I just edited the title and added to this thread rather than create a new one. Post #7 below has the new videos.
Tetsuya Takahashi (FF6 magitek Armor guy, Chrono Trigger graphics director, original FF7 concept, Xenogears creator, Xenosaga creator, Xenoblade creator): "I've made the game I always wanted to"
For anyone who might not know Tetsuya Takahashi is a bit of a renaissance man when it comes to videogame development: designer/writer/artist responsible for doing the Magitek Armour scene in FF6, graphics director on Chrono Trigger, but best known as the creator of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade.
His full tweet from December 2014 translates to - “15 years have passed since Monolith was founded, and I believe that with this game I have finally met the challenge I had within me, of creating an RPG in which humans and robots can co-exist.”
This is fairly exciting considering he has created such fantastic work, but has never made that game that he has really been satisfied with. Xenogears ran into budgetary issues and BS, Xenosaga suffered from lots of politics and his wife, Soraya Saga, being forced out of the company - those of us who were on the GIA back in the day will remember that situation.
Last year, a fantastic analysis of the footage shown at E3 2014 was created by a Japanese enthusiast named iYakku; most of her videos are in Japanese, but she got an English translator to narrate this one:
She points out the unifying artifact, the Zohar, which has me extremely excited. She also points out Takahashi's use of Gnosticism throughout his games. Although misses something: B.L.A.D.E. - which is an acronym of Beyond the Logos Artificial Destiny Emancipator - without going into too much detail, Logos is the ancient Greek term for "Word" and is the voice of God which created the universe, since God exists beyond time and space in a perfect form. Jesus is the Word/Logos made flesh. The Theology of the Logos as the Son of God exists in Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, and Gnosticism.
B - Beyond
L - The creator
A - Artificial
D - Destiny
E - An element which frees from imprisonment
Tying this together, I would separate this into two terms: 1. Beyond the creator's artificial destiny. 2. Emancipator, or something which frees from the creator's artificial destiny.
Given Takahashi's history of artificial Gods and artificial creations, including the artificially created universe in Xenoblade Wii - and arguably was the goal of the Zarathustra device in Xenosaga Episode 3 - it's safe to say that BLADE may actually be an object or organization which is in opposition to the latest incarnation of Wilhelm and Zarathustra. At the very least, some sort of relationship to it - I could have it backwards - as it could be argued that Zarathustra was the emancipator of the doomed natural universe, while artificially taking on the role of the Logos.
As a longtime fan of the series, even the highest budgeted game development project in Japanese history "Legend of Zelda U" is not enough to top the anticipation I have for this particular game.
Here is the most recent trailer which reveals some of the environments of the game's world - and if you can see it, you can go there:
Tetsuya Takahashi (FF6 magitek Armor guy, Chrono Trigger graphics director, original FF7 concept, Xenogears creator, Xenosaga creator, Xenoblade creator): "I've made the game I always wanted to"
For anyone who might not know Tetsuya Takahashi is a bit of a renaissance man when it comes to videogame development: designer/writer/artist responsible for doing the Magitek Armour scene in FF6, graphics director on Chrono Trigger, but best known as the creator of Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Xenoblade.
His full tweet from December 2014 translates to - “15 years have passed since Monolith was founded, and I believe that with this game I have finally met the challenge I had within me, of creating an RPG in which humans and robots can co-exist.”
This is fairly exciting considering he has created such fantastic work, but has never made that game that he has really been satisfied with. Xenogears ran into budgetary issues and BS, Xenosaga suffered from lots of politics and his wife, Soraya Saga, being forced out of the company - those of us who were on the GIA back in the day will remember that situation.
Last year, a fantastic analysis of the footage shown at E3 2014 was created by a Japanese enthusiast named iYakku; most of her videos are in Japanese, but she got an English translator to narrate this one:
She points out the unifying artifact, the Zohar, which has me extremely excited. She also points out Takahashi's use of Gnosticism throughout his games. Although misses something: B.L.A.D.E. - which is an acronym of Beyond the Logos Artificial Destiny Emancipator - without going into too much detail, Logos is the ancient Greek term for "Word" and is the voice of God which created the universe, since God exists beyond time and space in a perfect form. Jesus is the Word/Logos made flesh. The Theology of the Logos as the Son of God exists in Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, and Gnosticism.
B - Beyond
L - The creator
A - Artificial
D - Destiny
E - An element which frees from imprisonment
Tying this together, I would separate this into two terms: 1. Beyond the creator's artificial destiny. 2. Emancipator, or something which frees from the creator's artificial destiny.
Given Takahashi's history of artificial Gods and artificial creations, including the artificially created universe in Xenoblade Wii - and arguably was the goal of the Zarathustra device in Xenosaga Episode 3 - it's safe to say that BLADE may actually be an object or organization which is in opposition to the latest incarnation of Wilhelm and Zarathustra. At the very least, some sort of relationship to it - I could have it backwards - as it could be argued that Zarathustra was the emancipator of the doomed natural universe, while artificially taking on the role of the Logos.
As a longtime fan of the series, even the highest budgeted game development project in Japanese history "Legend of Zelda U" is not enough to top the anticipation I have for this particular game.
Here is the most recent trailer which reveals some of the environments of the game's world - and if you can see it, you can go there:
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