New Lost Odyssey info from the latest Famitsu

[starcraft]

naznatips said:

starcraft said:
Lets just remember that its Sakaguchi's baby. Im not a Final Fantasy player and even i can't stop hearing about this man. This is the first brand new major project he has personally spearheaded (BD was Artoon) since FF1. Even if there is 20hrs of FMV, I think this game will be brilliant, deep and immersive.

Sakaguchi made some amazing games while working with Square Enix... but that's the thing. He made those games while working with Square Enix. There is an issue with assuming that Sakaguchi is an amazing developer without Square Enix just like there is an issue with assuming Square Enix can make Final Fantasy without Sakaguchi. FFXII proved they can't. The two entities may have been co-dependant. You are very wrong about Blue Dragon btw. Sakaguchi personally designed that game, and wrote the entire scenario. He had the same position with that game that he has with this one.

I'm not saying this game doesn't have the chance to be very good, but it has just as good a chance of being mediocre or even bad. It's too early to know, but as someone who plays and loves RPGs all of this news is very troubling.

 What i said was that Lost Odyssey is his "baby."  I know he had a major involvement in the startup of Blue Dragon, but he didn't spend nearly the time on it that he has with LO.  But you are right that it remains to be seen what each entity (Saka and SE) can do on their own.  For Sakaguchi we will find out in 2 & a 1/2 months, and in a little over a year for Square Enix.  (We'll give them a freebie with FFXII because they needed some transition time.)