Mistwalker Plans Blue Dragon Sequel
The latest on the 360's biggest game to date.
by IGN Staff

November 21, 2006 - Blue Dragon doesn't hit Japan for another couple of weeks, but there's already talk of a sequel. In the latest issue of Famitsu, producer Hironobu Sakaguchi confirmed plans for a follow up to the big Microsoft-published RPG. Furthermore, while he wouldn't confirm a final platform, Sakaguchi does expect the sequel to appear on the 360.

Sakaguchi's surprise announcement came as part of a lengthy interview to commemorate the end of production for Blue Dragon. That's right, the 360's first Japanese killer app is done, as one would hope given the game's 12/7 Japanese release date.

Including initial planning, development on the title took three years, Sakaguchi revealed. Actual development on the 360 was a two year process. And it was quite the difficult process, it seems, as Sakaguchi claims to have lost 10 kilograms from July 2004, when first interviews were conducted regarding the title.

Blue Dragon ships on three DVDs, making it bigger than any Xbox 360 title to date. According to Sakaguchi, the game required compression technology to fit onto the three disks. In uncompressed form, the game's data takes up over 30 Gigs of space!

Players can expect between 40 to 50 hours of play time for the game. Just playing through the game minus all the side quests, Sakaguchi managed to take 35 hours.

And when you get through it all, you can look forward to Xbox Live content. The first such content will hit Japan some time between the beginning of the year and Spring. Sakaguchi referred to the content as being free of charge, but he wouldn't give further details.

With work on Blue Dragon complete, you might be wondering what Sakaguchi is up to now. A whole lot, it turns out. In addition to Lost Odyssey, a demo of which was recently released to Japan, Sakaguchi is hard at work on Cry-On (Xbox 360) and A.S.H. (DS). Sakaguchi expects to finish A.S.H. in the first half of next year. Half the game is playable at this point.

On top of these three games, Sakaguchi revealed that he has three more titles in the works! Development on two of these has already started, with the third one set to begin shortly. Sakaguchi wouldn't provide specifics on the games, only stating that he'd be taking a slight trip to the West. This seems to suggest work with a publisher located to the West of Mistwalker's Tokyo studio (a list that would include Nintendo, we'll point out) on one or more of the titles, but Sakaguchi went silent when Famitsu pressed further.

The only thing missing from the Famitsu interview is info on Blue Dragon's stateside release. We expect to hear more on the international version once the Japanese version hits shops on 12/7.

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人性简要翻译追加：

《蓝龙》（日版）预定于12月7日发售，最新一期《发米桶》做了有关的最新报道。报道中坂口博信确认希望在360上推出《蓝龙》续作，尽管最终平台未定。

坂口称《蓝龙》开发了三年，实际在360平台上开发两年，开发过程辛苦，从2004年6月至今坂口减肥10千克。

《蓝龙》将以3张DVD的形式发售，比目前任何一款360游戏都大。坂口表示三碟已经应用了压缩技术。未经压缩的游戏内容高达30GB。

游戏总的游戏时间预计在40～50小时。如果只是草草通主线，无视支线任务，那么游戏时间大约在35小时左右。即便完成了单机游戏，Live上还有望推出追加的剧情内容。具体投放时间预计在07年初到07年春季之间。坂口只说明追加内容将免费提供，但没有透露更多细节。

完成《蓝龙》的开发后，坂口目前正致力于360平台的新作《Cry On》和DS平台的新作《A.S.H.》的开发。目前ASH已经有一半内容可玩，预计在明年上半年完工。

在以上三作之外，坂口进一步透露他手上还有三个正在开发的秘密项目。其中有两作的开发已经展开，第三款也即将开始。有关具体内容坂口没有明确说……（只说最近会去次“西面”。看起来坂口有可能指的是位于 Mistwalker东京工作室西面的发行商任天堂。不过这只是猜测。）

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[ 本帖最后由 RestlessDream 于 2006-11-23 00:44 编辑 ]

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