I couldn't be more thankful for Mistwalker's existence right now. As a long-time JRPG fan, these last few years with my once beloved Square-Enix have been like watching a much-loved family dog slowly die while a relationship goes sour and a shiny red balloon deflates, - Sorry, I won my own body-weight in metaphors at a raffle last night and I need to offload them - and I've thus found my love of the genre turn into a slightly mouldy gray apathy. It used to be the case that the announcement of a Square/Squenix game would be the highlight of my year, but now we get twelve a day and hardly any of them get me excited.
So regardless of whether Blue Dragon floated your boat or not, the fact that Mistwalker is around as competition can only be a good thing. With BD already out and ASH and Lost Odyssey up soon, we're seeing the kind of variety from Misty that used to make the old man of RPGs so interesting, and I for one want lots more. And more I've got, for two new DS games are on their way, and neither is far off.
Due next March in Japan is Blue Dragon DS, and in January we can expect to see AWAY: Tsuresarareta Hitobito, which translates to AWAY: Kidnapped People. At the moment very little is known about either game except that they exist and are being developed by FeelPlus+ and Artoon respectively, although it has been announced that original Sonic and Robotnik designer Naoto Oshima has been brought on board as character designer for the latter.
Interested? Yay? Nay?
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10:37 AM on 10.03.2007
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Mistwalker is all hype right now. Blue Dragon was garbage or decent or average (choose your own adjective). ASH is Fire Emblem plus some procedural CG top screen strat-porn (which is completely unnecessary), and now we have AWAY, which was conveniently undefined. Blue Dragon on the go is better than Blue Dragon on a console, but if it just a direct port it will bore me to tears.
What happened to Cry On?
I guess if it doesn't have sexy bishies and a pathetically easy difficulty then it sucks for most modern gamers.
Blue Dragon was also pathetically easy. I don't dig this whole "It's for fans of older RPGs" BS that's been flying around for Blue Dragon. I was huge on the NES/SNES RPGs and I hated Blue Dragon.
I like my RPGs with new concepts and ideas, unlike all these FF remakes and the BS that Mistwalker churned out. If I wanted an old school RPG, I'll go play an old school RPG... Hmm..
*goes to play Lufia*