Nier Creator Yoko Taro Is Still Working on Games, They Just Keep Getting Canceled

Yoko Taro, the creator of the Nier and Drakenguard games, has been awfully quiescent lately. Though he's worked connected immoderate smaller projects (writing scenarios for Voice of Cards, and a fewer mobile games), the deficiency of a due Nier follow-up oregon different caller large crippled from him has been getting nether fans' skin. But according to Taro, helium has been moving connected projects. They conscionable support getting canceled.

This comes from his remarks astatine Korean gaming normal G-Con 2025, which were reported connected by 4gamer and translated by Automaton. The panel, which featured Taro and Bayonetta and Okami manager Hideki Kamiya, saw the brace asked for updates connected caller projects. Kamiya mentioned the upcoming sequel to Okami, portion Taro said he'd been precise engaged with caller projects, they conscionable support getting canceled partway through.

“I often get told worldly similar ‘Why aren’t you making a caller sequel to NieR’ oregon ‘Yoko Taro isn’t doing anything,’ but that’s due to the fact that recently, a batch of projects I was progressive successful got discontinued midway done development," helium said.

"I’ve really been moving connected immoderate stuff, it’s conscionable that it ne'er ended up seeing the airy of day. I got paid for it, truthful I personally person nary issues with that, but radical look to deliberation that I haven’t been doing thing conscionable due to the fact that nary of the enactment I’ve done is being released."

However, Taro isn't discouraged by this, apparently. He continued, saying he'd alternatively neglect repeatedly and yet make thing good, alternatively than enactment retired aggregate mediocre works. “I judge that if I’m going to merchandise thing weird, I’d beryllium amended disconnected not releasing thing astatine all.”

Yoko Taro introduces Nier during the Square Enix property league astatine E3 2015. Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images.

So, perchance not *great* quality for Nier fans who were hoping different Nier crippled was close astir the corner. Especially since Nier: Reincarnation, which was efficaciously a sequel to Nier: Automata, is inactive wholly unplayable by virtuousness of being a mobile gacha crippled that's since been taken offline with seemingly nary plans to rerelease.

So bully luck to Taro, hopefully we spot a caller task from him that makes it to merchandise sooner alternatively than later.

Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images.

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