Pretty good? It's AWESOME! 

Even with the list from Wagram of faults (all of which are minor), you never feel as though it's ruining your experience.

In light of that, I agree with the quest (but it all increases your affinity to other areas, and between the characters, so at least you can see the fruits of your labour), the monster (but outside of the Telethia, the Spirits and the Mechon the enemies are unique) and the difficulty points (however, many late-game enemies, like a particular boss in a particular organ, and optional bosses are extremely difficult...), but I cannot agree on the slowdown, as I didn't experience any, or the issue with the size of the areas (no-one has compained about a game being too big before. It helps you to level up, and it makes life easier for the quests.), or the issue with later levelling (this is pretty much the case in every game. At this point, it's the armour, the weapons and, most importantly, the equipped gems which make the biggest difference. Levelling only makes it easier to land hits.) personally, but all valid points. 

But, as you say, still a great game. I'd love to play through it again now, but I've lent it to a friend >.<

Yeah, and i think its worth pointing out that Xeno did sell more copies in Europe than it did in Japan, which is huge!.. the sad thing is really that the localization in europe seems to be the most expensive one, due to translating it into EFIGS (some games do not, they only release in english, but i think we cant be mad about people not buying a game that isnt released in their native language! =/), and dealing with different Pubs and regiments per country.

No we just need to wait for GameSpot and IGN. Hopefully they will see the game for what it actually is and not see that it's just on the Wii.

Seems like the game is still being advertised here in the U.K, along with Zelda SS, Last Story and Pandora's Tower:

This, along with Inazuma Eleven and Solatorobo localisations, to me shows that NoE really likes RPGs as of late.  I'm now just hoping that they pick up Atlus' 3DS games for a PAL release.

Pretty excited for this! 5 days left!

Really? That soon??

I'm gonna have to ramp up my hype train

I was thinking about buying it within the next few weeks because of my birthday.

If you don't mind me asking, what's so good about it? I haven't dropped $50 on a game in a LONG time so I gotta see if its worth it.

After watching the review I must admit I was pretty impressed with the scale and scope of the game, the fact that it's completely non-linear and full of loot-bearing side quests a-la most WRPGs these days, and the combat system looked much better than your typical JRPG fare too.

Sad thing is that if this game was made for an HD system it would prolly be contender for GOTY, instead of being relegated to a niche release on the Wii.

Yeah...

some dev's really make doubtful decisions, like Bamdai with releasing/developing Graces F for Wii.. and now, they dont even publish the original version, but the PS3 version instead.

still, there should be enough Wii-Owners to embrace this game, tho' i get the point in not buying it, since it does not only look like a Wii title (a damn good looking wii title still!), but this more often than not also affects gameplay. (or so people might THINK)

@WRPG: yeah, Xeno is probably one of the few the the westernization worked, simply because they didnt westernize it, but make an Open-Worlded JRPG instead.

They didn't have a choice- Monolith is owned by Nintendo. Xenoblade is a first/second-party title. And it would never have got GOTY, however, it has had nominations in the EU, beating out Skyward Sword for best Wii game in some places, winning the overall GOTY in others, and narrowly missing out in more. No doubt when it's released in America it'll be even bigger!

However, the previous comment pretty much nailed it. It's nice to have a lot of free-roaming in JRPG's, something which has been cut out of recent JRPG's, sadly.