Long suffering Wii owners, the drought is over: XSEED Games announced today that they will be publishing Mistwalker’s action-RPG epic The Last Story in North America. The Last Story was published by Nintendo in Japan and Europe, but the North American branch of the hardware giant stupidly refused to bring the game over themselves. Thankfully, XSEED is picking up the ball that Nintendo of America fumbled, and now North American J-RPG fans will get to play this apparently great game.
The game was released last year in Japan to rave reviews from press and gamers alike, so the news that North American gamers will finally get to experience this game should be welcomed by all. Last Story was directed by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of Final Fantasy, and he’s hinted that this may be his last big project for the foreseeable future. While it’s sad to hear that Sakaguchi may be moving on to something other than big budget RPG’s, if The Last Story manages to live up to the hype, we can all take solace in that he went out on a high note.
XSEED has announced that The Last Story will hit American Wii’s sometime this summer. With this and Xenoblade (which comes out in April,) it’s a good time to be a fan of J-RPG’s. Now if only Nintendo had managed to release games like this on a consistent basis for the previous six years of the Wii’s life…
