The Last Story is out?

[Roogle]

I am not surprised that The Last Story will not be localized for North America and Europe. Nintendo seems to prefer its role-playing games on handheld systems for the most part.

[kotora]

This game was released a month and a half ago, and nobody was on top of it??

Just on a random quirk I realized I hadn't heard anything about it and decided to look it up again. Released January 27th in Japan, to fairly favorable reviews according to wikipedia (which is also extremely lacking on the information)

The game received a score of 38/40 in Famitsu magazine, with two critics giving the game 10/10 and two giving the game 9/10.

I don't ride the Japanese gaming circuit so I know little else. Anyone have any further information regarding specifics and critiques the Japanese gave? Is it reasonable to start looking for review information from importers? (I'm guessing probably so)

Didn't Famitsu also give FF13 the same score? I wouldn't take their scores too seriously, as with most major gaming sites or magazines these days.

[DMKA]

This game was released a month and a half ago, and nobody was on top of it??

Just on a random quirk I realized I hadn't heard anything about it and decided to look it up again. Released January 27th in Japan, to fairly favorable reviews according to wikipedia (which is also extremely lacking on the information)

The game received a score of 38/40 in Famitsu magazine, with two critics giving the game 10/10 and two giving the game 9/10.

I don't ride the Japanese gaming circuit so I know little else. Anyone have any further information regarding specifics and critiques the Japanese gave? Is it reasonable to start looking for review information from importers? (I'm guessing probably so)

Didn't Famitsu also give FF13 the same score? I wouldn't take their scores too seriously, as with most major gaming sites or magazines these days.

Nope, they gave FFXIII a 39/40, with three critics giving 10/10 and one giving 9/10.

So yeah, take the fact that this game got one score lower than that for what you will.

[Roogle]

I hear that reviewers feel a lot of pressure to give heavily anticipated titles like Final Fantasy XII or Final Fantasy XIII a perfect score on Famitsu. I wonder if that's true?

[Bunny]

Considering that FFXII and FFXIII were nowhere near flawless, I would say so.

[Vyk]

Who gives honest journalistic reviews and scores anymore :x Apparently not paid journalists and reviewers xD