Japan got a sneak peek at the future of Xbox 360 RPG gaming this past week with the home release of the Tokyo Game Show Lost Odyssey demo. Bundled with the latest issue of Famitsu (something that had to cost Microsoft a ton of cash considering the magazine sells over 700,000 copies each week), the demo lets players experience the first half hour or so of Mistwalker's next title after Blue Dragon.
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.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
Lost Odyssey is one of the best jrpgs of that era but got killed because it was bought up and released on the "wrong" console.
Great game. The 360 had some really good turn based games back in the day. Absolutely loved Lost Odyssey too. I think they are both Sakaguchi creations.
This game together with Lost Odyssey, The Last Remenant and Tales of Vesperia convinced me to buy a 360. This game made my 2007 which ended off with mass effect.
Honestly, a fantastic game, especially if you were a fan of old-school JRPGs. I hate that this genre rarely can come back to these roots.
Destructoid: I remember where I was when Blue Dragon was announced. Although I already had an Xbox 360 and was ready for it, some folks I knew bought one just for it given who was involved (Nobuo Uematsu, Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama): as Mistwalker and Microsoft Game Studios made a mad dash to put out more games from Japanese studios on the Xbox ecosystem.
Blue dragon was fantastic. Love that game. It was my biggest reason for getting a 360.
i wanted to play it, but ...
1. its on xbox
and 2. i missed it when it was on gamepass ha.
I thought it was pretty good but I personally I think Lost Odyssey is better
Also, I know a lot of JRPGs are cheesy but damn…this one was amped up to 11.
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
I'm confused were they not raving about this game at TGS? Now the demo sucks?
It sounds like the demo released is not a very polished demo, and honestly i got the impression they felt it was almost an earlier build than what they saw at TGS. That said, IGN seemed to feel the game will still be good, but they were just critical of the demo. Really this to me was about driving hype in Japan, and even though the demo isn't what IGN wanted to see...to the avg. Japanese gamer I am sure this demo will stir up some hype.
I'm not an Rpg guy but this seemed like it was O.K. I liked the video.
I knew it was bad news i mean look who posted it, i'll take that back as soon as i see this "non-fanboy" post negative news about the PS3.
ALL Japanese RPGs are repetive, unimaginative, and boring. Anyone who expects this game to be any better (other than graphically) than "a PS2 rpg", as the writer suggests....is a tad naive.