Yoko Taro, the renowned creator of Nier: Automata and Drakengard, has shared reflections on his journey as a video game director, a career that began not out of ambition, but due to a series of fortunate circumstances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a recent interview, Taro revealed that his appointment as director of Drakengard<\/a>, his debut in this role, was due to his colleague Takuya Iwasaki being unable to take on the role because of his workload on Resident Evil: Dead Aim<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Remember that he was the most vocal team member in expressing his opinions, which led Cavia to decide that he would take charge of the project. “<\/strong>I didn’t have a great ambition to become a director<\/a>. Things just happened this way,” Taro points out<\/strong>. This unexpected turn in his career gave Taro the creative freedom needed to build the dark and peculiar worlds that characterize his works.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThings came to him that way<\/h2>\n\n\n\n