Topic: Mistwalker's "The Last Story" out in NA via XSEED!

[noname2200]

I just hope our hopes and dreams aren't crushed by cruel, mean old Nintendo.

Don't you just hate it when they come and piss on everything want? Then they steal your ice cream and smash your sand castle, just for good measure.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

This game along with Arc Rise Fantasia will create a good RPG duo on the wii.

This should be stressed more.  2010 has some significance for RPG enthusiasts with Wiis.  (i'm not one of them, i'm just saying)

[Kytim89]

If the wii becomes a good home to RPG games we could see a proper final fantasy game, but maybe this is wishful thinking on my part.

[BlackNMild2k1]

The Last Story just might be out "Proper" Final Fantasy.
It is made by the guy that created Final Fantasy and worked on Final Fantasy all the way up through FFX.

[Kytim89]

Square Enix may release a proper Final Fantasy game as a middle finger to their former employee. Perhaps Sakaguchi is going to take the best from the FF series and blend it with some new stuff. However, The Last Story may be one of those RPGs that we have not really experienced in a while. The game could be the Chrono Trigger and FF 6 of this console generation. Something that in ten years people will still want to play.

[Stogi]

i can't help but laugh everytime i read the title

[Ymeegod]

I liked LO myself, yeah it's combat system is your standare fare but the story is top notch stuff.  I kinda doubt we'll get it stateside by 2010 though considering it doesn't even have a Japan release date. 

Anyone hear about Tales of Graces release date?  Summer maybe?

[BlackNMild2k1]

Looks like AQI has a hand in development of The Last Story

http://www.aqi.co.jp/ir/2010/data/20100218.pdf
■国内外大手パブリッシャー向け企画提案強化
　・バイオハザード/ダークサイド・クロニクルズ（カプコン）
　・NieR Gestalt/NieR Replicant（スクウェア・エニックス）
　・NINETY-NINE NIGHTS Ⅱ（コナミデジタルエンタテインメント）
　・THE LAST STORY（MISTWALKER CORPORATION）

Translated
Contract Development Highlights:
- Resident Evil: Dark Side Chronicles (Capcom)
- NieR Gestalt/NieR Replicant (Square Enix)
- Ninety-Nine Nights II (Konami Digital Entertainment)
- The Last Story (Mistwalker Corporation)

AQ Interactive owns Artoon, Cavia, Feel Plus, Microcabin and XSEED.

And it's been reported that Mistwalker has been working with Artoon on something for the last few years, so it seems like Artoon might be working on this one.

[NWR_Neal]

So....this is what Span Smasher became? j/k

[broodwars]

Mistwalker's updated their official blog with a trio of concept art and some information on the game's setting.  Thanks to IGN, apparently the game's world will be a place called Ruri Island, which is a very prosperous and is ruled by stock JRPG villain Count Arganon (who has "great ambitions").

Enjoy the images.  I'll update the original post once we have some real screenshots.

[Invincible Donkey Kong]

Get that awful, blurry IGN garbage out of here. 

http://i42.tinypic.com/11tbjoo.jpg

[Kytim89]

Twenty years from now there will probably be a Last Story 13 with various spin offs.   I have high expectations for this game.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Official site is up where IGN ripped the pics from
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/column/

[iDraTion]

Anyone else think the link that Reggie posted could look like Wind Waker's re-surfaced Hyrule?  Are they concept art or is that the style of the game?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

The island is shaped like Mother Brain.

[BlackNMild2k1]

website update: New Artwork

The English text in the lower right corner of the map tells the   background story of Ruli Island. This was detailed last week.
 
  In today's column, the game's director wrote that in creating Ruli City,   he wanted to convey the feeling of actually being there. He also   mentioned game-like elements for the city -- the changing reactions of   passersby, things flying in the wind, and even "desperate escapes."
 
  Wrote the director, "Prior to creating the city, we visited small towns   in France and Italy. It was for research. Of course, it's a fantasy   virtual world, so there's no need to make it match reality. However, by   incorporating architectural designs that were made to support life over a   long history, we will be able to build a convincing world."
 
  Ruli City serves as the base of your adventures, said the director.
 
  The game's producer, presumably Mistwalker's Hironobu Sakaguchi, made   note of some of the differences in design between Ruli City and the   cities you find in other RPGs. In most RPGs, he explained, designers add   dead ends to road ways and create wide roads, all in an effort to keep   the player from getting lost. "However, the city of The Last Story is   expansive, and if you walk a good amount, you'll probably get lost.   There are few dead ends, and a large number of narrow roadways."
 
  "There's a reason for this type of setting. Please, walk around Ruli   City aimlessly to experience that reason."

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/03/18/ruli_city_at_last_story_blog/

[Kytim89]

Those pictures make it seem as if the game is going to try and be a Fable game for the wii. I have high hopes for this game because I want a good RPG for the wii.

[broodwars]

Well, it's a nice additional batch of concept art, with a very distinct European Mediterranean style .  I'd like to see what the game actually looks like, though, because concept art can be radically misleading.

[Kytim89]

I really liked the sci-fi elements of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 and I hope that those elements are put into this game in some way. Second, with Dragon Quest 10 being an exclusive title, is there any chance that Final Fantasy XV would be a wii exclusive? If this were to happen the wii would be a RPG power house.

[broodwars]

I really liked the sci-fi elements of Final Fantasy 7 and 8 and I hope that those elements are put into this game in some way. Second, with Dragon Quest 10 being an exclusive title, is there any chance that Final Fantasy XV would be a wii exclusive? If this were to happen the wii would be a RPG power house.

No, Final Fantasy is Square's flagship title for presentation, and Square will probably want to get several games out using the XIII engine after all the time and money they spent developing it.  Numbered Final Fantasy won't be leaving the HD consoles anytime soon.

[Kytim89]

This games artwork also looks similar to that of Avalon Code for the DS.

[BlackNMild2k1]

More Artwork but sadly no actual screen shots yet.







and some charcter art too:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/column/#3

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

The game probably looks like ass.  That, or Famitsu probably secured exclusivity for posting the first in-game screens in their dumb magazine.  For which, they can jump off a cliff.

[ShyGuy]

What if those WERE screen shots?

/false HYPE

[broodwars]

At the very least, we're getting some awesome potential wallpaper there.  I'm starting to get very suspicious about what this game actually looks like with in-game assets, though...especially if this title is supposed to release in Japan this year.