Topic: New RPG coming from Mistwalker

[ruby_onix]

RPGFan

Hironobu Sakaguchi, the original Final Fantasy series creator and longtime Square producer, retired from SquareEnix and formed his own company "Mistwalker".

His first project has apparently been announced in Japan as a strategy RPG for the Nintendo DS.

The artwork on the game is being handled by another longtime Square veteran, Hideo Minaba, who only recently gained some fame with FF Tactics Advance and the upcoming FFXII, and has also split from SquareEnix to go freelance.

[Bill Aurion]

I'm not a super huge fan of SRPGs, but what I am glad of is yet another RPG coming to the system...Soon there will be a nice long list of RPGs to choose from!

[Mario]

Strategy, yay! I thought someone told me it was a simulation RPG.

[ruby_onix]

Actually yeah, the story headline does say "simulation" RPG. I hadn't noticed.

But I think they're somewhat interchangable, as in, a "battle simulation" RPG is called a "strategy" RPG.

Of course, we don't really know anything about the game either way.

[DemonFox]

What IS a simulation RPG anyway? I only know turnbased, tactics and action.

[KDR_11k]

A "Sim RPG" is a dating sim with stats.

[Pale]

Sexiness +1!

[TMW]

Holy crap.  A Japanese Dating Sim on the DS?  

Rawk!

Maybe Sprung set a precedent.  American gamers can dig a Dating Sim.


==Edit==
Maybe I should click links before making posts.  Unless it's an unorthodox dating sim, as it said you may be controlling 4 to 5 characters.  

Still...more RPG goodness.  

I still stand behind my "Rawk!" statement.  

[DemonFox]

They didn't even post the artwork?

CLICKY!

[PaLaDiN]

Nice mix of fantasy and steampunk... if that's the actual artwork I'm interested. Almost reminds me of Arcanum.

Unless you can woo that dragon, doesn't look like a dating RPG... most likely a normal or battle tactics RPG.

Speaking of which, Final Fantasy Tactics DS would be awesome.  

Edit:
Yup, turns out it's a strategy RPG after all:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/04/news_6117946.html

[Koopa Troopa]

Must have... SRPG. Can't wait for more info on this bad-boy. The DS was made for SRGPs!

[DemonFox]

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Originally posted by: PaLaDiN
Nice mix of fantasy and steampunk... if that's the actual artwork I'm interested. Almost reminds me of Arcanum.

Unless you can woo that dragon, doesn't look like a dating RPG... most likely a normal or battle tactics RPG.

Speaking of which, Final Fantasy Tactics DS would be awesome.  

Edit:
Yup, turns out it's a strategy RPG after all:
http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/02/04/news_6117946.html

I thought FFTA was rather boring... It's pretty cool in the beginning. But those battles never change... Everything stays the same. Maybe some better weapons, but that's it. Fire Emblem was much cooler IMO. Missions where you need to have a thief and find a key to open doors to treasure... now THAT's cool.

[Noble~Feather]

The multiplayer thing kinda turns me off...

[MaleficentOgre]

I hope the multiplayer is something like tales.