The Last Story’s main quest clocks in at 30 hours, maybe more if you explore every nook and cranny in dungeons. Afterwards, you can replay the Wii game using your saved data.

The Last Story emphasizes replayability over length.

While playing through The Last Story’s… uh… story you only control the Gathering power gifted mercenary Elza. The cooperative online mode lets players use other party members.

At one time The Last Story let players watch battle replays. The game would automatically recorded a few seconds of a fight at a time.

The Last Story director, Hironobu Sakaguchi, has been hard at work playtesting and tweaking with his development team.

Digging through old hard drive backups, Hironobu Sakaguchi posted development notes about Final Fantasy IX online.

Hironobu Sakaguchi, Mistwalker studio founder and creator of The Last Story, loves playing with Legos.

Elza, the protagonist of The Last Story, is living a hard life as a mercenary. The story begins when he and his band of soldiers for hire head to Ruli Island in search of work.

Yes, Nobuo Uematsu is the composer on The Last Story.

Nintendo has high hopes for The Last Story. They believe Mistwalker’s game is big enough to get people to buy a Wii, which is why a hardware bundle is coming to stores too.

These days, Jump seems to get all of the Final Fantasy scoops even before Famitsu. The Final Fantasy franchise is huge now, but while it was growing Squaresoft’s crown jewel didn’t get royal treatment from Jump.

Players can face off against each other in a brawl or battle monsters in a co-op mode.

Nintendo posted a new trailer of The Last Story on Japan’s Nintendo Channel.

The Last Story has a unique gathering system where players draw monsters away from mages invoking a spell with Elza. A scan from Shonen Jump explains magic has two uses in Mistwalker’s fantasy Wii game.