New Mistwalker RPG to be announced this year, exclusive first details

Hironobu Sakaguchi confirms in his latest column that his newest project is to be revealed sometime this year. Also shares the first ever details of his upcoming " RPG " .

" What about the game itself? Planning to basically put importance on having seamless control of the overall direction of the game, mixed with CG spectacle scenes. Controls will have a bit of a trick to it, while having a blend of RPG-type strategy and growth. Behaviors based on interaction with the situation around you...wait, I'm not supposed to say more than this… (^^;

Sometime this year, it seems I'll be able to announce what this new project is." - Sakaguchi

[lord_of_balrogs]

If it's as good as LO then I'll be happy.

[Immortal Kaim]

Awesome. Lost Odyssey is my favourite current gen RPG, actually it is one of my favourite games this gen no matter the genre.

A LO 2 announcement would be fantastic.

[WildArmed]

SQ is gonna make us wait another few years 4 FF series.
Glad to see I'll be playing some RPGs b4 then :D

[AAACE5]

I really liked Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, so I am now looking foward to anything coming out of Mistwalker.

[The Great Melon]

Lost Odyssey brings back the feeling of enjoyment that I had playing rpg's last generation. Although I have only just begun the game, the dreams have drawn me into this game. Heck, I don't think I have even fought any people yet other than those at the opening sequence. Can't wait to see what he has to offer.

[green]

Great news, if it's as good as Lost Odyssey i will be one happy gamer.Lost Odyssey is just one amazing game.

[Bnet343]

I liked Blue Dragon! WTF! I never played LO ... :(

[Xeoset]

You've never played LO?! Get yourself the game!

I've just installed the 4th disc for my current playthrough. It's running like a treat, literally no loads at all and makes the game oh so much more fluid. Just wrapping up killing the likes of Holy Beast, Blue Dragon, Golden Knight etc.

Once I've got some exam revision down, it's straight into re-living some Dreams from the top menu, they're so emotionally drawing. I love it.

Anyway, onto the story above:

This is amazing news for Xbox 360 gamers. While the announcement of more and more RPG's for the console keep coming in, especially games that are set to be be big ala Mass Effect 2 or Magna Carte 2, you know anything from Sakaguchi will be outstanding.

While we'll more than likely have to wait till TGS, here's hoping for E3. Though...PLEASE be LO2, I want more Ming.

[green]

what the hell are you waiting for?Good story, great visuals,deep battle system and over 80hrs of gameplay needs to be seen.

[kewlkat007]

If "Nobuo Uematsu" is also on board, I'm in. LO is still the best traditional JRPG I've played yet, this gen.

[kewlkat007]

..

[indyman7777]

With the Final fantasy creator and composer and MANY other Former Square employees in tow I expect even more greatness. These guys are the reason FFXII took so long. They LEFT, now why are they FORMER square employees? I'll tell you why.

Two storms where happening:
One: Microsoft was trying to get square to work on the new xbox(1) coming up. Square was not budging.
The second storm: The creator of Final fantasy tried to make a movie (high budget!) it flopped. Well the thing is it put square in a vulnerable position, and they got some of their stock BOUGHT by Sony at a very cheap price.
So Square did the regular thing of putting the executive in charge in a corner with nothing to do. This is one of those what are you thinking moments. Hello he can still make the best FF games, yes this tends to push people out.

Look what happened without him on the projects? They have been getting worse, and worse. The music has changed, the game play has changed, the spectacular summon spells changed and then disappeared.

Along comes Microsoft with a barrel (or two) of money. Hello we will GIVE you a company if you just develop for our console. They Killed two birds with one stone. Genius! The business world version of divide and conquer (except square did their own dividing).
Get the next real FF game even with summon spells, Excellent over the top music, on the next gen consoles xbox360. And at the same time make it so that SQUARE IS scared, there is competition, and they are on the bread and butter system of this generation with no competition! They will have to make games for xbox360, for current customers and future customers(PS3 customers have a higher average age). And Microsoft will have exclusives. And have their final fantasy (the real final fantasy is on 360). Square is still trying to decide between action and turn based). Now Microsoft have the best of both worlds. I'm still getting FFXIII but I already know I'm getting LO2 and BD2 also

The thing is most of the time I want a action game, I can pick up motor storm or gears of war2, or crysis. And not worry about a game that has 200 attacks and how I'm managing my money and technical points, and mana type resources. People that dont like rpg's will get bored (at least my friends do even if it is a action rpg). So make one or the other!

