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Outstanding! Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are fantastic games, easily the best JRPGS I have played on a console this gen. If they can replicate them then were in for a great game.

 

Great time to be a Nintendo/RPG fan.

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He is the designer with his development team Mistwalker and it is unknown who is developing the game with them.

 

Look at Mistwalkercorp Blog

 

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New project is going to be announced after a long time.

 

 

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More information will be available in stages.

Don't miss it.

 

Well...

I've got to get back to work on balancing battle system...

Production is near the final phase.

 

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Right now, I’m making a game and I’m going through quite a bit of trial and error. My main objective will be to not be embarrassed in calling it the ‘next gen’ RPG. While characters, maps and other essentials are developed in parallel, the game system is tweaked daily. It’s been going on for a year. Feels like it never ends…but there should be a solution ahead. I’m starting to see it a bit. Finally.

 

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For this new game project, I understand it is important to have seamless control of staging. At the same time, I'm planning to showcase spectacle scenes mixed with CG. The control system will have a special mechanism, while overall game will have a blend of RPG-style strategy and character growth. Interesting reaction will occur corresponding to surroundings and circumstances. Oops, I'm not allowed to say any further.

 

I'm hoping to let you know the details of this new project by the end of this year. When the time comes, on this website I would like to post model artwork and behind the scenes stories, and introduce the artists, engineers and staff who have been putting their heart and soul into this project. This new game is different from any other ones I've worked on in the past, and it will be a good one. You can count on me and keep an eye on us.

 

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My schedule however was just like a typhoon for about last 10 days. My days were really heck tick from the introduction of BDO(Blue Dragon Ikai no kyojuu), having dinner meeting with Nariken who was a FF main programmer and Kitase from FF13 about the project currently in production, needed to attend the meet and greet with client's president, high school reunion from around 20 years ago and also my stepmother is moving.
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To be honest I would have been more than happy with a standard RPG much like Blue Dragon. That had me excited enough. But this sounds like Sakaguchi is being much more ambitious with this title. I don't want to get my hopes up but I just can't help it...

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I'll most definitely be keeping an eye on this.

 

Lost Odyssey is one of my favourite 360 games, and I keep meaning to give Blue Dragon a chance* so I am curious to see what Mistwalker can come up with here.

 

* The demo (admittedly, not the best way to judge JRPGs) didn't do anything for me, but seeing as it's dirt cheap now it probably deserves a look.

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  D_prOdigy said:
Seems Nintendo are becoming everybody in Japan's best friend. They are kicking ass on Wii from a Japanese perspective. These games better come to the west.

 

Iwata is a big fan of JRPG's, he bought a PS1 on the release day of Dragon Quest VII, and he seems to really want to push RPG's in japan even further, which I am loving to be honest.

 

Since most JRPG 3rd party companies have ignored the Wii besides the Dragon Quest series, it's obvious Nintendo are now taking it into their own hands, to try and make sure that JRPG can survive since it's been on a decline (Final Fantasy XIII has yet to make 2 mill in Japan which is a very bad sign of a decline as each FF title has been on a decline)

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  D_prOdigy said:
Seems Nintendo are becoming everybody in Japan's best friend. They are kicking ass on Wii from a Japanese perspective. These games better come to the west.

 

I agree, when someone says Nintendo is out of touch with the market, its the western market only, because in Japan they're getting all the good stuff.

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According to Nintendo’s conference, “the universal theme of human emotion†is a cornerstone for The Last Story. Nintendo says The Last Story will be new style of RPG.

 

Mistwalker confirmed The Last Story was the game Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi was blogging about for months. Right now, he’s working on balancing the battle system.

 

Nintendo plans to release The Last Story this year. Perhaps, sooner rather than later since Sakaguchi says, “production is near the final phase.â€

 

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  Hero-of-Time said:
Outstanding! Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are fantastic games, easily the best JRPGS I have played on a console this gen. If they can replicate them then were in for a great game.

 

Not hard. This generation has been pretty abysmal for JRPGs.

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  Daft said:
Not hard. This generation has been pretty abysmal for JRPGs.

 

Your half right on that, home consoles you are right, but the handheld area is far from abysmal. Heck thanks to handheld RPG's my faith in JRPG has been restored.

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  killer kirby said:
Iwata is a big fan of JRPG's, he bought a PS1 on the release day of Dragon Quest VII, and he seems to really want to push RPG's in japan even further, which I am loving to be honest.

