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Square Enix announces SINoALICE for mobile (Creative Director: Yoko Taro) [Up: Okabe]
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but they just said it's terrible
Imperfected
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And he would include it in the extended Drakengard/NieR canon, too.
They shoved him into half a finished project that had literally no budget or marketing.
Want some fries to go with that salt?
I don't think being the creative director (which in this case likely entails writing the story and maybe giving the dev team ideas to fuck with players) for a mobile game would impair him from being a creative director or writer for other games. The dude's writing a manga that last I checked is still ongoing, so I think he appears more than capable of handling multiple projects at once. Hell, he probably worked on the mobile game's story while still working on Nier, what with the mobile game coming out so soon and all.
Now let's hope Nier actually does well, cause otherwise he's probably gonna be stuck on mobile games for a while.
Deft Beck
Member
For those wondering about Demons' Score, it was a rhythm action game by iNiS (the Ouendan people) with a Yoko Taro story and music by all sorts of famous JP game composers.
Unfortunately, the game cost upwards of $40+ after all IAPs on iOS in the West, as opposed to $20 in Japan.
Awful.
Unfortunately, the game cost upwards of $40+ after all IAPs on iOS in the West, as opposed to $20 in Japan.
Awful.
sixteen-bit
Member
Will play if localized.
veloxStrix
Banned
Yeah, I really can't wait, honestly.
rocketskates
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Grimoires
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That was my first thought too; be nice if Yoko got a chance to revisit that as it seemed like a really interesting concept. Particularly the stuff described in Grimoire Nier about everyone being doomed because they were trapped into their roles "as written".
Oh...
JillSandwich
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The original concept for Nier was a ps2 game with a heavier fairy tale theme than the final game, you can see remnants of it in the boss names and the lost woods area.
There was originally supposed to be 13 total grimoires to collect, each bestowing a different type of power. I'm thinking that this is the "unfinished story" that the narrator refers to in the trailer.
Seeing the Angelic script pop up again in this trailer made me wonder it it can be translated, and apparently it's just romanized Japanese text written in Angelic script. So I gave it a go and I was able to confirm the Angelic script in this trailer is also just romanized Japanese, but it's very exhausting and pretty much a waste of time, so I didn't bother to continue. Some of it contains weird stuff, like this (@0:26 in the video):
Basically, the word "maio" is repeated 10x here right after mentioning "soul", though none of the other pages have any repeated words (and every page has different text!), so I reckon it must be special somehow, but I couldn't figure out what that word actually means. Possibly "魔世" (evil spirit, or something like that)? Looks like it's going to be one of those typical Yoko Taro stories.
Anyway, it's cool that they bothered to make all that text different and fitting with the context of the story. A lot of developers would probably just type some gibberish to fill up one page, and then copy that to all other pages, but Yoko Taro's team filled up many different pages with Japanese text that hints at the themes of the game, even though (almost) no one would bother to read it. Very nice!
Basically, the word "maio" is repeated 10x here right after mentioning "soul", though none of the other pages have any repeated words (and every page has different text!), so I reckon it must be special somehow, but I couldn't figure out what that word actually means. Possibly "魔世" (evil spirit, or something like that)? Looks like it's going to be one of those typical Yoko Taro stories.
Anyway, it's cool that they bothered to make all that text different and fitting with the context of the story. A lot of developers would probably just type some gibberish to fill up one page, and then copy that to all other pages, but Yoko Taro's team filled up many different pages with Japanese text that hints at the themes of the game, even though (almost) no one would bother to read it. Very nice!
Edge_Maverick
Member
New trailer is out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2g50vilDEE
Music direction by Keiichi Okabe, aka the God.
Music direction by Keiichi Okabe, aka the God.
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Yeah... it kinda feels like D3.
This subtitled promo compilation gives a better sense of it's overall... flavour
Make sure you watch til the end, some of the character cameos are... well, you'll see!
LordOfLore
Banned
delete all your phones memory. All your contacts, all your pictures, everything.
fuck, the fact this has Choas/ Angelic makes me think this might fit somewhere in the DrakenNier verse... >.<
TheSporkWithin
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Looks pretty cool. Seems to be some sort of battle royale or something, involving killing all of the other characters in order to revive one's author.
There were scenario draft things posted as well. I translated the first half into English, might get to the rest later.
There were scenario draft things posted as well. I translated the first half into English, might get to the rest later.