Fragile breaks European cover

Wii-exclusive postapocalyptic RPG developed by Eternal Sonata team tri-Crescendo coming to Europe and Australia early 2010.

Since its launch, the Wii has not been the best of platforms for lovers of role-playing games, with the highest rated titles on GameSpot for the genre to hit the platform being ports of the N64 classic Paper Mario and Zelda's Super Nintendo outing A Link to the Past, thanks to the system's Virtual Console download service.

Now European gamers will be able to follow Seto's adventure without first learning Japanese.

The critically acclaimed real-time strategy role-playing game hybrid Little King's Story served to satisfy some of those clamouring for more high-quality original RPG content on Nintendo's megaselling platform when it was released earlier this year. It seems LKS was the exception to the rule, with few high-profile RPGs pencilled in to fill the RPG gap within Europe this year, save Japanese phenomenon Monster Hunter G. However, European Japanese RPG fans have something to smile about today, as Rising Star Games, European publishers of the adventures of the aforementioned diminutive royal, has confirmed that it is bringing Fragile (subtitled Farewell Ruins of the Moon in the US and Japan) to the Wii in Europe and Australia this spring, in the Northern Hemisphere.

The postapocalyptic RPG has been developed by tri-Crescendo, the team behind 2008's critically acclaimed PS3 and Xbox 360 title Eternal Sonata, and hit the number two spot in the Japanese software chart when it was published by Namco Bandai in January. The game lacked an overseas publisher until Xseed Games picked up the US rights in the spring and confirmed it was to publish the title there this winter.

The game follows Seto, a boy living in the ruins of Tokyo who believes he is the last surviving person on the planet. After finding a letter, he sets off to search for other survivors and "fight off the demons and ghosts that haunt this forsaken and crumbling world while piecing together the mystery of mankind's disappearance," according to Rising Star. You can see the TGS trailer for Fragile below--keep it tuned to GameSpot for more information on the game as the US and EU releases approach.

The Trailer for Fragile: Sayonara Tsuki no Haikyo from TGS 2008

18 Comments

  • Mattyrock

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 3:53 am PT

    I'm very looking forward to this. I've been dying to get this game when I first heard about it

  • WasntAvailable

    Posted Jun 28, 2009 10:11 am PT

    That plot sounds very familiar. I've not actually played it but it sounds alot like the plot to Nocturne, espically the setting.

  • Extra_Life

    Posted Jun 27, 2009 8:17 am PT

    Finally, been waiting for European release confirmation for ages.

  • Loki4chaos

    Posted Jun 27, 2009 3:25 am PT

    Yay Australia ... looking forward to this

  • Poisoned_Waffle

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 4:56 pm PT

    Cautiously hopeful, as a post-apocalyptic game that focuses on the characters instead of the world sounds awesome, but I hated Eternal Sonata. Here's a link for a subbed trailer (different one though) if anyone wants: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVapWgY4Z6Y&feature=fvw

  • YoJim8obaJoe

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 12:54 pm PT

    Since its launch, the Wii has not been the best of platforms for lovers of role-playing games.

    Since its launch the wii has not been the best platform for games more like

  • Lord_Regnier

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 11:33 am PT

    looks good

  • kavadias1981

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 11:09 am PT

    I was only just yesterday thinking to myself "What would an anime style Fallout 3 be like?" (I am playing Fallout 3 at the mo) and lo, I spot this game just now. It looks like it's just what I'm looking for. Yet another game to add to my ever growing Wii wish list.

  • angelbless

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 10:29 am PT

    Good news

  • Darrogamer06

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 9:59 am PT

    Glad to see it is coming out here.

  • elbert_b_23

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 9:13 am PT

    its good to see fragile is going to be worldwide

  • ShadowLaguna

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:48 am PT

    It's good to know that we're getting it!

  • Meet7heSniper

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:43 am PT

    finally! Now we need Fatal Frame 4!

  • Mr_Versipellis

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:39 am PT

    Looks good.

  • remixbaby44

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:23 am PT

    im glad this game is finally coming to the US

  • hm360

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:18 am PT

    Rising Star is one of my favourite publishers. They bring all the quality games to Europe. Awesome.

  • bowlingotter

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 8:08 am PT

    First Conduit and now this... hopefully this is the beginning of a trend that Nintendo gamers are starting to get the genres they've been asking for

  • Quofan

    Posted Jun 26, 2009 7:59 am PT

    I want Rising Star's babies. They are thw only European publisher that seems to realise we actually want these games.

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