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Xenoblade Battles its Way to Europe
Posted on March 31, 2011 by Zack Reese
For fans that have been waiting a long time in order to get any news on Monolith Soft's highly-revered Xenoblade for the Nintendo Wii will be thrilled to know that the wait is almost over. Nintendo UK has finally announced that the game will finally be making its way to Europe sometime this year.
Along with a shiny new trailer, the game will also be receiving a new title in Xenoblade Chronicles. I guess its to make the box art a little more cramped. Who knows?
From what I have seen of the game so far, watching some of my Japanese friends play it, it looks absolutely stunning, and features the Music Man himself Yasunori Mitsuda along with director Tetsuya Takahashi, who also directed Xenoblades (could you tell from the name?) and did a lot of design work for many of Square-Enix's classics in the 90's. Something I particularly enjoyed while watching this game was the smooth transition from town to field without any loading screens. You could even look back and see people walking around town while beating up the monsters. It's those types of details that make RPGs great, you know?
Anyway, check out the debut trailer below and let us know what you think! We hope to learn soon whether Xenoblade Chronicles will be arriving in America, but this is a great step in that direction.
Along with a shiny new trailer, the game will also be receiving a new title in Xenoblade Chronicles. I guess its to make the box art a little more cramped. Who knows?
From what I have seen of the game so far, watching some of my Japanese friends play it, it looks absolutely stunning, and features the Music Man himself Yasunori Mitsuda along with director Tetsuya Takahashi, who also directed Xenoblades (could you tell from the name?) and did a lot of design work for many of Square-Enix's classics in the 90's. Something I particularly enjoyed while watching this game was the smooth transition from town to field without any loading screens. You could even look back and see people walking around town while beating up the monsters. It's those types of details that make RPGs great, you know?
Anyway, check out the debut trailer below and let us know what you think! We hope to learn soon whether Xenoblade Chronicles will be arriving in America, but this is a great step in that direction.
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Salt rubbed into US wonuds as Xenoblade hits EU earlyGames Catalyst it seems that now is perhaps the best time ever to be a European Wii owner. Quite why Nintendo of America wouldn't want to release three brand new IPs into America is a very different question, what with the Big N reknowned through gamingdom for New Xenoblade Chronicles release dateEurogamer.netall 18 news articles
ReplyI don't believe you can play PAL games on an NTSC Wii unless you mod it. I believe they are region locked.
ReplyEven if they don't release it in the U.S. (it was on the 2011 release list at the beginning of the year, though), at least an English version is going to exist now for import.
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