New Sakaguchi game in "final phase"

By Robert Purchese Published 20 October, 2009

"I will make it really good," he says.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of Final Fantasy, is already in the final stage of development on his latest game.

A poem on his Mistwalker blog (spotted by VG247) contained the lines, "I am working on a new project. Now we just started going into the final phase of production."

"No matter what, I will make it really good..."

We have no idea what the game will be. After making Blue Dragon (plus DS adaptations), Lost Odyssey and canning Cry On last Christmas, Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio has been absent from headlines.

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  • penhalion #1 2 years ago

    Those are lines from a poem on his blog! Must be some wierd poem!

  • labbal #2 2 years ago

    Lost Odyssey 2, please please please please please!

  • menage #3 2 years ago

    Well, if this isn't a DS game then I'll eat my fictional hat.

    No way a 360/PS3 release would have been kept secret.

    +1 on LO 2

  • Tetsuo_Shima #4 2 years ago

    I enjoyed Lost Odyssey, but I had to stop playing it 2/3 of the way through because of that ruinous levelling system. You'd level up really fast to a certain 'plateau' predefined by the game developers, and then experience points would dry up just like that *snaps fingers*.

  • Slipstream #5 2 years ago

    Great news. Admittedly I wasn't keen on Blue Dragon at all. Lost Odessy was great, so hopefully things can only get better!

  • retr0gamer #6 2 years ago

    Levelling up system was fine by me. Meant there was no grinding which is much worse. Suikoden uses the same thing and it's what makes that game so good.

  • Tetsuo_Shima #7 2 years ago

    Hmmm! I saved my game just before a really hard boss battle, but I'm already at the 'level cap' for the area so I'm finding it really hard to get past him without doing days and days worth of monster culling. I've probably screwed up my characters with the equipment/skills I'm using or something.
    Shame, that, because the story and characters are the best I've seen in a JRPG for a long time. Jansen, what a hero!
    Edited by 1 at 20/10/09 @ 16:01

  • metallicorphan #8 2 years ago

    are Mistwalker still financed by Microsoft(they still released DS games though)?

    if it is a 360 game then i am in,i loved Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey

    and if it is Lost Odyssey 2,i hope those little stories you could 'recollect' return,as i thought they were a cool feature

  • Magellum #9 2 years ago

    He certainly has moved on from Square.

    Nowadays Square Enix would announce a game BEFORE starting work on it.