More Blue Dragon info

Blue Dragon is released tomorrow in Japan, and it may be a while before we see it
over in Europe and the US, since that's what happens when an RPG is released in Japan first. However, that doesn't mean you can't view some screenshots and get all excited in anticipation for the title, since one shot has some lovely readable writing (i.e.: not Japanese), so the game is well under way for conversion. Plus, it might shift some 360s, if Famitsu have anything to do with it.

If you haven't heard anything about Blue Dragon, where have you been? It was recently covered that the game will be released on three DVD discs, harking back to the days of Final Fantasy, which used to come on no less than three discs on the PS1. It was also announced that a special Japanese only bundle would be released at lauch to celebrate Blue Dragon, with a hidden plan of trying to get the Japanese to buy a 360, which they have been reluctant to do thus far, forcing price drops by Microsoft to encourage people into buying. It has also been helped by Famitsu, the magazine everyone reads in Japan, scoring the game a mighty 37 out of 40, one of the highest scores ever from the publication. (In case you're wondering, Famitsu have four different people review the game and score it out of ten, then add the four scores for the final score.)

It was officially announced at X06 that the game would be coming to English speaking shores next year, and the picture (below left) indicates that this game is well on it's way as we speak. Whilst it isn't unusual for Japanese developers to throw the occasional English word into a game, to use numbers and HP/MP most certainly is, so it can't be a Japanese shot.



As if that wasn't exciting enough, wait until you read the history of the current developers:

  Mistwalker consists of ex-members of Square-Enix, the developer whose RPG pedigree includes the long running and critically acclaimed Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series. The game producer is Hironobu Sakaguchi, creator of the Final Fantasy series, with character design by Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Quest VIII artist Akira Toriyama, while music is being handled by Final Fantasy legend Nobuo Uematsu

Pretty exciting stuff. Hopefully the game won't take an age to translate and we see the game before the summer, unlike the Final Fantasy series gone by, which take roughly nine months to translate, and that's only one disc!

CONFIRMED ASIAN NO ENGLISH SUB/DUB..

the only damn thing in english is the manual.. sucks...