Yoko Taro revealed that he is working on two new games, one of which is described as extremely disturbing for Yosuke Saito and Square Enix.
Yoko Taro announced that he is working on two new games with Square Enix producer Yosuke Saito, as pointed out by the Japanese blog Game’s Talk alongside several Japanese Twitter users.
V Jump and Famitsu is currently conducting a special talk show “Game industry holiday party 2020” at Niconico. With several developers showing up. In particular, Yosuke Saito from Square Enix, Yoko Taro, Katsuhiro Harada from Bandai Namco and Hiroshi Matsuyama from CyberConnect2.
Here is a summary of the discussion about Yoko Taro and his new games.
Starting point 02:23:00, Yosuke Saito explained Yoko Taro and he regularly talks about what to do next NieR Automata. Yoko Taro also had an idea that he really wanted to do, but on the contrary, Yosuke Saito was really against it. At some point, Yoko Taro explained his project to Yosuke Saito for an hour, which is unusually long to present a project, and then they went to drink wine and eat yakiniku together, so Yosuke Saito accepted. However, Yosuke Saito regrets it and would like to be able to let Yoko Taro do that game alone. Yoko Taro said that the game is really disturbing.
Yosuke Saito and Yoko Taro explained that although this happened about a year ago, the project has not progressed much. And Yosuke Saito still wishes he could just stop doing that now.
Since they were initially only talking about a project rather than a game, they also specified that it is a game project. They are not even sure what kind of genre the game will be. Viewers joked in the chat about what an Otome game might be like. Yosuke Saito denied it, but Yoko taro said he might as well become one.
Continuing, Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito said that there is another game they are working on. This is something that they both wanted to do together. In addition, they first discussed that second game “much earlier” than the one mentioned above.
This is all about the new Yoko Taro games.
The stream has just ended after four hours and 24 minutes. However, only the first two hours or more were free, and only users of Niconico’s premium account can watch the full broadcast. We may have a summary at some point, weather permitting.
Yosuke Saito mentioned in his year-end message at Famitsu that he is working on a new game. This is probably the second game he mentioned in the stream.
NieR had its final 10th anniversary event at Christmas, with new details about NieR Reincarnation, and Nier replicator version 1.22. Read our summary of the event here.
NieR Reincarnation is scheduled to launch on February 18 in Japan on iOS and Android. The game was announced in North America and Europe, with no release date yet.
NieR Automata has sold more than 5 million copies worldwide.
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Yosuke Saito is also working on Fall of Babylon, an action game from Square Enix and PlatinumGames.
What Yoko Taro was eating on the talk show:
風 が 強 い ！！ 寒 い ！！ 弁 当 う ま い ！！ pic.twitter.com/7Aq043mcnb
– yokotaro (@yokotaro) December 30, 2020
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