Yoko Taro is working on a completely new game and yes, it will be weird

Yoko Taro, the creator of Nier, has confirmed that he is the creative director of a new Square Enix game. During a live video presentation for the upcoming Nier Replican version. 1.22474487139, the director revealed that he has started his next project at Square Enix. He is currently the creative director of Nier Reincarnation, a Nier mobile game.

As Gematsu reported, Taro says his next game is an independent, digital-only title that is “difficult to explain” and a “somewhat unusual game,” which is mysterious and has no idea how to explain or to sell”.

So basically a Yoko Taro game.

Taro is probably humble because Nier Automata has sold 5.5 million units worldwide since its launch in 2017. An extremely successful figure for a relatively unknown spinoff from the Drakengard series.

While Taro claimed that he would work on any project as long as he was paid, the director kept a relatively low profile from Nier Automata. He was the creative director of the mobile game SINoAlice, as well as a screenwriter for the raid cycle Final Fantasy 14: Shadowbringers Nier.

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While Taro has not explained to us whether this is a new series or related to Nier, Taro’s next project is definitely of interest to us. In the meantime, the Nier remaster / update will be released this week and you can check out the final preview here.

Matt TM Kim is IGN’s news editor.