Mistwalker has revealed some fresh details about its exciting upcoming Wii RPG, The Last Story. According to the Lost Odyssey developer, Last Story's tale will feature a class divide, revolving around the lives of a group of mercenaries who want to become knights.
In The Last Story, knights are considered the pinnacle of society, loved by citizens as paragons of justice and having no real concern other than mastering their skills. They wield supreme power, and don't have to work very hard for it. Meanwhile, the mercenaries are stuck doing all the fighting, treated as "disposable units" who wander the land looking for work.
The Last Story's main characters "have dreams of becoming knights, but fight on the boundaries of death as mercenaries." Living as sellwords, they are detested by the common people for their low social status and their constant need to fight. Knights get to pledge allegiance to one lord and enjoy authoritative respect. Mistwalker states that it makes sense for mercs, "who don't know their own tomorrow," to want to become knights.
I am really excited for this game. The Last Story is just one of many great looking JRPGs hitting the Wii this year. This definitely has potential to be a winner, and I have nothing but mad love for Mistwalker.
Mercenaries & Knights [Mistwalker's Nintendo blog, via Andria Sang]
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9:00 AM on 03.25.2010
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I am really liking the art so far.. :]
in the great words of P-Dude - "SIGN ME THE FUCK UP"
Though in all honesty, FFXIII was really just about class divisions, and so was IX, and VII, and Tactics, and – well I could go on, but I guess my point is, I'm not concerned that the premise will be very well tread. One of the reasons I have so much faith in Mistwalker and Sakaguchi is that I believe that they can tell a story well, which is much more important than coming up with the most original premise.
So yeah, consider me signed the fuck up.
What ever the similarity, it isn't important. What's important is the hope Mistwalker is giving to many gamers. With a decade in steep decline of jrpgs, buckets are empty.
I hope they bring a full Blue Dragon RPG to the Wii in some form! I played it when I had a 360 and it feels so much like a Nintendo game it's unreal.
Whatever. I still want to give it another go. And give this a go, because apparently all the cool RPGs are gonna be out on the Wii (this, Xenoblade...umm...)
Of Mice and Men, the RPG.
So grabbin' this game. It sounds very interesting.