I'm disappointed that there's no local multi. It would have been sorely tempted if it did.

I'm quite interested in it but its not getting released in Europe anytime soon, if at all.

Famus, it’s like this… actually first a back ground, I’m the type of game player who over the span of 2 years (very casually to very avid) took apart Monster Hunter for the Ps2 and beat it 100% offline, down to the complete monoblos and rathalos set. (If you’ve played MH you know how time intensive that can get.)
Compared to this game Monster Hunter has 0 story, this game has a lot of offline content that make it a viable standalone game, no need for multiplayer, it would be like playing Zelda split screen… that sounds cool on paper, but if you really think about it OoT would have to be reworked totally to make that fun.

What I’m saying is online multi is fun but offline would be interesting but probably not needed.

Does someone have this yet? Any impressions?

I wanna wait for reviews other than that Nintendo Power one to weigh in...


Should I just be the one to take the plunge and come back with impressions? I'll do it, if I have enough encouragement...

I have the game but haven't opened it. I may spend some time on it tomorrow.

I don't think so.  Seems EAD got the Wii to perform better from a technical standpoint with Twilight Princess than Marvelous has with this game.  TP has better character models, environments just as expansive, and an overall cleaner look.

But let me see it on my TV in 16:9, 480p widescreen before I pass final judgement...

This looks like the best RPG on the Wii so far.  In fact, nothing else looks like it comes close (there's no others I find worht buying).  That's not saying this game is great though, just more of an observation on the lack of decent RPGs.  I'm picking the game up tonight and I'm not expecting it to stack up well against PC RPGs, but I still hope it's fun.

Numen looks like it's going to be the next decent RPG.  I'm keeping my eye on that one.

I was really wanting to get it but the bad reviews really persuaded me against it. Shame too because the Wii is really starved for RPGs.. ah well.. Tales of Graces will be out eventually.

very nice, going to get my copy tomorrow before work.

I think not. This game has much more objects, and the textures are about the same. There is less shading effects like bloom, but this game seems to have more base graphical push behind that. By that I mean Polygons and Textures. Twilight Princess has more after effects like shading, and lighting. So I would say if you were to put them onto a scale of how much they push the Wii it would be around the same area. Twilight Princess is the better game though. Also Marvelous doesn't develop any of these games, they just publish them.