February Nintendo Japan presentation

[A Black Falcon]

http://andriasang.com/con025/nintendo_direct_feb/

Mostly 3DS stuff, but a few others. Among other things, apparently Camelot's making a 3DS Mario Tennis title.

[A Black Falcon]

http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo_direct

Here's the American conference (video in the link). Biggest news -- Thanks to Xseed, The Last Story is getting a US release this summer! It got mixed reviews, but still, it's pretty cool that we will get it, and it's fantastic that Nintendo is actually letting someone else publish a game they did in Japan but passed up elsewhere; that happens rarely to say the least.

It's an action-RPG where you control a warrior guy in a fantasy setting and cut people and monsters up, pretty much. You have other party members but annoyingly they're AI-control-only.

[Great Rumbler]

Too bad The Last Story isn't that good, by most accounts.

[Dark Jaguar]

It doesn't help that "The Last Story" is basically a thesaurus swap of the Final Fantasy series, much like calling a new sci-fi series "Astro Quest", or a new fantasy book titled "Master of the Bracelets".

[Great Rumbler]

Well, that wouldn't really be a problem is the game was fun/the story was compelling.

[A Black Falcon]

It doesn't help that "The Last Story" is basically a thesaurus swap of the Final Fantasy series, much like calling a new sci-fi series "Astro Quest", or a new fantasy book titled "Master of the Bracelets".

Title-wise that's true, but gameplay-wise, the game's action-heavy focus is certainly different from the standard Final Fantasy model. Better I don't know, but it is different anyway.

I do agree though, that title is pretty silly with how close it is to copying FF's style.