Haven't heard of Xenoblade, but is it similar to Xenosaga?

Same developers, brand new setting, characters and storyline, I assume. Got great reviews from Famitsu AND is a great looking game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAYBui5ghJ0&feature=related

The art design, to me, seems like a less cluttered, more subtle, Roger Dean-y FFX style.

@Epic: Think of it as a spiritual succesor to Xenogears/saga.

I am so sick of Europe getting screwed over with these games.
No Xenoblade, No Last Story, No 999, No historica Ive had enough

@Alael
Well in that case, BONER GET.

We could hear announcements of 'The Last Story' and 'Xenoblade' at E3 this year. I'm keeping my fingers crossed but my hope not too high. Nintendo really pulled a giant surprise out of their ass last year with a ton of amazing games. They have the 3DS and Zelda: Skyward Sword (unless it arrives before then) this year.

If they bring out the big guns like The Last Story, Xenoblade, and/or even this Pandora's Tower (which I doubt will happen but I'll keep optimistic) then they'll be able to excite the fanbase once again (granted Sony seems like the likely candidate to win this year's E3 in my opinion).

@DrRockso: It does seem like Sony might win this year, unless one of two things happen:

1)Nintendo announces next console
OR
2)Sony announces the price of the NGP

Okay, so that's the US...and now for Europe
I will not lose hope, dammit! I will not shut up about it until an English version (or any playable but understandable version, really) is safely here in my European hands.

I highly doubt Nintendo is going to localize Xenoblade before their next console is released, and by then it'll be too late. There is also a rat's chance in hell of Nintendo letting anyone else localize it.

Nintendo gave up on you after the Gamecube. The money is always with the kids.

Agh need Wii rpgs now.

@DrRockso: That would be the best Wii year ever.

Still not getting localized, remember Fatal Frame 4? It was on Nintendo's list as well, but it just never happened. I can put up with this game, but if they don't localize the Last Story then Nintendo and I will have to break up.

I got the JPN version for this game when i went to Japan and got a wii there last year, pretty rad. Would love to see an European release, i'm not fluent in moonspeak enough to enjoy it fully.

==~~Epic Trolling from Nintendo~~==

Ah yeah, I forgot about this game what with all the Last Story posts. Hopefully this will come out here.

Everybody better pester the ever living hell out of Nintendo about this and The Last Story.

Sub.

Titles.

It takes 6 months with that team, max. DO EET!

They're screaming too much during battle in this game ;_; so annoying..

http://www.amazon.com/Monado-Beginning-World-Nintendo-Wii/dp/B002IM1MYG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1296316108&sr=8-1

This^

The crazy thing is, that it's being called Monado.
What the fuck.

@GREENGUY

From Wikipedia:
"In January 2010, the game was renamed from Monado: Beginning of the World to Xenoblade to honor Tetsuya Takahashi, "who poured his soul into making this and who has been working on the Xeno series"."

@Springsteen Great video.
@EggmaniMN Is that true? Where does Nintendo even announce such news?

Also, at some point, some Nintendo of Europe dude said they were working on it... but I think I'm safe in saying that was some time ago.

Is this game a sequel to another? Because it looks interesting, but I don't want to buy a game if I don't know what the story is. D:

Okay, I'm guessing we're getting one or the other. I really doubt Nintendo will localize two niche titles for the West.

"Stop torchering yourself, live in the now!!"

That sword is a bloody mass effect relay!

man, paranoid jrpg fans all across the internet are hilarious... Xenoblade was declared a lost cause by at least one person on GameFAQs in as little as TEN DAYS. The game was released on June 6th and on June 16th he wrote in his signature "will not change this until Xenoblade comes to America." What the hell? Why are people so impatient? Look at Dragon Quest VI, for example. Many paranoids had written this off as a lost cause as well. Had been almost a full year since its Japanese release and then bam, out of nowhere in December there was announcement of an English release date.

Now let's consider Xenoblade. What in the world makes you think a game that has only been out for half a year has any right to give you worry? What makes you think Nintendo could not do the same thing and give us a stealth announcement at E3? After all, it's STILL listed as an American release as of Q1 2011.

And The Last Story, oh man.. the game's not even been out one week, FOR GODS SAKE! And yet months ago, many were complaining we'd never see its release on American/European shoes. If that isn't impatience, I don't know what is.

Nintendo has a long history of having a conservative outlook on what games to localize to NA/Europe and what games not to. Around the Gamecube days where Nintendo looked liked they switched gears and localized as much as they could even if it did not look like a top seller to foreign players.

