XSEED Games today announced plans to bring the Japanese Wii game Fragile to North America.
Subtitled Farewell Ruins of the Moon, the acclaimed role-playing game released in Japan earlier this year and was widely praised as one of the most beautiful Wii games to date.
Although no specific release date has been set, XSEED is aiming for a winter 2009 release.
Fragile was published in Japan by Namco Bandai. Despite the pleading of fans in North America, the company had no plans to bring the title stateside.
That’s where XSEED comes in.
“We’re ecstatic to be able to finally confirm Fragile for gamers in North America,” says XSEED president Jun Iwasaki. “We have received countless requests from eager gamers pleading with us to publish this title, and it gives us great joy to be able to give the public what they want while being able to work on such a great game.”
Fragile has been widely praised as one of the most beautiful games on Wii
Fragile features an emotionally engaging story with high-quality Japanese voice work, so according to XSEED localization manager Kenji Hosoi, the company is approaching the localization process “with extreme care.”
Finally, something other than Muramasa to look forward for my Wii!
I really, REALLY hope they keep the Japanese dialog in as alternative audio!!
The game is really pretty… I played an hour of it in Japanese.
Fantastic.
Great news! I admit to knowing little about it, other than great music, but I am willing to try it.
nitpick: do you we need the long subtitled name? Fragile was simple and elegant.
It almost seems like the subtitle is just wiimping it out for america.
I don't care so much about the subtitle. In fact, if it helps the game sell better in North America, than so be it. It's a small sacrifice that doesn't affect the game disc inside the box, so it's no big deal.
Anyway, I don't know much about the game, but I'm happy to learn more about it and I'm glad to hear it's coming stateside! This is great news. ;D
Thank you XSEED.