Forgive me if someone already mentioned this without me noticing, but... XENOBLADE HAS BEEN LICENSED FOR THE PAL TERRITORIES!
In case you haven't heard of it, Xenoblade was THE big Wii JRPG that fans had been hanging out for. Extremely well received in Japan (straight 9s from Famitsu), this was the one we'd been waiting for. Cinematically, it looks like this:
Gameplay-wise, it looks like this:
And yet... no news. Nothing. No sign of it being licensed in english, for absolutely NO discernable reason. And yet, just now I read on RPGfan [http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2011/1366.html] that it HAS been licensed for release in the PAL territories under the name Xenoblade Chronicles. Here's the site, although the announcement trailer is just one of the Japanese ones:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/xenoblade_chronicles_32583.html
Can I have a FUCK YEAH? This was the one Wii game I was hoping for above ALL others (not counting Zelda: Skyward Sword, that one was a given anyway) and now I just can't wait! Even if it doesn't make it as far as Australia, as long as it gets a PAL release I'll be able to import it and play it on my Wii. And from what I've heard, it'll have full Japanese language options, so I won't have to put up with a crappy English dub for once. Once again I cry, "FUCK YEAH!"
In case you haven't heard of it, Xenoblade was THE big Wii JRPG that fans had been hanging out for. Extremely well received in Japan (straight 9s from Famitsu), this was the one we'd been waiting for. Cinematically, it looks like this:
Gameplay-wise, it looks like this:
And yet... no news. Nothing. No sign of it being licensed in english, for absolutely NO discernable reason. And yet, just now I read on RPGfan [http://www.rpgfan.com/news/2011/1366.html] that it HAS been licensed for release in the PAL territories under the name Xenoblade Chronicles. Here's the site, although the announcement trailer is just one of the Japanese ones:
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/xenoblade_chronicles_32583.html
Can I have a FUCK YEAH? This was the one Wii game I was hoping for above ALL others (not counting Zelda: Skyward Sword, that one was a given anyway) and now I just can't wait! Even if it doesn't make it as far as Australia, as long as it gets a PAL release I'll be able to import it and play it on my Wii. And from what I've heard, it'll have full Japanese language options, so I won't have to put up with a crappy English dub for once. Once again I cry, "FUCK YEAH!"
