Mistwalker announces Terra Battle 2 (iOS/Android/PC) – Co-developed by Silicon Studio

There is an 8-page interview feature in this week’s Famitsu with Sakaguchi and he announces his future plans for Terra Battle as a franchise. The following details are from Japanese blogs which got the mag early.

– The main announcement this time is Terra Battle 2. This is the next game from Mistwalker and it is co-developed with Silicon Studio. Mistwalker will handle all the art, music, scenario, while Silicon Studio is handling the programming and asset production.

– Terra Battle 2 will be released this year. For the scenario Sakaguchi said he thinks it’ll be about 50 chapters long this time, but instead of having it all out at once, he wants to release one chapter every Friday like a television series.

– Grid-based field movement, when your characters engage an enemy square the battle starts. Not entire sure if it’s realtime or turn based right now. There will be combination attacks. Characters will not have a growth element this time round, but instead the growth elements will be in accessories and guardians you equip on them. Basically they want to separate the characters from the gacha elements, which will be in equipment.

– Terra Battle 1 will not be terminated to make way for Terra Battle 2. They will support both games for the time being. There is a big Terra Battle update planned for June.

– Sakaguchi also talks about Terra World as the overall brand for the Terra games, and he wants to make more and more stuff from the familiar concepts, while exploring different gameplay styles and whatever. Like Final Fantasy.

– The other game they are working on is Terra Wars, and it is a game where the Terra Battle characters are transformed into claymation models of sorts. The gameplay will be what the title suggests, but they have nothing to share at the moment until Terra Battle 2 is out.

https://www.famitsu.com/news/201706/20135887.html