Zero Escape Writer Is Pro-AI, Believes His New Studio’s Game Wouldn’t Have Been Canceled If He’d Used It To Cut Costs

The reputation that Kotaro Uchikoshi has developed for surreal and metatextual storytelling through games like Hundred Line: Final Defense Academy and the Zero Escape series means that it can be difficult to know when he’s being entirely forthright and serious. For instance, when he announced his new studio called Crash Keys by telling the world the game he was working on at the company had been canceled, people were more likely to believe it was an ARG than the truth .