Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger creator working on an iPhone project
Good news for the new year from Touch Arcade: Hironobu Sakaguchi is developing games for the iPhone. Just in case that name doesn't ring a bell for you, maybe the games he's helped create might: Final Fantasy, Chrono Trigger, Super Mario RPG, and Xenogears. Yes, those of you who know your console RPG history will know that those are some of the best role-playing games ever made, and if you don't know that, then walk away from whatever you're doing right now and go play all of them -- they're brilliant.Sakaguchi announced over on the blog for his latest company, Mistwalker, that his team was working on a brand new "blockbuster project" in 2010, and they're also working on releasing something for the iPhone. He doesn't share much at all about either, though he does say that we'll see the iPhone project on the App Store soon. We can't wait -- having a legendary developer like this working on the iPhone platform just shows that while 2009 was a great year for iPhone gaming, 2010 has plenty of potential as well.
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I actually got my hopes up this owuld be about Tetsuya Nomura. Then I saw Chrono Trigger. Sakaguchi was good back in the day, but Blue Dragon was one of the worst JRPGs I've played in a long time. Although saying that I've not played Lost Odyssey or Last Remnant, so I could be wrong.
January 06 2010 at 9:20 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyYES! This guy was the the producer for what is considered some of the most epic RPG games of all time.
Squaresoft (now Square Enix bleh) + Sakaguchi + Uematsu + Yasunori + SNES = the glory days.
What he NEEDS to work on is that 80's era 'stache and mullet. Really, bro? Is that look fashionable in ANY nation on Earth?
January 04 2010 at 10:52 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplySakaguchi had little to do with Chrono Trigger and nothing to do with Xenogears.
But you might remember him from recent flops like Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.
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