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Issy van der Velde

Yoko Taro jokes maybe he shouldn't have done the Nikke x Nier: Automata collab after all as cosplayers are now dressing up as Shift Up's characters instead of his own

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Yoko Taro, the legendary developer behind Nier: Automata, isn't shy about licensing his characters like 2B out to other games. Nier devs previously said they "will gladly say yes to anything for money," but now Yoko may be regretting his collaboration with Goddess of Victory: Nikke.

"After Nikke and Nier collaborated, many Nier cosplayers – especially those in more revealing outfits – started switching over to Nikke cosplay and stopped cosplaying Nier characters," Yoko says in an interview with Nikke and Stellar Blade devs from Shift Up, first spotted by Genki on Twitter. "And I wondered, 'Maybe we shouldn't have done the collab.'"

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