{"id":37250,"date":"2012-05-07T15:04:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T13:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=37250"},"modified":"2012-05-08T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-08T11:03:00","slug":"japanese-game-industry-veterans-launch-ios-rpg-borderwalker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/37250-japanese-game-industry-veterans-launch-ios-rpg-borderwalker","title":{"rendered":"Japanese game industry veterans launch iOS RPG Borderwalker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of Japan&#8217;s big names in game development have teamed up to launch a new iOS <a title=\"RPG - Role Playing Game\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/23922-RPG-Role-Playing-Game\">RPG<\/a>, Borderwalker.<\/p>\n<p>The credits lineup includes Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy VIII scenario writer <a title=\"Kazushige Nojima\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24676-Kazushige-Nojima\">Kazushige Nojima<\/a>, Final Fantasy VI and Final Fantasy IX art director <a title=\"Hideo Minaba\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24677-Hideo-Minaba\">Hideo Minaba<\/a>, Mistwalker composer <a title=\"Nobuo Uematsu\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24678-Nobuo-Uematsu\">Nobuo Uematsu<\/a>, and Baten Kaitos character designer <a title=\"Nakaba Higurashi\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/24680-Nakaba-Higurashi\">Nakaba Higurashi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to Siliconera, the game is set in a world that was divided into separate day and night realms by a magician who presumably couldn&#8217;t decide if he was a day or night person. Only a hero born during a lunar or solar eclipse is able to move between the two realms and (spoilers) that&#8217;s you. Your mission is (spoilers) to put everything back together the way it was.<\/p>\n<p>The game features a battle grid system, as well as dungeon crawling, a completely inscrutable story, and a cast of angsty pre-teens. Okay, I&#8217;m just guessing those last two but I&#8217;m probably not wrong.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s already available in Foreignese on the <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/jp\/app\/bodau-oka\/id520521007?mt=8\" target=\"_blank\">App Store<\/a> for the purists, or you can wait out English localisation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ux9n5J0qbaI?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"437\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/2012\/05\/06\/final-fantasy-vii-writer-and-baten-kaitos-artist-team-for-rpg-borderwalker\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siliconera<\/a><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Explore dungeons! Fight monsters! You know, just like every JRPG ever made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":37271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,2226],"tags":[31,4109,4100,4105,4104,4102,4103,4106,4111,4101,4107,4110,4108],"class_list":["post-37250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-mobile","tag-active","tag-baten-kaitos","tag-borderwalker","tag-final-fantasy-ix","tag-final-fantasy-vi","tag-final-fantasy-vii","tag-final-fantasy-viii","tag-hideo-minaba","tag-ios-rpg","tag-kazushige-nojima","tag-mistwalker","tag-nakaba-higurashi","tag-nobuo-uematsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37272,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37250\/revisions\/37272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}