Feb 222016
Silicon Studio, which developed Bravely Default and Bravely Second with Square Enix, has announced a partnership with Mistwalker, the creator of The Last Story and Lost Odyssey.
According to the translation from Gematsu, it will be a game “fans around the world can enjoy,” which suggests it might be localized. It also will have “a new and original setting.”
That last statement is especially important because the concept art (pictured) included with the press release has also been used for the console version of Terra Battle, Mistwalker’s mobile RPG.
The concept art makes it seem like this could be the long-awaited release of Terra Battle for consoles, but then it wouldn’t be “new and original.”
(Apparently the art also surfaced in 2009.)
And due to the timing, this probably isn’t the Mistwalker game I mentioned at the end of my Detective Pikachu post.
Mistwalker fell out of prominence in recent years. After Blue Dragon (2006), Lost Odyssey (2007), and The Last Story (2011), along with a few lesser-known DS titles, Mistwalker shifted its attention to mobile games. This might be another mobile game.
If it’s a major RPG, though, it sounds like a dream team. Bravely Default is often heralded as the true continuation of classic Final Fantasy games, and Mistwalker is headed by Final Fantasy’s creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi.
Another planned console RPG from Mistwalker, Cry On, was cancelled in 2008, although Sakaguchi mysteriously released a trailer in 2014.
Cry On will probably never be revived, but this partnership, together with Sakaguchi’s plans for another console game, suggests Mistwalker might become a big name in JRPGs again.
I still haven’t played Lost Odyssey, The Last Story, or Bravely Default, despite having copies of all three. Maybe I can fix that (as part of Operation Backlog Completion) before Mistwalker’s next game comes out.
What do you think Silicon Studio and Mistwalker are collaborating on?
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“That last statement is especially important because the concept art (pictured) included with the press release has also been used for the console version of Terra Battle, Mistwalker’s mobile RPG.
(Apparently the art also surfaced in 2009.)”
…Seriously? Reusing the same concept art for multiple games?
If this isn’t the console version of Terra Battle, it feels like they attach this image to their press releases just to have an image included. I don’t think the art itself has actually been used in any game yet.
Might as well have a logo of your company at that point.
Yeah.