Nier Automata is a game about existential despair and searching for a reason to live in a meaningless world. But in the end, it’s also about finding that meaning and that humanity in each other. And in line with that message, director Yoko Taro has shared a sincere end-of-year letter to call for change in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s escalating attacks in Gaza.
“Looking back at 2023, the world was too cruel, wasn’t it? The war in Ukraine hasn’t even ended, and a new war is starting in Gaza,” Taro writes in a statement published on 4Gamer, translated using machine learning. “According to UNICEF, more than 5,300 children died in 46 days.”