[Neoraf]

Lost Odyssey is brilliant!
I'm currently in Disc 4 and I don't want the game to end... :(

The dreams are awesome.
The music, man... the music.

Lost Odyssey is the best JRPG this gen.

The JRPG console, XBOX 360!
Keep'em coming!

[jlemdon]

I heard they canned the cry-0n project. but I hope for BD2 or LO2.:)

[Why dis]

Still trying to figure out why you mentioned a canceled game.

EDIT: Who are you talking to fan kid? He's hoping for sequels and I did not mention them lol. Go to the PS3 section no one wants to hear about PS3 suggested and anti MSFT myths.

[KKanjiAnkh]

Why? Why the H311, not ask, he probably wanted to see the potential of the IP, H311, me too.

For some they look forward to more than just sequels, and rehashes.
EDIT:

Oh I'm sorry for the non-believers in exclusive titles w/ promise.

Morons

[The Great Melon]

Hmm... I must be really tired, or the comments might have been edited, but I can not follow what just happened here. ???

[N4Flamers]

I wanted to see cry on too, the art looked promising. However the only sources that said it was canceled were not very official so I have hopes for the game still. I wouldn't be disappointed with a LO2 and I would prefer that over BD2 (do not want anymore maro).

[iDystopia]

Here's another :)

[Shaka2K6]

LOL Flop Odyssey.

http://www.metacritic.com/g...

[iDystopia]

I'm sure between the Mistwalker RPG'S, the Square Enix Exclusive(there are probably more to be announced), Magna Carta, Mass Effect 2 and the superior version of all the multiplatform RPG's released(there are other Exclusive RPG's which haven't been announced yet also)....

Xbox 360 is gonna be just fine, don't your worry yourself too much now.

http://farm4.static.flickr....

[SpoonyRedMage]

Wow Sony fanboys playing with metacritic scores and sales, do you really want to go there?

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

By the way it's the PS3 thats in 3rd :)

[jkoz]

Give me Lost Odyssey 2 and I will be extremely happy. Favorite current-gen RPG as well.

[tplarkin7]

LO had fixed cameras (you could pan, but it wasn't enough), and there was no relief from random battles. At a bare minimum, I want a 3rd person camera, an accessory that disables random battles, and I should be able to use all my items in a second play.

[Guitardr85]

I wish this would come out for the PS3. Why is it that whenever I hear of a new RPG, I cringe at wanting to know what consoles it will be available on!

[Why dis]

Why do that? Don't most devs test the water on the 360 releasing games on the 360 as exclusives or releasing them on the PS3 later on?

PS3 fanboy perhaps?

Sony is in bad shape when PS3 fanboys come into the 360 section wishing they had what the 360 had.

[Fleet Fox]

The reason you cringe when you here about a new RPG is that there's a 80-90% chance it won't hit PS3.

PS3=/=Developer Support

[Fleet Fox]

Square Enix Exclusive "Front Mission" coming to Xbox 360 in 2009.

Confirmed. :S

[Heliophage]

I don't mean to sound rude, but why would a Mistwalker game be on the PS3?

[GUNS N SWORDS]

you do know (Guitardr85) that hironobu detests sony, don't know the reason why but look it up. (1up did the coverage on it)

edit, actually it's covered in this issue, it's under

"Mistwalker RPGs on display"
http://www.1up.com/do/minis...

now if only i could get the full detail :(

[The Great Melon]

I understand what you mean Guitardr85, I wish it would have come out on the ps3 also. I would have played it sooner. If it weren't for the 30% discount on the 360 when Circuit City was going out I would have probably missed out on this amazing game. The dream sequences are truly moving.

