STOP!!!

Not another Mother 3 scenario.........

LOCALIZE THIS, NINTENDO.

If this DOESN'T get localized, it'd be a total shame. This battle system looks great.

I've taken a lower JLPT test, so I can at least gather a small amount from this video, though I admit that super technical vocabulary takes me a while. But after having seen this and Sakaguchi-san's live streaming presentation of Last Story a few weeks back, I kinda get how this game works now.

From just this video alone, we can at least see that there's a chain system in place. For anyone who might have played games like Final Fantasy XI, it's like a skill chain. There's a few seconds after an initial attack where, if your teammates keep attacking, the skill chain is gonna keep getting higher and higher, and the damage is gonna keep increasing.

I'm really interested in these magic circles. It seemed during the second battle presented, one of the characters cast a circle that gave a bunch of the characters a temporary "Guard". I think Sakaguchi lured the enemies back to the circle to show that even the enemies could pick up the Guard, if they entered the circle, so I think you have to be careful where you cast something like that. It seems most magic is cast within the radius of these circles, as far as I've seen from these videos.

That, and it seems every character has their own special move, and Elza's seems to be this "Accelerate" thing. I think, if I'm catching it right. I may be wrong.

I think the only thing I'm disappointed in at this point is that I have yet to see that you can specifically play as any character other than Elza. You can give commands to everybody else, which is fine, but I'd sure like to have some other character take point at some point in time. Maybe that just wasn't ever shown off...?

Whatever, I really want to play this. I'll buy an import copy and play it on my neighbor's modded Wii if I have to. But if it doesn't get localized, that's completely what I'm going to do.

Nintendo in the last couple of years has done pretty good, giving us a new Donkey Kong Country, a new Kirby, a new Zelda, and the return of Kid Icarus. If this game doesn't get localized, I'm going to be very disappointed in them. Not disappointed in them enough that I'll boycott them (like Namco Bandai), but disappointed enough to wonder why they would bring over Nintendogs and not this.

@lewness
If you're courting a "picky" girl, you're just pointlessly trying hard to get with someone who isn't interested. Move on. (Sorry to pick on your analogy but try hards bug me)

Also awaiting this game. All this noise you guys are making I hope is helping demand for the title grow louder.

@GoofierBrute I've been disappointed in Namco Bandai more and more so in the past year (lack of Tales series localization recently).
On another note, this game might just push me over the line on deciding whether to mod my Wii in order to play import games/ get translation patches or not.

Why release this in the west? Making money and pleasing fans is totally overrated anyway.

@Dunsparce4Prez
It means Japanese people like the way the Latin alphabet looks.

It's pretty normal. Notice that all of the dialog text and anything else that's really essential is in Japanese.

@Epic-KxDtoid

you mean not another Mother 3, Fatal Frame 4, and soon to be Xenoblade and Earth Seeker.

seriously just as when we're getting the good stuff you do this to us.

@ Nothankyou- I own Fatal Frame 4, and have played it with the patch. I really enjoyed it.

I await this game, even though I haven't yet finished my other The log will be astounding though.

Looks and sounds like just about every JRPG for the last 10 years. But I guess if that is what the Japanese kids want...

@Holiday, uh, lol? Have you even seen any JRPG of the last 10 years to claim this? The mechanics in TLS are beyond pretty much any other, and have many ideas in common with Western RPGs, for example with the whole primarily real time deal, with an overhead "command mode" to give orders to your teammates (Bioware style) and even taunting functions like (Blizzard style) MMORPGs have. Not to mention the cover system making it look like a fantasy based Mass Effect, except with actual stealth mechanics integrated with combat that is involving and fun rather than shallow and tiresome. If you're gonna troll, at least try and be informed enough to make appropriate comments that someone, somewhere, might not think they're so absurd and ignorant.