The game takes place on Ruli Island (Lazulis Island in the English translation), governed by Count Arganan and located at the entrance of a harbor which serves as the only entrance to a mountainous continent. The player controls a group of mercenaries that have come from the desolate continent to the island seeking work. The production staff is trying to limit science fiction elements in the game.

official website :

Japan Official Website
UK Official Website

This post has been edited by rid88: Feb 23 2012, 01:37 PM

The Art Works and Theme Music sounds promising. Even the name Last Story can't sound any closer to Final Fantasy. Hopefully he comes out with a game a good or better than Blue Dragon, without any input from Akira Toyama.

nice game, waiting more detail in march...

Looking forward to this... really need a good RPG to play on Wii

Wii power!

The Last Story Website is now open.

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/column/

The cannon looking thing reminds me of the Sister Ray.

haih...only that much?

hurry!!!!

The Island is named "Ruri Island". It is surrounded by mountain ranges and can only be accessed through a port. The ruler of the Island is unnamed, but has big ambitions and seeks magic so he/she can rise to power.

The Empire is poor and decayed but Ruri remains rich and well, likely due to the magic. The magic though, soon becomes a problem, as it starts attracting monsters. The fate of the Ruri Island is soon to be changed.

The world of The Last Story is one where metal resources are hard to come by, and the Sci-Fi influence on the game will be kept to a minimum. Finally, Sakaguchi wants players to be able to enjoy a smooth experience exploring Ruri Island.



This post has been edited by rid88: Apr 10 2010, 07:34 AM

for a game coming this year..why aren't they showing anything else beside those pic? a teaser trailer would be nice.

the father of final fantasy lied to us 12 times already

This is Final Lie

The "Last" Story

According to the director of the game, Ruli Island will have changing reactions of passersby, things flying in the wind, and "desperate escapes."

He also wrote, "Prior to creating the city, we visited small towns in France and Italy. It was for research. Of course, it's a fantasy virtual world, so there's no need to make it match reality. However, by incorporating architectural designs that were made to support life over a long history, we will be able to build a convincing world." Ruli Island will be the base of operations for the game.

The producer, probably Sakaguchi, mentioned that Ruli Island will be different from towns in other RPGs in that Rulu Island will have a small amount of dead ends and wide roads to keep players from getting lost, but in this game it seems Ruli Island will huge, and presumably more akin to a real world town in that you can get lost easily.

"However, the city of The Last Story is expansive, and if you walk a good amount, you'll probably get lost. There are few dead ends, and a large number of narrow roadways."

"There's a reason for this type of setting. Please, walk around Ruli City aimlessly to experience that reason."

-SOURCE

This post has been edited by rid88: Apr 10 2010, 07:36 AM

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Added on April 10, 2010, 7:31 amThe hero and heroine



The director (still unidentified) confirms that the characters depicted in the illustration are the main character and heroine.

"There is a wall between the two," he writes. Based off the director's comments, it seems that there's something keeping the two apart and unable to live their dreams together.

The director also writes that in The Last Story, there will be a number of other stories besides the story of these two characters. He mentions:

* The fear of speaking your true feelings
* The mystery of the father who went missing on boat
* The difficulty a leader has in making decisions
* The close accomplice who's turned to evil
* The foolish archaeologist's prison break

Concludes the director, "It's very important to merge battles and gameplay with story. Neither can stand on its own. Once both are connected together, the characters will rise up as "human" within the container of a game."

The game's producer (also unidentified) states, "The characters who appear in The Last Story all walk their own paths and have their own stories." He likens this to the real world, where no one has lived their lives following the same path as you.

The main part of The Last Story's story will focus on the main character, says the producer. However, he believes players will also have a chance to be touched by the stories other characters as well. "Once you've been touched by that, it's likely that you'll be able to feel their [the characters outside of the main character] true feelings, which you did not see before."

owww~ i hope i can have a good romantic story in this game~

Source

This post has been edited by rid88: Jul 3 2010, 06:36 PM

Even the title screen reminds me of Final Fantasy xD

September 4... still long time...

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 13 2010, 11:50 AM

sept 4 but still no viewable trailer

Finally... with all those Final, he decided that this must be the Last... XD

Jangan jangan tukar title jadi "The Lost Story" pulak. Like Lost Odyssey. I actually saw wrongly and thought it was "Last Odyssey" for a few hours xD

More than that laa, if you take into account all the spinoffs (FF Adventure, FF Legend, FF Tactics series, FFXIII series, FFVII series, FFIV series, Dissidia FF)

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Apr 14 2010, 11:29 PM

The character design seem more Amano-esque right?

I guess this is one game I'll play in Japanese.

The Last Story - Art detailing battle system

http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/slsj/column/#7

This post has been edited by rid88: Feb 23 2012, 01:38 PM

the command cancelling and switching of attacking forms looks really promising !

Look like the system used in Wild Arms or Shin Megami Tensei

Or it is copying Parasite Eve?

