What in the world are this industry's best working artist and composer doing on a no name RPG by a garbage developer like Furyu?
The scan and info really does make it seem like SaGa in everything but name, I hope hope hope this developer found a way to make a good game.
I'm gonna be so depressed when this game turns out to be terrible.
I guess it'll depend on what sort of JRPG game design you refer. If Hiroyuki Ito is the father of Final Fantasy gameplay systems, then Kyoji Koizumi is the father of SaGa gameplay systems.
I'm well aware of the listed contributors and their pedigree, I just don't have much faith in companies like FuRyu or imageepoch that manage to attract lots of talent but still struggle to put out anything interesting.
But Niinou's Imageepoch games were good. Lack of polish and budget, but they were still fun and had good fundamental design.
7th Dragon is okay but that Criminal Girls horseshit is just embarrassing and all the other imageepoch games I've played (Arc Rise Fantasia, Luminous Arc, Sands of Destruction... was that them? I forget) ranged from mediocre to flat-out terrible.
Director: Masataka Matsura
Image Illustration: Tomomi Kobayashi (SaGa franchise character illustrator)
Game Design: Kyoji Koizumi (SaGa franchise battle designer)
Character Design: Ryo Hirao
Background Art: Misako Tsutsui (ex-S-E background artist)
Monster Design: Yuichiro Kojima (ex-S-E texture artist), Ryoji Shimogama (ex-S-E creature designer)
Composer: Masashi Hamauzu (I hear he makes good music)
Sound Editor: Kenichi Saito
Text Direction: Masato Kato (wrote for Chrono Trigger and Xenogears, wrote and directed Chrono Cross)
Narration: Emiko Shiratori
Title Logo Design: Tadahiko Kawaguchi
Movie Design: Shuhei Yamagata
http://www.famitsu.com/news/201409/23062073.html
"The Legend of Legacy" is probably the worst title I've ever heard in any medium
Interested....but this is not getting localized...right?
I liked both 7th Dragon and Last Ranker. They were also the main games Niinou directed there. Last Ranker also has much higher production values and polish than the average Imageepoch game because of Capcom's influence. Turned out pretty well. I agree that a lot of Imageepoch games are garbage because they have poor quality control, but I'm just pointing out that when you actually put together good people who know how to design a game at a studio which doesn't give a shit, the results will probably still improve.
Interested....but this is not getting localized...right?
Ex-SaGa staff?
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...Well, at least the music'll be good.
Either way, this game does make me wonder what Kawazu and co. are putting together right now, seeing as all these key players presumably won't be around to help him out.
"The Legend of Legacy" is probably the worst title I've ever heard in any medium
It's a tough one to decide between but I think Bravely Default is up there as well.
Someone hasn't heard of "Beyond the Beyond"!
I mean if it's received well in Japan, I can see it localized.
I don't think anyone asked for Unchained Blade after seeing how it turned out.
sörine;131309516 said:So on 3DS we have Not Final Fantasy (Bravely Default) and now Not SaGa (Legend of Legacy). That means Not Seiken Densetsu is up next right?
When I was scrolling through the top post, the transition from the Tomomi Kobayashi art to the candy-colored Saturday morning screenshots gave me whiplash. Really not a fan of the bland aesthetic (are we not past the idea that portables are for children?), but given who's involved here, I'll hold out hope.
Chibi character models aren't strictly a "childish" thing, more a low-resolution thing.
Unchained Blades is *almost* a good game and just largely suffers from being maybe a little too busy with gameplay systems. It's not bad though and I imagine Legend of Legacy might turn out better with the right guidance keeping them in check.As for FuRyu, I've not played any of their games as we PAL-landians weren't deigned worthy to play Unchained Blades, but very few people seem to have anything positive to say about them, and it seems that the director on this project is a FuRyu guy? I don't recognise the name, at least.
sörine;131309516 said:So on 3DS we have Not Final Fantasy (Bravely Default) and now Not SaGa (Legend of Legacy). That means Not Seiken Densetsu is up next right?
Guess what, you seem to be right!
GamersHour seems to confirm he's the composer:
I mean, I like Fantasy Life and Zelda remakes as much as anyone, but I'd trade both in a heartbeat for it.If Grezzo and Brownies are interested in working together on it, sure. They don't seem very ambitious though.
Sounds like a job for Sakaguchi. We have to squeeze in Not Front Mission as well.Also, sign me up for Not Chrono Trigger.