More Last Story online details + Scans + Sakaguchi talks JRPG development

[LordTheNightKnight]

gumby_trucker said:

LordTheNightKnight said:

"our biggest regret was that we basically used old-gen methods to make next-gen RPGs"

So he thinks the Wii is a next gen system... give me just a bit more hope for this game.

He's referring to Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey with that quote...(1) I don't think Sakaguchi means anything in particular with the words "next-gen" in this case other than the graphics... and I think that's his main point actually. So he's trying to do a lot of things to reinvent the genre on the Wii, which is less of a risk financially precisely because Wii is not "next-gen" so to speak.(2)

Personally, I couldn't be happier! This part in particular has me excited:

"Each battlefield has a lot of exploitable features, and the system itself is versatile enough to allow players a lot of leeway. We made it so players can often come up with some novel way of winning a battle and think to themselves 'Wow, I'm a genius!'"

Bring on the localization!

1. What made you think I didn't know that?

2. No, he referred to making a next gen RPG for this game, and since it's on the Wii, that logically follows that he thinks it's next-gen.