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Yoko Taro's Themes
"We're trying to figure out what the theme of him is. What exactly would he doesn't want us to do? No, but we are trying to figure him out," says Nier creator Yoko Taro. "There's clearly some outside sources that were inspirations for him and so we're just going to have to find out what we can by reading them ourselves." The first near game also touches on the soul, as humans try to kill their enemies in order to make packs with mythical beasts. Androids believed in humankind, I believe that we are blind to what we believe in; this touching on sort of existentialism.
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