XSEED bringing The Sky Crawlers to North American Wiis
by Griffin McElroy 
on Jul 5th 2009 8:30PM
If you have a comprehensive knowledge of Japanese literature or flight combat games that never saw an American release, you probably already know about
The Sky Crawlers. We fell in love with Namco-Bandai's book-to-game adaptation when we were teased with
tons of gameplay footage last year -- sadly, the game was never visited by the localization fairy, and never made it to the States. Since then, we've been
sad all over.
Fortunately, a recent XSEED press release has turned our melancholy into melan-jolly (ugh) -- the capitalized company has purchased the North American publishing rights for
The Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces, due out this holiday season on the Wii. The game, which was developed by
Ace Combat veterans
Project Aces, will have players using the Wiimote and Nunchuck to simulate actual flight controls. It's a bit overdue, but we're thrilled about the Americanization of this aeronautical gem nonetheless.
