We won: On The Last Story and American release

A scant two days before its European release, us Western RPG players got the best news we could hope for: The Last Story is getting an American release. The forces of good have prevailed. We’ve now gone full circle on

Never Say Never: Xenoblade and The Last Story

Anyone who’s ever cared about Japanese games featuring effeminate men with ludicrously oversized swords has been following the saga of Xenoblade and The Last Story. Nintendo has had an on-again, off-again affair with localizing these two titles from prominent studios

E3 Pr3dictions

In the cold, dystopian future where all e’s are replaced by 3’s, E3 will be a number: 33. Which will be correct in the year 2028, but this is not that year. This is E3 the sixteenth, which does not

The Last Story and the return of Japan only

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lgtws_tFHps&fs=1&hl=en_US] Anyone whose followed video games in the past few weeks knows about the Last Story. It’s being developed by Mistwalker, the company founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi once he jumped ship from Square Enix in the early/mid 2000’s, and has

The Last Story Got Its Cover Mechanic in My JRPG

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0keV-P6nM&hl=en_US&fs=1] A long time ago, Hironobu Sakaguchi, famed man behind Final Fantasy I through X and designer on The Last Story, said he wanted to make a game like Gears of War. Let’s hope his version of Gears of War,