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Cry On
was a cancelled action role-playing game in development by Mistwalker and Cavia for Xbox 360. Mistwalker founder Hironobu Sakaguchi acted as co-producer and writer, ''Drakengard'' artist Kimihiko Fujisaka was designing the characters, and composer Nobuo Uematsu was attached to the project. From 2007 onwards, artwork was redesigned by Manabu Kusunoki. The storyline was based in a fantasy world equivalent to the Middle Ages, where humans begin using a race called the Bogles for war. The plot would have followed lead protagonist Sally and her companion Bogle that could speak human language. The gameplay and narrative would have been designed to evoke emotion, and Sakaguchi was experimenting with different control schemes for each playstyle. ''Cry On'' was announced in 2005, shortly after the creation of publisher AQ Interactive as one of several next-generation titles. It had a budget of ¥1 billion and projected production time of up to two years. Following a prolonged media sil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mistwalker
is an independent video game development studio. The company was founded in July 2004 by Hironobu Sakaguchi, best known for his work at Square including creating the ''Final Fantasy'' series. The company has created both game franchises such as '' Blue Dragon'' and ''Terra Battle'', and standalone titles including ''Lost Odyssey'' (2007) and ''The Last Story'' (2011). With the financial problems caused by '' Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within'', and his growing dissatisfaction with management, Sakaguchi decided that he wanted to make games outside Square. Mistwalker's first two titles were Xbox 360 RPGs; ''Blue Dragon'' (2006) and ''Lost Odyssey''. Following ''The Last Story'' for Wii, Sakaguchi and Mistwalker changed to focus on in-house mobile titles. The original ''Terra Battle'' saw widespread success and acclaim, leading to further mobile projects. Mistwalker has been described by Sakaguchi as a collective of artists that oversee projects, with its independent small-scale stru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Drakengard (video Game)
''Drakengard'', known in Japan as is a 2003 action role-playing video game developed by Cavia and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2. The game is the first installment of the ''Drakengard'' series and features a mixture of ground-based hack-and-slash, aerial combat, and role-playing elements which have become a staple of the series. The story is set during a religious war between two factions—the Union and the Empire—with the war tipping in favor of the Empire. The player controls Caim, a deposed prince of the Union, in his quest for vengeance against the Empire. Wounded in battle while protecting his sister Furiae, he is forced to make a pact with a red dragon named Angelus as they journey together on a quest to prevent the Empire from destroying magical seals that keep the world in balance. Takamasa Shiba and Takuya Iwasaki conceived the game as a hybrid between the popular ''Dynasty Warriors'' series and Namco's aerial combat game ''Ace Combat''. It was Shiba' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famitsu
formerly ''Famicom Tsūshin'', is a line of Japanese video game magazines published by Kadokawa Game Linkage (previously known as Gzbrain), a subsidiary of Kadokawa. ''Famitsu'' is published in both weekly and monthly formats as well as in the form of special topical issues devoted to only one console, video game company, or other theme. the original ''Famitsu'' publication, is considered the most widely read and respected video game news magazine in Japan. From October 28, 2011, the company began releasing the digital version of the magazine exclusively on BookWalker weekly. The name ''Famitsu'' is a portmanteau abbreviation of the word "Famicom" itself comes from a portmanteau abbreviation of "Family Computer" (the Japanese name for the Nintendo Entertainment System)—the dominant video game console in Japan during the 1980s. History , a computer game magazine, started in 1982 as an extra issue of ''ASCII'', and later it became a periodic magazine. was a column in ''Logi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Guardian
''The Last Guardian'' is a 2016 action-adventure game developed by Japan Studio and GenDesign and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4. Players control a boy who befriends a giant half-bird, half-mammal creature, Trico. Team Ico began developing ''The Last Guardian'' in 2007. It was designed and directed by Fumito Ueda, and shares stylistic, thematic, and gameplay elements with his previous games, ''Ico'' (2001) and ''Shadow of the Colossus'' (2005). He employed the "design through subtraction" approach he had used for his previous games, removing elements that did not contribute to the core theme of the connection between the boy and Trico. Sony announced ''The Last Guardian'' at E3 2009 with a planned release in 2011 for the PlayStation 3. It suffered numerous delays; Ueda and other Team Ico members departed Sony, forming the studio GenDesign, and hardware difficulties moved the game to the PlayStation 4 in 2012, drawing speculation that the gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
