It’s not as nice as that boxed version that came with a Monado red Classic Controller Pro that our friends overseas got, but if you’re in the US or Canada and would like to buy Xenoblade Chronicles AND get a black Classic Controller Pro, you’re in luck!

For $64.99, you can get this limited edition bundle, straight from Nintendo.com’s web store.  You’ll save $5 on the cost of buying them separately, which I guess you can spend on snacks or a drink or something, which you’re going to need if you’re going to play the Chronicles as hard as I will.

The bundle begins shipping on April 6th, so you won’t get it on launch day.  But hell, if you’ve been waiting for it as long as the rest of us have, unsure if it’d even see the light of day on this side of the world, what’s a few more days, right?

You can get the standard edition from Nintendo.com right here if you’d like.  Ships on April 6th.  Pre-orders at Gamestop will score you a free bonus artbook.  And there’s an intent-to-purchase survey up at Club Nintendo for you to fill out, if you’d like some bonus coins.  April’s coin-redeemable games are out, too, but none of them really seem that exciting (pun intended), especially since Xenoblade comes out this week.

Hang in there, gang.  It’s almost Reyn Time.

It’s not as nice as that boxed version that came with a Monado red Classic Controller Pro that our friends overseas got, but if you’re in the US or Canada and would like to buy Xenoblade Chronicles AND get a black Classic Controller Pro, you’re in luck!

For $64.99, you can get this limited edition bundle, straight from Nintendo.com’s web store.  You’ll save $5 on the cost of buying them separately, which I guess you can spend on snacks or a drink or something, which you’re going to need if you’re going to play the Chronicles as hard as I will.

The bundle begins shipping on April 6th, so you won’t get it on launch day.  But hell, if you’ve been waiting for it as long as the rest of us have, unsure if it’d even see the light of day on this side of the world, what’s a few more days, right?

You can get the standard edition from Nintendo.com right here if you’d like.  Ships on April 6th.  Pre-orders at Gamestop will score you a free bonus artbook.  And there’s an intent-to-purchase survey up at Club Nintendo for you to fill out, if you’d like some bonus coins.  April’s coin-redeemable games are out, too, but none of them really seem that exciting (pun intended), especially since Xenoblade comes out this week.

Hang in there, gang.  It’s almost Reyn Time.

oh god i wish i had a wii

My body is ready.

oh god i wish i had a wii

My body is ready.

Can this game be played with a Gamecube controller?

So is this going to be like a Tales game or what?

Can this game be played with a Gamecube controller?

So is this going to be like a Tales game or what?

@1337W422102: Ok, thanks. As long as it controls well, it's cool. I probably would have jumped on this deal if the nunchuk wasn't so good. Nothing against motion, but games like this always seem better with an old fashioned control scheme. I'll try out the nunchuk, if only to save cash. I'm still trying to decide between this and The Witcher, tough.

@Dagbiker said:

So is this going to be like a Tales game or what?

This review offers a fairly good summation:

@Hailinel: Thanks

Good idea bro, I submitted my order. Amazon.ca didn't have it and I don't have a classic controller pro, so it worked out nicely.

@Dagbiker: It's more like a WoW-like MMO mixed with a jrpg-like story and a really streamlined quest system. You have auto-attack, but no mana. Instead the only thing that limit you skill use is their respective cooldowns, which you can decrease a little by upgrading them.

There's also the status effects where you inflict "break" so you can inflick "topple" (which makes an enemy fall over and become vunerable) after which you can inflict "daze" (which stuns them and make them even more vunerable). The trick is that no one character will have the ability to do all of those things and you only have direct control of one character at a time. There are tanks, healer and DPS characters whom each play differently.

Also there's a "premonition" thing integrated where you can sometimes get a vision of the future an act to counter it, useful in boss battles.

Also, you live on top of a dead Titan so the scale of the environments are sometimes ridiculous and awesome.

Also, the soundtrack is pretty smegging fantastic, too.

played a bit of it you guys have to use the classic controller as on the wiimote/nunchuck setup they use the d pad as the camera controls and that is awful.

played a bit of it you guys have to use the classic controller as on the wiimote/nunchuck setup they use the d pad as the camera controls and that is awful.

I really should buy this game.

@RockmanBionics: Yah it sounds pretty cool, i might have to get it.

I've had some interest in playing this game, but I totally realized just now that I never owned a classic controller. That's how much I don't play my Wii anymore.

Hmm...I'll have to decide if I want to pay for it or not (don't have money to spend right now) because I was originally going to rent it from Gamefly, eventually. I really don't want to use a remote/nunchuk combo for this.

Should I buy this bundle or the one at Gamestop with the artbook?

Should I buy this bundle or the one at Gamestop with the artbook?

@Rudeboy217 said:

Should I buy this bundle or the one at Gamestop with the artbook?

It has been announced that they have run out of art books for Gamestop preorders.

@Rudeboy217 said:

Should I buy this bundle or the one at Gamestop with the artbook?

It has been announced that they have run out of art books for Gamestop preorders.

I bought a Wii back in January specifically for this game (along with a Classic controller). The wife and I played around with the system (and a handful of games) for all of two weeks. It's sat idle every since, proving once again how lame the Wii really is. Now the only question is when will I have time to play Xenoblade, especially since I haven't even had time to finish ME3?

I bought a Wii back in January specifically for this game (along with a Classic controller). The wife and I played around with the system (and a handful of games) for all of two weeks. It's sat idle every since, proving once again how lame the Wii really is. Now the only question is when will I have time to play Xenoblade, especially since I haven't even had time to finish ME3?

@Hailinel said:

@Rudeboy217 said:

Should I buy this bundle or the one at Gamestop with the artbook?

It has been announced that they have run out of art books for Gamestop preorders.

Thanks for the heads-up, dude. I guess I will buy this bundle then.

@druid42 said:

I bought a Wii back in January specifically for this game (along with a Classic controller). The wife and I played around with the system (and a handful of games) for all of two weeks. It's sat idle every since, proving once again how lame the Wii really is. Now the only question is when will I have time to play Xenoblade, especially since I haven't even had time to finish ME3?

The system's had a few gems here and there.

You know that pick that you posted makes me want to punch you in the face. At least you didn't post something about how this game was born into a world of strife and against the odds it got a US release.

You know that pick that you posted makes me want to punch you in the face. At least you didn't post something about how this game was born into a world of strife and against the odds it got a US release.

@1337W422102 said:

@Karkarov said:

You know that pick that you posted makes me want to punch you in the face. At least you didn't post something about how this game was born into a world of strife and against the odds it got a US release.

Something bothering you?

Maybe the fact that I heard the words "It's REYN TIME" around 372 times in the first 2 hours of the game.

@Karkarov said:

@1337W422102 said:

@Karkarov said:

You know that pick that you posted makes me want to punch you in the face. At least you didn't post something about how this game was born into a world of strife and against the odds it got a US release.

Something bothering you?

Maybe the fact that I heard the words "It's REYN TIME" around 372 times in the first 2 hours of the game.

I love that image.

Man, what a bunch o' jokers!

:D

@Karkarov said:

@1337W422102 said:

@Karkarov said:

You know that pick that you posted makes me want to punch you in the face. At least you didn't post something about how this game was born into a world of strife and against the odds it got a US release.

Something bothering you?

Maybe the fact that I heard the words "It's REYN TIME" around 372 times in the first 2 hours of the game.

I love that image.

Man, what a bunch o' jokers!

:D