Fucking love Kirby. Also this series secretly has the wildest and best music out of all of Nintendo's properties. Crazy improvisational sounding lines with a whole bunch of wild midi sounds. It seems like Nintendo of Japan is just like "hey we don't really have much reverence for this franchise so just go ahead and make the wildest shit you can as far as compositions."
Excited for this if for no other reason than to jam out with my headphones in.
Loved into the Nexus. Just finished this game, and haven't enjoyed a game this much in a long time. After a year of bouncing off of games thus far, this has really fucking done it for me. I miss games like this.
Really bums me out to hear people discount Skyward Sword. Some of the best dungeons and combat in the series! Too bad it had a crummy intro and content padding, but god damn if that game didn't completely blow me back at the time.
@teddie: Haha well I have the other consoles as well, but I guess I just don't like seeing people say that there isn't a reason to get a Wii U, when really there isn't a reason to get either of the other consoles if you can get a PC anyways outside of Halo, upcoming Persona, the rare first party type thing. So many of the best made games this generation imo have been on my Wii U so I get sad that it gets a bad rap.
But yeah, especially given that there are about a million and a half other open world RPGS that didn't really hold my attention this year, and despite the fact that I'm a huge JRPG fan, I just don't think this game is changing it up enough to get me through that many hours.
Ya know what RPG on Wii was awesome was Last Story! Another rainfall game that had a vastly more interesting combat system and a manageable 30 or 40 hour length. I feel like Xenoblade stole that game's thunder with it's big production values but the mechanics in Last Story were far more interesting, and the story felt like an old JRPG story in the right ways.
@jacksukeru: I feel similarly to you. Can't fathom how people are this excited about this game compared to other RPGs with better combat systems or stories. I got tired of the first one a bit earlier than you did.
I really dug The Last Story, which seemingly no one played.
1: There are more exclusive awesome games on my Wii U than on my Xbox and PS4 combined. Don't understand people saying "I won't buy a console just for one game" when you have Mario Kart 8 (the best Mario Kart), Mario 3D World, Pikmin 3, Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad, Splatoon, and Smash Bros. Some of those are my favorite games of the gen so I really can't fathom people just ignoring them and saying the Wii U "doesn't have any games."
2: This seems really similar to the first Xenoblade game on Wii, which had such boring combat. I couldn't make it past the first 10 hours before getting sick of the slog. The impressions from other folks I've read say that the combat in this game is similarly boring (specifically the impressions after 80 hours by one of the Kotaku editors who's name I'm blanking on.) I'll wait and see what Austin has to say after some more time, but I think that the scale of this game is overshadowing a real lack of satisfying combat depth if it has anything in common with the first game.
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