Xenoblade: I’m Excited.

It’s not often that I latch on to a game early in its development.  It’s far less likely that I sniff out each small detail, analyzing the news as it slowly trickles out.  Xenoblade (aka Monado: Beginning of the World), the upcoming Wii RPG from Monolith Soft and Nintendo has grabbed me like few others game have in recent times.

Xenoblade is being designed by Tetsuya Takahashi, the fame director of Xenogears and Xenosaga.  To boil it down to the basics, Xenoblade is attempting to be Wii’s answer to Final Fantasy XIII.

The early tidbits of the game remain locked in Japanese – a language I do not speak – but even that hasn’t stopped me from getting excited for Xenoblade.  The story seems fresh, the battle system appears fluid and original (trailer above) and the world is absolutely epic in scale.

Hopefully, I get some hands on time at E3 2010 in a few weeks.