Nintendo announces Mistwalker developed The Last Story!

[jarrod]

Smashchu2 said:

jarrod said:

I just had a thought... could Game Arts be the company contracted to co-develop The Last Story?  They've already worked closely with Nintendo before on Smash Brawl, they have tons of RPG experience with Lunar/Grandia, they make top notch gorgeous engines and they don;t seem to have any big projects lined up at the moments (just downloadables and another 2D Lunar remake)?  Thoughts?   Would it be a good match for Nintendo & Mistwalker's epic RPG?

It is possible (although I think with the game being "co-developed" that Nintendo is doing it internally), I would rather not see it. While Brawl was awesome, it's programming was a lot more sloppy then Melee's. It just didn't feel as tight and it felt like there were way too many dumb glitches. I attribute this to HAL being better developers.

In fairness, Brawl wasn't just GA.  It was a hodgepodge of staff, with people from Game Arts, HAL, Monolith, EAD and 20-something new hires (who probably went on to form the backbone of Project Sora).  And it has vastly more content than Melee.