New Last Story art and details



- Devs were interested in making a brand sort of battle system
- Much trial and error
- Magic Circle system: Affects an area (healing, flame)
- Real time battles, players can pause what’s happening so that they can input commands/change tactics and AI of party members

Source


This post has been edited by rid88: Apr 28 2010, 06:56 AM

This week's Famitsu has the first ever full magazine preview of the Mistwalker Wii RPG, also you can get the first look at some juicy screenshots.

The magazine did a recap of the info that the official blog already disclosed and also added some new info:

- Ruli Island is a peninsula
- Scans show Count Arganon’s palace
- Ruli City base of operations for the main characters
- Canal in the center of the city, canal splits the city into north and south sections
- Battle system will be real time as previously mentioned

The two characters who seemed to be the game's hero and heroine are shown in the magazine, but their names were not revealed.

the scans: very big, lazy to resize:



this game will be awsm, in love with the heroine art~

sobs.. i no own wii...orz

waa very interesting game play, sure take sometime to adapt to it worr

come out in psp please.. i beg SE... lol..

UPDATE!



The hero is Elza. He's a mercenary who's come to Ruri Island and admires the knights, who have both rank and power.

The heroine is Kanan. The magazine says that she wears a white dress and seems to have a high class air about her.

SOURCE

Look nice! the CG. I hope this is a good RPG

The game is cool..
Is that available in the market now?

i want to buy Wii!!!!

i don't get it why no live video demo or even teaser trailer until now T_T

here u go:



so beautiful~

This post has been edited by rid88: Jul 8 2010, 03:46 PM

woooo...now i'm satisfied

thanks!!!

at the end of the trailer~
the heroine is humming this song =



i really like it~

i was amazed on how lively the town is

something that was missing in FFXIII

SOURCE

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Added on August 5, 2010, 10:09 pmMore contents from the Official website

More update from Andriasang

This post has been edited by rid88: Aug 5 2010, 10:09 PM

In Game Screenshot










more here: http://www.siliconera.com/2010/08/05/how-t...the-last-story/

This post has been edited by wt_wang81: Aug 6 2010, 10:12 AM

their costume reminded me of SEED's uniform

2nd trailer

the lip-sync seems weird, but the plot n presentation damn interesting

and the battle mode too!

the last story have competitive story line and coop mode : http://www.joystiq.com/2010/11/10/the-last...ve-online-play/


i wanna know if there are any JP version with eng subtitle or eng menu? (if the menu and item all in hiragana/katakana, no problem!)

new things on the official website: Last Story Official Website

Japanese Boxart:

After this, Last Story II, Last Story VII, Last Story XI Online, Last Story: The Crystal Shard

I always love Japanese Box art. Serious.

naah...after this will got the first story, the middle story and the story after the last story

3rd Trailer



customization:

http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/12/2...tory_underwear/

i just got this game. going to try it this weekend

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Added on January 25, 2011, 5:39 pmLast Story II duh

This post has been edited by powerfulcool: Jan 25 2011, 05:39 PM

where did you get it from and how much did you have to pay for it ?

TV commercial:

cm1:(i like this one!)


cm2:



huh? the released date is january 27th~
how can u get the game?


This post has been edited by rid88: Jan 25 2011, 09:15 PM

buy from alxx?

or Jack ?

first off, we should thank whoever it is for helping to increase the sales by 1 unit

but on the other hand i don't think we should help their cause by spreading this around the forums. perhaps can put as spoiler so that ppl who still want to watch it can

it's better to check out the vid from a gamer who played this since yesterday ... there's a Event video (spoilers) scene ... all i can say after watching that ... EPIC emotion !


This post has been edited by yangkuo: Jan 26 2011, 01:57 PM

sooner or later that guy is going to be the one who will torture cats n dogs for fun @_@

i want to feel this game.

this one has feel ( extra warning: SPOILERS )



This post has been edited by yangkuo: Jan 27 2011, 12:09 PM

Not with that avatar u won't.

Me want english sub for JP ver.

Me will buy

anyone play the game liao?? Nice? Epic onot?

i'm current only at Chapter 16 so these impressions are based on what i have played and not the complete story mode. (have yet to test the online multiplayer)

pros
- refreshing battle system. can choose to play with different strategies and will benefit when you battle excellently (i see better item drops from enemies) and it's cooler too if you finish off enemies with style and precision
- i find myself WANTING to retry each time i finish a battle just to see if i can do better !
- customizable colours on different parts of armour AND it shows accordingly in cutscenes. cool for those who do video capturing me thinks.


cons
- no FULL manual camera control using wii remote+nunchuk (there is with Classic Controller). but pressing the B button to Guard and switch between enemies is sort of a workaround
- quite story oriented (read: Cutscenes) but there's a button to fast forward when required. this will be good for subsequent playthroughs and to quickly retry a battle to see if u can do better.
- no side quest log ... i can't remember what i triggered or haven't done !


in the middle:
- story is not overly new or surprising but fortunately the emotion is quite well presented (especially between Elza and Kanan)
- progression may feel linear at times bcos there isn't same level of exploration like older JPRGs (but this isn't really such a game anyway) ... but this can be a good thing if you like the battle system as it brings the action faster
- graphics and frame-rate at a few spots could be better but nothing that will spoil the gameplay
- there are sidequest but not those with epic proportions type (if u get what i mean).


i will write a better review when i finish it. will be away from home for CNY holidays


This post has been edited by yangkuo: Feb 3 2011, 01:05 PM

Thanks to CNY holidays, I'm at epilogue chapter, after fighting the last boss in chapter 40. The epilogue is playable and you have to re-visit all places to trigger different event and conclude the story for certain characters.

