If you’re familiar with Yoko Taro‘s presence online, you’ll know that he often has some very interesting things to say about the video game industry. The other day he had some very high praise for the company–Platinum Games–developing his new game, which is currently only going by the name “NieR New Project“.

Here’s a quick glance at what he had to say about Platinum Games:

Yoko: Platinum Games do such quality work that I really don’t feel like I’m needed very much. Kamiya*: We’ll try our best to measure up to your expectations…

Yoko: In this industry, the term “subcontractor” is not frequently used any more, but a practical issue that many companies have is this mindset that “all we have to do is what we’re told.” However, frankly speaking, Platinum Games is a great company. It’s as though I went to Tenkaippin, and although I only ordered a regular-sized meal, they gave me karaage with rice, plus a serving of kotteri ramen free of charge.

Yoko: But since I’m in charge of the story, please, at any rate, at all cost, do not get your hopes up.

Always very humble, he is!! <3

As far as new news goes, we will be hearing more about the game as it’s featured at the Paris Games Week on October 29th. For more information on that, please check this entry that I made a couple days ago.

• Kamiya Hideki is a member of Platinum Games working on this title. For more information on him, please check out his English Wikipedia page here.
• As with any Japanese translation found on this site, I do all the translation work myself. If you like to quote anything from here, please credit me: Rekka Alexiel. Thanks!