I have to say I would be very surprised if it doesn't. It doesn't seem like a Hironobu Sakaguchi game at all if The Last Story actually is last.

The Last Story. In fact TLS if my fave game from last gen.

PT isn't really an RPG. It's more like a castlevania game/ dungeon crawler

I'd have to go TLS in all categories. I found it's mix of rpg and dungeon crawler interesting and engaging. The armor and weapon system was extremely streamlined which was a very welcome decision from my standpoint. The only 3 things i can remotely complain about are as follows. The game just doesn't have great visuals. The character design is cool, but the execution shows of the wii's weak hardware. The main female character's voice (can't remember her name right now, but i can hum her song :) } didn't sound right to me. She acted well, but it caught me off guard her voice wasn't higher pitched like most anime chicks. For as good as the story was, it felt like it skipped about 3 hours of story telling between the climax and the ending.
PT, was alot easier to follow since the story was much simpler and the gameplay was much easier (and more conventional) to grasp.
As for music, it doesn't get better than nobue uematsu. I kinda want him to do music for a retro rpg. one with no dialogue so that musical themes do the talking again.

Don't really know much about either game but when it comes to sound I have to go with the Last Story you can't go wrong with Nobuo Uematsu.

Huh, looks like Xenoblade Chronicles isn't liked at all.

I actually liked that she wasn't shrill and helium-voiced like most anime chicks, I find those kind of voices annoying.

The Last Story by far

I love it, not as much as Xenoblade of course. Actually, The Last Story ending > Xenoblade

The One Ruling Eveything one of the best final boss themes I've ever heard

TLS=XBC>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>PT
XBC became to grindy and boring, TLS was too short but remained fun the whole way through (both could have done with better hardware). PT on the other hand, well I beat the first tower and got bored... at least I have that beautiful artbook for it though

The Last Story is a RPG game, Pandora's Tower has some RPG elements but is more an action-adventure game

Someone played around with your keyboard and reorganized the numbers on your numpad.