Nier Automata's effortlessly eccentric director Yoko Taro has said he originally made games with multiple endings at a time when short games were out of fashion. Now? He reckons making games with 100 endings, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:like Danganronpa creator's new game, is a risky move.

In the latest issue of Magazine, the Nier mastermind sat down for a chat with Danganronpa's Kazutaka Koಌdaka and 999 director Koutarou Uchikoshi, who recently teamed up to release strategy RPG The Hundred Line: Last Defense Academy, a dangerous high school-set game that has seeming🙈ly countless routes to complete.

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"In the current year, making something with 100 different routes and endings is the more dangerous play," Taroಌ tells the developers of The Hundred Line, which has roughly 100 routes and endings.

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Kodaka is at least aware of the gamble he took. He recently said that he'd love to port The Hundred Line to more consoles, but the studio is still🌌 "on the brink of going under," which isn't a surprise considering the team 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:ended up with a lot of debt trying t🔯o creaꦅte the ambitious genre-bending hybrid in the first place.

Yoko Taro says Nier: Automata has so many endings because "Square Enix told us" to "add more content"