![]() ![]() He had to fight to keep a female protagonist and Zero's eye-flower, as he believes it will offer a different flavor to the story. Yoko "aims to do neither" while keeping true to the spirit of the Drakengard series. Yoko said that Drakengard fans frequently request a dark story according to surveys from Square-Enix and Shiba personally wants a story like Nier. Shiba believes that it was refused due to a trend at the time which sought to appeal to light gamers with a lighter atmosphere. When he presented the game to Cavia's parent division, AQ Interactive, it was shut down. Shiba had continued to pitch the idea of creating Drag-On Dragoon 3, and he too met difficulties due to Cavia's termination. He was planning to continue expanding the Nier continuity, but his plans were cut short when Cavia disbanded and Yousuke Saito ( Nier's producer) became busy managing Dragon Quest X. In Yoko's eyes, Nier is his personal Drag-On Dragoon 3. Yoko felt that he wasn't up to the task at the time and refused. The same way that Warhammer Fantasy is somewhat likely to be playing in the same universe as Warhammer 40k, yet you wouldn't consider either one of those to be a prequel or sequel to the other.According to a Famitsu interview, Takamasa Shiba presented the idea of creating a sequel to Drakengard 2 many years ago to Taro Yoko. In that sense it's less a prequel by modern PR standards, than just a different game playing within the same setting. So much so that no one expected Nier and Darkengard 1 to even be related at all, yet they inexplicably were. While Drakengard 3 is technically a prequel to Drakengard 1, and and Nier and Automata are sequels to it, they're also as far removed from it as you could possibly imagine. Even Emil in N:Automata was essentially a new character (and a minor one at that) with just a few winks here or there that were more of a fanservice to players of the original game, than meaningful additions to Automata itself. What I was referring to about Taro not liking to do sequels, is that he doesn't feel like doing another game with the same characters, or a timeline that is shortly before or after any of the previous games. It also has essentially no story-reference to any of the characters to the original game, aside from the Watchers being present in both of them, and a bit more lore about how pacts work. Sure, it's a prequel in the sense that its the same timeline and setting/franchise. Platinum is a studio known for juggling multiple projects at a time, so it is well within reason it is working on three different games right now. This suggests it could also be working on another project entirely separate from Drakengard and Nier. Earlier this month, PlatinumGames received an investment from Chinese gaming conglomerate Tencent. It is rumored that a Nier remake is in the works, and potentially another sequel as well. Square Enix is already capitalizing on the 10-year anniversary of the original Nier by filing a trademark in Japan. ![]() Now that Yoko Taro has hit a new level of mainstream success, he may have more free rein to go in even wilder directions than Nier: Automata, a feat that seems nearly impossible.Ģ020 and the following year could be big ones for Yoko Taro. A Drakengard game with the expertise of developers who have crafted great action could be a bold new direction for the series. This is the first of Platinum's big 2020 announcements. No details have been confirmed at all aside from the number four. It would make sense that Yoko Taro would be involved in this new project, but technically that detail has not yet been confirmed. Followers of Platinum and Square Enix believe this strongly hints at the studio's next game being Drakengard 4. Nothing of consequence exists on that page right now, or so it seems. Drakengard 3 was released seven years ago, in 2013.Įarly this morning, the official PlatinumGames account tweeted out a photo of the number four and a link to a new landing page of its website. The game went on to be huge to Square Enix, even l etting Yoko Taro write a quest line in Final Fantasy 14. In 2017, after having a cult following, Nier: Automata was a critical darling and a successful collaboration between Yoko Taro and a new team, PlatinumGames. The game, and its two sequels, were all published by Square Enix, who also published his second series Nier. The original Drakengard title was a PS2 game, the first game that Yoko Taro directed. The tweet suggests that Platinum will be developing Drakengard 4, the next in Yoko Taro's long-running fantasy RPG franchise. That game may be the next project from Nier creator Yoko Taro. In a tweet this morning, Nier: Automataand Bayonetta developers PlatinumGames revealed what the studio may be working on next. ![]()
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