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Originally Posted by Benoit (Post 3775165)

I'm done with Alcamoth and am doing quests now before proceeding to the next area. Now that I've had the first major twist, I thought I'd write down my thoughts on the plot so far so people who have finished the game can laugh at me so I can organise them and look back on them later.

Spoiler:

I wish this game did less foreshadowing. The player ends up seeing things that the party doesn't, which causes a disconnect between the player and his/her party. It gets bad when after the major twist the party is only concerned about the twist itself and isn't asking questions about everything that lead up to it.

You got some good thinking here. But don't worry... there are still some twists coming your way! :)

Spoiler for Metal Face:

Wow, Xenoblade won a cesa Excellence Award this year(?)
CESA page
siliconera.com has listed the other games that received awards this year.

Monolith Staff blog featuring how a staff member, riki, travels to the award ceremony, to pick up the award.

Is that a Riki plushie? BENOIT WANT!

Ok, finally finished it.

Took some time because I had to do all quests I could find and max out affection of every character to do all the heart-to-hearts. So in the end, the endbattle was a walk in the park with a bunch of lvl 99 characters. :heh:

But it was a very good game. I enjoyed it a lot.

Xenoblade coming to NA

Xenoblade will be making it's way to americas, source siliconera
Game will only be sold via Nintendo directly and Gamestop, so basically only for jrpg fans, cannot blame them for doing this.

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Originally Posted by Sides (Post 3884214)

Xenoblade will be making it's way to americas, source siliconera
Game will only be sold via Nintendo directly and Gamestop, so basically only for jrpg fans, cannot blame them for doing this.

I just saw this on IGN and I am PSYCHED! Now just waiting on Last Story to be announced :heh:

Now this is awesome Soraya Saga thanks NA fans for pushing for a NA release, on twitter
She is the wife of Tetsuya Takahashi, the guy who was in charge for this game, and worked on several Square-Enix and Monolith Soft titles herself.

wouldn't it be cool if they make an HD remake of Last Story and release that on the Wii-U instead? :3

Especially considering that if they do decide to bring it out here, it'll most likely be next winter when the Wii-U is expected to be release.

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Originally Posted by HayashiTakara (Post 3885723)

wouldn't it be cool if they make an HD remake of Last Story and release that on the Wii-U instead? :3

No, because then I'd have to buy a new console and an inferior HDTV to play it. Not to mention that the original is often better and what the game was meant to be like.

It probably wouldn't be real HD anyway and we'd be looking at a deformed image of it.

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Originally Posted by Benoit (Post 3885737)

Well that depends on whats done. If it's just a port up with higher resolution than it'll be a downer. But if they redo the assets than it'll be great. It's a matter of how they go about it.

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Originally Posted by HayashiTakara (Post 3886086)

Well that depends on whats done. If it's just a port up with higher resolution than it'll be a downer. But if they redo the assets than it'll be great. It's a matter of how they go about it.

True but, I rather have them developing a new game, than constantly reworking their old works. However if it is outsourced to a third company, like Zelda Oot 3D(Grezzo), in that case I won't mind.
To be honest in my opinion remakes are just proof that a studio has run out of steam, and reason why we will never see remakes of certain games done in house.

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Originally Posted by Sides (Post 3886555)

A remake isn't bad when the game never see's a region. If it's already been released in the states than it's just the company milking the IP.

Super pumped for NA release! Bought the EU version and am 60ish hours in best RPG i've played since PS1 days, although the PS2 Suikoden game were pretty good.

Going to have to buy a NA copy now!

Pre-order it now guys or it'll be one of those sleeper hits that not many people bought and become super rare and expensive on ebay like Earthbound and Suikoden II.

It really is a freaking amazing game get pumped!

60 hours? Meeh you still have some time before you: took me 120 hours to finish it nearly fully. Count the start game+ and it's one of the longest game ever created.

Hi everyone.

I got a question about Reyn fourth skill tree. Right now I have finished the pre quests for do the quest for get the skill tree but some reason the High Entia who gives Reyn the quest doesn't have the quest icon. Do I need to have a level 3 or higher affection with Colony 9 for get the quest?

Also would love to share that this game is great. Right now I have almost 70 hours playing this game and in the story I'm in Central Factory but took a break for get fourth skill trees for everyone. Right now only have done the quests for Melia, Dunban and 7th.

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Originally Posted by Kyral (Post 3775575)

Spoiler for Metal Face:

So I finally finished this game at something like 160+ hours. It was quite a ride. But I disagree with the development team's statement of the game will leave me feeling "fully satisfied". The ending basically leaves you stranded like so many other JRPGs' do and doesn't even resolve character relationships that have been building during the entire game.

While the story is presented and told well, I find it a bit disappointing that it was yet another

Spoiler for story:

I missed lots of optional skill trees in this playthrough. I'm not sure what I did wrong, as I've done lots and lots of quests (300+). The ones I've unlocked are Shulk's 5th, Reyn's 5th, Dunban's 5th, Melia's 4th and the seventh character's 4th. I hate missing things.

I can't believe more people haven't played this. This is, hands down, the best JRPG I've played since the PS2 era.

And, I almost missed it, as the Wii is the one console I don't have. If it wasn't for a friend who's 'game' collection consists of Wii Fitness and Mario Kart, I would have. :heh:

Leave it to Tetsuya Takahashi to show me that the type of JRPGs I once loved aren't dead.

Now, if Hironobu Sakaguchi's Last Story ends up being great as well, I may just have to get a Wii, as it's become obvious no one is making great JRPGs for the 360 or PS3.

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Originally Posted by creb (Post 4010460)

I can't believe more people haven't played this. This is, hands down, the best JRPG I've played since the PS2 era.

You can't believe that more people, on a predominately US based forum, haven't played a game that's on a region locked system that won't be released in the US for at least another 5 weeks?

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Originally Posted by GDB (Post 4011063)

You can't believe that more people, on a predominately US based forum, haven't played a game that's on a region locked system that won't be released in the US for at least another 5 weeks?

The region lock is easily broken/bypassed, so that's not a good reason.

It's a good enough reason when you add in all the other obstacles.