A new Seiken Densetsu Title!

On Square-Enix's recruiting page, they're looking for people with game developing skills for a new Seiken Densetsu game. It's not completely related to SD3, but if we're lucky, it might be a remake.

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The picture on the left looks like it could be the Lakeside Village Astoria, and the picture on the right looks like the Forest of Wonder.

If I could, I'd remake SD3 with anime cutscenes, add a couple more characters (more variety, more story and another set of final bosses), more spells, monsters, areas and make the storyline longer, with additional side quests that would be optional but would give you special items/weapons/armor (sort of like the black rabite).

Hope some of you guys know Japanese and have programming skills, since I sure don't. Who knows, you might be able to contribute something...

That looks pretty darn cool....

They seem to be after programmers, character model designers, motion designers (for motion capturing?), environment model designers, effects designers, and battle system engineers? (my Japanese has become rather bad).

From what I can tell, it's only design phase work so it'll probably be another year and a half to two years before we see anything of it (let's tack on another year or so for it to be imported.) That's a long time to wait, but it'll probably be fully 3D, which is what I've rather been hoping for... I'd like it if they could do high-res cut scenes rather than anime ones... kind of like how they do it in Final Fantasy. It'd be awesome if they did a remake. Even a remake of Secret of Mana (or SD2, for those who are fanatical.)

Jeez, if only I spoke better Japanese and had a couple of thousand dollars to move to Japan... I bet there must be hundreds of people willing to kill for these jobs.

(prays they put in on Gamecube as well) COME ON SD3 remake! Come on SD3 remake... with more cuteness...

Thats the adfvantage of having both!

They seem pretty well determinated to start the project and do it now... but this things are always so slow, I dont care how long it takes as long as they DO IT

If they would do a SD3 remake adding all the cool stuff that was missing on the original my existence would be full circle

I think the Mana series is MUCH better suited to the Gamecube, and this is coming from someone who is both a diehard (I've beaten SD3 at least ten times ^^;; ) Mana fan. The series is well known for its interesting gameplay, and, sadly, for being light on story elements. I would love to see a Final Fantasy-esque storyline (i.e. a coherent one XD) in a Mana title. Hell, I'd love to WRITE a Mana script, though I'm certainly not good enough at the old Nihongo to do so. But honestly, I think a Mana title would be hampered by the PS2's clunky loading times and minimialistic controller. Remember waiting twenty seconds for your saves in Legend of Mana? Not my cup of tea. I think the Gamecube would be better suited to the hand-painted environments we've grown to love, and I also think it would have the fluidity of the first title.

It would also give Nintendo a chance to go OMG1!!1111 W3 C@N US TEH CONNECTIVITY!!!!1111 Mana games would be well suited to compatibility with the Gameboy Advance, or the new handheld they're coming out with (though I HOPE that they'd have the sense not to try a game like this on a new console. Right).

These are just thoughts. ^.^

KILL THE GC CONNECTIVITY!!!!! (I can't play LoZ: Four Swords Adventures )

I only have one controller

But the GC REALLY needs more RPGs. (Ports were the first step.. then comes FF Crystal.... Tales of Symphonia... Fire Emblem for strategy RPGs.... SD5!)

Yeah, just about the whole length of rp thing on GC, harvest moon is at least 200 hours long.

Anyhoo, Noowwwww GC gba connectivity would be a complete laugh. But then, the GC controller, would be very good as well. Sooooo many possibilities..... Now a dream come true would be if Nintendo managed to buy square back... HUUUUUUUGE BUDGET!!!

I did some digging and discovered that Seiken Densetsu 5 will most probably be done within the Square 2 division! (Square 1 makes the Final Fantasies and other high-res 3D games, and Square 2 did the original Seiken Densetsus and more recently released Unlimited Saga, great flop that it was). It's obviously not the set of original creators, seeing as they're recruiting for it and all, but it's being produced under that division. So, from this, I think we can safely judge that they'll probably take a much more 2D, cel-shaded, or watercolour look rather than high resolution 3D.