Nier 3 Teased By Yoko Taro, Form Of

It’s been simply over seven years for the reason that launch of motion RPG Nier: Automata took the world by storm and familiarized a wider viewers with sequence creator Yoko Taro. Since its 2017 launch, Nier: Automata has remained a relentless presence, from its 2022 anime adaptation, to a 2019 crossover with Last Fantasy XIV, and even a 2021 cell recreation known as Nier Reincarnation. However regardless of all of this, there hasn’t been any signal of a sequel—till now, kind of. Followers of the sequence are as soon as once more boarding the hype practice after Taro seemingly teased a sequel throughout a London cease on the Nier: Orchestra Live performance tour.

The newest frenzy over a possible Nier 3 comes from anecdotes of Taro’s look through the Nier live performance in London on February 14. Whereas there, Taro reportedly informed the viewers that the president of Sq. Enix was within the crowd and that if followers “wished an Automata sequel to present the loudest applause of the evening,” recounts one ResetEra consumer, “The room instantly erupted into claps, cheers and yells.” The publish continues by saying the phrase Repent was proven repeatedly through the present and in its last occasion was stylized as R3PENT.

Whereas information of a Nier sequel could be superb, this “tease” isn’t a lot to get enthusiastic about. Taro has a popularity of continually poking enjoyable at Sq. Enix, followers, and himself, that is probably nothing greater than a joke. As for the repetition of “repent,” Taro is thought for including issues to new items of Nier, equivalent to rewriting elements of Automata’s story within the anime adaptation, as a deal with for followers of the sequence. The live performance itself consists of new story beats all through, as reported by followers who’ve attended. This additionally isn’t the primary time Taro’s off-hand or jocular feedback have was followers believing that he’s “teasing” a sequel. In the course of the G-STAR 2023 occasion in South Korea final November, Drakengard and Nier producer Yosuke Saito appeared alongside Taro and stated that the 2 will proceed to launch new entries within the Nier sequence whereas Taro remains to be alive. Just like the Nier live performance “tease,” a lot of that is simply discuss and hope, reasonably than an indication that Sq. Enix has greenlit a sequel.

In case you are itching for a sequel to Nier: Automata then excellent news—Nier Reincarnation exists and it’s what you might be in search of (sure, even when it’s a gacha recreation). Go play it earlier than it shuts down perpetually on April 29.