Tecmo, Red and Matrix Announce New RPG

July 3, 2008 - The folks behind the DS ports of Final Fantasy III and IV are working away on a brand new RPG.

Not interested yet? Well what if we were to tell you that Tecmo's Keisuke Kikuchi, famous for the Fatal Frame series, is serving as the game's producer and Red Entertainment's Naoki Morita, known for the Japan-only Sakura Taisen series, is director and planner?

Still not convinced? Okay, how about this. Staff members of such classics as Grandia (the original) and Tengai Makyo are also lending their talents to this new mega project.

There you go!

Famitsu got the first word this week on Nostalgio no Kaze, unofficially Wind of Nostalgio. This new DS RPG is being planned by Red Entertainment, developed by Matrix, and will be published this Fall in Japan by Tecmo.

Wind of Nostalgio is set in the 19th century. Players take control of main character Eddy, son of a legendary English adventurer. Eddy and a cast of fellow Londoners set off on an adventure that takes them through London and the rest of the world.

A central theme in Nostalgio is flight. Eddy makes use of a dirigible in his travels. When playing, you move about the world through the air rather than walking around on an overworld map. Your air ship also comes into play during battles, as in addition to fighting standard party-based command battles when exploring dungeons, you also engage in air-based battles against other air ships.

Famitsu reports that Wind of Nostalgio is currently 65% complete. The title hasn't been announced for release outside of Japan yet, but we'll let you know if we hear anything.

It still confuses me why anybody would want to go up against other DS RPG game this holiday season.... you are looking at Chrono Trigger and DQIX, and a million other RPG....

so why or why do you want to bring out a new RPG there? at least not now.

I agree, there are just too many rpgs competitng in such a small time span. I think alot of these developers should consider delaying to 09. Also I think there should be more developers doing other genres. There are enought rpgs coming to the ds. They shoudl think about developing for other consoles, the wii, psp, and ps3 in particular.

A few years ago, I honestly would never have thought that lengthy RPGs would be primarily on a handheld, while the consoles increasingly emphasize pick-up-and-play. Still, consider me interested. Broke. But interested.

Man. The kind of RPG support the DS receives keeps amazing me. :p

Chrono Trigger and DQIX will probably overshadow this game in terms of sales