Just a thought....if the sequel comes out on WiiU then having the Arts Pallette readily available on the controller's screen would be fantastic

Nintendo owns more than 50% of Monolith Soft, 80% in fact. That makes Monolith soft a first party studio and unless Nintendo decides to bring out their games on any Non-Nintendo platform, chances are zero.

5 hours in, barely touched the story, just enjoying ambling around doing the missions.

This game has life-destroying potential on a level with Monster Hunter Tri and Pro Evo Soccer.
Good job autumn's coming.

It really is amazing how big this game is.....

I spent hours playing it yesterday and most of it was doing quests (especially the ones with a timer on them) and it was only near the end of my play session that I advanced the storyline a tiny bit.

I wasn't so good at "exploring" early on it has to be said, but I've gone back to older areas and it's amazing how much you can miss. I'm still meeting named npcs in colony 9 that I haven't seen before....even when I thought I'd seen them all.

EDIT: Could somebody clarify the levels of affinity for me? Is it...

Yellow Face
Green Face
Blue Face
Light Pink Face
Pink Heart Face

?

Oh yeah! My copy just arrived in the mail It's a pity I won't get time to play it for a couple more weeks though...

Comes out in Australia tomorrow.
Can't wait!
Gonna go buy it in the morning and then come straight home to play it all day.
=P

Has anyone successfully downloaded the Nintendo Treasures soundtrack yet?

I've google searched the problem, and many people are having the same problem. It keeps finishing early (instead of the full 100MB+ .zip file, I get anywhere below 12MB, and the zip is corrupted unless it's downloaded in it's entirety).

I've tried a different browser, and I've even tried a download manager that someone in a similar thread promised would definitely allow you to download it without any problems, but I still can't get it.

I might just seek out the (full) paid soundtrack...

No luck for me either. The way I see it I have the right to own it, so I'll download it from somewhere else if I need to. Still hoping they will fix it though. Somehow it would feel better to download it through Nintendo.

I mailed Nintendo and tried everything they suggested, to no avail. It was all the basic stuff like cookie settings. Basically stuff they tell everyone by default if they don't know the solution. For me it does finish to 100%, but even then the file's is still corrupted. At least I now know I am not the only one with this problem.

Time to go and buy this amazing game.
Back later.

Bought Xenoblade today but was too afraid to play it. Afraid that I'm not able to put it down once I'm in.
It might consume my life for the next few weeks once I load it up, so I wait for the right moment.
Need to finish two other Wii games I'm halfway through anyway.

But I've tested the Red Classic Controller Pro that came with the game.
It's my first CC Pro. Cool thing. Much better than the old Non-Pro.

It's crazy how little stock they've got of this.
It just came out in Australia today and the main EB Games here in Melbourne only got two copies of the game in.
Lucky for me, I got the second of those two copies so I'm about to start playing.

On another note, I like it how the Australian copy has an actual soundtrack CD rather than a downloadable version.

Soundtrack?? CD?? Downloadable?? Where???

Well as far as I've heard the European version comes with a downloadable soundtrack from the game off Club Nintendo or something (unless that's stopped now, I wouldn't know because I'm not in Europe), and the Australian version comes with the CD packed in with the game.

Is it the same soundtrack, i.e. the partial one of about 12 tracks?

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Here's a niggle I have with the game. Who gets annoyed when you're climbing up a wall, and your friends materialise beside you and shunt you off the wall?

Everything else is tops though. I like the character animation in particular, and how the characters react to each other. But mostly the gameplay. I'm currently 30 minutes into the trek across the back of the bionis.

Yeah, just the same thing but on a CD lol

Unfortunately I can't go forever without sleeping.
Been playing for about 12 hours straight since I got the game and it's so hard to stop playing, but I must get a bit of a sleep and resume in the morning.
Best game I've played in a while, it's meeting all my expectations for it.

Dude, 12 hours of gameplay is not healthy, seriously. you can still enjoy the game is smaller portions.

I got it a few days ago and I haven't got that far but I've been greatly enjoying it and it just keeps getting better and better. The camera has annoyed me a few times as even with all the options for controlling it, its been quite troublesome in some fights but it doesn't annoy that often and apart from that, I'm loving this game.

Well, I did have a few small breaks to eat and stuff in between.
But I have a week's break from Uni this week so have to make the most of it. =P