Platinum Games (perhaps best known for the Bayonetta series) game designer Hideki Kamiya has recently showered Nier: Automata director Yoko Taro with praise over Twitter, crediting the masked man with saving the studio from being forced to continue churning out games based on existing franchises (a fate that usually befalls dying studios) due to the success of Nier: Automata.
According to Kamiya, Nier: Automata’s success has given the company a new fanbase while also increasing the size of its staff, things that Kamiya is very grateful for:
“NieR’s success has to this point given Platinum a new fanbase, a growing staff, a brilliant success story, an increase in qualified job applicants, and a great benefit.
Normally, I can’t help but do everything by myself… it’s a pitiful story, but to say that Yoko-san saved Platinum would not be an exaggeration. I cannot thank him enough.”
Yoko Taro’s response:
“Nice to meet you, too. Thanks to the support of the Platinum people, I was really saved by both work and spirit… It is an honor to be able to make games together. Thank you very much.”
Nier: Automata had accumulated over 1.5 million sales back in May, with the game looking likely to soon receive a sequel…
Wait
What?
But Nier: Automata is a multi platform game
And it wasn’t even on Nintendo
At all
That can’t be right
lmfao this should effectively shut up all the Nintendo fangirls who proclaimed Bayoonetta 2 being a Wii U exclusive would somehow save Platinum Games because Nintendo sm
Wait
What?
But Mier: Automata is a multi platform game
And it wasn’t even on Nintendo
At all
That can’t be right
lmfao this should effectively shut up all the Nintendo fangirls who proclaimed Bayoonetta 2 being a Wii U exclusive would somehow save Platinum Games because Nintendo smh
Overly hyped for alternate endings? yes b/c thats what the previous nier game did. If anything the difficulty actually felt like a difficulty, hard mode is a pain in the ass, but im proud that it is since most games with hard mode feel like its easy nowadays. Aside from that 2B is definitely the most popular female protagonist of the year
I thought very hard was a breeze o.O except for adam and eve double battle, jet figthers in the tower and the ending credits.
Gotta give credit when credit is due This game is amazing cannot wait for the sequel is there is one.
Isn’t Nier already part of an existing franchise? Weren’t there at least 2 games before hand?