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The Last Story (24th February)

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Jesus, a two hit combo from Nintendo with announcements of RPG's :heh:

 

The Last Story is a RPG from Mistwalker on the Nintendo Wii which takes on a new direction for the genre. The theme of the game involves the universal feelings all of humanity shares.

 

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Release date for japan is 2010 so who knows when we will get this (If we get it at all)

 

Official Site: http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/index.html

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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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By that Dante do you mean he's actually taking on hands on development on the game? I mean every game at Mistwalker could be said to have been "made by him" if you count production roles.

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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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

 

 

1. [NDS] Dragon Quest IX (Square Enix) - 4,100,968

2. [NDS] Pokemon HeartGold/SoulSilver (Pokemon) - 3,382,597

3. [WII] New Super Mario Bros. Wii (Nintendo) - 2,485,150

4. [NDS] Tomodachi Collection (Nintendo) - 2,311,948

5. [PS3] Final Fantasy XIII (Square Enix) - 1,698,256

6. [WII] Wii Sports Resort (Nintendo) - 1,542,806

7. [WII] Wii Fit Plus (Nintendo) - 1,298,533

8. [WII] Monster Hunter 3 (Capcom) - 968,033

9. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven 2 Fire/Blizzard (Level 5) - 943,615

10. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP The Best (Capcom) - 911,497 / 1,110,614

 

11. [NDS] Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story (Nintendo) - 717,940

12. [WII] Wii Fit (Nintendo) - 588,258 / 3,555,555

13. [NDS] Professor Leyton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny (Level 5) - 552,085

14. [NDS] Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days (Square Enix) - 522,260

15. [PS3] Yakuza 3 (Sega) - 509,223

16. [PS3] Biohazard 5 (Capcom) - 508,959

17. [NDS] Rhythm Heaven (Nintendo) - 480,326 / 1,830,997

18. [WII] Mario Kart wii (Nintendo) - 446,447 / 2,449,762

19. [PSP] Phantasy Star Portable 2 (Sega) - 443,216

20. [NDS] Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorer of Skies (Pokemon) - 417,226

 

21. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii (Namco) - 390,416 / 641,599

22. [PSP] Dynasty Warriors MULTI RAID (Koei) - 384,336

23. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2010 (Konami) - 377,340

24. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam Next Plus (Bandai Namco) - 339,034

25. [PS3] Tales of Vesperia (Bandai Namco) - 337,783

26. [NDS] Wagamama Fashion Girls Mode (Nintendo) - 330,079 / 879,427

27. [NDS] Pokemon Platinum (Pokemon) - 328,490 / 2,515,827

28. [NDS] The Legend of Zeldas: Spirit Tracks (Nintendo) - 320,940

29. [NDS] Kirby Ultra Super Deluxe (Nintendo) - 319,422 / 1,174,849

30. [PSP] Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Bandai Namco) - 317,730

 

31. [WII] Animal Crossing City Folk (Nintendo) - 311,261 / 1,206,563

32. [PS2] SD Gundam G Generation Wars (Bandai Namco) - 307,754

33. [NDS] Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth (Capcom) - 303,445

34. [NDS] New Super Mario Bros. (Nintendo) - 287,399 / 5,659,586

35. [WII] Wii Sports (Nintendo) - 286,634 / 3,592,834

36. [NDS] Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time (Square Enix) - 259,705

37. [NDS] Animal Crossing Wild World (Nintendo) - 258,996 / 5,111,049

38. [PSP] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (Konami) - 250,204

39. [PSP] Gran Turismo (SCE) - 247,869

40. [NDS] Mario Kart DS (Nintendo) - 246,192 / 3,563,510

 

41. [WII] Poke Park Wii: Pikachu's Big Adventure (Pokemon) - 243,075

42. [PSP] Dissidia: Final Fantasy (Square Enix) - 242,136 / 902,398

43. [PS2] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2009 (Konami) - 239,928

44. [WII] Monster Hunter G (Capcom) - 236,020

45. [PSP] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Portable 4 (Konami) - 233,864

46. [PS3] Mobile Suit Gundam Senki (Bandai Namco) - 233,473

47. [PSP] Tales of Versus (Bandai Namco) - 231,351

48. [PS3] Warriors Orochi Z (Koei) - 221,718

49. [NDS] Momotarou Dentetsu 20th Anniversary (Hudson) - 218,856 / 340,996

50. [NDS] Tongari Boushi: and the 365 Days of Magic (Konami) - 218,139 / 451,588

 

51. [WII] New Play Control: Mario Power Tennis (Nintendo) - 216,069

52. [NDS] Professor Leyton and the Last Time Travel (Level 5) - 214,474 / 842,617

53. [NDS] Super Robot Wars K (Bandai Namco) - 213,454

54. [NDS] Puyo Puyo 7 (Sega) - 210,056

55. [WII] Taiko Drum Master Wii 2 (Bandai Namco) - 209,083

56. [360] Star Ocean 4: The Last Hope (Square Enix) - 208,521

57. [NDS] Taiko Drum Master DS: Big Adventure of 7 Islands (Bandai Namco) - 206,780 / 650,913

58. [WII] Samurai Warriors 3 (Koei) - 205,370

59. [NDS] Sloane and McHale's Mystery Story (Level 5) - 201,043

60. [PSP] Sengoku BASARA Battle Heroes (Capcom) - 198,799

 

