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Yoko Taro is a strange and brilliant man.A self-confessed loather of interviews, he often elects to speak to the press behind the eerie, grinning moon-like mask he wore to announce the sequel to Nier, one of his strangest games to date. Yet for all those protestations, he's an amazingly blunt, frequently hilarious interviewee - even if you're never quite sure where the affected persona stops and the actual truth lies.
The last time I met Taro, director of famously off-beat action RPG games such as Drakengard and Nier, he told me how easy it's been working with Nier Automata developer Platinum Games, and how their good work frees him up to indulge some of his own interests. "All the time I spent on the original getting angry at the development team. Platinum's removed that by working so well," he said back in the aftermath of Nier Automata's unexpected announcement. "So I spend that time drinking. In the end it hasn't really changed how much work I do. But when I drink I make better games, so that's okay."
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