Namco unveils Fragile, a new Wii RPG
by Scott Jon Siegel 
{ Nov 26th 2007 at 3:00PM }
Details at this time are scarce because, well, we can't read Japanese. Those with a bit more skill in the language department might want to check out the game's official website, which also features screenshots and a teaser trailer for the game.
Those that are a bit lazier can check out the trailer after the break.
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Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 3:08PM
I saw this trailer earlier in the morning...
Thats the kind of games that Wii needs. Thats an instant buy to me, no matter if it turns a bad game... I want to support that kind of games. No more minigames.
Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 3:11PM
I hope the game have the same quality of Eternal Sonata.
Plafke @ Nov 27th 2007 10:30AM
Absolutely agree. Nintendo has been letting me down for a long while now, and it's attempt to kill of deep games in favor of shallow cell phone style games with a waggle bothers me.
Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 3:14PM
"Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon is set in a post-apocalyptic near future world that has lost its light and is covered in a dense fog. Almost all the world's population has vanished, and the cities have been left abandoned. The game places the player in the shoes of Seto, a young boy.
Seto wanders the world, searching for survivors and the answers behind the disappearance of everyone else. Seto also searches for a mysterious girl named "Heroine"; what her role is in the game is unknown. However in his quest he must deal with ghosts and demons that lurk within the ruins of the abandoned cities.
It will focus on human drama"
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:15PM
Sounds bitchin. Day 1 purchase, even if its crap.
Got to support the non-minigames on wii.
JerJerBinks @ Nov 26th 2007 3:26PM
"It will focus on human drama"
Much like you Fernando, much like you.
Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 3:32PM
jerjer
Damn... I'm trying to not be a troll anymore... after all the comments of Joe and name123, I realized that be in the same category as those two is bad.
So, yes... I'm I troll... but anyone who read the comments on The Orange Box post, will know what a truly troll is.
So, I'm sorry, but I will try to change.
finnith @ Nov 26th 2007 3:43PM
Sounds like The Matrix storyline without the robots and more anime.
Then again, that doesn't really sound like the Matrix without the killer robots.
JerJerBinks @ Nov 26th 2007 3:44PM
Oh Fernando, what would Joystiq be without your outlandish and nonsensical fanboy trolling? I say as long as you arent hurting anyone, and you are continuing to make yourself look foolish with drivel and frivolous Sony bashing, then continue on your chosen path. I, for one, would be sad if you were to cease giving us ammunition.
Slaziman @ Nov 26th 2007 3:49PM
I think that after his ban, Fernando has made far more witty comments than outright trollish ones. It's kinda hit and miss. I don't know why everybody swarms to him like he is the biggest troll on Joystiq, when there is much, much worse. Yes, he bashes Sony, but so do a lot of other people, that aren't as harassed as Fernando. At least he (usually) makes valid points and avoids profanity, sometimes his way of bringing it is a little crude and mean, but I definitely don't see what the hype is about. Refocus on the bigger trolls like Joe guys, he is leaps and bounds ahead of Fernando when it comes to trolling.
I can't believe I just wrote a full paragraph about some online dude I don't even know, graahhh must get a life...
Jerk Face @ Nov 26th 2007 3:53PM
Fernando Rocker is in my faves.
JerJerBinks @ Nov 26th 2007 3:56PM
I completely agree, he has been better since coming back after the ban. There are times when its just blatant bashing, but its less than before. Anyway, I wasnt trolling Fernando here, I was just pointing out some irony.
FidliousWong @ Nov 26th 2007 3:56PM
Okay... I really gotta comment here. I'm excited about this game but I'll support it IF it's good, not just because it's a non-minigame effort. I mean, if a game is good, you should support it. You shouldn't support it just because it's doing something different.
Vegeta (aka Ska Oreo) @ Nov 26th 2007 4:28PM
That's what we want to here.
JodyAnthony (Good Eats Defense Force) @ Nov 26th 2007 4:54PM
I am a fan of Fernando Rocker
Kaemon @ Nov 26th 2007 5:23PM
My goodness you people are petty. I've been around here long enough, which is a long time, to know who Fernando is (Even if no one knows who I am) and yeah of course he was pretty obnoxious back a while ago, but I haven't seen much anything out of him recently that would be anything over a persons true opinion of something. Sure he says some mean things about sony, but guess what, tons of people do, tons of people say bad things about microsoft or Nintendo, but that doesn't make them a troll.
Every place he posts I see the same thing that you people say, like "what would Joystiq be without your outlandish and nonsensical fanboy trolling?" and its said every time. Get over yourselves.
i_hate_mtv @ Nov 26th 2007 7:13PM
Cut Fernando a break, will ya? At least he's TRYING to change.
hvnlysoldr @ Nov 26th 2007 9:04PM
Don't be hating the player!
Shignami @ Nov 26th 2007 3:15PM
Post-apocalyptic RPGs are almost never bad for some reason, so by that merit alone it might be worth checking out.
zmog @ Nov 26th 2007 3:16PM
cant read japanese my ass. use babelfish :P
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:17PM
You're joking right.
"Happy fun ponies Seto after city gone destruction people of male and female missing."
Thats what babelfish will give you.
Shignami @ Nov 26th 2007 3:20PM
Now use babelfish to translate that into french and then back into english for some great lulz.
zmog @ Nov 26th 2007 3:34PM
of course im joking but hey at least its something.
