source: RPGamer

Not sure if anyone cares, just thought I'd post this for those that want to see what the father of FF is up to. Though I am curious to find out more about this.

interesting... very FF-ish logo

but we'll see.. its on the Wii, so I hope its no good.. I wouldn't want a reason to buy one

lol yeah. It seems like he's banking on Last Story being for MW what Final Fantasy was/is for Square.

I've been needing to get a Wii anyway, so if this starts sounding good, I may have to break down and finally get one.

Both the title and logo remind me of something, but I'm not sure what.

^lol, Sakaguchi-san is so clever.

Oh man, they renamed Monado to Xenoblade?

I was already excited when I found out Tsquared's team was doing another RPG, but now I am so much more excited. Even if they are just using the Xenoseries-ish name for brand recognition. :3 I hope it's awesome.

The Final Fantasy sounds so...innovative!

^Expect to see boccochos, gommles, and a guy named Dic in TLS.

I'm curious if Xenoblade fits in Xenosaga's story/world/whatever somehow, or if it's more like a "spiritual successor", like Xenosaga was to Xenogears.

I think it'll be either a 'spiritual' successor or unrelated entirely, lol.

If they do some direct ties between either it and Xenosaga or Xenogears it will be a nice surprise.

The screens from E3 have the similar style to Xenogears' medieval/modern/sci-fi mix (O.o).

Kind of funny this Mistwalker news surfaces right after I knocked on them for not making anything interesting lately. Bastards. >_>

I was going to whine about how I hope it's unrelated to Xenosaga, since I don't have a Wii, but screw that, I'll watch it on youtube if that's the case. That's what I did with Arkahm Asylum. (Which was awe-sooooome)

It seems two titles were dropped and then new ones addes to the release list from Nintendo, one was Monado, which is now Xenoblade, and the other was Cosmic Walker, which I am guessing (from the "walker") is The Last Story, so myabe that hint about it being a space-setting RPG? >_>

Or astral projection? lol <_<

Or there's no connection at all like Kotaku thinks.

http://kotaku.com/5459268/nintendo-adds ... lease-list

Edit:
I was going to point out the lack of any giant robots in Xenoblade media so far.
And then...
http://www.siliconera.com/wordpress/wp- ... 1/xeno.jpg

^We need to know more about TLS and XB pronto, tbh.

I saw that XB pic a few minutes ago, and it just finally donned on me those were giant fighting mech-thingys, lol.

i iz stoopid.

I'm bettting there will be some connections between XB, XS, and, XG (probably the same way there are connections/references between XS and XG), just probably not overly blatant ones so they can avoid being sued to hell by NB or SQEX.



LOL Yeah...

Not doing anything? We'll show you, guy! WERE TEH IMPORTINTS LIEK SQUR-ENIKS!

Interesting So far Mistwalker haven't really impressed me, but I'm interested to see how this comes out

^Same. I'm still waiting for them to make a game that can really rival FF in terms of quality. Who knows, maybe TLS will be the one?

Hopefully
Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey were decent, though I wouldn't say they were much above the quality of your average RPG these days, which unfortunately isn't a very high standard. I guess it was the combined minds of the whole team that made the old FFs so great, not entirely Sakaguchi

^Yeah, I should finish LO one of these days, because it honestly wasn't too bad. They're both decent traditional RPGs, they're just nothing we haven't seen a hundred times before already.

I think they had all the right people working together, because it really showed in the games. Sakaguchi is definitely a smart and able guy, but him working with Kitase, Nojima, Nomura, etc., etc. just made his ideas all the more better.

And yeah, I should complete LO too. I played the first hour or two of it, it was kind of boring to me. But yeah, it seemed like it had potential and I definately liked the flashback scenes of Kaim's life, they were quite touching.
Blue Dragon was, for me, just a combination of Pokémon and Dragon Quest.

From the looks of the logo, it looks like Sakaguchi's gone traditional on The Last Story, so I'm interested as to how it's gonna go.

*Edit*
Just realised it was for Wii. Let's hope the developers don't;

A) Wave their dicks around wildly at the fact that they have the potential to be unnecessarily creative with the Wii's interface, and let loads of silly little features completely dominate the game, or:

B) ZOMG APPEAL TO GIRLS AND OLD PEOPLE

^lulz. Doubtful I think, atleast from what he says that doesn't seem like the kind of direction Sakaguchi would ever go in.

LO is probably one of those games you actually have to complete to fully appreciate (most games? lol). I've never tried it although I am tempted to pick it up, from what I've heard there's a shit tonne of those memories to unlock? The character design/style is kind of what put me off of it >_> but I've heard good things of the story so I'd like to get through it someday.

The thing too is on FF Sakaguchi had been working with a cohesive and dedicated team/teams of many of the same people throughout a good chunk of the series, allowing it to evolve with each game. With Mistwalker he's mostly had to start over and rebuild that sort of connection. So if anything I think the games Mistwalker produces can only get better.