[Bnet343]

Yeah, and a lot of people wish PS3 games came to 360 so they didn't have to buy a PS3. Note to you, buy both systems and you are good.

[kewlkat007]

You know that probably will not happen but whenever it's a good PS3 game, you get that same response "Go get a PS3, if you wanna play it".

You know, Xbox 360 exclusive games are never as good to warrant a purchase of the console, itself.

Blind Fanboyism and Loyalty is in this gen.

[Guitardr85]

I didn't mean to make anyone upset, I just wish there were more RPG's on the PS3. And I wasn't "searching through the 360 news" as some said...I actually read through ALL the news on N4G and saw this article. Lay off guys...GEESH!!!!!

[KingKionic]

Well ... i bet will here about it at e3.

[green]

I doubt it.I think it will be more like TGS but i hope i am wrong and you are right.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

fvck yeah, i've been waiting to hear this news. they got to make more RPGs...it's what they do best, and they know it.

[devilhunterx]

Another fail with a capital F. cant wait :)

[The Great Melon]

Ouch, those are dangerous words right there. Lost Odyssey was one of the reasons why I wanted a 360.

[Godmars290]

And there's nothing wrong with that.

Where that train of thought goes south however is imagining a title you like as a "FF Killer" then insisting on its general popularity when that popularity just isn't there.

God I wish people - fanboys - would stop being sheep.

[Dark-vash]

I bought the 360...

[maniacmayhem]

I'm confused, where in this thread did someone say this was an FF Killer?
It seems like you responded to The Great Melon with that, am I missing something here or are you just trying to stir the $hit pot?

[Godmars290]

Yet again 360 fanboys go ape-sh*t over a JRPG without seeing one screen shot - much less concept art or even a title this time around - while damning the genera on the PS3.

[KingKionic]

Well everyone gets happy...also this is mistwalker.

i have a feeling e3 going be big...too many multiplats...and exclusives.

I think this year going be better then 07...which in my opinion i thought was great gaming year.

[DelbertGrady]

Yes, cause it's much better to base your judgement on CG trailers and empty stats. Mistwalker has already released two very good RPGs this gen, that's why the 360 fans are hyped. PS3 fans go "apesh!t" over anything at all. Right now it's, "Wow! 256 player online! MAG must be t3h bestest FPS evah!!".

[Godmars290]

What makes you think this game will be announced - in the west - this E3? Makes no sense. We'll hear about it this TGS, probably before.

MS wants JP gamers. They wont get them by announcing a JRPG "secondhand" from E3.

Edit
@Soda Popinsky:

Dude seriously - crap! The names completely vanished as I was thinking about it!

Stupid MMO style shooter. 360/PC. At one point featured 100v100, now consigned to beta hell in Korea at 32v32.

And I was just about to fault you for forgetting about it...

[KingKionic]

OH ..yeah

forgot about tgs that would be better place to announce a game like this.

Also i didn't mean anything by the e3 comment,i was just saying hopefully we hear more about it.

[FantasyStar]

C'mon, it's Sakaguchi! The dude that basically gave definition to what RPGs were then, and now. It's not about 360 fanboyism, it's just that RPG gamers like me respect the old-ones and knows that stuff he puts out is good stuff. Especially when a good size chunk of Mistwalker is former Square Employees. If it's any kind of fanboyism, it's "game fanboyism" -you know, the kind this-gen has forgotten when they love a piece of plastic more than the games themselves.

Just playing and loving Lost Odyssey is reason enough for me to anticipate this "unannounced game" just based on reputation alone. Was Team Ico not the same?

I'd keep that console fanboyism talk in check.

[DelbertGrady]

You mean Huxley? Yes, who knows what happened to that game? I thought it looked interesting but I doubt its potential since I don't know much about the developer.

I think the hype for it was bigger when it was revealed at E3 2005 than it is now. The same year that Sony built their whole presentation around fake stats (all games 1080p, 200fps etc) and CG trailers.
Didn't stop PS3 fanboys from claiming world domination, "In 2006 t3h 360 will be forgotten and t3h PS3 will reign supreme". Ring a bell? And then the same story in 2007, 2008 and now 2009. Some people never learn.

