The struggle not to repeat himself is made more difficult by the fact that, thanks to Nier achieving cult status in Japan and overseas, a lot more people are going to be paying attention to his work this time. So I wanted to avoid that, but I wanted to avoid repeating what I did in Nier as well.' I thought at first that there'd be no purpose to rehashing Sano's work, but there were times when I thought that was what I should do instead, even though I knew it'd just be an inferior copy. That makes it hard to figure out what to create to keep them satisfied. 'I've been involved with coming into series midway before,' Okabe told Famitsu, 'but I think Drakengard's fans have a lot more of a love, or a pre-made image at least, of the series. This is the first time he's been involved with the series as the original Drakengard was scored by Nobuyoshi Sano, and according to the article that makes him more than a tad nervous. Okabe and his Monaca studio are back to work on Drakengard 3, Yokoo's latest for Square Enix and a game that was previewed in this week's Famitsu magazine.

Nier came out over three years ago, and people are still talking about the things that made the Taro Yokoo-directed game memorable, from the fighting action, the mixture of gameplay elements, the generally insane plot, to Keiichi Okabe's richly enjoyable soundtrack.

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