Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy series and the founder of The Last Story developer Mistwalker, showed off some concept art during a master class in creative media at Hawaii’s UH West O‘ahu Library. The artwork is for an unannounced game, and is drawn by The Last Story character designer Kimihiko Fujisaka.
Twitter user @VoltySquirrel was present at the event, and tweeted out some information as Sakaguchi revealed it. The series of five tweets can be found below:
Concept art from Mistwalker’s currently unannounced game. Says he might be able to fully reveal the game in a year. pic.twitter.com/mnc75G4oJZ
— Whatever, Trevor. (@VoltySquirrel) January 27, 2016
@SquirrelEmperor He’s said that it’s probably going to be a current gen console release.
— Whatever, Trevor. (@VoltySquirrel) January 27, 2016
@RPGSite He didn’t reveal too too much about the game. Says it’ll probably be a console release, wants the art style to be sort of…
— Whatever, Trevor. (@VoltySquirrel) January 27, 2016
@RPGSite …sketchy while still being 3D. Visible pencil lines, etc.
— Whatever, Trevor. (@VoltySquirrel) January 27, 2016
@Caith_Sith Kimihiko Fujisaka, actually.
— Whatever, Trevor. (@VoltySquirrel) January 27, 2016
Someone at the event also recorded the talk on video and posted it to YouTube. The video can be found below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myx_M8kEiro
Mistwalker is known for Xbox 360 games Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, the aforementioned The Last Story on Wii (one of the original games for which oprainfall was started), and their most recent game, the free-to-play Terra Battle on smartphones.