[Godmars290]

*facepalm*

What target CG would you be talking about.

Would that be KZ2, which by general critic consensus turned out to be better? Or the very first FFXIII trailer, which is now multiplatform?

Honestly, don't you think those horses have been beaten enough already?

[DelbertGrady]

Killzone 2 & Motorstorm.

The point is that no one knew how it would turn out but still hyped it up to be a Halo killer, eventhough Killzone 1 was very average at best.

The same people who hyped up Killzone 2, not knowing how it would turn out, bashed Halo 3 fans for overhyping eventhough they based their hype on Halo 1 & 2 being two of the most loved and critically acclaimed FPS games ever made.

360 fan - "Halo 3 will probably be good since Halo 1 & 2 were great."

PS3 fan - "Killzone 2 will probably be good since Killzone 1 was bad?"

[Godmars290]

Actually, why are you even bringing up graphics? Sony did deliver with KZ2 while they needed Motorstorm 2 to fully hit that mark.

Meanwhile MS has never been questioned on graphics, while LO has load and flicker issues and ME has texture loading problems.

Is there any chance that your future post will stay on subject and keep off fanboy console hate?

[Halo3 MLG Pro]

Another Sony troll that can't stand the fact that 360 gamers are happy with their console.

*WHERE ARE THE MODS IN THIS SITE?*

[kewlkat007]

talking about a new game. The final Fantasy series have been sh!t since he left. Not sure if you do play JRPG's or know the genre as well?

Lost Odyssey was as close to "FFX" as you get if you like Traditional-based JRPG's these days.

I could sit there and gloat about the guy(Hironobu Sakaguchi) and why he has lots of fans all over(as a developer, creator...etc) but probably of no use, if you don't know JRPG history or have played and liked the games Hironobu Sakaguchi & Nobuo Uematsu have been involved in.

Plus Xbox 360 was on the "only shooters Console" sh!tlist all last gen. I guess it could be the same, as only PS3 fans, getting excited over " a new "Shooter" this gen.

[Grown Folks Talk]

when the PS3 hardly has any? At least here in the States anyways. 360 has more RPGs in general, let alone JRPGs. But I forgot, 360 owners can't be happy about anything because PS3 owners say everything on or coming for the console sucks.

[Marceles]

Come on Godmars with the double standard. 360 fanboys cant get excited for a Mistwalker project without seeing a screenshot but PS3 fanboys can get excited for the next Team ICO project? The trolling is just too obvious lol, try to be a BIT less predictable next time

[Godmars290]

If this were PS3 fanboys fawning over an unannounced game, who just knew that it *might* be in development, how pathetic would 360 fanboys think they were?

Actually there is an example in the team Ico project...

[DelbertGrady]

PS3 fanboys bash The Simpsons for using Halo in an episode.

http://www.n4g.com/gaming/N...

All of a sudden it's "The Simpsons was never funny to me. T3h Family Guy is t3h bestest". I've never witnessed Wii or 360 fanboys stoop to that pathetic level.

[FantasyStar]

Fanboyism goes both ways. 360 fanboys are just as bad as PS3 fanboys. Trying to justify one side is already being biased and fanboyish. I thought that Simpsons skit had nothing to do with console bias, but the mainstream media's take on gaming culture: which is poorly represented when the world thinks that gaming culture is just Halo and Teabagging.

[Bucky Sligo]

????
What on earth are you doing in this thread? Does it bother you that much that Xbox360 fans are optimistic about a new game by a developer they like? You, sir, are pathetic!

[Obama]

Well lets see how a sequel to a 78 meta game will fare shall we?

The only 2 jrpg worth getting this generation are Valkyria Chronicles and Vesperia.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

LO and BD were under rated..........at least the gamers that bought and played the game them selves know that.

[Xeoset]

VC? Really? No thanks, I'd rather Last Remnant.

Both LO and BD were hugely underrated titles and the reason LO got 7.8 was because the copies reviewers got were uncompleted copies, therefore had horrible load times, which were fixed effectively.

