Mistwalker's Sakaguchi to discuss new project next Spring

Hopefully it's better than their last two games... Don't get me wrong Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon weren't bad RPG's. I just found them to be rather extremely generic, and completely average all around.

Ahh, now that's a real Lego car. Not that smooth, rounded-off click on three big pieces and you're done crap they sell these days.

Lost Odyssey was an excellent title with heart. Seth, Kaim and Jansen were all very good characters and the story was tops, especially the "dreams". Many JRPG's lack the soul that makes them unique. Sure, it stuck to the turn-based formula, which I enjoy, and it had to do with amnesia (JRPG #129872908239808 that dealt with amnesia), but the inner workings of the story and its characters was so well presented and told in such a fascinating way.

I hope the next game follows this formula.

So basically... Cry-On was recently "canceled" and now Mistwalker was apparently working on a secret game that's now "almost done" eh?

Could this secret game be, I dunno... Cry-On ???

(Also, when is A.S.H. gonna be translated to English audiences already?!)

My biggest problem with Mistwalker games is that they usually take forever to do anything. Im all for long games, but they just accomplish so little in the time frame I am playing them. I guess the older I get the less time I have for battling king poo snakes.

Any plans after this game to break the exclusive-ness??? He must be a little bummed that final fantasy 13 came out and easily did 1 million, maybe if he went for that platform as well.. Anything he's done was lucky to break 250,000. Its just a good business decision from every angle!

Never played Lost Odyssey or Blue Dragon [not much of a JRPG fan] but I sure as hell loved both games' art style. What Sakaguchi has in store, I'm sure it will be a gorgeous looking game.

How time flies. Just 3 years back Mistwalker was supposed to be the one to dethrone Final Fantasy, and there was lots of gloating about how MS had bought out the FF killer. Now, xbox fans are gloating because just one of the three FF games is available in some regions on the 360, FF has sold more in 1 week in Japan than Mistwalker did over 3 years, the 360 is dead in Japan despite Mistwalker and all the other JRPGs bought with cold cash. Pity, really, because good game or not, Lost Odyssey would have sold 2 million more copies at least on the PS3 if they had not been so foolish

Forget his future projects, I want his Lego schematics! I've been pining over his Lego creations since his blog was introduced, but I lack the skill set to cobble these tiny treasures together. Sad face.

this shouldn't be surprising to anyone, mistwalker's new project has been rumored for a while now, and the next logical place to announce it is at E3.

wouldn't be surprised if this project is non-exclusive. they tried that with plenty of jrpgs on the 360 and they didn't sell too well, but who knows. the legal internal wrangling needed to get around any exclusivity agreement might also explain the delay in any announcement.

either way, i want a new rpg!

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So, no ideas on what the new project is yet? Is it another JRPG??