Nintendo may be leaning on Square Enix a little more than any one else thought. Fresh reports from developers indicate that the RPG makers are looking upon the Wii with some hesitance. Apparently, the Wiildo is posing more of a conundrum for programmers of Japan’s favorite genre than expected.
The makers of the Wii are apparently putting their RPG-eggs in the Square Enix basket, hoping that the acclaimed company can mix the realities of the Wii’s controller with epic scale of RPGs. Nintendo is depending on games like Crystal Chronicles: the Crystal Bearers and Dragon Quest Swords.
The renewed push comes as staple games like Mario and Zelda drop RPG elements with great abandon in the face of the Wiildo. Nintendo hopes to create a formidable line of RPGs to combat the upcoming Lost Odyssey from Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker for X360 and Level 5’s White Knight Story for PS3.
In news that makes absolutely no sense, a new trailer has surfaced for the long ago announced Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers Link >> FFCC:Crystal Bearers Trailer Doesn't look too bad, actually. Though the music at the start I can do without. Perhaps the wait for news will become a bit shorter than it has been for this Wii...
Brendan 2007-04-24 0 comments
Speaking to game magazine Nintendo Dream, Shinji Hashimoto of Square Enix offered a few details on the company’s upcoming game for Nintendo Wii, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers: "Recently, I was able to check the progress on the Wii version. It's coming along extremely well. However, developing a game that makes use of the Wii Remote is difficult.”...
