Square Enix's Yosuke Saito teases there's "just a little something" on the way for fans of Nier and Dragon Quest in 2026
Nier producer Yosuke Saito has teased that there's "just a little something" on the way for fans in 2026.

Nier producer Yosuke Saito has teased that there's "just a little something" on the way for fans in 2026.

Look, ok, I get it Square Enix. I understand why you put 2B in absolutely everything. She is a character with particular qualities that certain audiences found very appealing! But I am begging you… stop putting her in things. I'm sick to death of seeing her everywhere, her blindfolded eyes somehow still staring directly into my soul, begging me to spend money on endless gacha rolls, but this time in Final Fantasy 7: Ever Crisis, the next game she's set to appear in.

It's been a while since Yoko Taro has made a game, hasn't it? That last public (key word here) thing he worked on was a mobile game about how Sega controls pretty much everything called 404 Game Re:set in 2023 (it shut down in 2024). Before that was a trio of Voice of Cards games in 2021/22, and before that the Nier Replicant not-quite-a-remake and also now defunct mobile game Nier Reincarnation. In terms of the big thing that everyone wants, a non-gacha Nier game, things have been very quiet, but that can be said of Taro's work as a whole. Apparently, though, that's not for lack of trying.