Mistwalker in Final Stages of Development With Last Story
Posted by Trevor Chan
Hironobu Sakaguchi writes a tantalising blog entry and mentions what we're all waiting for
When you have the creator of the Final Fantasy series working on an RPG for the Wii, you know it's going to be big news. Since the announcement of Last Story's existence earlier in January, all the gaming community has to grab onto are a few pieces of concept artwork. That hasn't stopped gamers showing intrigue; in fact, it's probably fueled interest even more. That's what happens when you have a reputation like Sakaguchi does.
The latest entry on the Mistwalker blog has Sakaguchi writing about the effects of what appears to be jet lag and as a result, has been waking up at silly 'o clock in the morning. This restless sleep could be because of something else, though. He muses whether it is instead, to do with the fact that Last Story is "approaching completion".
AndriaSang notes that Sakaguchi usually makes his blog posts from Hawaii where he resides, but he has included a couple of photographs of the view from his window in Tokyo; which explains any jet lag he may be experiencing. Although the blog is in Japanese, the final sentence reads along the lines of "Finally, Last Story is in the final stages of development. I'm tense yet at ease."
If you can read Japanese, you should head over to the game's Web page for additional information. If you can't, there's music that you can soak in and various pieces of artwork to inspect too.
[via andriasang.com, mistwalkercorp.com]
#1
King_Elemento said:
Interesting. I'm assuming it won't be out before E3, however.
#2
Crystalking18 said:
This is driving me nuts! When will we get any info at all!?!
#3
grenworthshero said:
I still think it's funny that Final Fantasy's creator is making another RPG called Last Story
#4
Chrono_Cross said:
@gren
Yeah I wonder how many "Last Story" games will be out in the next few years if this sells well, lol.
#5
irken004 said:
If this ends up being turn-based I'll be ticked off
#6
Radbot42 said:
I'd be extremely excited if it were turn based
#7
MasterGraveheart said:
I don't know the first thing about this game... but I'm getting REALLY excited for it.
#8
pixelman said:
Awesome awesome awesome awesome. I'm so stoked for this, even though I know virtually nothing about it. Bring. It. On.
#9
Objection said:
Turn based or otherwise it'll just be nice to have another rpg on the wii
#10
Aenaida said:
I'm lovin' the new music. Can't wait to see this game in action.
#11
Kelvin said:
grenworthshero, I'd imagine that the similarity of the name is quite intentional.
#12
LzQuacker said:
Ooooh, this looks great. I can't wait to try it out
#13
Stuffgamer1 said:
That far along, eh? Poorly timed localization possibilities aside, we might see this before the end of the year. Meanwhile, Golden Sun DS isn't going to release within a year of its announcement. Methinks they did a better job with their timing of Last Story.
#14
motang said:
Looking forward to see how this turns out!
@Stuffgamer1 nice avatar!
#15
That_Guy_from_Faxana said:
At least the artdirection is very promising, I like the traditional characterdesign. Nice music too.
#16
Terra said:
E3 can't come soon enough
#17
retro_player_22 said:
Yes now the game is gonna be a good show for E3.
#18
LzQuacker said:
@stuffy: What are you implying?
#19
ThreadShadow said:
I hope it's an action-RPG. If not, I hope the battle system is extremely entertaining, with visible enemies on the "map", and no seperate battle screen.
#20
RichieTheSignPainter said:
I'm really looking forward to this. I loved Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey so this is bound to be good.
I'll be happy if it as traditional as those two. I love all the old final fantasy games pre FF7 so I've got high hopes for this.