Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito, leads of the Nier series, have set the record straight following some mistranslated comments. During a following the PC release of 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Stellar Blade, Saito's answer to a question on Nier's designs led to a belief Square Enix e♌nforced some form of restrictions, something they’ve now denied.
As this started doing the rounds, Yoko to a fan reaching out on Twitter, in ⭕a tweet , "I've never heard of such a thing happening." Meanwhile, Saito has made a statement of h🌱is own, saying there's been a mistranslation, and the devs weren't restricted in any way, shape or form during the making of the Nier games.
Furthermore, he says🗹 he'd like to clarify further on another livestream, though when that'll happen remains to be seen. The root cause of the misunde🍰rstanding is a question on character designs. Yoko Taro began by stating they like to go against the grain wherever possible.
ああ、なんか知らないところで誤解？された上にフォローまでされていた！（誤訳？にもほどがある… つうか、ニーアなんて何ひとつ制限なんてつけてないやろが！！！そんな訳で、オートマトンさん、ありがとうございます！… //t.co/maBK7TBBNd
"If western sci-fi is filled with marine-like soldiers, we might go in the ♌opposite direction and use gothic lo🐭lita outfits, for example. We tend to take the contrarian route," he said at the time.
Then, Saito added there are some things they avoid, but Automaton notes this is where the true meaning of his words was lost in translation. The subtitles in question had translated his words as: "There are ce🍷rtain things that are ethically or morally inappropriate – eve🦩n if they're just aspects of a character. We try to draw a line by establishing rules about what's acceptable and what's not."
Furthermore, he'd seemingly added: "While certain things might be acceptable in Japan, they could beco🐓me problematic in certain overseas regions. These are the kind of situations we usually try to avoid creating."
As Automaton says, this appears to be where some people got the wrong idea. The idea of acceptability came across as a hint of pub🦂lisher interference or mandate, especially outside of Japan, rather than being about societal expectations and what's considered gauche. If the subject interests you, it sounds like we’re getting another chance to dive into it very soon.
Anthony is an Irish entertainment and games journalist, now based in Glasgow. He previously served as Senior Anime Writer at Dexerto and News Editor at The Digital Fix, on top of providing work for Variety, IGN, Den of Geek, PC Gamer, and many more. Besides Studio Ghibli, horror movies♛, and The Muppets, he enjoys action-RPGs, heavy metal, and ꦏpro-wrestling. He interviewed Animal once, not that he won’t stop going on about it or anything.
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