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World Destruction (Sega x ImageEpoch), JP release - 18th Sept, Trailer - Post #359
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Sweet Jesus that's a poorly written article. Happy to know people from Luminous Ark and Etrain Odyssey are working on it, and it's interesting to find out it's set in world in which humans are ruled by beasts. -.- Although I just saw the guys name, so I suppose he could be natively Japanese, although I'm unsure of that either way.
Anyway, interesting stuff anyway. Learning more about the battle system would still be nice, like the specifics of the timed buttons (FF6 Sabin or Super Mario RPG or...?), but more information is always appreciated
Edit:
Dammit, don't tell me you wrote that article, I'll just feel bad.
Anyway, interesting stuff anyway. Learning more about the battle system would still be nice, like the specifics of the timed buttons (FF6 Sabin or Super Mario RPG or...?), but more information is always appreciated
Edit:
firex said:
Dammit, don't tell me you wrote that article, I'll just feel bad.
By the way, I got curious and looked up the different staffers to see what additional stuff they've done.
Masato Kato: story
Chrono Trigger (story planner); Xenogears (scenario); Chrono Cross (scenario, director); Baten Kaitos (scenario); Children of Mana (scenario); Dawn of Mana (scenario)
Kunihiko Tanaka: main character design
Xenogears (main character design); Xenosaga I (main character design)
Yasunori Mitsuda: music
Chrono Trigger (music); Xenogears (music); Chrono Cross (music); Xenosaga I (music); Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (music); Soma Bringer (music)
Masatoshi Azumi: spritework
Alisia Dragoon (main graphic designer); Lunar: The Silver Star (graphic director); Lunar II: Eternal Blue (graphic director); Grandia (designer)
Kimihiko Fujisaka: character design special thanks
Drakengard (character designer); Cry On (character designer)
Shin Nagasawa: monster design
Bahamut Lagoon (monster design); Final Fantasy IX (character design); Etrian Odyssey (monster design); Etrian Odyssey II (monster design)
Like I said, the last three are good folks.
Masato Kato: story
Chrono Trigger (story planner); Xenogears (scenario); Chrono Cross (scenario, director); Baten Kaitos (scenario); Children of Mana (scenario); Dawn of Mana (scenario)
Kunihiko Tanaka: main character design
Xenogears (main character design); Xenosaga I (main character design)
Yasunori Mitsuda: music
Chrono Trigger (music); Xenogears (music); Chrono Cross (music); Xenosaga I (music); Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter (music); Soma Bringer (music)
Masatoshi Azumi: spritework
Alisia Dragoon (main graphic designer); Lunar: The Silver Star (graphic director); Lunar II: Eternal Blue (graphic director); Grandia (designer)
Kimihiko Fujisaka: character design special thanks
Drakengard (character designer); Cry On (character designer)
Shin Nagasawa: monster design
Bahamut Lagoon (monster design); Final Fantasy IX (character design); Etrian Odyssey (monster design); Etrian Odyssey II (monster design)
Like I said, the last three are good folks.
Chris Michael
Banned
ethelred said:
Hmm... the game's filled with experienced staff, but it still has a newbie developer in charge.
Meh. We'll see how it turns out.
Mefisutoferesu
Member
He's not the charadesigner anymore, gooch switched to... ... Naora, I think...ethelred said:
Mefisutoferesu
Member
I thought I read something about Gooch saying he decided to go with a more "realistic" artist or something and that Fujisaka was no longer working on Cry on.duckroll said:Wow what a bunch of misinformation all at once! Good job!
Ah, so I got the artist wrong... or were you making crap up?
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=5428807&postcount=31
duckroll said:Wow what a bunch of misinformation all at once! Good job!
Now, now. Don't be rude.
Mefisutoferesu said:
That's not correct. He's still the character designer. Sakaguchi did pick another individual to do additional art design for the game, but he didn't replace Fujisaka, and it wasn't Yusuke Naora, it was Manabu Kusunoki (of Panzer Dragoon fame), who had worked on Blue Dragon.
B.K. said:
Kato's fine.
Mefisutoferesu
Member
Thanks ethel. I guess I misread Duck way back then or remembered it incorrectly, it's kinda obvious that it wasn't Naora, since he's busy with other stuff...ethelred said:
Mefisutoferesu
Member
Yeah, which is why it's obviously not him... I honestly dunno, that's just what came to mind. <shrug>duckroll said:
Chris Michael
Banned
beat said:
Very JRPG.
TylerPwnsYou1986
Banned
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Info about the anime series is out. Airs in July.
