If you were one of the many Wii owners grousing loudly and frequently when it seemed as though Nintendo had no intention of bringing one of several highly regarded role-playing games for the system over to North America from Japan, your rage was likely soothed just a bit when the company finally agreed to just go ahead and put Xenoblade Chronicles out here this April, because you wouldn't shut up about it. That, however, still left Pandora's Tower and Mistwalker's The Last Story floating about in the unlocalized ether, perhaps never to be properly available in the States...
...Until today! During a largely 3DS-focused conference this morning, the company let slip that The Last Story would be coming to America, with localization courtesy of independent publisher XSEED Games.
XSEED obviously has a history of taking typically obscure Japanese games and bringing them to the North American market. In the case of The Last Story, they'll be handling all localization duties, and handling exclusive publishing duties in North America, courtesy of a special deal with Nintendo, who co-developed the title with Mistwalker.
No more specific release date than "this summer" has been announced, but that's still a hell of a lot better than the "probably never" we had to work with prior to this morning. While it doesn't sound likely that anyone will be picking up Pandora's Tower at this point, you've gotta figure two out of three headed to American shores is a vast improvement over the zero out of three we were staring at late last year, right?
Now all you need is Pandora's Tower. There's always hope for completing the nintendo action-RPG "trilogy".
I'm just hoping us Europeans will get all those 3DS-ware games you Americans have been getting.
Now if they will start on localizing Grand Knights History, we would be in business.
Grats for the people winning one.
crap that another game i need to buy this year... :)
Meh, Pandora's Tower isn't really anything to get excited about anyway. You already got the two reasonably good games. Though Xenoblade was kind of disappointing with everyone jizzing all over it. Great music and graphical style, sure, as long as you don't mind doing basic MMORPG fetch quests of the worst kind in those beautiful landscapes.
Honestly, who really doubted such a high profile title coming to the US?
Hope you guys enjoy the Britishness of it, rather than go rage about it. Feels good to listen to.
Nice. Now (since I was one of the aforementioned grousing individuals) to put my money where my mouth is and preorder the dang thing.
The Last Story and Xenoblade are good enough for me.
I finally bought a Wii last week so I could play Xenoblade, now this is even more awesome news. I'm pumped for being a Wii owner.
@Solh0und said:
You really think they haven't started yet? I thought it was supposed to come out relatively soon. I canceled my pre-order, though, when I learned it would be coming out on PSN.
Now it's just up to Sega to bring Valkyria Chronicles III stateside.
Wii owners continue to get a couple worthwhile games.
@OriginalGman said:
Part of me thinks that they started a bit of it and decided to put that one on hold.
I also hope VCIII comes to the states too.
It's all marketing bullshit, they were always planning on releasing the games. But either way, at least Wii owners around the world will have access to such games, so congratulations.
My Wii is actually sitting in my desk drawer collecting dust from disuse. After reading the GB wiki entries for each game, consider me stoked for both of these releases.
Thank you based Alex Navarro. You can always tell his article from the headline, very fun stuff guessing on who wrote which articles on this site.
Poop. I read this literally as the email that my Europe Import has shipped and will arrive soon landed in my mailbox. Oh well. :)
Great for XSEED...maybe someday will see a Wild Arms on a next gen console.
So is it a different localization than the one getting released in Europe? It's always confusing when something has multiple translations for a single language.
@Solh0und said:
According to their FB the problem is on the developer's side.