61. [PS3] BAYONETTA (Sega) - 196,150

62. [NDS] Love Plus (Konami) - 192,207

63. [NDS] Dragon Ball Kai (Bandai Namco) - 192,200

64. [NDS] The 4 Warriors of Light: Final Fantasy Gaiden (Square Enix) - 191,020

65. [PSP] Idol Master SP Perfect Sun/Missing Moon/Wandering Star (Bandai Namco) - 189,568

66. [NDS] Wario Ware DIY (Nintendo) - 187,404

67. [NDS] Power Pro Kun Pocket 11 (Konami) - 185,644 / 284,720

68. [PSP] Persona 3 Portable (Atlus) - 183,283

69. [PSP] Mobile Suit Gundam: Senjou no Kizuna Portable (Bandai Namco) - 181,888

70. [WII] Tales of Graces (Bandai Namco) - 177,925

 

71. [PSP] Hatsune Miku: Project Diva (Sega) - 173,834

72. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai X: 7 Soldiers of Heaven (Konami) - 171,790

73. [PS3] Tekken 6 (Bandai Namco) - 170,150

74. [NDS] Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games (Nintendo) - 169,538

75. [NDS] Inazuma Eleven (NDS) - 167,273 / 396,284

76. [PS2] Jikkyou Powerful Pro Baseball 2009 (Konami) - 166,085

77. [PS3] Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (Square Enix) - 164,619

78. [NDS] SaGa 2: Goddess of Destiny (Square Enix) - 164,352

79. [NDS] Rittai Picross (Nintendo) - 161,690

80. [PS3] Demon Souls (SCE) - 159,278

 

81. [PS3] Street Fighter IV (Capcom) - 157,704

82. [PSP] Persona (Atlus) - 149,740

83. [WII] Wii Play (Nintendo) - 149,555 / 2,742,849

84. [PSP] Macross Ultimate Frontier (Bandai Namco) - 149,541

85. [PS3] Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires (Koei) - 146,520

86. [PSP] Let's Make a J. League Pro Soccer Club! 6 Pride of J (Sega) - 146,371

87. [WII] New Play Control: Pikmin 2 (Nintendo) - 139,560

88. [WII] Karaoke Joysound Wii (Hudson) - 139,093 / 254,144

89. [NDS] Seventh Dragon (Sega) - 137,857

90. [PSP] Boku no Natsuyasumi 4: seitouchi Shounen Tanteidan, Boku to Himitsu no Chizu (SCE) - 137,785

 

91. [PS3] White Knight Chronicles (SCE) - 136,657 / 339,690

92. [NDS] Beautiful Letter Training (Nintendo) - 139,619 / 561,891

93. [PS3] Pro Baseball Spirits 6 (Konami) - 134,910

94. [WII] Super Smash Bros. Brawl (Nintendo) - 133,725 / 1,880,838

95. [NDS] Penguin no Mondai: Legend of the Strongest Penguin (Konami) - 132,515 / 287,502

96. [NDS] Welcome Back Chibi Robo! (Nintendo) - 130,092

97. [NDS] Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey (Atlus) - 127,946

98. [NDS] Pokemon Diamond/Pearl (Pokemon) - 127,567 / 5,751,997

99. [WII] Momotarou Dentetsu 2010 (Hudson) - 125,494

100. [360] Biohazard 5 (Capcom) - 123,817

 

Company Software Sales Breakdown:

 

1. Nintendo: 14,400,000

2. Square Enix: 8,590,000

3. Bandai Namco: 7,590,000

4. Pokemon: 4,730,000

5. Konami: 4,660,000

 

Company Top 100 Ranking:

 

1. Nintendo: 25 Titles

2. Bandai Namco: 16 Titles

3. Konami: 11 Titles

4. Square Enix: 9 Titles

5. Capcom: 8 Titles

 

Top 10 Budget Games:

 

1. [PSP] Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G PSP The Best (Capcom) - 911,497 / 1,110,614

2. [PS3] Call of Duty 4 (Square Enix) - 96,913

3. [PS3] Hot Shots Golf 5 PS3 The Best (SCE) - 92,580 / 101,201

4. [360] Ace Combat 6 Platinum Collection (Bandai Namco) - 89,300 / 131,180

5. [PS3] Valkyria Chronicles PS3 The Best (Sega) - 82,744

6. [PSP] Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories Best Price (Capcom) - 76,800

7. [360] Beautiful Katamari Platinum Collection (Bandai Namco) - 74,166 / 115,658

8. [PSP] Hot Shots Golf Portable 2 PSP The Best (SCE) - 71,623

9. [PS3] Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots PS3 The Best (Konami) - 64,714

10. [NDS] Puyo Puyo! Special Price (Sega) - 62,416 / 143,404

 

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Sakaguchi Focused on The Last Story (+Lego)

 

Mistwalker CEO Hironobu Sakaguchi is a big shot producer, so it's likely that he handles multiple projects at once. At present, however, his focus is on one project in particular: The Last Story.

 

In his latest post at the Mistwalker blog, Sakaguchi said of the recently announced Wii RPG, "At present, I'm focused on this one game. It's my only project."

 

He likened development of the game to raising a lone daughter, although he later noted that the game is actually like a child who's receiving the love of the entire development staff. "It will be raised strongly, beautifully, and gently," said Sakaguchi.

 

While The Last Story is Sakaguchi's only game project, he does still find time for hobbies. In the blog post, you'll see his latest lego creation. He put the ship together while waiting for the required documents to download.

 

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The download process apparently takes an hour due to the slow internet speeds in Hawaii. It looks like Sakaguchi is away from Japan at present.

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

 

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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