Yoko Taro’s New Sport Turns Sega Classics Into Waifus

As we speak, Sega revealed the trailer for its new cellular sport collaboration with Nier and Drakengard sequence creator Yoko Taro. As is custom for any collaboration with Taro, this sport’s elevator pitch trades within the weird twists solely Taro’s thoughts can concoct: a gacha sport that transforms Sega classics into waifus set in a darkish future by which Sega controls society.

The sport, whose announcement was teased earlier this week, is known as 404 Sport Re:set. In typical Yoko Taro vogue, you’ll be charged with taking over a corrupt, alternate model of Sega, which calls to thoughts that one Nier: Automata DLC by which you bought to battle Sq. Enix execs. In line with Video Video games Chronicle, the textual content that flashed on the cellphone within the trailer learn “Kill Sega” earlier than dropping to the ground. Oh to have been a fly on the wall of that pitch assembly. Nonetheless, the twist, as a result of there’s at all times gotta be a twist with this dude, is that you simply received’t be preventing alone. By your aspect would be the waifu personifications of a bunch of traditional Sega video games.

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“It’s a sport that options Sega’s IP, so I assumed Sega needs to be within the sport, however I didn’t suppose Sega would need to see a sport that portrayed it effectively, so I portrayed it negatively,” Taro mentioned within the announcement trailer (as translated by VGC). “It’s a world that imagines that if issues have been to go effectively for Sega however then bought uncontrolled, it may find yourself like this.”

To date, the confirmed Sega video games that might be getting hit with the waifu ray are After Burner, Out Run, Virtua Cop, and Virtua Fighter. In an interview with Famitsu, producer Gosuke Nakamura mentioned there might be “many extra” Sega women for gamers to gather. This implies there’s nonetheless an opportunity we are going to see him select the definitive car-waifu from Daytona USA ya’ll. No copying the Transformers bishojo toy line, Taro. I’ll know.

A Google-translated tweet from the official 404 Sport Re:set account describes the sport’s setting as a “Sega nation” that seeks to “deceive and management folks.” The participant character, in flip, might be charged with the duty of “ship[ing] the reality hidden by Sega to as many individuals as potential” and taking again the world from the maniacal Sega nation.

Outdoors of Taro’s latest enterprise, the eccentric Emil-skull-wearing auteur has been contributing to the Nier: Automata Ver 1.1a anime from manufacturing studio A-1 Photos. To maintain the present fascinating for viewers who’ve performed Nier: Automata, the anime is combining routes A and B, concluding episodes with a enjoyable puppet present that describes the sport’s many endings, and has hidden coded messages for followers to decipher inside its eye catches.

Though the Nier anime is at the moment on hiatus resulting from covid, that hasn’t stopped the mad lad from writing a 15-minute music video that expands upon the sequence’ lore. Time will inform whether or not or not Taro will embody much more meta gameplay mechanics in 404 Sport Re:set or if he’ll go away effectively sufficient alone with the gacha waifu sega classics idea. He’s an unapologetic capitalist so count on some shenanigans down the highway, cellular gamers.

404 Sport Re:set is at the moment out there to wishlist on the Apple App Retailer and on the Google Play retailer.