After the announcement of any popular game, sales seem to skyrocket when it goes backward compatible on Xbox One. Today, the same was witnessed by Lost Odyssey. Lost Odyssey tells a great story. After a meteor wipes out the majority of forces from the nations of Uhra and Khent, Kaim joins Seth and Jansen to investigate the Grand Staff at the behest of the council of Uhra. The story follows this premise and offers many twists and turns.
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.
Hopefully we can see a sequel. Shame it won't be multiplatform because this franchise deserves every sale it can get. Shame Hironobu Sakaguchi hatred for Ken Kutaragi got in the way last gen. I thought he would have calmed down after he left but nothing.
This site is always misleading with these amazon sales. The sales didn't increase 2000% it's position on the amazon sales charts did and seeing how it was far at the bottom this doesn't really tell you anything.
http://arstechnica.com/gami...
PS3 sales once went up 641 000%. This is a click bait site for Xbox fanboys.
And who said JRPG doesn't matter, huh ? Yes, I know Lost Obyssey is very popular Xbox 360 game. But it show that Japan video game industry is very important as America Video Game industry.
I would definitely support the purchase just to see a sequel. good stories should never get left behind in the shadows.
Considering it's previous Amazon rank was #6,255 and it only went up to #233 it likely went from 3-5 copies a day to 60-100? lol I hate these "__________ sales increased __%" articles. They are click bait to make sales seem more impressive than they really are.