I wonder if you've ever played the games...get far at all? What was your favourite part? Can't answer? PS3 Section is left to the 360 button up top.

[maxcer]

how convenient for you to pick those two games, i bet if tales of vesperia was not getting ported over you would not have listed it. this just makes you look biased, and not a real fan of jrpgs...

[Obama]

@ Xeoset
You must be a retard to choose last remnant over VC as VC is THE best and highest regarded jrpg this generation.

@ maxcer
Even though I am a ps3 fanboy, I said a year ago that Vesperia is the only great jrpg that I want to be ported to the ps3. I even praise Vesperia back then.

Anyways, the fact remains that VC as an action rpg is way better than LO and BD even though their gameplay mechanics are different. VC is simply a better game in 99.9% of jrpg fan's eyes.

[SpoonyRedMage]

When we say this gen we're only counting 360, PS3 and Wii right? becuase Persona 4 and TWEWY are higher rated than VC.

[Xeoset]

99.9%...way to pull statistics out your arse.

I think VC was a let down and was overhyped. I'm the retard for having an opinion? No. You're a retard for missing that fact, cvnt.

[Obama]

Your opinion is that u will choose last remnant over VC..so either you are not a jrpg fan or that u are a big fanboy. Seriously the two games are on completely different levels.

yeah sure you can have your opinion, but ur opinion fails.

[Xeoset]

Why are you so stupid? Why does the fact I find LR better than VC offend you? It makes me a fanboy? It makes me anti-JRPG?

Wow, did Sony forget to put your brain back in when they installed that fanboy chip?

[SpoonyRedMage]

He's entitled to his opinion Obama and I liked TLR but I haven't played VC(like you probably haven't tried TLR) so I can't really compare.

Lost Odyssey may be rated lower but pretty much everyone who's played it agrees it's fantastic, myself included.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Go Sakaguchi! Can't wait to see the new game, I hope they don't use the UE3 again.

[7ero H3LL]

this just made my day, i was expecting to hear this.

[mirroredderorrim]

Sakaguchi and Square are nothing without eachother!

Suck on that fanboys!

[FantasyStar]

I agree to a certain extent.

[green]

If you want to loose bubbles you sure are attacking the wrong console.As for "Sakaguchi and Square are nothing without eachother!", tell that tto the gamers that played Lost Odyssey and loved it.You will be had pressed to find someone that does not like the game despite it's 78% metacritic score.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Haha, they seem to do alright without each other but I'd love to see a surprise joint project.

I mean I doubt they have any issue with each other Sakaguchi left of his own accord because of Spirits Within.

[7ero H3LL]

Sakaguchi made square into what it WAS, as of yet SE still has not yet delivered an RPG that lives up to their name. as far as it goes with Sakaguchi, he can take care of him self, i'm 100 percent sure his staff members know the history of fame that hironobu has in the RPG industry.

[Godmars290]

...

Spirits Within was Sakaguchi's pet project that literally bankrupted Square.

He was "retired" by everyone else at Square soon after.

Though as I understand it, he's the main reason Square and MS are on such good terms. That Square people helped him develop LO and BD.

[SpoonyRedMage]

Well you may be right but from all accounts I heard Sakaguchi stepped down and it seems he took nearly two years off before even considering going back to games.

I'd also heard that a former square employee works for MS and he is the person that got in touch with both Sakaguchi and Square(I read that in a BBC article).

[djtek184]

R.I.P. xbox
R.I.P. zune
R.I.P. Hdvd
R.I.P. Vista
R.I.P. (???)hmmm....??

[Xeoset]

Xbox beat out one of the industries top consoles contenders, Nintendo in its entry.
Xbox 360 continues this trend by beating out Sony's own PS3.
Zune is still challenging the iPod and taking market share from the already established electronic.
HDDVD was barely pushed by MS at all, as it wasn't even theirs, it was Toshiba's.
Vista is unrivaled.

kthxbai

[Mo0eY]

Vista's unrivaled? Are you effing retarded or what? Mac OS X and Ubuntu STOMP Vista into oblivion. I'm typing this on a Macbook Pro (currently on Windows XP because I just got done playing some Left 4 Dead).

