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Although he just set up Mistwalker some six years ago, Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has recently ruminated on his work on the Wii RPG The Last Story, Mistwalker's most recent project. A recent blog post might be a bit disheartening for Sakaguchi fans.
[Sakaguchi's] development team pours 120% of their energy [into the project]... Having been drained of energy, there is a strong feeling that this may be [Sakaguchi's] last work.
Will The Last Story do what Final Fantasy, some 25 years earlier, could not? Will it spell the end of Hironobu Sakaguchi's gaming career once and for all?
Update: According to The Magic Box (July 18, 2010), Sakaguchi has responded, saying his comments have been misconstrued. Here are his actual comments:
The energy poured into this project by the d… Read on
After an amass of artwork samples and short blurbs on gameplay and narrative, Mistwalker has decided that their fans have waited long enough and it's time to deliver the goods in The Last Story. The trailer shows how the upcoming RPG plays along with what the themes and settings of the game world.
Some more treacling from Mistwalker (man do they love teasing us!) with a storyboard of what looks to be a battle sequence for the upcoming Wii RPG The Last Story. Perhaps this is a snippet of the anticipated in-game battle engine? We can only hope!
The first next generation Mistwalker title was revealed in the form of a scan in some Japanese magazine today. There are no details pertaining to the title except for the name of the game: Blue Dragon. With Akira Toriyama at the helm of character design, it will be the first Sakaguchi-Toriyama collaboration since Chrono Trigger in 1995.1
