So what's everybody think of Blue Dragon? I know it's not an FF game, but there are some big former Square names behind it. It's at least piqued my curiosity. From what little I've heard they seem to be going for any old school FF feel.

Actually I haven't heard anything about it.....

SHAZAM!!!

Whoops... er... I did NOT just say that... you saw nothing. ^o)

As our good friend Sabin's already mentioned, there are some former Square employees who worked on Blue Dragon, here's the info for anyone (ven ) who might be interested:

Game Design - Hironobu Sakaguchi (Father of Final Fantasy)
Character Design - Akira Toriyama (Creator of Dragonball, Dr. Slump, artist of DQ [no not Dairy Queen... unfortunately])
Music Composer - Nobuo Uematsu (Yup, the FF Music Master!)

The developer is "Mistwalker" it s a company founded by Sakaguchi shortly after he resigned from Square (around the period of the Square-Enix merger). Blue Dragon's scheduled for launch here June 5/07.

Also if this brings interest to you, 360's also getting a couple more RPGs, Tri-Ace (The Valkyrie Profile Team) is also working on one at this time; in addition, Mistwalker is currently developing "Lost Odyssey" for 360 as well. That one has Sakaguchi at the head, Uematsu again for musical composition, but this time the artist is the creator of the Manga "Slam Dunk!" (Takehiko Inoue). Neither of these games have an official release date yet..

And some release dates as per the usual:

Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings (Nintendo DS) - 04/26/07 (JAPAN)
Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (Sony PSP) - Q1 2007 (JAPAN)
Kingdom Hearts II: Final Mix+ (Sony PS2) - 03/29/07 (JAPAN only)

So according to those dates... with exception to Final Mix, we should be seeing some domestic releases in the summer/fall. The FFXII Play Arts figures should be shipping next couple of weeks, although there hasn't been official word yet they're usually quite consistent on the dates. Well that's all for now guys, take it easy and enjoy the weekend~

Goken to the rescue! Along with the Dragon Quest games Akira Toriyama also provided character designs for Square classic Chrono Trigger.

Craziness. I guess I need to get a psp.

I was wondering where you'd been. Glad to hear from you. Everything is pretty cool.

Hey D! Glad to hea your doing good. Hope to see a bit more of you! So...I just picked up a DS as well as FF3, WHICH IS AMAZING! I also picked up tactics advanced, because I heard it was a lot like the original tactics. I see there's no breeding, and they lost a few job classes...but other than that, is there really much of a difference?

Is there any other games you guys would suggest picking up for the new system? I thought about checking into those 2 rpgs that are advertised in the comics all the time...one by square and one by nintendo...like phantasy star or something...I dunno. Anyways. Glad to hear everyones doing good!

I've not heard much about either Children of Mana (but hey, it's Mana) or Magical Starsign, but here is some non-rpg games I recomend:

New Super Mario Bros.
Castlevania: Dawn of Sarrow
Nintendogs (the Lady and I are still playing it)
Big Brain Academy
Mario Cart DS

I need to look into the Spider-Man game on the system (the battle for New York). I hope it's good.

Is New Super Mario Bros any good? How different is it? I kinda want to get Big Brain Academy. It looks fun...really fun. I've played Spider-Man. It's pretty fun, a bit hard in places...but fun!

NSMB is good, not great, but really good. The visuals are pretty and the levels are well crafted. There's not much new here, gameplay wise, but it is really enjoyable. I liked BBA, but the luster wore off, for me, a little sooner than I would have liked. It's fun getting good at all of the different puzzles in the game, but once that happens there's not much else to do. Luckily it's sold at a lower price point. I find it's a really good game to play with my Lady.

I kinda missed everyone thoughts on FFXII... I like it! Please begin either praising or admonishing me!