My girlfriend's laptop has Vista - I'm a Computer Science major, and I can tell you right now, for M$ to backtrack and rearrange there entire operating system was retarded.

I love how Nintendo was also a top console contender when it was only Sony and Nintendo(not including Dreamcast - that thing was beyond its time - RIP Little guy...), and the fact that Nintendo was struggling previously from the N64 era.

iPod marketshare is obliterating anything with the term Zune in it.

Lastly, too bad you can't enjoy HDDVDs on your 1080p HDTV. Sorry, you're upset about that >:(

[Dark SeRaNADE]

Jesus christ. Shut it.

I've read many of your posts. all consisting of a defensive backlash, In these posts, people have mentioned a coupla games, one sony fan wanted it on his console, and you jump onto your Fanboy horse and start attacking.

you actually are bloody irritating. Twat.

As for an upcoming RPG, please let it be Lost Odyssey 2. I've just recently completed the first one and my god. My fav RPG this gen. no questions EVERYONE should experience it, really!

:)

[jlemdon]

why I got disagree for asking a question? but I love Sakaguchi, as you fanboys wouldn't even known he was Originator of FF series.

[Dark SeRaNADE]

I honestly dont know, This IS N4G after all.

and yes we do know that he created the FF series. congratulations for just realising that.

Oh and of course, blatantly labeling anyone a fanboy is foolish.
Your comment is asinine.

[jlemdon]

u must have caught feelings by my comment, were you one of the ppl that negged me? but I don't care if it's a new IP or not, congratulations for being a gamer since the the 80's???

[bigjclassic]

since MS does not own Mystwalker. I hope, because PS3 needs JRPGS.
And VF5R ASAP!!

[masterofpwnage]

why do u want a sequel to LO and Bd
does games sucked badly
i never beat disc 3 for LO or got anywhere in bluedragon
they both played the same except for the fact that blue dragon dont have any weapons or i never got that far to find out
i rather have them make a new ip
they were both average

but yea im borrowing last remnant is that game any good

edit
sad thing is lots of people use this type of english wen they txt or type things to leave a comment
welcome to 09 man
and dont use that as an excuse LO and bluedragon sucked ass

[ThatDud3]

Can you retype that comment in English please?

[abcd]

Lost Odyssey is so underrated.

[masterofpwnage]

umm no it just sucks

[ThatDud3]

@masterofpwnage

If your gaming is anything like your grammer then you just didn't have the brains to play LO. It was a great rpg.

[Dark SeRaNADE]

Not in the slightest.

Im merely pointing out that there are a few of us that do know who sakaguchi is.

I meant Congratulations for reminding us of something we already know. it was sarcasm. admitedly it may have been crude.
I just hope this game Is lost Odyssey 2, i dont care if it came out for ps3 either, that is one game everyone should experience

[slave2Dcontroller]

Did a great job with LO. Its probably the best JRPG I've seen to date this generation. I would'nt doubt that the new MW game would be even better or just as good.

Anyways, cant wait to see this.

[sofocado]

LO was the best.

[baodeus]

@masterofpwnage

Obviously u can't read....cause LO sure have a lot of reading. Those are actually the best part of the games and you get to know the character (Kaim) in the game so much more than a CG movie. Really good short stories. The game is really good, although i wish there would be more to the fighting machanic, but LO is still my favorite RPG of this gen. Hell, probably one of the top JRPG for me.

master of getting owned perhaps?

[Man_of_the_year]

I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Absolutely loved LO. I hope that this RPG is more like LO and not like Blue Dragon. Not that there was anything wrong with it..it's just that BD was just a little to childish for me.

[DNAgent]

It's gonna be Blue Dragon 2.

[Man_of_the_year]

Well i would agree with you if you didn't have such a long history of ignorant posts.

So i unfortunatly have to disagree with you on this as your history shows you know absolutely nothing....even if you are probably right on this.