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Square Enix, on its Official Grandia III Page, has announced a tentative Japanese release date for the game in Summer 2005.

The site features short descriptions of the game's plot, world, and characters. The story centers around Yuuki, a 16-year-old boy who dreams of building a plane and flying away from his island home, and Alfina, a 16-year-old priestess searching for her missing brother.

Grandia III will be the first title in the series to be published by Square Enix. Previous Grandia titles were published by Enix alone before the company's merger with Squaresoft in 2003. However, all Grandia games to date have been created by the same developer, a company named Game Arts.

This post has been edited by Phoenix on 9th April 2005 17:50

This is definately something to look forward to and I really hope it gets a U.S. release.

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Agreed. The original Grandia was a tremendous Japanese success, released by Enix at such a time to rival Final Fantasy VII.

As a followup, scans of a magazine preview for Grandia III can be found at the German website SquareNet.

Grandia is one of my favorite non-Square PS RPGs, even if I played it for the first time about a month ago . I played Grandia II for the Dreamcast and enjoyed it well enough, but I eventually sold it even before I gave my DC away; the second one has rather enormous cult popularity, though, and some people on the old planetdreamcast boards (which I used to check out but haven't in nearly a year) rank it above Skies of Arcadia in the world of Dreamcast RPGs, the bastards. If this one can be as fun as the first one, then I'm sold; it was a good move to keep the same developers, because they've turned out nothing but quality thus far.

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I don't understand who is the creator/developer of Grandia. I've only seen Grandia Xtreme was released by Enix. I'm not sure about Grandia I, but I didn't see the Enix logo on Grandia II. Or did I miss something? I'm not sure... Grandia II is a decent non-FF/DW game but I got bored of it quickly. I like Dark Cloud better, though.

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I don't understand who is the creator/developer of Grandia.

A company named "Game Arts" is the developer of all Grandia games. Enix and Square Enix are only the publishers.

Never played Grandia. Is it any good? What systems(s) did GI and II come out on?

The original is a two-disc game for the PS1, the sequel was a Dreamcast game that was eventually ported to PS2, and this new one is PS2. I'm pretty sure that Grandia was quite wildly popular in Japan, and essentially served as Enix's counter to Square's Final Fantasy VII. Bascially, Grandia I and II were two of the hugely popular games that set Enix ahead of Square and helped to for the merger. If you can find a copy of the original Grandia, you should check it out, it's a fun game. Grandia II ruled on the Dreamcast, but I heard the PS2 port was pretty inferior.

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The game rocks I played Grandia II and it became one of my favorites think its gonna come out in Europe??

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The original is a two-disc game for the PS1, the sequel was a Dreamcast game that was eventually ported to PS2, and this new one is PS2.  I'm pretty sure that Grandia was quite wildly popular in Japan, and essentially served as Enix's counter to Square's Final Fantasy VII.  Bascially, Grandia I and II were two of the hugely popular games that set Enix ahead of Square and helped to for the merger.  If you can find a copy of the original Grandia, you should check it out, it's a fun game.  Grandia II ruled on the Dreamcast, but I heard the PS2 port was pretty inferior.

The original is a 2 disc game for the SEGA SATURN, not the PSX. It was later ported to the Playstation but they didn't do a very good job since the SATURN used some technology that the PSX never got (mainly rotation and zoom stuff specific to Grandia). Grandia II made it to the Dreamcast and Playstation 2, but again, the Dreamcast game was the original and the Playstation 2 version was a port of that.

I would hope Grandia III sees a USA or at least PAL release.