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The Last Story and Pandora's Tower OFFICIALLY coming to Europe in 2012
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August 17, 2011, 15:16
 
Nintendo of Europe publishes updated release list

We'd heard comments from various Nintendo reps in the past but now it's official. Great news for our friends across the pond.

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08/17/11, 15:16   Edited:  08/17/11, 15:37
 
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WrathOfSamus777 said:
I'm going to make a point to buy all three of them.
I'm going to make a point to FIREBOMB NOA HEADQUARTERS ASJDFKLAGHSLKJDHASK

Posted by 
 on: 08/19/11, 05:10   Edited:  08/19/11, 05:11
I am going to celebrate the fact that I'll get all 3 games in English while contributing no extra $ to a branch that will be soon run to ground by suits like Reggie. Yes, no more money to NOA from me. No more buying first hand NOA published games anymore, and that includes Zelda and other NOA published games on 3DS. Thank you Amazon for the private sellers marketplace.

Posted by 
 on: 08/19/11, 19:38   Edited:  08/19/11, 19:39
The temptation to mod my Wii to play games from outside my region is almost too much now. I'll wait until next year, but... it's gonna happen.

Posted by 
 on: 08/19/11, 23:13
@GameDadGrant

I might just do the same thing. I'm getting extremely sick and tired of region-locking (I've hated it for a while now), and now this...this is just ridiculous.

Posted by 
 on: 08/19/11, 23:45
I might have to substitute my fancy gaming HDTV with a multisystem one (NTSC/PAL) and get a European WiiU when the time comes. I hope Reggie "pursues other interests" before it comes down to that though.

Posted by 
 on: 08/24/11, 17:32
Damn.

The latest episode of Warning A Huge Podcast, after some traditional Nintendo-bashing, went on to describe their experience playing The Last Story. It is not good.

Basically "this game is like Winback: introduces a bunch of great new ideas that someone else will make a good game with". The story is terrible. The music is just ambiant forgettable stuff, the only good track is the title screen. More linear than Final Fantasy XIII. Etc. "Not one tenth the game Xenoblade is".

Yikes.

Posted by 
 on: 10/14/11, 19:47
I was going to say "but at least you got Xenoblade" and then I remembered that you don't live in Europe.

So I guess maybe I should say "but at least you got to import Xenoblade".

I wouldn't hold out big hopes for Pandora's Tower either.

Posted by 
 on: 10/14/11, 23:23
Oh noes! One bad podcast impressions!

Posted by 
 on: 10/14/11, 23:39
I'm actually enjoying The Last Story myself.

Posted by 
 on: 10/15/11, 07:34
@TVandLust

How was Japan?

Posted by 
 on: 10/15/11, 17:32
I haven't played Winback, but I've generally heard it was good. I wouldn't let one podcast kill off all enthusiasm I have for The Last Story.

Posted by 
 on: 10/15/11, 21:28
@Guillaume
It was excellent, thank you. About the only thing I missed were my cats; I'd live there if I could.

Played some more Last Story, don't really agree completely with that podcast's sentiments. The game, a few hours in, has been linear in the sense that there's no world map and I'm herded off to the next area as the story dictates. It does share some similarities with FFXIII in that regard. That might change, but I don't think so. But after the first hour, maybe hour and half or so, you get to explore the major city of the game and it's massive. Major throughways, small crowded streets lined with shops, a port and even maze-like back allies to explore. There are items to find and people to talk to and places to go. I haven't come across really any side quests, but I think that this major harbor city alone is the sort of thing FFXIII lacked. It was literally battle-cutscene-battle-cutscene, etc, and Last Story is not, not completely anyway. I think comparisons to FFXIII's linearity are probably warranted (although I think it's very different for a franchise to go from generally open to generally restricted, and an all new game to do whatever it's doing), but to call it as linear is probably not accurate, let alone more linear.

As for the story, I'm only sort of half following it because I'm nowhere near fluent and my brain has work to overtime to translate, and given I just spent over a week doing that everyday, I'm kind of done for right now. It's just kind of... I don't know, whatever. A JRPG story. It's just something there to string along the party's ambition and provide a compass for the next area. I find it neither offensive nor all that interesting. I like the characters though, but even they're pretty generic, I'll admit.

I also picked up Earth Seeker and Pandora's Tower. It's a shame no one really talks about the former. I had heard XSEED was interested in publishing. I wish they would, seems right up their alley.

Posted by 
 on: 10/16/11, 08:20   Edited:  10/16/11, 08:21
@Guillaume

Hm. That's the first and only time I've heard anything bad about The Last Story. Everything else was quite positive.

Posted by 
 on: 10/17/11, 01:48
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