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Looks like Square Enix has plans to bring Final Fantasy Explorers to the west. The name has been trademarked not only in the US, but Europe as well. Here’s hoping Square Enix makes a localization announcement sometime in the future!

Thanks to snow for the tip.

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Another round of Final Fantasy Explorers has surfaced from Square Enix. You can find the information in our summary below.

– Set on a new island named “Amostela”
– This area was created after a sudden crustal movement in the planet
– Amostela has an enormous amount of Crystals
– This resulted in countless “Explorers” appearing on the island to collect them all as part of their occupation
– Summons wish to preserve Crystals in order to protect the world of nature, by standing up against these Explorers
– In the midst of all the events, a young Explorer steps into Amostela
– Crystals are the source of the planet’s energy, which flows inside the mysterious ores
– All life on the planet shared the benefit of evolution thanks to these Crystals
– Mankind has begun harvesting them for the further development of their own civilization
– Libertus: home town and base of operations
– At Libertus, Explorers take on requests that take them across all the different parts of the island
– The hometown also has an airship that’s used to travel to different areas and stores
– Crystal is located in the middle of town
– It has some purpose, though it’s currently known
– The Regi Plains is one of the earlier areas of the game
– There’s a giant Crystal that can be seen in the background called the Grand Crystal, which is considered to be the origin of the planet
– The energy from this crystal helped mankind’s expansion and development
– Hibato Volcanoes: a scorching area that flows with magma
– This also happens to be Ifrit’s area of domain, alongside the Bomb monsters seen in many other Final Fantasy titles

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Tomodachi Life appears to be off to a good start from a sales perspective. Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime recently told Kotaku, “The Tomodachi Life numbers were significantly stronger than we had forecasted and planned.” Reggie explained that this is because the 3DS is “a vibrant platform.”

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Shigeru Miyamoto has spoken to Kotaku about Amiibo’s origins.

Miyamoto wanted to have reading and saving data functionality available without an accessory since the GBA days. That, he says, was the main reason why NFC was built in for Wii U.

As far as Amiibo figures are concerned, Miyamoto stated that Nintendo felt characters would be “the most appealing form factor for a physical object that has this functionality”.

“If you think back it’s very similar to what we did with the eReader, the card readers that existed for the Game Boy Advance. I had been wanting to have not as an optional accessory but as a built in piece of functionality the ability to have this interaction of reading and saving data with a physical object for quite some time. And that was why we made the decision to include it with Wii U to begin with. And since the launch of Wii U we’ve been thinking of what’s the most appealing form factor for a physical object that has this functionality that people would see it and just want to own it and ultimately we decided that it was the characters themselves.”

On another interesting note, Nintendo had long wanted “to have a series of these toys that worked not just with this one game but with multiple games.”

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Famitsu published a preview for Tales of the World: Reve Unitia, providing a new round of screenshots and details.

Here’s the latest on the game:

– Asbel and Lloyd wake up in the unknown world of Revalia
– Both don’t have any memories of their past aside from their names
– The two then meet Lufres, a young child from the Lufres tribe
– Lufres asks for their help to take on the Vule
– On their way to the Lufres’ village to learn more about the situation from Terun, they meet Natalia
– Natalia also awakened with no recollection of her past, but decides to travel with the group
– When they reach the village, they realize it was under a surprise attack from the Vule
– Protecting the young Lufres, was none other than Flynn Scifo
– The group manage to take care of the Vule to bring momentary safety to the village
– They don’t have any ideas as to why they’ve lost their memories, but they know about Revalia and the danger that Terun and the others are in, as Asbel and friends do everything in their power to help out
– Terun needs to accompany the group of Tales heroes to fight the Vule
– They first needed to make sure that the Lufres’ village could be safe, so they decide to take out the Vule on the nearby roads
– This is where they also happen to meet Rubia
– Leaving behind the young Terun and the others in the village, the Dream Keepers of the Lufres tribe left to a place called Melancolium in order to maintain a barrier to seal a powerful Vule
– Nahato is the most powerful of the Dream Keepers
– Nahato went after the Vule that managed to escape, but exhausted himself upon defeating it
– Nahato learns about Terun and the others failing to summon those from the Awake World, who are capable of fighting against the Vule
– Due to the failed summon, they have been spread across Revalia
– It doesn’t take long for Nahato to meet the just-awakened Yuri and Jade
– Both immediately sensed the dangers of the Vule around them
– After waking up in a completely new world and without their memories, the two immediately ended up fighting right off the bat
– While Nahato needs their help, it seems like Yuri and Jade have questions of their own before agreeing

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Square Enix put up an official Q&A for Final Fantasy Explorers on the game’s official website today, revealing more information about the game. You can find it in full below – courtesy of Siliconera’s translation.

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Nintendo of America executive VP of sales and marketing Scott Moffitt recently spoke with GamesIndustry about several topics. Moffitt mentioned that the Wii U is at a “tipping point” and could improve with high-profile releases, stated that there are no plans to keep the GamePad separate from the Wii U hardware bundle, and more.

Head past the break for Moffitt’s responses. You can find GamesIndustry’s full article here.

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