Creator Of Final Fantasy leaves Square-Enix

[Lightning Flik 0]

Sakaguchi Finds His Own Path 

07.22.2004 

 

CORTNEY STONE

NEWS EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

 

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, has started his own independent game development studio named Mist Walker, Famitsu reports. According to Sakaguchi, the studio will employ a team of elite artists and game developers to create new RPGs and other game projects. Potential employees include noted artists Yoshitaka Amano and Takehiko Inoue.

 

After being relegated to a figurehead position after the disaster of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Sakaguchi was credited as the executive producer of Final Fantasy X and XI. In reality, he had very little input with those titles.

 

I'm a day late with this one, but another shocking development, as Sakaguchi has left Square-Enix to form Mist Walker. Although, Square-Enix will be publishing his games (read the RPGamer forums to see a RPGamer news guy say this), this more or less this will allow Sakaguchi a lot more control of the types of projects he does, or at least so I think.

 

Still though, is there anyone left besides Uematsu that is from the original gang that started FF? I think that this should signal the death of Final Fantasy and Final Fantasy 12 be the last game. Of course, it won't be, but it is how I feel.

[Renegade 0]

I see this as good news. Maybe the games will stop sucking now.

[AndrewTS 0]

I see this as good news. Maybe the games will stop sucking now.

As long as the games are profitable they're probably not going to change anything.

[Anya 0]

Sakaguchi has been a figure head at Square since the Spirits Within debacle. Nothing will change.

[Rendclaw 0]

Debacle is right, Anyanka... sheesh.

 

I just want good quality RPGs. Is that too much to ask?

 

I might be old-school, but I would love an RPG that had basic, but updated graphics on the level of Lufia II, with a simple yet deep combat and magic system that is absolutely HUGE in size and depth, maybe on the order of needing 100 hours plus to finish...

 

Oh yeah, a passable story that didn;t screw with my head too much would be a plus.

[Lightning Flik 0]

I might be old-school, but I would love an RPG that had basic, but updated graphics on the level of Lufia II, with a simple yet deep combat and magic system that is absolutely HUGE in size and depth, maybe on the order of needing 100 hours plus to finish...

 

Oh yeah, a passable story that didn;t screw with my head too much would be a plus.

Uh, you do know that to have that, you'd have to own a Gamecube and pick up Tales of Symphonia, right?

 

That games gives you the old school feel, has a simple, yet fun combat system, good storyline, great music, and it would need more than 100 hours to beat it because the game does have multiple endings depending on your relationships and usage of other characters (although, I've played through twice and had the same stupid endings in both cases). The graphics hail back to Lufia since they are cell shaded, but definitely have a more "fantasy" feel to them. Oh, and when you complete the game, you can turn around and use GRADE (a form of currency that you get for completing battles within a certain period of time) to buy options for a New Game+ like Earn More Grade, Retain Titles, Retain EX Skills, and other things. Lots of stuff to do in this game.

 

I'd explain more in this thread, but this thread is about Mist Walker and not about Tales of Symphonia.

 

And I know Symphonia is spelt wrong. I can't spell it right now for some reason.

 

Edit:

Dammit, I gotta get back to my school work. Gotta not come on here during my school time anymore.

Edited July 30, 2004 by Lightning Flik

[Rendclaw 0]

I do have a GC nowadays... finally cured my Rebel Strike jones.

 

I will look into it and maybe order it.

[Special K 0]

If you want a deep system and simple but pleasing graphics, you can't do better than Disgaea. Also check out Valkyrie Profile, a PS1 game.

 

The pain is, FFX and Kingdom Hearts were quite good, also FFTA, but everyone remembers FFVI, FFVII and Chrono Trigger as generally the greatest CRPG's ever.

 

And speaking of Lufia II, which was very much the shit, weren't all the subsequent Lufias just freakin' dungeon crawls?

 

The fact that they're making a short FFVII prequel for a cell phone, when people have been clamoring for on offshoot forever, pretty much shows they're losing it.

 

I hope they make a winner with the rumored Vincent-starring FFVII prequel.