Last week at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, hundreds of game developers lined up to listen to a man wearing a creepy moon mask. As 28,000 creators descended upon the city to discuss their trade, one of the longest lines was for a talk about Nier: Automata, the sequel to a largely unheralded role-playing game. Last year, Automata became a surprise critical and commercial success, selling more than two million copies and earning a fervent cult following. Along the way, director Yoko Taro became something of a cult celebrity. It’s a big change of pace for the infamously media-shy Taro, who wears a mask in public at most times to avoid showing his face. “It makes me angry to be so overpraised,” he tells me of the attention.
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