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Yoko responded by explaining that while to the outside world it has appeared that he hasn’t been working on anything for a while, the projects he’s been working on keep being cancelled during development.
“People often say things like, ‘why don’t you make a sequel to NieR?’ or ‘Yoko isn’t doing any work’, but lately there have been many projects that ended up being stopped partway through,” he said.
So I was working, but they just didn’t make it out into the world. Since I’ve been paid for it, it’s no personal problem for me, but because nothing has been released as output, it looks like I haven’t been working.”
Yoko said he didn’t consider this a problem, because he’d rather not be responsible for a game that doesn’t live up to his typical standards.
“I don’t have any negative feelings about it, because I think it’s better not to release something at all than to put out something odd or not quite right”.
Yoko responded by explaining that while to the outside world it has appeared that he hasn’t been working on anything for a while, the projects he’s been working on keep being cancelled during development.
“People often say things like, ‘why don’t you make a sequel to NieR?’ or ‘Yoko isn’t doing any work’, but lately there have been many projects that ended up being stopped partway through,” he said.
So I was working, but they just didn’t make it out into the world. Since I’ve been paid for it, it’s no personal problem for me, but because nothing has been released as output, it looks like I haven’t been working.”
Yoko said he didn’t consider this a problem, because he’d rather not be responsible for a game that doesn’t live up to his typical standards.
“I don’t have any negative feelings about it, because I think it’s better not to release something at all than to put out something odd or not quite right”.