Story wise, it's a typical knight story deciding what is right or wrong, similar to Tales of Vesperia but add in a bit mystical legend stuff. The story is simple and you can figure out who is the bad guy or who will get tragic incident early in the game. Not as good as FF6/7 though.

Battle system is like quite over done "Rojak". Imagine Final Fantasy + Metal Gear Solid + Gears of War + Metroid Other M + Xenoblade. What do you get? You can lean toward walls while exploring dungeon the Metal Gear Solid style and attack your enemy while they don't see you. You can also hide behind a brick/wall/pillar to avoid enemy attack, Gears of War style. You can also switch to first person view mode to look for enemy weakness or attack with arrow, the Metroid Other M style. Character will start physical attack automatically once you move near an enemy, the Xenoblade style. You can control your character and other team member to cast magic or other skill attack, since some of the enemy is only vulnerable to certain magic element. Each boss fight involved finding the their weakness, exploit it and thinking of a way to avoid enemy attack, similar to Metroid Other M.

In other word, the battle system is quite complex, there are other things like equipment upgrade, combining magic attack and tension skill. It will take you quite some time before you are familiar with them. Once you can use them effectively, shouldn't have much problem with the boss, before that you'll be seeing a lot of game over screen. It's a hit or miss, depending on your preference. You'll need to play it in order to know it

It is better than Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey, just that they've pack too much idea in the game. It is also definitely better than FF13, despite of not so good looking graphics. I was playing FF13 on Xbox before this, then I rather quit FF13 and play this game instead. For me, it is quite fun to figure out what strategy to use in each boss fight. Some of them can be frustrating and you'll be seeing a lot game over screen, but it'll take some thinking.

Going to continue with the epilogue now, don't know how long it'll take to finish it, since I've already spent 26-27 hours to get pass the last boss at chapter 40, but I wonder if it is really the last boss, since the epilogue still involved battle...

just to add, there is an option to turn Attack style to Manual for those who prefer so but then the button for Dive (moving in/out of cover and rolling ) is changed too.

This post has been edited by yangkuo: Feb 3 2011, 11:51 PM

Finally completed the game. Total 44 chapters, not sure if I've missed anything but chapter 42 & 43 is optional and can be skipped accidentally. These 2 chapters are not worth skipping if you've spent around 30 hours into the game. All in all, not too bad. It's not epic either, but worth to play.

I decided to go ahead with JP version...

I found myself not wanting to use Command mode..

focusing all at Elza gathering and gatheringburst

This post has been edited by pikacu: Feb 11 2011, 03:30 PM

Finished The Last Story...I skipped Chapter 2x and Chapter 43 iianm.

Story line...very nice but not that epic yet, predictable thou.

Totally satisfy with TLS....but but but....I want to know more about White Tiger...

spoiler :




This post has been edited by pikacu: Mar 2 2011, 10:00 PM

The Last Story OST released : http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=3C06E57B257F576D

Invitation to Darkness


My fav ...during chapter 40 :

The Last Story confirmed for 2012 release in EU : http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/26966

2012..

Better than NoA "no plans" thing

I hoped for more content but I don't think NoE will have the time for content development...

Reggie finally announced that "The Last Story" will be released in Americas this year. Localization will be handled by XSEED Games.

announcement made in the Nintendo Direct live stream for US.

woah, this is good news! hopefully with additional content in Dual layer DVD distribution!

PO'ed mine from HMV

Surprised PA is also selling PAL version of this game, but they only have the regular edition.

just want to ask..this game only in wii? dont have ps3 version?

Yes, Wii only

wii is alive. two more rpg title to go

contrary to how it's commonly reported Pandora's Tower is not what i would call a JRPG.

overall gameplay of that is more like an action game (think Devil May Cry) with minor RPG level up elements. and a little dating sim gameplay elements ...

sorry if i assumed wrongly about the 2 more RPG titles.

This post has been edited by yangkuo: Feb 23 2012, 11:33 AM

I think he meant The Last Story as well as Xenoblade as this is another RPG that hasn't seen a US release.

gumdam so ging can read ppl mind. are you new-type?

ok, sorry then. i thought you meant 2 in addition to Last Story.

anyway, Xenoblade US ain't far away ... April 6.

After living in the space fo a while I feel like I have utilized the other 50% of the brain which couldn't be utilized if staying on earth alone

pal version is out wtf?

hello, if anyone is selling this game, im buying! pm me