Xenoblade Chronicles taught me an important lesson: Never trust the Internet.
You see, for the past few months, everybody everywhere on the web has been hyping the hell out of Monolith Soft’s new Wii role-playing game, which publisher Nintendo will release in the United States this Friday (though it’s been out in Europe for almost a year, and in Japan for close to two).
Wii role-playing game Xenoblade (aka Monado: Beginning of the World) will no longer be a Japan-exclusive, thanks to Nintendo of Europe. The company is bringing the game to the Wii in Europe as Xenoblade Chronicles.
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Our previous look at Monolith Soft’s upcoming Wii role-playing game Xenoblade – formerly known as Monado: Beginning of the World – may not have convinced you that the game is worthy of carrying the Xeno prefix. But what about this new trailer?
Xenosaga and Baten Kaitos developer Monolith Soft are giving the Japanese role-playing game another go with Nintendo, bringing Xenoblade to the Wii sometime in 2010… at least in Japan. Will the game’s newest trailer make you demand an import?
Monado: Beginning of the World didn’t get much attention from Nintendo during its E3 2009 media briefing this week, but it cared enough to upload media for the Wii role-playing game.
We may not agree with the grooming choices of Disaster: Day of Crisis — chinstraps make us queasy — but we have to admit that our first look at the Wii game in action is pretty satisfying. It looks surprisingly good, not just in that “looks good for a Wii game” way either and will hopefully go a long way toward curbing bitching and moaning about a lack of “core” targeted games. Disaster still doesn’t have a North American date, but it’s hitting Japan at the end of the month meaning we’ll know soon whether the game lives up to its namesake.
Thanks to Calos for the heads up!
Oh, hey, Disaster: Day of Crisis. Man, it’s been awhile. We thought you were dead. Fortunately, the Monolith Soft developed action game for the Wii just got an M rating in Australia, so we know it’s alive and… well, alive. The Classification Board lists the game as potentially objectionable for its “Violence, themes and infrequent coarse language”. Nowhere is tardiness mentioned.
Keep in mind that the Classification Board rating applies only to Australia and that we have no idea when it will be released — or if the rating is an indication it will be released any time soon. Perhaps we’ll see it at Games Convention next week? Nah, doubt it.
Disaster: Day of Crisis [Classification Board via Vooks]
