Xenoblade: A Monolith + Nintendo RPG

[HayashiTakara]

This spring Nintendo is releasing Xenoblade, a game developed by Monolith studios (famous for their Xenosaga series) in Japan.

Main Website:
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/sx4j/

The game appears to be the successor the the Xeno series. It's all there, the futuristic setting with Mechs and all the other good stuff. Can't wait for E3 to see more on the U.S. release.

Here are some images:

Spoiler for Images:

[the.Merines]

I've heard it has nothing to do with Xenosaga. Rather, it was renamed from Monado to Xenoblade to honor Takahashi's previous work on Xenogears and Xenosaga.

[roriconfan]

I see no walls of text.
I see a guy with a sword fighting monsters.
I see no religious symbolisms.
I see the usual brainless one-man vs the world stuff.
This ain't a Xeno continuation.

[HayashiTakara]

Originally Posted by roriconfan

I see no walls of text.
I see a guy with a sword fighting monsters.
I see no religious symbolisms.
I see the usual brainless one-man vs the world stuff.
This ain't a Xeno continuation.

You have no idea how stupid you're sounding right now.

1. No trailer / website / whatever will show walls of text.
2. You have a party, go watch a trailer, visit the website.
3. A few random pics will only show so much
4. You have a party, go watch a trailer, visit the website.

You can take control of one character while your team is controlled by A.I. but you can issue commands to do a force action to the other members.

[-Sho-]

For the new trailer :

I liked Xenosaga series and Baten Kaitos too . Monolith Software did good job .
I don't know for this one .
I won't say that it's the successor to the xeno series .
Need more info .

[HayashiTakara]

True, lets see what happens when the main website gets fully updated with info, or when the japanese release comes out in a couple of months.

[paw24]

Originally Posted by HayashiTakara

True, lets see what happens when the main website gets fully updated with info, or when the japanese release comes out in a couple of months.

Thus this Game release or is under development??? i'm curious cause i played XenoSaga..

[HayashiTakara]

Originally Posted by paw24

Thus this Game release or is under development??? i'm curious cause i played XenoSaga..

It's not released yet. It's japanese release is late spring.

[roriconfan]

It's officially not part of the Xenosaga universe. Nice world but the story sounds simple and dualistic. And no half hour cut scenes. Unforgivable!

[HayashiTakara]

Originally Posted by roriconfan

It's officially not part of the Xenosaga universe. Nice world but the story sounds simple and dualistic. And no half hour cut scenes. Unforgivable!

Could you refrain from talking like you know what you're talking about? Nothing is even known about the game yet, it's not even out yet. After the game is released than you can spout all the pointless nonsensical hate all you want.

[Benoit]

Honestly, I think he was being sarcastic to the detriment of Xenosage.

[roriconfan]

Jeez, IGN has revealed a lot of info already. I'm not making this up.

[TJR]

Originally Posted by the.Merines

I've heard it has nothing to do with Xenosaga.

Correct, it was conceived as a 100% original project. Tetsuya Takahashi maintains that it has nothing to do with previous Xeno games.

Rather, it was renamed from Monado to Xenoblade to honor Takahashi's previous work on Xenogears and Xenosaga.

That's Nintendo's official line anyway. We all know that they changed the name for marketing purposes.

[Albafica]

I love Xenogears and Xenosaga so I wait this new game!

[jonli]

Strange, I'd expect this to be on the PS360. But given that Xenosaga didn't do too well last gen it seems like Monolith Soft doesn't want to risk too much by developing on the next gen consoles and chose the wii instead.

UNLESS, the gameplay is related to the Wii's mechanic like Fragile. That would be interesting...that's why it's called Xeno "BLADE". Just food for thought.

Don't shoot me, I never liked the Xenosaga storyline or games, I watched the anime but fell asleep and gave up. I recently just started playing Xenogears, the gameplay is great for its time but I'm not impressed by the story yet, I'm hoping it'll pick up. Fei isnt' really an interesting character, but that's maybe because I hate amnesiac heroes.

[Benoit]

Originally Posted by jonli

Strange, I'd expect this to be on the PS360.

You must have missed the news where Nintendo essentially bought Monolith Soft.

[HayashiTakara]

Originally Posted by Benoit

You must have missed the news where Nintendo essentially bought Monolith Soft.

Took the words out of my mouth. Nintendo owns 80% of Monolith so Monolith is essentially a 2nd party company to Nintendo.

[jonli]

Originally Posted by HayashiTakara

Took the words out of my mouth. Nintendo owns 80% of Monolith so Monolith is essentially a 2nd party company to Nintendo.

Wow, I DID miss that news. Thanks for clearing it up for me. I had no idea, I didn't follow Monolith Soft at all. Now everything makes sense. Wii-motion plus sword anyone?

[Terrestrial Dream]

Well played Xenogears recently but never played Xenosaga. Hoping that this will be at least good as Xenogears.
Speaking of Xenogears

Spoiler:

men what a disappointment, I was really enjoying it until disc 2. The one game really need a remake is a Xenogears, all that great potential wasted. If the budget wasn't cut the game could had been amazing. The story I enjoyed it and thought it was quite deep. The concept of different philosophy like eternal return was interesting. The game very enjoyable but was a disappointment.

[HayashiTakara]

Originally Posted by jonli

Wow, I DID miss that news. Thanks for clearing it up for me. I had no idea, I didn't follow Monolith Soft at all. Now everything makes sense. Wii-motion plus sword anyone?

Well not much is known about the gameplay so far. What we do know is that your main character and two other people you choose from the cast that joins you. You control one of the characters and the other two will fight according to A.I., you can force commands on them to casts spells and such, from what is known though the combat will be similar to that of FF12.