• Sega Teases New RPG

    A word of warning: There is a good chance that this may end up not being a Phantasy Star title.* However, some interesting clues that I will mention have led me to believe this could be of interest.

     

    A teaser page has been posted by Sega of Japan.* It features*what appear to be flowers*with orchestrated music.* After some credits (listed below), it allows you to click the center flower.* The screen darkens, the music changes into something more 'oldschool',*and eventually a silhouette of a dragon appears.* Then there is*the message "We're making RPG now!".* After clicking this, it shows a final line of text telling the user to check out Weekly Famitsu on September 26th.

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    I've*been able to spot this page on*SoJ's Homepage*as well as the JP PS2/PC PSU Homepage.

     

    Director: Kazuya Niinou (Director and Planner on Etrian Odyssey and Trauma Center: Under the Knife)

    Producer: Kodama Rieko (Various credits on Phantasy Star I, II, III, and IV as well as Producer for Skies of Arcadia)

    Sound composer: Yuzo Koshiro (Music credits*on Ys series, Beyond Oasis, Shenmue, and Etrian Odyssey)

    Character design: Mota

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    You can find many more notable credits for these developers by searching around. I just felt like giving some of their more interesting RPG highlights primarily.

    Comments 22 Comments
    1. Yggdrasill's Avatar
      Yggdrasill -
      As excited I am for this game, I wouldn't want it to be just a RPG. I would prefer if it was like a PSO GameCube on the DS, if that's possible that is.
    1. HyperShot-X-'s Avatar
      HyperShot-X- -
      Could this be the remake of Panzer Dragoon Saga RPG? or Dragon Quest maybe? can't wait to know what this next project is about...hmmm
    1. landman's Avatar
      landman -
      If the music is a tip, it will provably be for DS, of for mobile... if Reiko Kodama is behind it will be great, shame she isn't making a new skies of arcadia.. but new franchises are always great (shame they are for DS...)
    1. Yamishi's Avatar
      Yamishi -
      I'm going to assume a Panzer Dragoon game; the URL is dragon.sega.jp, and I read somewhere that double letters aren't common in Japanese (the O in Dragoon, for instance).
      Although I wouldn't mind a new Phantasy Star game
    1. Illuminate's Avatar
      Illuminate -
      How can it NOT be a PS title though? I mean look at it. @_@
      http://phantasystar.sega.jp/pszero/
      The home-page name. The character styles and weapons they're holding just screams PS.
    1. Proff's Avatar
      Proff -
      Uh, that Dragon at the end of the teaser makes me think of Paper Mario.
    1. Illuminate's Avatar
      Illuminate -
      I've already been disappointed about a DS game once this year, I don't want it to happen again. >_<
      I've got hardly anything else to look forward to as it is. D:
    1. VR-Raiden's Avatar
      VR-Raiden -
      I'd like it if this was a new Panzer Dragoon, but just from seeing the outline of that dragon I seriously doubt that's what it is. Dragons in PD looked nothing like that. This one looks too generic to be a Panzer Dragoon dragon (yes, I can tell from simply the silhouette).
      I look forward to finding out what this is though.
    1. Illuminate's Avatar
      Illuminate -
      Wait what? @_@
      Does this even have anything to do with the Phantasy Star ZERO announcement a ways back?
      Cause I saw nothing about a game after that. D:
    1. Yggdrasill's Avatar
      Yggdrasill -
      Well, I guess it's just too soon to tell. Hopefully we'll something from Sega at the Tokyo Games Show.
    1. Burnsro's Avatar
      Burnsro -
      Is that thing on top of your neck just a paperweight, Illuminate? dragon.sega.jp website has nothing to do with the earlier Phantasy Star Zero announcement. This dragon.sega.jp website is a teaser for a new RPG that SEGA is cooking up. Many are speculating that it may be a Phantasy Star title but it could, and very well may, be a entirely new franchise. We'll know relatively soon.
    1. Illuminate's Avatar
      Illuminate -
      No it's not just a paperweight, I was just confused, cause it just suddenly went from Phantasy Star ZERO to some strange unknown to me thing. >_>
      No need to get insulting.
    1. drdgg116's Avatar
      drdgg116 -
      It's a new Wonder Boy title! The music in this teaser is from Wonder Boy in Monster Land. The dragon & mechadragon were the major villians in the game! Great revival of an awesome series of games!
    1. Evila's Avatar
      Evila -
      Sorry, but it ain't a new PS game. Doesn't look like Wonder Boy either, it looks like a brand new game. Sega slipped it early on their TGS website. Link-> http://gonintendo.com/?p=56209
    1. Illuminate's Avatar
      Illuminate -
      I do hope it keeps the outfit system from PSU though. :O And better customization than PSO had, not that it wasn't pretty good anyway.
      Edit: Err woops posted this in the wrong announcement.
    1. Yusaku_Kudou's Avatar
      Yusaku_Kudou -
      Who knows, could be a revival of Shenmue by Rieko. Can't blame me for hoping!
    1. Arika's Avatar
      Arika -
      It is not a new PS for sure.

    1. HAYABUSA-FMW-'s Avatar
      HAYABUSA-FMW- -
      Streets of Rage, Yuzo Koshiro also did the Streets of Rage music in 1 and also 2.
      Not 3 as it had terrible CPU generated music.
      The album cover for the soundtrack of SoR1 was soo gangsta.
      http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=665962
      As for the game, lets hope its not a Shining Force, with new gameplay gone awry again.
    1. S-T-H's Avatar
      S-T-H -
      They already announced a new Shining Force (Feather) for DS with gameplay that's far more like the older ones. Anyway, as was stated, the teased game is for the DS and is (as was stated by Sega apparently just after the teaser was put out) completely new. It's called 7th Dragon. I noticed it yesterday on Sega's TGS site (it was pulled since then as it was accidentally leaked). I'm still very much looking forward to what comes of it.
    1. lostinseganet's Avatar
      lostinseganet -
      Hopes, Dreams, DENIDED?...KTB!
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