Square has also made other widely known games such as Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana, Xenogears, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, Parasite Eve 2, Saga Frontier, Romancing Saga, Vagrant Story, Kingdom Hearts ( done in collaboration with Disney Interactive ), and Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars ( done under the guidance of Shigeru Miyamoto ).

Several team members, including Yasumi Matsuno, Hiroshi Minagawa and Akihiko Yoshida, left Quest in 1997 to join Square, where they worked on several titles for the Sony PlayStation, including Final Fantasy Tactics and Vagrant Story.

* In Vagrant Story, a treasure chest containing a mace named Pink Squirrel can be found in the wine cellar.

He later went on to serve more as an executive producer of the series, as well as many of Square's other games, including Vagrant Story, Parasite Eve and Kingdom Hearts.

Following " East Side Story ", the group released four more singles: the James Brown-inspired holiday single " Sock It to Me Santa ", the Dylan-esque " Persecution Smith ", " Vagrant Winter ", and perhaps the most notable, " Heavy Music ", released in 1967.

Vagrant Story was primarily developed by the team responsible for Final Fantasy Tactics, with Yasumi Matsuno serving as producer, writer and director.

Vagrant Story is unique as a console action / adventure role-playing game in that it features no shops and no player interaction with other characters ; instead, the game focuses on weapon creation and modification, as well as elements of puzzle-solving and strategy.

Vagrant Story is a solo dungeon crawl, in which the player controls Ashley Riot from a third-person perspective while exploring Leá Monde and the catacombs underneath.

Magic in Vagrant Story is learned later in the game using Grimoires, items dropped by enemies.

In Vagrant Story, selecting " New Game +" enables the player to replay the story using their end-game weapons, items, and statistics instead of the defaults.

Vagrant Story is set in the fictitious city of Leá Monde, while the kingdom of Valendia is engulfed in civil war.

The plot of Vagrant Story, titled " The Phantom Pain ", is presented as the prelude to the " story of the wanderer ".

Vagrant Story is regarded as a mixture of genres, as it contains elements of role-playing in its battles and platform games when in the field map.

Matsuno explained that the development team was not eager to place Vagrant Story into a specific genre, preferring to create the game with a genre of its own.

Vagrant Story was conceived during a time when most games had made the transition into three-dimensional graphics.

Games with real-time polygons were the mainstream, and it was decided for Vagrant Story to follow this trend.

The sound effects of Vagrant Story are credited to Minoru Akao, the game's sound programmer ; and Tomohiro Yajima, the sound editor and engineer.

A demo disc of Vagrant Story was included in the packaging of Seiken Densetsu: Legend of Mana in Japan.

During the Square Millennium Event held by Square in Tokyo, movies of Vagrant Story such as the opening sequence and the weapon crafting system were presented to onlookers.

In North America, Vagrant Story was released as part of Square's " Summer of Adventure " that lasted from May to September 2000.

Vagrant Story was released with two discs ; the first disc is the game itself, while the second disc is a demo disc released by Square to give the player a preview of seven titles.

On April 13, 2000, DigiCube published the Vagrant Story Ultimania, the official 496-page strategy guide for the game with the ISBN 4-925075-75-6.

Vagrant Story Original Soundtrack is the video game music soundtrack from Vagrant Story.

His solution was outlined in The Best Method of Disposing of Our Pauper and Vagrant Children ( 1859 ) which started the Orphan Train movement.

Due to a ruling by the Quebec government that video game titles in Canada should be sold with both French and English-language instructions, Vagrant Storys release was delayed in Canada.

In May 2000, Vagrant Story was the fifth best-selling PlayStation title of the month.

Vagrant Story was the third of nineteen games to date, and the only game on the PlayStation, to receive a perfect score of 40 from Famitsu magazine.

His effort on translating Vagrant Story was described by Andrew Vestal as an " unparalleled — and unprecedented — work " of Japanese to English video game translation, " in spite of the occasional typo or grammatical hiccup ", as quoted by IGN.

Three years after its 2000 release, Vagrant Story was selected as one of Sony's Greatest Hits.

Vagrant Story is acknowledged as a game with an " extreme popularity " outside Japan eight years after it was first released.

This record was released by Vagrant Records, and produced by Frank Black of The Pixies.

Smaller in scope than Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story was still highly regarded by critics and has gained somewhat of a cult following since its release.

The Great McGinty had numerous working titles: " The Story of a Man ", " The Vagrant ", " The Mantle of Dignity ", " The Biography of a Bum ", and " Down Went McGinty ", ( which was used for the film's release in the U. K ).

Vagrant birds are encountered in Japan and Korea ( where it used to winter in numbers when it was more common ), and more rarely in Kazakhstan, Laos, coastal Siberia, Taiwan, Thailand and Uzbekistan.

Eels ' next album, Blinking Lights and Other Revelations, was released on April 26, 2005 ; it was the band's first release for new label Vagrant Records.

The song " All the World is Mad " is featured in the Vagrant Song Pack for Guitar Hero, which was released on July 23, 2009.

The new album, titled Major / Minor, was released on September 20, 2011 through Vagrant Records.

The fourteen track album was recorded with producer Rick Rubin through Burning Heart, American and Vagrant Records.

# Vagrant Story ( 2000, Square Co., for PlayStation )

Vagrant Lesser Scaup have also been recorded on the Hawaiian Islands Japan, possibly China, and – for the first time on 18 January 2000 – in the Marianas, as well as in Ecuador, Surinam, Trinidad and Venezuela ( in winter ), and Greenland ( in summer ).

Such a battle system has rarely been used since, though similar battle systems based on targeting individual body parts can later be found in Square's Vagrant Story ( 2000 ), Bethesda's Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), and Nippon Ichi's Last Rebellion ( 2010 ).

In 2000, TVT Records opened TVT Distribution, a distribution company for third party labels, among them Vagrant Records.

* Vagrant Story ( 2000 ) ( PS1 ): Character design and background art direction

Although he worked on a handful of titles by other companies over the next few years, his next work for Square did not come until 2000, with the successful Vagrant Story.

* Vagrant Story ( 2000 )

After a period of inactivity in 1999 and 2000, during which Reis formed Hot Snakes and Sultans and launched his Swami Records label, the band signed to Vagrant Records and recruited new drummer Ruby Mars.

In 2000 the band signed to independent label Vagrant Records and began work on the album Group Sounds, with Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster filling in on drums.

Such a battle system has rarely been used since, though similar battle systems based on targeting individual body parts can later be found in Square's Vagrant Story ( 2000 ), Bethesda's Fallout 3 ( 2008 ), and Nippon Ichi's Last Rebellion ( 2010 ).

* Vagrant Story ( 2000 )-with Takeharu Ishimoto and Hirosato Noda

* Vagrant Story ( 2000 ) – with Hidenori Iwasaki and Hirosato Noda