LeChuck @ Nov 26th 2007 6:27PM
If only the actual Babelfish from Hitchhiker's Guide really existed.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:16PM
For a blog who covers an industry lead primarily by japan, isn't it counterintuitive to not have ANYONE on staff who can read japanese?
Next time you have an opening, you need to fill the "We just google translate everything" void. Seriously.
Do it because I'm suddenly your boss.
DomoBraden @ Nov 26th 2007 3:19PM
I agree. Even if this turns out to be god-awful, I'm going to buy it. I want RPGs that AREN'T on the VC..
Shagittarius @ Nov 26th 2007 3:19PM
cant there be a jrpg that doesn't star a young boy?
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:20PM
No.
Well, yes. FF6 starred a young girl.
Fernando Rocker @ Nov 26th 2007 3:21PM
Whats wrong with that?
Shagittarius @ Nov 26th 2007 3:23PM
I know its a convienent plot device to make the character young that way you can explane the game universe to them and it seems to fit naturally but I get tired of NPCs talking to me or treating me like I'm a child throughout the whole game.
I bet even children would like to be treated like a man during gameplay.
jsn @ Nov 26th 2007 3:28PM
no because that's what the japanese are into. Characters that are or look very young, wearing no underwear and being chased by giant phallic symbols.
Zertoss @ Nov 26th 2007 3:29PM
That's when you name your character something odd for hilarity. For example, from a Pokemon game, I got this:
"Oh! You're Horny, right? My kid's upstairs." I got a good laugh out of that.
Crono (NDF - Knight of the Old School) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:29PM
Personally, I also hate the way all JRPGs baby you and explain the weird intricacies of that particular world through useless dialog in the intro town. They need to take a lesson from good fiction writers. Explain the world through events and meaningful dialog. Let the player discover the world as they play, don't hand them the whole damn thing in 20 boring minutes at the beginning.
Shagittarius @ Nov 26th 2007 3:31PM
Phallus Fantasy XIII?
creid @ Nov 26th 2007 3:39PM
Until the audience of these games change (teenage boys in Japan,) I don't see the main characters changing much.
AstroZombie @ Nov 26th 2007 3:52PM
I'm pretty sure there were no male characters whatsoever in FFXII, so I don't know what you're talking about, Shag.
Slaziman @ Nov 26th 2007 3:52PM
It has something to do with Japanese kids wanting to find an escape, and the main guy being a young kid probably helps them to immerse into the game world and feel like they are saving the world.
Yeah I just pulled that out of my ass based on something I read 8 years ago, sue me.
Jerk Face @ Nov 26th 2007 4:09PM
@AstroZombie
LOL
JodyAnthony (Good Eats Defense Force) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:25PM
"Tri-Crescendo" was all i needed.
i will buy anything tri-crescendo or tri-ace. anything.
WiNG @ Nov 26th 2007 3:46PM
Tri-force?
ThornedVenom @ Nov 26th 2007 4:02PM
Tri-M&M Racing?
Jerk Face @ Nov 26th 2007 4:10PM
Tri-M&M Racing, LOL.
The comments on this post are full of win.
Dei76 @ Nov 29th 2007 12:15PM
They seem to be putting a decent amount of effort into the music, artwork and voice acting (japanese, anyway), but why are the graphics on Wii still so bad?
Yes, it's underpowered, but if it really is two Gamecube stuck together, why don't games show it? Even GC launch games looked good, yet some Wii games are just embarising.
Mr Khan @ Nov 26th 2007 3:36PM
Great developer, great atmospherics, so-so graphics (so far), and a real, core JRPG kind of set up
Definitely has promise, all kinds of promise
I could've sworn Seto was a girl, though *_*
playwhutyalike (toast is done) @ Nov 26th 2007 3:43PM
Hmmmmm. Maybe I'll have Dancing With The Stars finished before this is released.
Looks to be very promising.
WiNG @ Nov 26th 2007 3:45PM
Games star young boys so that the young boy demographic feels like they have something in common with
-a young boy
-who is special in some way
-overcomes adversity
-becomes triumphant hero
Luke Skywalker, Eragon, Harry Potter, every damn JRPG ever made, every book with the word "Dragon" in the title
seriously, it's an epidemic.
Also ask yourself why is Japan obsessed with post apocalyptic worlds? And why do all of them suck after Neon Genesis Evangelion?
Mr Khan @ Nov 26th 2007 3:58PM
whoa whoa whoa
Eureka 7 was post-apocalyptic and did not suck, i will defy, up and down, anyone who tries to claim that
sorry, i just loved Eureka 7
Martez @ Nov 26th 2007 4:08PM
Evangelion kinda sucked, too.
Anyway, this looks interesting- I'll be keeping an eye on it. But does Nintendo not give devs any tools? Just say "Hey, this is really similar to Gamecube architecture, so just go off of that and have a fun!" ? Why must every Wii game look like a second-gen PS2 title? We have seen that it can do MUCH better.
Graphics aren't everything, I know, but it seems like everyone's being lazy just because it's the least powerful system so they think they can get away with not trying.
Deuz Augustine @ Nov 26th 2007 5:34PM
I think you meant to say, "including Evangelion."
Jouten @ Nov 26th 2007 9:15PM
Speaking of dragons, I wanna new BoF RPG!