 

Since most JRPG 3rd party companies have ignored the Wii besides the Dragon Quest series, it's obvious Nintendo are now taking it into their own hands, to try and make sure that JRPG can survive since it's been on a decline (Final Fantasy XIII has yet to make 2 mill in Japan which is a very bad sign of a decline as each FF title has been on a decline)

 

The JRPG isn't in a decline, it's just the Japanese people have moved from the PS1/Ps2 to the handhelds.

 

But this project sounds cool, I just can't get over the title, 'The Last Story'. It's like a shameless rip right from Final Fantasy right up to the logo. I know he made FF in the first place and all, but still, it seems shameless and cliché.

 

Need to see some footage!

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  jammy2211 said:
The JRPG isn't in a decline, it's just the Japanese people have moved from the PS1/Ps2 to the handhelds.

 

 

I'm not sure I totally agree with this. I believe that the decline of the genre on the home console market is more to do with the spiralling development costs of RPGs - the genre has probably been more affected by the advent of HD gaming (whereas most games now shrink in gameplay length to balance budget/profit; but thats simply not an option in RPG - hiddeously long quests are a staple of the genre). Back in the day, RPGs were probably the games with highest budget.

 

I wonder if the traditional RPG gamer now gets a fix from the likes of World of Warcraft - at least the few people I know who are massive RPG fans seem to be.

 

All that said, this is sounding great. Its been quite a while since Nintendo hit us with new IP for the core gamer.

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  david.dakota said:
I'm not sure I totally agree with this. I believe that the decline of the genre on the home console market is more to do with the spiralling development costs of RPGs - the genre has probably been more affected by the advent of HD gaming (whereas most games now shrink in gameplay length to balance budget/profit; but thats simply not an option in RPG - hiddeously long quests are a staple of the genre). Back in the day, RPGs were probably the games with highest budget.

 

I wonder if the traditional RPG gamer now gets a fix from the likes of World of Warcraft - at least the few people I know who are massive RPG fans seem to be.

 

All that said, this is sounding great. Its been quite a while since Nintendo hit us with new IP for the core gamer.

 

The HD developement thing really hasn't affected them - There is only a userbase of like 5 million HD console owners in Japan anyway, and no one's rushed to put many high budget JRPG's on the Wii. It's just when there are 5 times as many PSP's and DS's in Japan then home consoles, you're going to put most your support there.

 

There's probably more RPG's nowadays then ever before - and as a genre it very rarely had any 'huge hits' outside of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts. Not alot has changed, just on the PSP and DS people tend to ignore them more, as it's hardest to really make a JRPG standout on limited hardware.

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The next two years are gonna be great for wii-based RPG fans, what with this, Monado/Xenoblade, Tales of Graces, Arc Rise Fantasia, Fragile, Rune Factory: Frontier (if that counts?) and Dragon Quest X!

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  jammy2211 said:
The HD developement thing really hasn't affected them - There is only a userbase of like 5 million HD console owners in Japan anyway, and no one's rushed to put many high budget JRPG's on the Wii. It's just when there are 5 times as many PSP's and DS's in Japan then home consoles, you're going to put most your support there.

 

There's probably more RPG's nowadays then ever before - and as a genre it very rarely had any 'huge hits' outside of Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest and Kingdom Hearts. Not alot has changed, just on the PSP and DS people tend to ignore them more, as it's hardest to really make a JRPG standout on limited hardware.

 

This list will help understand the Japanese taste.

 

 

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What Does The Final Fantasy Team Think Of The Last Story?

 

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In January, developer Mistwalker announced it was making The Last Story with Nintendo, a "new form of RPG" bound for the Wii. That's Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's newest game. What does the Final Fantasy team think about all this?

 

Surely, The Last Story from the creator of Final Fantasy would perk up some ears at Square Enix. But Final Fantasy XIII's producer sounded unsurprised and impressively diplomatic about the former Square Enix developer venturing forth with a very Final Fantasy-like game.

 

"I had heard that Sakaguchi was thinking of a title like this so it wasn't much of a surprise to me," producer Yoshinori Kitase told Kotaku. "I don't really feel like the name The Last Story really overlaps with Final Fantasy because Sakaguchi-san probably just wanted a simple straightforward title that Japanese users can pick up and understand." See? No bad blood.

 

Sakaguchi and Mistwalker's other games, Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, don't sound too much unlike Square Enix games.

 

"It's a very Sakaguchi-san-like title," Kitase said.

 

MistWalker's "full-scaled" RPG, built on the "universal theme of human emotion" is planned for a release in Japan on the Wii this year.

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I know this is going to be great. There's no doubt in my mind. But I find it impossible to get excited without some kind of screenshot. But if it's out in Japan this year then hopefully it won't be too long til wee see something from this game.


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