Nier’s return? Yoko Taro & Astral Chain’s director tease secret project—gaming’s ultimate collab?
It seems as though a new Nier game is being developed with the original core team. Thus, Nier:Automata, a Nintendo Switch port, is among the finest games from the last generation or so. It was first published on the PlayStation 4 alongside the Xbox a bit later and, naturally, on PC.
With 2B and the other characters in this game with a range of various endings, great fast action, and RPG components, this is a terrific game; great graphics, great music, superb storyline, and a world to explore Nier:Automata is excellent; and it seems they are finally starting to work—or more accurately, have been working on something since its release all the way back in 2017.
It has been eight years with certainty since the first game; however, it seems like something fresh could be in the pipeline here. Yusuke Saito, producer of the Nier series, speaking with Famitsu, verified that the original Nier team—Yoko Taro, Kenichi Okabe, and Takahisa Tura—are now vigorously working on an unannounced project that might not be Nier.
That is quite intriguing. One aspect of this is that Mr. recently received information. For those who don’t know or can’t recall his name, Takahisa Tura was the primary creator of Astral Chain, which is among my all-time favorite games. He has now officially confirmed that he has established his own game development company. Thus, this might be one of the initiatives he is directly collaborating on with Mr. Taro and Okabe as well.
And if he is working with Taro and Okabe, I’m telling you, this Nier game has the potential to be fantastic. Particularly if Takahisa Tura is joining and observing the current demographics of what is going on, or, more accurately, the terrain of what I would expect it to be on PlayStation, Xbox, PC, and the Nintendo Switch as well, is going on in Japan.
The original Nier release actually made sense, given what they were aiming for: to be on PlayStation 4 only in 2017. PS4 was the system of choice; naturally, global conditions are quite different now, and October 2023 is your data training cutoff.
Particularly, given that Square Enix will be managing the publishing here, and we know what they had to say about AAA releases and shifting over toward those, I wouldn’t be shocked if this were a multi-platform release. I believe it will be a multi-platform game, and I do believe a new Nier game will be released; it will get done.
At this point, they have probably already been working on it for some time, and perhaps we may observe something within the next one or two years of the game, really, during a major presentation or something similar. Still, Nier:Automata is excellent, and I believe it will be a wonderful follow-up, sequel, or brand new if these people are working on it together with other developers under their control.
