Tag: Yoko Taro
Ah, but did that stop Joker?
Crashing onto the scene back in 2017, NieR:Automata was a breakthrough moment for Yoko Taro. Though the director gained infamy for the Drakengard series — including the original NieR on PS3 and Xbox 360 — and his unusual interviews, Automata is the game that truly put him and his team on the m
News It's Official, A Third 'Voice Of Cards' Is Coming To Switch Very Soon
Update: Announced today
Update [Thu 1st Sept, 2022 09:40 BST]: Square Enix has officially announced Voice of Cards: The Beasts of Burden, and it's coming to the Switch eShop in less than two weeks — on 13th September. This month is already a packed month, and Square Enix has a ridiculously full release slate for the rest of the year — but...
Feature So, One Horse-Sized Duck Or Ten Duck-Sized Horses? Yoko Taro Answers The Big Question
Voice of Cards: The Forsaken Maiden devs answer some quick Qs
Game development these days regularly involves multiple dozens of people — sometimes hundreds or thousands — and typically games take many years of gestation before arriving. Even smaller releases from indie studios might be years in the making, which is just one of the things that...
News Yoko Taro's New Game Is A Swords-And-Sorcery Strategy RPG With Cards
'Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars'
In a shockingly weird twist during today's Nintendo Direct, Kirby is now in the world of NieR Automata (sort of) and NieR Automata developer Yoko Taro is making... a card game? Yes, this new Yoko-Tarot game is called Voice of Cards: The Isle Dragon Roars, and Square Enix has been teasing it for a while...
News If You Want NieR: Automata Ported To Nintendo Switch "Please Ask Square Enix"
Yoko Taro insists
As much as we appreciate Bayonetta and the more recent release Astral Chain, one other PlatinumGames title we would love to see make its way to the Switch is the critically-praised action role-playing game, NieR: Automata. Nintendo fans have requested a hybrid version for quite some time, and during an interview with Bunnygaming...
Random NieR: Automata Game Director Explains How He Was Inspired By Ikaruga
Total respect for Treasure's shmup
In celebration of the recent re-release of Ikaruga on multiple platforms including the Switch eShop, the Japanese publication Famitsu sat down with Yoko Taro - the director of the highly praised NieR: Automata - to discuss how exactly Treasure's sublime shmup has influenced his own work over the years...
News NieR: Automata Director Yoko Taro Really Wants To See The Game On Nintendo Switch
So NieR, and yet so far
NieR: Automata is one of the most remarkable games to come out of Japan in years, and has rightly been hailed as a classic on PS4. At E3 2018 it was confirmed that the title would also be coming to Xbox One, and during a live stream featuring director Yoko Taro, producer Yosuke Saito and designer Takahisa Taura, the...
Random Yoko Taro Shares Impressions on Tiny Metal After a 5 Minute Preview
"...THIS IS GOOD."
Tiny Metal may have been delayed, but it's still on track to become - potentially - a viable option for Advance Wars and Switch fans around the globe. The latest news regarding the Sony-published title has not been the best, but this week the director of the game invited famous Japanese video game director and scenario writer Yoko...