I mean, the first few Final Fantasy games are still fun, and maybe "amazing" for their time, but it's a lot harder these day to be "amazing for the time" so it's probably pretty safe to say that Blue Dragon and (probably moreso, from what I've heard and read about it anyway) Lost Odyssey are, maybe not exceptional like we'd hope, but a pretty solid start for the new team, and hopefully things will only be improving.

I think the early FF's being "amazing" for their time is a stretch, from what I've gathered they were pretty standard. Good, but nothing overly groundbreaking. I think VI is the one that really raised the bar, especially in the story department. But correct me if I'm wrong. <.<

Of course, a good argument would be that I'm looking at them through the eyes of someone living in 2010, in the late '80s/early '90s video game technology was much more primitive and they had to work with incredible limitations compared to later on. Maybe FFI for example was more impressive than I imagine it was, it doesn't have much plot but at the time no game did, and people obviously had different expectations, more expecting good, simple entertainment than an epic story. But yeah, I enjoy and respect them for their influence and all, even if they may not equal what the series became mid-'90s and on. You need to crawl before you learn how to walk, so to speak.

But yeah, you could be right, and if so I'll be happy. It'd be great if everything came together and enabled Sakaguchi to maybe even match the "golden age" of FF, or maybe that's hoping for too much. I quite enjoyed what I played of LO anyway... which wasn't much, and I've yet to pick it up to continue, but still. I think he has potential to give us some great games in the future if he can surround himself with the right people.

Both of you guys make excellent points.

Right now he's probably just getting the feel of things (I mean he did work for Square for a good 17 years or so), and I'm sure once he's found the right people to work with, and establishes some new decent relationships/connections, their games will get noticeably better. I don't think matters how much you "get" making games (or anything that involves team work for that matter), if you aren't working with people that you get and they get you, it just won't work, and it'll show.

That being said, Kazushige Nojima has been a freelancer for the past few years (even though he still seems to work exclusively with SQEX), maybe Sakaguchi will offer him a job as a scenerio writer on one of his games?



Lol, Sakaguchi seems like a pretty traditional kind of guy, so I wouldn't imagine he'd go too crazy or gimmicky on the Wii. At least I hope not, lol.

No, I completely agree with you, I just settled on flattery there in case any old school elitists read my post so I wouldn't have to deal with them.

Actually FFV was the last of the series to be created directly by Sakaguchi. From the sixth chapter the direction alternates between Hiroyuki Ito and Yoshinori Kitase (Sakaguchi became executive producer) up to the merger with Enix. Then without doubt I agree with you when you say that FFVII was a turning point in the series. Whether positive or negative, this is questionable.

oh it was positive

its only negative these days because haters started judging it based on spinoffs and its fanbase

Damn straight!

That is all, lol.

Fucking FFVII fans.

I used to go out with a guy that didn't like VII (or any other FF really) mainly because of how unrealistic it was for Cloud to carry around that sword of his. A big Marvel fan said this to me wtf? Maybe if I'd told him Cloud was a mutant..... (KH Cloud PA does have an "x" symbol on his belt like the X-men lol)


....What were we talking about?

Finally a reason to use the wii for somthing other than an expensive gimmicky paperweight. If zelda, smash bros and resi evil 4 wasnt on it I would just never ever play it. Hope this will be good. Lost oddessy was nice, hope this will be too.

Fucking realism fans.

Edit:

Yeah I mean the game being unrealistic is half the fun. And if he loved realism I would've thought he'd be more annoyed at them lining up and taking it in turns to hit each other...
Realism = boring, its a bloody videogame after all. If every game was the sims or Call of Duty I think I'd end myself.

famitsu scans for The Last Story:


looks like Kimihiko Fujisaka's (Drakengard) art

^ I was about to ask if they captured Nowe and put him in a different game.

Looks interesting. I wish it wasn't for Wii. >_>

Yeah... I think I'm going to get a Wii now.

Some Minor new info and new pics/scans:










source: The-Magicbox

Could you link the source maybe? All I see is "imageimageimage" etc
And "forbidden" when I try to copy the image links.

Shit, really? Weird, they work for me. :/

Here's the link.

This game is a definite get. Gonna have to dust off the Wii
I heard it may also be Sakaguchi's last game, or atleast he's hyping it by hinting that.

^Gah, I see what you mean about the images. Don't for for me now either. D:

But yeah, this game is a total definite get. One of three reasons I'm getting a Wii in the near future (This, LoZ:SS, and DQX). It looks to be the current gen (J)RPG I've been waiting for. Evidentally Sakaguchi was misquoted about this whole deal about this being his final game, and clarified what he meant, that he's put so much work in it, it feels like it's his final game (actually meant to post this awhile back):


linkage.

Which is good, the gaming world is not ready for Sakaguchi-san to call it a day. I still feel like he has far too much to offer, especially in a world that is becoming more concerned with being "trendy" and "cutting-edge" rather than actually just making great games.

More info/pics:



Pics here and some character art here.

This game looks absolutely gorgeous.

^ wow, really does look superb. It's a wii title aswell, so it probably would've been even nicer looking on ps3 or 360.