With the Wii it remains to be seen as we have had mixed results such as getting Opoona but not Captain Rainbow, though this may have more to do with Captain Rainbow's embarrassingly bad Japanese sales.

I'd still rather have The Last Story, but this is still promising.

This news, plus the fact that Iwata said in his investors meeting that sales of the last story were "not bad" make me a little bit more optimistic about getting a release date for The Last Story.

Well - hasn't the Kirby game finally emerged? Or did I dream that last night?

Also - I'm not certain which I would prefer, Xenogears or Last Story

I still have hope for this and The Last Story, i mean Nintendo has to show something for Wii at E3 and Pandora's Tower shows me they haven't forgotten the platform yet, if by then we know nothing then i'll expecting and official release and wait for the inevitable fan translation for both

@Billy Monks: You sir are a brilliant ray of hope in this dark dark world, don't ever change!.

yes please localize this along with The Last Story nintendo :P

@teriyakiCHICKEN

the reason why people are worried is because they are also games that they are forgetting to localize, games like Fatal Frame 4 or even Mother 3. well dragon quest is a popular series(not sure how america treats them) and what about games Zangeki no Reginleiv, Disaster Days Crisis and Another Code R?

Nintendo works in mysterious ways it seems >__>

*then i'll stop expecting and official release

Bring this over, and bring Xenogears to EU PSN.

As bare as the release calendar is for the Wii this year, why the hell wouldn't they localize this and The Last Story? It just doesn't make sense to me at all. If it's them being secretive like always, then I'm fucking sick of it! My patience is wearing thin. Why is it that the company that localized Sin & Punishment 2, of all things, will not take a chance on RPG's. We love JRPG's here!

Also, @Europe- SHUT UP! just STFU! You assholes got the sequel to Hotel Dusk so just shut the fuck up! Sorry for yelling.

As bare as the release calendar is for the Wii this year, why the hell wouldn't they localize this and The Last Story? It just doesn't make sense to me at all. If it's them being secretive like always, then I'm fucking sick of it! My patience is wearing thin. Why is it that the company that localized Sin & Punishment 2, of all things, will not take a chance on RPG's. We love JRPG's here!

Also, @Europe- SHUT UP! just STFU! You assholes got the sequel to Hotel Dusk so just shut the fuck up! Sorry for yelling.

First off, I don't think Nintendo wants to hype much of anything right now but the 3DS, once that is out, I think they'll start making with the news on Zelda, Last Story, Xenoblade, Kirby and whatever else is in the pipes.

They will not have a new console this year. They might announce one for next year, but there will not be a new console this year. They will not have 3DS out there competing with new console hardware in the same year because it would likely just hurt the console. Screw the fictional five year rule of Nintendo consoles, they have never overlapped new console and new handhelds that closely

As such, I think we do stand to see a number of Wii games announced, Additionally, in a prior investor's meeting Iwata did say they had plans to get some games out to the DS platform this year that had yet to hit western shores, such as 7th Dragon.

If they're bringing Sega's 7th Dragon and Monolith Soft's Soma Bringer, I think Xenoblade and The Last Story can happen for the Wii.

Sweeeet......

I HOPE AND WISH STRONLGY!

Im so annoyed...... I think its because im a hiki diki of the 7th hoki nori and my lovable friend hishi mishi going down to poundstretchers for a 6 pack of re-writable dvds.

Let's try and discredit and destroy the largest JRPG developer/publisher in the world every chance we get, then act entitled when we don't get obscure JRPGs from much smaller developers after we have done everything that we can to destroy any market that would buy it.

- Destructoid

Let's talk complete and utter bollocks.

- Shinta 2

I know! Shinta 2 you and your bollock talking!

still waiting

Shinta 2 is the new mattodroid?

- Master Snake

No one has any response to what I said except for trying to insult me. Oh well. It's still the truth.

Let's toss some Sonic the Hedgehog salad and shoot ourselves.

- Jim Sterling

Seriously, anybody who says the game is just "brown and grey" after stepping into the jungle is talking out of their arsehole.

- Jim Sterling

Keep hearing good things about this game. Just announce localization for this and Last Story already Nintendo!

@Shinta 2: I think the reason why obscure JRPG's never make it to the US is because of the total stereotype that surrounds JRPG's that mainstream gamers have against the genre. I don't think the bad rap that Square Enix has accumulated has anything to do with it.