Comments on: 2 New DS RPGs from Mistwalker

By: Pike

Pike — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:27:23 +0000

I haven’t played Blue Dragon, but the reviews are split among players. Some I’m waiting for LO and ASH before passing a final judgment on Mistwalker and Sakaguchi.

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 19:37:45 +0000

Roli:

So you’re saying we should give John Romero and American McGee 2 or more chances on current generation systems to prove that they really do suck still?

The man’s in credibility deficit. He’s got bad credit. He sucked before he left. He came back, and his first project sucked. Why would I assume he would get better, when he’s making the exact same mistakes he made before he got dumped by Square and stopped making games? Why should I not assume he’d still be bad at what he does?

Aoshi00:

You didn’t play any of the stuff he made in Japan immediately before Spirits Within came out. Stuff like, “Another Mind” which was his brilliant idea to return to FMV games. It came with an entire disc of Sakaguchi talking about how awesome he was, and how he was a filmmaker who made video games, not a game designer.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:29:58 +0000

Actually I enjoyed Blue Dragon quite much (though not as good as it was hyped up to be) and am looking forward to his other projects like “Cry On” and such. Track record.. the dude hasn’t done anything that I don’t like, maybe except the fatal “Spirits Within” movie. Regardless can’t wait till Lost Odyssey comes out.

By: Roli

Roli — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 18:15:56 +0000

Any logical person would wait before ostracizing the man’s credibility this generation, not point out his ability to not suck. Any illogical person would automatically assume his upcoming projects will sucked based on one game he’s made since he came out of retirement.

I’ll wait for you to spin my comment.

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:45:34 +0000

Roli:

Oh right, I should just discard all knowledge of Sakaguchi’s current and previous failures and just assume all these games are going to be awesome. That’s brilliant. Read my post. I said he’s obviously not learning from his mistakes and he’s got a track record of making them.

What any logical person would be doing at this point is doubting the guy’s ability to not suck.

Am I saying that I know all this stuff he’s just announced is definitely going to be bad? No. But trends would indicate that they’re not going to be good.

By: Roli

Roli — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:31:13 +0000

@SomeDude

So you’ve already played ASH, Blue Dragon DS, and AWAY? Please tell me how they are!

By: SomeDude

SomeDude — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:29:15 +0000

Sakaguchi left Square after a series of horrible failures.

Blue Dragon was bad.

Why are people thinking these aren’t going to be JUST as awful, especially since one of them is based of the same awful IP? He obviously ISN’T learning.

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:23:30 +0000

Thank god the game has nothing to do w/ the anime, as it’s quite kiddie even for a morning cartoon, not exciting is an understatement (don’t know why I’m still watching it every week…). I don’t know what to expect, I hope they will expand on the simple story from the 360 game, maybe w/ grown-up Shu?

I still need to play Lost Odyssey and ASH first before I could pass judgement on Sakaguchi’s latest onsalught, quality over quantity. And pls thrill us like you did before, Uematsu.

By: h_graves

h_graves — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:21:35 +0000

Awesome, Ds arrasando