If you're anything like Gameplayer, you'll pop the first disc of Lost Odyssey into your Xbox 360 and start the mantra, "please be better than Blue Dragon, please be better than Blue Dragon..." Yes, Hironobu Sakaguchi (the creator of Final Fantasy) and his new Mistwalker team are at it again, ticking all those fantasy RPG boxes and ensuring that all the cutscenes are long enough to make you want to go to the toilet.
It's Final Fantasy in sheep's clothing, once again. But it's a damn fine looking sheep.
Complete review after the jump...
17 years later, it still stands out.
The game was indeed amazing. Great characters, gameplay and story!
But the dream sequences penned by Shigematsu were sublime.
I still remember many of these stories and I have integrated in the past in my D&D campaign many years ago.
Microsoft should have just kept pumping money into these guys. Same with a lot of the other studios... the blundered hard.
Lost Odysee deserved a franchise even though development wasn't smooth
It's not like it has had any competition since 2007. Would really like to own the short stories from it in book form.
The problem with most MS games on 360 was they didn’t make the games they paid for them and that makes you less money in the long run and isn’t something you can continue to do especially with declining sales of consoles. MS should have been starting and growing studios from the beginning but they went for paid games and it leaves them without the knowledge and culture of making games.
It’s quite hard to believe, but Lost Odyssey turns fifteen years old today. A curious product of the time, it has arguably only got better with age - and not just because of what it is, but also what it represents.
The short stories that Kaim collects/remembers are truly emotional. I remember one in particular made my eyes water.
If you've never played this, try to hunt down an original copy, or emulate it. This game was a gem.
I wish there was a remaster. This and Last Story. Sad these games were released on the...wrong platforms...
These JRPGs stand up on their own.
Talk about not giving credit where credit is do. It is not only best JRPG for the 360 it is the best JRPG for ANY next generation system! And its little brother Blue Dragon is number two on all systems. These two are WAY ahead of everything else. Only thing that has a chance against them is Final fantasy XIII. This game is like Gunstar hero, everywhere you go (will not everywhere, but most places) you see average scores, but the actual players are giving it much higher scores. It is easily the best RPG I have played since FFVII but then again I rally like turn based JRPG's. It looks like the people that rated gunstar hero where influenced by other reviews. And reading the average reviews especially the ones that say its the same old story(what rpg ever had stories like these?), or it's not next gen, you know they are influenced. Question what is a next generation JRPG? It seems when you break it down to the changes that they want the JRPGs are not 'action rpgs' Now I want to know. What retard decided that being a 'action rpg' made you next generation? Last time I checked Action rpgs have been around as long as turn based rpgs. Think outside the box. Stop being a drune!
Thats funny, I thought sappy JRPGs weren't supposed to hit the "hardcore " console..... Seems like you all bought it anyways...
Lol so the "best JRPG on 360" can't even get the above 80% in overall reviews? It flopped, getting 6's and 7's across the board.
PS3 has all the JRPG's that people care about. (White Knight, FFXIII, Versus XIII, etc..)
you know what i just noticed... ps3 dosent have any rpgs.. at all.. well.. exept for trusty bell. which was 360 exclusive for some time.
I started it on my gold account and couldn't finish it. I then brought it to my uncles house and finished it there. it's an OK RPG but nothing to write home about.