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Darth Tigris on 25 December 2008
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mrstickball said:
DMeisterJ said:
There was no need for MS to have Mistwalker anymore. Aside from Lost Odyssey, they didn't have a hit, and MS has SE and Namco under their thumb (read: checkbook), so it's no reason for Microsoft to pay for crappy JRPGs, when they can pay for good ones.

Mistwalker was this over-hyped company that delivered two 360 JRPGs that were okay, and 'good', but nothing astoundingly good like the upcoming SO4 or FFXIII, and then they tried to do the DS route, but found little success. And given how much MS has been trimming the fat off of their studios, it was bound to happen.

Goodbye Cry On, whatever you were.

So how much did you play of Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey?

Last I checked, the majority of VGCers put Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey near the top of the JRPG list for the X360. Blue Dragon has done something no other IP has done in Japan, and Lost Odyssey has done something no other JRPG has done in the West. Both are great titles.

At any rate, this is very dissapointing, but I guess AQ is to blame for this....Maybe if the game showed merit another studio (feel plus?) could pick it up. I hope MW still makes a 360 title or two, as both of their entries are great JRPGs. Lets hope that the new title Sakaguchi talked about a few months ago will be announced in short order.

 

You make a lot more sense than most post here, you know?  JRPG's really haven't been all that big this gen.  Like platformers before them, maybe the genre will never be as big again as it was in the past.  But the two best selling JRPG's on HD consoles (I say that because I can't remember if there was on one the Wii or not) this gen were released developed by Mistwalker.  And they were released to an unproven JRPG audience on the 360, which also has by far the smallest userbase in Japan (particularly when those two titles were released).

Don't really know what people expected of Mistwalker and those two titles, but looking at things realistically, the titles performed as good as to be expected (with LO's Japanese numbers being lower than expected) for new IP's from an unproven developer on a console not known for JRPG's.