It's worth noting that I always think of The Last Story, not as a JRPG, but as an action game with a few RPG elements.  When I saw Sakaguchi at his London Q&A a few weeks before the game launched, he implied he felt the same way too.  Expanding on that, I would say that the final 2-3 hours of the main story are probably the best sections of any action game I have ever played.

Uematsu's music is different from many of his previous work, but is very good nonetheless.  My personal favourite is Dance of Death, with incidentally plays a boss battle theme during the final 2-3 hours of the main story.

Difficulty wise, the game is a little on the easy side, especially if you always seem to be a bit overleveled as I did.  However, I did find the final form of the final boss quite hard though.

Graphically, the game is IMO among the best games on the Wii.  The character models, backgrounds, animation (running into people and hitting Zael's head on swinging signs is really funny to watch) and in particular water reflection is really good.  The only downside is that occasionally during battles the framerate drops, sometimes significantly.

Basically, The Last Story is a good game and at times a very good game.  However, if it were 10 hours longer and ran at a rock solid 60fps it would be in many ways  a legendary game.

I agree with this, but I'd have also have liked to control the characters more, and for there to be more sidequests/new areas.

Basically, remove the online and put in more single-player.

I really enjoy Xenoblade, but it should be no higher than a 9. The game has flaws and some major ones at that.

Ok, thanks to boths of ya!

Like what? The game isn't perfect, but there's nothing major. A lot of the side-quests are similar, for example, but that's not game-breaking. Or a major issue. 

There's no different endings, but again, nothing huge, as I don't expect to have moral choices in JRPG's. 

Some of the close-up graphics are washed-out, but, again, this is to be expected from the Wii, and the amazing backdrops make up for it.

Finally, the ending is quite far-fetched, but that didn't bother me, or anyone else really. The rest of the story is better than most JRPG-fare.

I cannot fault the sound.

Updated the OP to make it more user-friendly. I don't know why it was all condensed into the one paragraph...

- There's around 300ish Quests that are nothing but rehashed MMO trash. Also by doing these quests the game over powers the crap out of you, and if you wait too long some quests disappear locking out later ones. So break the game or lose out on future quest content.

- Zones are gigantic and offer nothing to do in them outside of the Quests, and sight seeing.

- There is slow down problems in the later segments of the game.

- The game is beyond f'n easy.

- Not enough abilities for characters. The leveling process pretty much stops at level 45, and I ended somewhere in the 70s. So a majority of the later sections of the game was button mashing the same old combos in the positions required.

-Reuse of monster assets.

Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic game with many positives (story, characters, ost) but it's not a 91+.

The game is absolutely fantastic, I've never really thought much of JRPGs because I despise turn-based combat but the combat in Xenoblade is realtime and has a bit of depth to it. You all need to go out and buy/pre-order this NAO!!!

Great news. Though, I really wish these were the kind of games the Wii had at launch. Better late than never :/

Nice to know that this game is pretty good. I can't wait to play it.