Platinum Game’s Yoko Taro Most Impressed By Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp In 2017

Platinum Game’s Yoko Taro, who is also the director of Nier: Automata is an excellent game developer that needs minimal introduction, having portfolios that span back to the Time Crisis II and Alphine Racer 2 era. After decades of working on video games, you would think that maybe Yoko would be very impressed with either The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild or even Mario Odyssey.

But speaking with 4gamer and translated by Siliconera, it turns out that Yoko is most impressed by Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp this year instead. The game director then go on to praise the game’s social framework, and endless stream of content that gets progressively harder as he continues playing.

Great to hear that even mobile games such as Animal Crossing gets its praises sung and appreciated. If you want to see what Yoko thinks about 2017 and the upcoming 2018, you can head on to Siliconera here.