Tucked away with my love letters to Nintendo have been my ruminations on the possibility of sequels to the JRPG games dubbed the ‘Operation Rainfall‘ three on the Wii U, and the prospect that the Wii U could be known as more of a JRPG heaven than the Wii was. As an fan of the roleplaying genre, the plethora of options that the Wii U controller offers to enrich this type of game even more is an exciting prospect.

Xenoblade Chronicles, Pandora’s Tower and The Last Story for the Wii are already out in Japan and Europe, and the USA has Xenoblade with The Last Story expected to come out soon. However, Nintendo have yet to announce a USA release date for the action RPG Pandora’s Tower.

These three JRPG titles have become gems in the Wii’s library and have received mostly favourable reviews. But can we expect more like them on Wii U?

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The newest answer set on Metro: Last Light has been posted on the Last Light Forums. This time the questions were on topics such as weapons, exploding barrels and the length of the single player campaign.

On the topic of how long the single player campaign would be, 4A Games had this to say:

We expect the campaign to be at least as long as Metro 2033, and we’re also working hard to ensure there are more reasons to replay the campaign … although we know a lot of you have played and re-played the 2033 campaign multiple times already!

Another fan asked whether the game will have gun customisation:

We’re adding some weapon customization options and we’ll be talking about this feature in more detail later in the year.

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A patent has surfaced showing how the Wii U controller might interact with the Wii Remote. The example shown in the patent is that the two characters on the TV screen is being threatened by an enemy. Using the Wii Remote you can grab the character off the screen and drop it into the Wii U controller and to safety.

This is a very interesting concept and hopefully it will be one of the features that the Wii U will have.

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Fable creator Peter Molyneux has been sharing his views about the Wii U and E3 2012 to Kotaku.

The former head of Lionhead Studios explained that Nintendo’s “slightly lacklustre” console will have to “blow us away” at E3 2012 with “better specs” and a good first party lineup.

It seems that Nintendo have a job ahead of them to impress those who aren’t quite sure about the Wii U yet and to demonstrate that the console is not “lacklustre”. First party support will indeed be important if the Wii U is to escape the same criticisms of the 3DS. I don’t think E3 2012 can come quick enough.

It was recently revealed that Blizzard are considering the possibility of releasing Diablo 3 on console platforms. The highly anticipated title released on the PC and Mac today but Blizzard’s Leonard Boyarsky hinted that they might bring the action RPG to consoles:

It’s not just going to be a simple port if we do a console version – if we are shipping a console version, I should say, as we are exploring it actually right now – we want to make it feel native to the console, so there’s a lot of decisions to be made and just a lot of thought and effort that goes into that.

I can’t help feeling that the Wii U would be the perfect console to release such a game on. The easy access to items, spells and abilities that the touchscreen controller would allow seems like too good an opportunity to miss. Do you think Diablo 3 and the Wii U are a good fit?

According to Nintendo World Report Capcom will not be having playable games on any Nintendo consoles at E3 2012. Nintendo World Report were told by a Capcom representative that this would be the case.

However, though it seems that Capcom will not have any playable games this does not in any way rule out the announcement of titles for the Wii U from the company.

The next title in the popular football series of games has been announced to be coming to the Wii and the Nintendo 3DS. However, this begs the question of whether a Wii U version of the title is also in the works.

Eurogamer recently reported that a Wii U version is being developed but by a different team from the Xbox 360, PC and PS3 versions. Not only that but EA have been quite supportive of the Wii U ever since it was shown at E3 2011, so it doesn’t seem too far-fetched to expect that FIFA 13 will be coming to the console.

Would you like to see FIFA 13 on the Wii U?

Last week in a financial statement, Tecmo Koei discussed plans of taking advantage of new hardware launches by actively releasing products for new consoles. While not specifically mentioning the Wii U, it is a console that we know will be launching soon. Not only that but the Wii U is pictured on the slides shown at the earnings briefing.

The problem is, this could just be an acknowledgement of the titles that we already know Tecmo Koei have planned for the Wii U, such as, Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge. However, There have been rumours floating around that Tecmo Koei plans to announce a new IP at E3 2012. I guess we will just have to wait and see.

We’ve recently had footage of what Aliens: Colonial Marines multiplayer will be like but the footage was very much focused on the marines’ point of view. What about playing as those deadly alien xenomorphs?

CVG‘s preview of the game mentioned that aliens are played from the third person view and that there is a class system for xenomorphs as well the marines.

In a recent interview, Gearbox’s Chris Brock explained why they had chosen a third person perspective for the aliens:

We feel it’s key to keep the xenomorph player’s perspective in third person. Xenos have to be sneaky and agile, so the wall and ceiling climbing is a necessity. That said, playing in that style, in first person, can be quite disorienting.

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Those of you who are looking forward to Metro: Last Light for the Wii U may be interested to hear that a short live action film is planned to be shown on the 24th of May.

A countdown trailer for the film has appeared on the website ‘Enter the Metro’ but doesn’t give much details about what the film will be about. Head to the website now to stare unwaveringly at the countdown clock until the film is shown.