Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito, leads of the Nier series, have set the record straight following some mistranslated comments. During a live chat following the PC release of Stellar Blade, Saito's answer to a question on Nier's designs led to a belief Square Enix enforced some form of restrictions, something they’ve now denied.
As this started doing the rounds, Yoko responded to a fan reaching out on Twitter, in a tweet translated by Automaton, "I've never heard of such a thing happening." Meanwhile, Saito has made a statement of his own, saying there's been a mistranslation, and the devs weren't restricted in any way, shape or form during the making of the Nier games.