Staff
Director: Shunsuke Tada
Series Editor/Script: Masahiro Yokotani
Character Design: Keita Matsumoto
Music: Yoshihiro Ike
Animation: Production IG
Production: Sega/Geneon Entertainment
Cast
Kirie Irunisu: Mamoru Miyano
Morute Aashera: Maaya Sakamoto
Agan Maadoru: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ri A: Yu Kobayashi
Naja Gurefu: Daisuke Ono
Toppi Topuran: ??? (rumored to be Tohru Furuya)
Staff
Director: Shunsuke Tada
Series Editor/Script: Masahiro Yokotani
Character Design: Keita Matsumoto
Music: Yoshihiro Ike
Animation: Production IG
Production: Sega/Geneon Entertainment
Cast
Kirie Irunisu: Mamoru Miyano
Morute Aashera: Maaya Sakamoto
Agan Maadoru: Hiroyuki Yoshino
Ri A: Yu Kobayashi
Naja Gurefu: Daisuke Ono
Toppi Topuran: ??? (rumored to be Tohru Furuya)
It honestly looks great, some of the credits is a bit urky but having Miyano and Sakamoto in the cast means that Sega/Geneon are planning on doing this with good and recognizable voices. Funny how this game and anime have sprung up out of nowhere and have quickly shot to my 2008 must play/must watch list.
I would've loved Kamiyama to step in to direct it (I personally need to know wtf he is doing!!!) but I guess the tone of the anime won't be in that type of serious light :lol
I would've loved Kamiyama to step in to direct it (I personally need to know wtf he is doing!!!) but I guess the tone of the anime won't be in that type of serious light :lol
charlequin
Banned
ethelred said:
That explains a lot, actually. Anyway, those are games with fantastic monster designs and graphic direction, so these two are probably the most exciting bits of news for me!
duckroll said:
I basically agree with this. There are a lot of problems with Chrono Cross, and they're all probably Kato's fault. :lol
But I think there's a lot of good to it. The plot setup for CC is very clever, the interactions between the worlds (and the increasing desperation of people on both sides to solve their problems) are well plotted, and the game probably makes some of the best use of tone I can think of in an RPG. It's really when he turns to endless exposition to tie all the plot threads together that the whole thing unravels.
(Also: I think it would actually be viewed much more positively as a Chrono Trigger "spiritual sequel" if it had just left the original cast out altogether, honestly.)
duckroll said:
Well, after the Lynx plot twist and the Kalas plot twist, I think we can be assured that there will be some sort of dramatic plot twist in the game! I guess we'll see if it works this time or not. And anyway, the basic premise of the game (main characters sets out to destroy the world) is sort of an open invitation for a big plot twist.
charlequin said:
They certainly are. The art/design team here all around is incredibly solid; it shouldn't be a surprise given how excellent everything looked in the scans, but knowing people of this calibre are on the team makes me really eager to see even more areas and enemies and such.
charlequin said:
I thought Chrono Cross was both a very good game and a very poor sequel to Chrono Trigger.
It totally trashed the legacy of the original game. I call it the Alien 3 of gamingdom for the way both of those titles cavalierly destroyed elements people liked in the preceding entry -- in Alien 3 it was killing off the survivors in the first few minutes of the movie, while Cross goes out of its way to kill just about every character of Trigger (Gato, Robo, Ayla, Lucca -- twice! -- Marle, Crono) and even has the kingdom from the first game conquered by its bumblefuck southern neighbor.
Even so, there were a lot of great things about Chrono Cross and I think most people wouldn't view it so harshly if it wasn't for its failures as a direct sequel to such a beloved game.
ethelred said:
The problem with his plot twists is that he never follows through. He makes the plot twist a BIG deal, something that fundamentally changes how a character is seen and creates a major gamechanger, but then a mere hour or two later he presents a simple and easy solution so the "twist" can revert to normal again. It's cheap and lame.
charlequin
Banned
ethelred said:
I really like that twist (hmm, I didn't realize Kato was responsible for that too until this thread... that certainly makes the game's ludicrously Chrono Cross-esque quality make more sense) for its audacity, but I'll definitely agree with duckroll's original assessment: it's lame that they back you out of it, instead of riding it out to its natural conclusion.
charlequin
Banned
duckroll said:I don't think anyone will be complaining if the Kalas twist was played to the end of the game, withinstead of whatever else Kato decided to do.Kalas being foiled and killed,
Black bars, man!
The Chrono Cross twists tend to have the same problem. The Lynx twist
is undone too easily, with no lasting effect
fighting Miguel
I do hope he's improved some, though! This thread is reminding me of all the stuff I really, really love about Chrono Cross.
http://wd.sega.jp/index.html
The site's up.
The battle shot that was cut off in the scan is in there, and it looks excellent.
The site's up.
The battle shot that was cut off in the scan is in there, and it looks excellent.
Magicpaint
Member
The battle shot looks co solourful and purty.
lastendconductor
Put your snobby liquids into my mouth!
Looking good, except for the characters... those guys are too feminine and the girls are dressed too slutty, in a hentai perv figurine way which is even worse.