Two new titles from Mistwalker in 2010

By Oli Welsh Published 4 January, 2010

A "blockbuster" and an iPhone game.

In a New Year message on his blog (via VG247), Hironobu Sakaguchi, head of Japanese RPG studio Mistwalker, has promised two new games for 2010: a "blockbuster" and an iPhone game.

"2010 is the year of my long-awaited new blockbuster project," he said. "I'm putting my heart and soul into this production. I'm taking a full swing and making this the best project.

"Oh, by the way, We are also working on a project for iPhone. This should be released soon as well."

Mistwalker was founded by Final Fantasy creator Sakaguchi after his departure from Square with financial backing from Microsoft. Its major releases, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, have been exclusive to Xbox 360, although it has worked on a number of DS games as well.

Blue Dragon earned a 5/10 from us at review, and Lost Odyssey an 8, so here's hoping Mistwalker's upward trend continues.

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Comments (8) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • NoKamiFujiwara #1 2 years ago

    Wasn't expecting this but now looking forward to it. I enjoyed Lost Odyssey a lot, perhaps more than it deserved. The multimedia short stories with their simplistic yet touching narrative always gave me chills. I think I even shed a tear.

  • Widge #2 2 years ago

    Arknoid Mistwalker at last!

  • space_ace #3 2 years ago

    /owns lost odyssey and no time to play it :/

  • andywilkie35 #4 2 years ago

    I thought both Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are two of the strongest JRPGs this gen so this is great news. Want

  • etherfiend #5 2 years ago

    I agree with andywilkie35. Put many more hours into LO and BD than any of the other Sqeenix or other JRPGs out on the X360. I hated the 'real time' button mashing of Star Ocean and Tales of Vesperia (I know a load of people loved that, sorry, just not my thing) and Infinite Undiscovery was just plain awful.

    Last Remnant despite the backwards levelling system (what the hell was with that Battle Rank system?) was enjoyable but ultimately having to play through and avoid fights to be able to level up enough to take on the Conqueror was immensely irritating and I felt went against everything an RPG should be. The only other one which I actually enjoyed playing was Enchanted Arms.

    Definitely looking forward to more from Mistwalker.

  • Scimarad #6 2 years ago

    Mistwalker really haven't impressed me so far. Surprisingly considering who is involved and the fact that I love JRPGs generally.

  • JamieR #7 2 years ago

    Isn't one of them supposed to be Blue Dragon 2.

  • Les #8 2 years ago

    For now can't really imagine playing a JRPG other than Demon's Souls.