Nier: Automata director teases third main-series game by dunking on its publisher
Takashi Kiryu got an earful
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Nier’s series director has potentially teased a third game in the action-RPG saga.
“The room immediately erupted into claps, cheers and yells,” according to the person in attendance. This isn’t confirmation of an actual sequel to Nier Automata, which recently surpassed eight million copies sold since launch, but it is a good indication of just how badly folk want the sequel to happen. And hey, it sends a pretty clear message to Square Enix’s president himself.
Elsewhere in the concert, the word “Repent” was apparently shown as part of on-screen dialog (Nier’s orchestral concerts play a montage of in-game footage behind the orchestra). This was apparently spelled as “R3pent” though, replacing one ‘E’ with a ‘3,’ which has been taken as a further teaser of a third Nier game …
