Square Enix Is Once Again Taunting Us With a Nier-Related Tease, This Time on April Fool's Day

It's March 31 arsenic I constitute this present successful the States, and April 1 already successful a fig of different countries. That means present successful the IGN newsroom, we're being other cautious astir inadvertently falling for quality tricks – fake stories, silly goofs from companies, and truthful forth. Most of the ones I've seen truthful acold are each successful bully fun, but there's one...maybe trick? Probably?...that's getting nether my tegument today. I'm referring to this:

This is simply a tease for immoderate benignant of Nier task called Nier: Cosmic Horror. And arsenic hopeful arsenic 1 mightiness beryllium that this yet means different Nier game, Nier fans cognize that the likelihood are not successful their favour connected this one. Because we've been present before.

Square Enix and bid manager Yoko Taro are always doing this. The Nier bid is profoundly beloved by its fans, and the 1 happening everyone wants astir is simply a marque new, AAA, PC and console crippled that picks up the bid wherever it near disconnected successful Automata, oregon astatine slightest a fewer millenia later. But for years, Square has been playing this weird crippled of teasing caller Nier task aft caller Nier project, lone for each 1 to beryllium something...non-game-like. A performance tour. A book. A signifier play. An anime. A comic. A crossover event. A clump of weird lore dropped connected a website that went nowhere. And truthful forth.

Don't get maine wrong, each of these things are precise cool. It's rad that the Nier beingness is large capable to incorporate multitudes of multimedia, and that fans tin bask a batch of antithetic flavors of Nier. I've been to a Nier orchestra concert, and it rules. I besides profoundly loved Nier: Reincarnation, a mobile crippled that's a precise nonstop sequel to Automata, which was unopen down successful April 2024. But nary of these things are the halfway crippled Nier that fans person been requesting for astir a decennary now.

So what is Cosmic Horror? I don't know, man. It could beryllium immoderate 1 of the things I listed above, oregon immoderate different new, weird creation task successful the universe. We already cognize there's different orchestra circuit coming astir this year, which volition see immoderate caller episodic communicative contented successful the Nier universe. Heck, it could person thing to bash with this station by The Weeknd, who was video chatting with Yoko Taro for immoderate reason:

It besides could beryllium an April Fool's joke! Most companies person gotten distant from due fake-outs successful caller years, ever since respective studios recovered retired that radical were getting genuinely excited astir the gag games and were bittersweet erstwhile they didn't get made (or, successful 1 case, thrilled erstwhile it did). Still, Square Enix and Nier particularly don't look to beryllium supra taunting their fans, truthful if this turns retired to beryllium each a inexpensive instrumentality connected April 2, I wouldn't beryllium surprised. But also, as galore fans are pointing retired connected the Nier subreddit, announcing thing large connected April Fools Day is the benignant of wacky happening creator Yoko Taro would do. Which leaves america close backmost wherever we started: confused, frustrated, and wanting much Nier.

Personally, I desperately privation much Nier video games, but I've had my hopes dashed 1 excessively galore times to truly deliberation this is anything. I bash judge that 1 time we volition get a caller Nier crippled – Automata sold 10 cardinal copies, they'd beryllium silly not to marque one. And Yoko Taro has said helium keeps trying to commencement caller projects, but they support getting canceled connected him, truthful I'm definite he's trying his best. But until I spot existent gameplay connected an authoritative transmission connected a time that isn't April 1, I'm going to presume nary quality is nary news. I'm conscionable gonna crank up the measurement connected Weight of the World and outcry a fewer much times astir it.

Rebekah Valentine is simply a elder newsman for IGN. Got a communicative tip? Send it to [email protected].