{"id":90916,"date":"2026-10-09T04:26:47","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T08:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90916"},"modified":"2026-10-09T06:38:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:38:16","slug":"nier-creator-yoko-taro-says-he-would-retire-from-making-video-games-but-fear-of-dementia-keeps-him-working","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90916","title":{"rendered":"NieR Creator Yoko Taro Says He Would Retire From Making Video Games but Fear of Dementia Keeps Him Working"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NieR franchise creator Yoko Taro dropped a big revelation about his motivations for continuing to work and his thoughts on the future of Japan\u2019s game industry. As reported by Denfaminicogamer<\/a>, Taro was asked if he had any current projects or plans to make a new game. He replied \u201cnothing really,\u201d and confessed that \u201cI\u2019m done with working. I don\u2019t want to do it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

On top of this, Taro revealed that he already achieved his life goal before he even made critically-acclaimed titles like NieR Automata. Taro’s first game as director was 2003 PS2 title Drakengard (known as Drag-on Dragoon in Japan). \u201cWith Drakengard, the first game I was given the opportunity to direct, I was actually able to do almost everything the way I wanted,\u201d he said, noting that he was able to release a game that \u201crepresented the best I could do at the time.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cAs a game otaku, I think the dream is to release something you\u2019ve always wanted to create into the world. Having achieved that dream, I view everything after that as the remainder of my life,\u201d he continued. Taro went on to reveal that he merely continued working because he\u2019d be in trouble if<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NieR franchise creator Yoko Taro dropped a big revelation about his motivations for continuing to work and his thoughts on the future of Japan\u2019s game industry. As reported by Denfaminicogamer, Taro was asked if he had any current projects or plans to make a new game. He replied \u201cnothing really,\u201d and confessed that \u201cI\u2019m done…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":90918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90916"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90920,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90916\/revisions\/90920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}