If you’re a fan of the Final Fantasy series you have most likely heard of its creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, former Square exec. Well, after resigning from Square he went on to found Mistwalker, a game development studio that has put out titles such as Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

Well, it seems that Mistwalker will be diversifing their focus as according to an announcement on their website an iPhone title is in the works. What exactly will this title be? Perhaps a port of Blue Dragon or Lost Odyssey? Let’s hope so.

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When Blue Dragon first made its way onto the Xbox 360 it was met with generally good reception but hand held consoles in the States have yet to get the same love. Luckily, D3Publisher has announced today that they will be bringing Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow to the US for the Nintendo DS sometime in Spring of next year.

According to Joystiq, this game will be set 2 years after the Xbox 360 game and feature similar game play.

I’m really very fond of RPGs–I love how deep a storyline can get with those, and how easily you can be pulled along.  I love that role playing games often require a company to put out its very best in graphics technology, and also its best in sound design.  Indeed, a role playing game must often be the most polished title a company can release, packing innovation and clever game modes and variety like no tomorrow into one handy package on the Xbox 360.

This is why I enjoyed Blue Dragon, a game that took the best parts of Japanese animation and coupled them to a role playing game that made for hours of fun.

It’s a massive story, requiring several DVDs, and involves a boy named Shu and several of his friends given the power to control their shadows as weapons.  They can alter their shadows according to several different kinds of “Shadow Change”, to focus on attack, stealth or defense, among others.  From there, Shu and company must set out to save the land conquered by evil aliens.  And when I say evil, I mean evil, as in that kind of gleeful evil that’s downright sociopathic.  Think Kefka with godlike powers and you’ll get the basic idea behind the evil that’s infesting Shu’s world, and why it so desperately needs to be stomped out.
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