The Last Story, which is being co-developed by Nintendo and Mistwalker, is an attempt at a "new form of RPG" according to a translation provided by Andriasang. The official site does not give a firm release date, only saying the game will release in 2010. A developer blog will start up in March.
The second RPG, Xenoblade, is developed by Monolift Soft. The game was previously known as Monado: The Beginning of the World. The newly launched website for the game is light on content and details, but a 2010 date can be seen, hinting at a 2010 release.
Nintendo World Report will have more information on these games as it becomes available.
Final Fantasy
Last Story
"Conclusive Reverie"
What's with these awful names? What's with this writer?
So this is what Monolith was up to after Disaster! I was beginning to think that they've been let go or shuttered despite being bought by Nintendo.
Still, it's great to think that we might be seeing the Wii's first good RPG in one of these two titles (Tales of Symphonia 2...ugh...). It's a pity that it's taken 3 years to get to this point, though.
Tales of Graces ring a bell? That's not Symphonia 2.
But both of these games have to be good, as they are the appetizers for the main course.
Nintendo has to make sure both of these games find their intended audiences and put up better than decent numbers so that the crowd is anticipating the Chef's Special that is Dragon Quest X.
So this is what Monolith was up to after Disaster! I was beginning to think that they've been let go or shuttered despite being bought by Nintendo.
Monado: Beginning of the World was announced (including a trailer) back at E3 2009. They just now changed its name to Xenoblade.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=28408.0So this is what Monolith was up to after Disaster! I was beginning to think that they've been let go or shuttered despite being bought by Nintendo.
Monado: Beginning of the World was announced (including a trailer) back at E3 2009. They just now changed its name to Xenoblade.
Ah, must've missed it or forgot about it.
So this is what Monolith was up to after Disaster! I was beginning to think that they've been let go or shuttered despite being bought by Nintendo.
Monado: Beginning of the World was announced (including a trailer) back at E3 2009. They just now changed its name to Xenoblade.
Ah, must've missed it or forgot about it.
The Last Story is spiritually the successor Final Fantasy.
notice the similarity in the names.
Last = Final / Story = Fantasy
Also the Mistwalker is made-up of ex SE employees and the head guy(Sakaguichi) is the creator of Final Fantasy (someone correct me if I get something wrong here).
If you also check the picture of The Last Story logo art (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/forums/index.php?topic=30498.msg581456#msg581456), you will notice a clock behind the girls head. all you can see on that list is III - X, and FFX is the last FF that Sakaguichi worked on.
Sakaguichi had paired up with Nintendo back in 1987 to create the original Final Fantasy, and here is is again paired up with Nintendo in 2010 to create The Last Story.
He has also said that he is putting his everything into this game and now we know that Nintendo is picking up the tab, so we can expect this game to be everything that FFXII & FFXIII wasn't especially since it will have some Nintendo guidance to help it along the way. This game will be Nintendo's Final Fantasy since Square doesn't seem interested in bringing the franchise back.
If Last Story is a bonafide hit it will destroy Final Fantasy in sales because the Wii just has so many more systems out there. It would essentially destroy the idea Square has about spending who knows how much on FF as well as letting the former creator rub it in their faces. Obviously a big if since we don't know jack about the game yet.
If Last Story is a bonafide hit it will destroy Final Fantasy in sales because the Wii just has so many more systems out there. It would essentially destroy the idea Square has about spending who knows how much on FF as well as letting the former creator rub it in their faces.Never happening. It doesn't matter how good the game is, FF XIII will sell better because of the name alone.
For some reason I've never been a fan of modern RPG's, they just don''t seem to have the same magic as the ones on the Super NES
For some reason I've never been a fan of modern RPG's, they just don''t seem to have the same magic as the ones on the Super NES
I agree. The Super NES RPGs were set in a magical fantasy world of Myths and Magic, which was really cool. Then came the PS1 era and the RPGs for that system and every system thereafter were an enormous disappointment to me. Instead of being medieval myth and magic rpgs, we had steampunk JRPG crap. So I really lost interest in RPGs at that point...
Because if there's a gun involved then it is considered a shooter.
Because if there's a gun involved then it is considered a shooter.
Mass Effect says hello.
Because if there's a gun involved then it is considered a shooter.
Mass Effect says hello.
I think that part my problem with RPG's is that the main character seems to always wonder whether or not they should do the right thing, but their never seems to be any question about what the right thing is. I would like to see a story where the main character isn't debating whether or not they should be the hero, but facing choices that are morally ambiguous and not being sure about what the "right" course of action is. There was a little bit of that idea in FF4, and I think that is why I find it to be the most compelling FF.
I think that part my problem with RPG's is that the main character seems to always wonder whether or not they should do the right thing, but their never seems to be any question about what the right thing is. I would like to see a story where the main character isn't debating whether or not they should be the hero, but facing choices that are morally ambiguous and not being sure about what the "right" course of action is. There was a little bit of that idea in FF4, and I think that is why I find it to be the most compelling FF.
The Witcher?
"Wasn't VC on the PS3? Why is the sequel coming to PSP?
Saddly as the case with Skies of Arcadia, VC didn't sell so they didn't have the budget to make a full sequel on the PS3. Yeah VGC has it at 800K but the game was in the barginbin--fact you might find a few new copies at Walmart still. Was $15-20 and yeah, worth every penny especially if you like SoA.
