Yoko Taro’s new game turns Sega classics into waifus

Sega today revealed the trailer for his new mobile game collaboration with kidney And Drakengard Series creator Yoko Taro. As is tradition with any Taro collaboration, this game’s elevator pitch deals with the bizarre twists only Taro’s mind can invent: a gacha game that turns Sega classics into waifus, set in a dark future where Sega controls the company.

The game whose announcement was teased earlier this weekis called 404 reset game. In typical Yoko Taro fashion, you are tasked with taking on a corrupt, alternate version of Sega reminiscent of her Nier: Automata DLC in which you have to fight against Square Enix managers. Accordingly Chronicle of Video Games

, the text that flashed on the phone in the trailer read “Kill Sega” before falling to the ground. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of that pitch meeting. But the twist because with this guy there always has to be a twist, is that you will not fight alone. By your side will be the waifu personifications of a number of classic Sega games.

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“It’s a game that has Sega’s intellectual property, so I thought Sega should be in the game, but I didn’t think Sega would want to see a game that portrayed it well, so I portrayed it negatively,” Taro said in Announcement Trailer (translated from VGC). “It’s a world that imagines that if things go well for Sega, that’s how it could end up, but then spiral out of control.”

So far, the confirmed Sega games are getting hit with the waifu ray After burner

, leak, virtual cop, And Virtua Fighter. in a (n Interview with Famitsu, producer Gosuke Nakamura said there will be “many more” Sega girls for players to collect. That means there’s still a chance we’ll see him choose the final auto waifu Daytona USA her. No copying the transformrs bishojo toy line, taro. I will know.

A Google translated tweet from the official 404 reset game Account describes the game’s setting as “Sega land” that attempts to “fool and control people.” The player character, in turn, is assigned the task of “delivering”.[ing] the truth hidden by Sega from as many people as possible” and reclaiming the world from insane Sega land.

Outside of Taro’s latest venture, the Eccentric emily-skull-wearing auteur contributed to that Nier: Automata Ver 1.1a Anime from the production studio A-1 Pictures. To keep the show interesting for viewers who played Nier: AutomataCombining routes A and B, the anime concludes the episodes with a fun puppet show detailing the game’s many endings and hiding coded messages for fans to decipher in its eye-catchers.

Although the kidney Anime is currently on hiatus due to Covid, which hasn’t stopped the mad boy from writing a 15 minute music video that expands the lore of the series. Time will tell if Taro will feature even more meta gameplay mechanics or not 404 reset game or if he stays alone well enough with the gacha waifu sega classics concept. He is a unabashed capitalist So expect some shenanigans later, mobile gamers.

404 reset game is currently available on wishlist the Apple App Store and further the Google Play Store.