the latest issue of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu, Yosuke Saito, the series producer forNier, teased that he might be working on something new with Yoko Taro and Keiichi Okabe, the director and composer for the Nier series, respectively.
ViaGematsuandPCGamer, Saito said, “I’ve been talking about wanting to do something with Yoko and Okabe for some time now. I’ll have something a bit more put-together to say in the not-too-distant future, so please stay tuned. It might be NieR, it might not be NieR. (Laughs.) That’s about all I can say for now.” Thanks for the clarity, Saito.
Saito is at GPTRACK50 now, a new-ish studio under NetEase working on something new (last yearGematsu reportedit’s a 3D action RPG). It seems unlikely that rights holders Square Enix will release the Nier series - the most recent being 2017’sNier: Automata, an actionRPGabout the many ways robots can die - and Taro hassaid in the pastthat any questions about Nier should be addressed to Squeenix. So my first instict would be to say that Saito is being a coy little flirt and they aren’t really working on Nier. Earlier today,Taro re-Xeetedthe interview with the comment, “Something new…”, so the needle is currently pointing at Who Knows?
