Blue Dragon, the first game developed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's relatively new studio, Mistwalker, was released late last year in Japan. Finally, Sakaguchi has given us a solid release date for a US version of Blue Dragon--August, 2007.
For those of you instantly attracted to the dream team of director Sakaguchi, composer Nobuo Uematsu, and artist Akira Toriyama, Blue Dragon should not disappoint. The US release will feature both Japanese and English language tracks, and Sakaguchi has also stated that several "huge" pieces of downloadable content will be available in the months after the game's launch.
Aside from Blue Dragon, Mistwalker has two more promising titles in development. Even better, they're both supposed to arrive in the US by year's end. Lost Odyssey, the darker of Mistwalker's two Xbox 360 RPG projects, will apparently be released simultaneously in the US and Japan this Christmas. On an interesting side note, Sakaguchi mentioned that Lost Odyssey's dialogue would first be recorded in English, and then a Japanese dub would be made for the Japanese release, which speaks volumes about the attempt to make Lost Odyssey a smash hit with Western audiences.
Mistwalker's third game, a DS strategy title called ASH: Archaic Seal Heat, should be released around the same time as Lost Odyssey.
[Sources: Kotaku, VGG]
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