At Microsoft's Pre-TGS 2007 press conference, Hironobu Sakaguchi offered a ten minute demo of Lost Odyssey. For those eager to learn more about Sakaguchi's next RPG, check out the full play-by-play of the demo.
9:14 - Sakaguchi is taking the stage. The 360 fans are cheering.
9:15 - Sakaguchi says he's brought Lost Odyssey with him. It's about a month away from going final. It's at 95% complete. He's going to play the begining for 10 minutes.
9:16 - 9:28 - [Lost Odyssey Gameplay Description] Kaim is in a room. He walks outside to a mountainside. An event kicks off with two other characters. A great rain starts to fall. Very pretty. The screen fades to black.
Cut to Castle of Uhra Castle Hall. A maid is delivering food to someone who's sitting at a long table. The guy at the table is dressed in gold. He seems very important, but very cold. He's a prince, I think. Someone named Gangara comes in and tosses his food on the floor.
He takes out a mouse and puts it on the spilled food. The mouse eats the food, then collapses. Tentacles emerge from it. Apparently someone has attempted to kill the prince.
Gangara and the prince are speaking. Cut to a scene of Gangara walking out of the prince's banquet hall. He gives money to the maid and thanks her for her work. Apparently Gangara is trying to maniuplate the prince. Cut back to the mountain scene.
Pouring rain. Sakaguchi is now controlling.
It seems hard for Kaim to move int he rain -- I presume this effects your movement when actually controlling. Cut to a cut-scene. I think Kaim is having a flashback. The flashbacks are the sequences that were written by the famous author who's on the project. Sakaguchi says that because theres no time, he's going to skip it.
He takes control of Kaim again, walking through the rain. He gets into a battle. The battle here has Kaim, Sess and Yansen fighting together. Doesn't really look too different from past versions. Back to climbing up the mountain.
Sakaguchi is explaining some stuff about the battle system, but I can't hear him over the music [sad].
When the characters do some attacks, a targeting ring appears around the enemy as the characters charge in for attack. Another battle, this one against two flying creatures and a ground creature.
The attacks are prett brutal in the game, both for enemy and ally sides. You can really feel it if you have the sound up, which they do.
Back to the mountain top. Sakaguchi makes it all the way to the top of Ipsilon peak. It's clear up here.
A cut scene as the characters walk up to the top. The game uses little cut in windows to show closeups of the characters talking as they walk. I think this was known before, but it's much improved over the original demo.
Kaim sees a town in the distance and begins to have a flashback. The game switches seemlessly to a pre-rendered cut-scene.
Kaim has apparently been at that structure before. One character asks, "Is it just dejavu, or has some lost memory suddenly been found?" As they speak, a giant flying creature comes in and attacks.
Boss fight time!
The targeting circle things appear to require that you input button presses. They show perfect or good and so-on depending on your timing. The targeting circle looks really neat because the camera switches to behind the character's perspective as they charge in. It provides an intense view of the action
The beast does a super powerful attack, killing Sakaguchi. Everyone laughs. Sakaguchi apologizes.
9:31 - Lost Odyssey is set for Japanese release on 12/6. He shows a picture of the box art, which was just created by Inoue recently. The game will not be playable at TGS.
9:32 - There will be a November press conference for Lost Odyssey where the staff will appear. Uematsu will also have a concert for the audience. The game will be playable as well at that time.
9:33 - Sakaguchi is closing off with a trailer, the one from TGS. Starts off with Kaim trying to save a girl from a mountain cliff. It's the girl from the E3 trailer. She sees lots of scenes of Kaim trying to save people who die in his hands. Lots of scenes of giant machines, including a water vehicle and a snow vehicle.
Shot of Kaim in a snow environment. Lots of big bosses in this trailer, bigger than even in the E3 trailer.
9:35 - Sensui takes the stage again. America and Europe will see Lost Odyssey in February 2008. Other parts of Asia will see it in Janaury of 2008. The Japanese price will be 6,800 yen, which is the standard price of a Japanese game. Although many big- budget Square Enix RPGs tend to cost a couple of thousand yen more, so this is a good value.
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