E3 - Square Enix Shows Fantasies, Kingdoms, Samurai

Thanks to GamingHorizon for its summary of the pre-E3 Square Enix press conference at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, during which the company mentioned they "are determined to expand their reach across all forms of media, not just limiting themselves to the gaming market", before holding the Dear Friends: Music From Final Fantasy concert in the same venue. However, specific game-related material includes details (though not downloads) of a new Final Fantasy XII trailer, alongside new direct-feed screenshots of the title, as well as snapshots of Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII, a mobile phone-only spin-off. Also revealed is information on the previously unannounced Musashi Samurai Legend, a sequel to "the original Brave Fencer Musashi on the PlayStation" featuring "Tetsuya Nomura handling the character design... [and] Studio Gainax creating the animated cutscenes", as well as new details on Disney-licensed sequel Kingdom Hearts 2 and its handheld partner, Kingdom Hearts: Chain Of Memories.

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Re:GAINAX and Square-Enix working together?!

[shadowcabbit]

I know next to nothing about the original Brave Fencer Musashi, but now I have an incentive for checking out the sequel...

Ah, you missed out on one of the funnier pseudo-RPGs of the Playstation's halcyon days. It was a fairly well-done Zelda-type game (far better than Alundra), but there were lots of sidequests and additional activities to take part in. It had a great story and decent voice-acting, too. I'd highly recommend hunting BFM down as soon as possible.

Oh, and as for the Gainax thing? Yeah, this is going to be tops on my list to get. I just hope they do better than they did with Xenogears' cutscenes (though to be fair most of what made those bad was extremely poor dubbing; but they were still awfully grainy and had lots of minor errors).