Assemble a dream team of creative minds to fashion an RPG that incorporates some of the best the genre has to offer. Akira Toriyama's art transitions perfectly into 3D; the characters look like sculpted figurines wandering around a world built to scale. The boss theme (performed by Deep Purple's Ian Gillan) sounds out of place, but the music is otherwise appropriate and beautiful. The voice acting is also exceptionally good. Unless you're playing in HD, some of the text may be difficult to read. It never hampers the action, though.
I had it all wrong...Blue Dragon is awesome!
I bought this game a couple of days ago, along with Lost Odyssey, while they're on sale in the Xbox Store. I never had a 360 back in the day so I missed out on these games, so I'm glad that I'll finally be able to try them out soon on my Series S.
Yep, Blue Dragon, Lost Odyssey, and Gears of War were my favorite 360 games back when they first released.
no doubt. To this day it baffles me when this game gets hate. Sure it wasn't as epic as Lost Odyssey, but in it's own right it was a great game.
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.
Is there a chance that Lost Odyssey will be released on PS5? I really want to play it and Blue Dragon, too.
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.
Correction. Both Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey (as well as Infinite Undiscovery) started off as in-house developed projects that went third party after MS killed off their Japanese development studios.
Doesn't really have anything to do with what I said though 😂 Sakaguchi wrote them both
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.
Lost odyssey lost me when I started to realize my grinding to level up wasn't adding up. So I never picked it up again. I really really despise that.
Then you missed out on of of the best jrpgs ever made.
Did you at least reach the point where Jansen qas singing? 🥰
I really wish Mistwalker would remaster these games... they're too busy with mobile unfortunately.
The Summer Game Fest 2023 revealed a new Akira Toriyama game called Sand Land, and it has more potential for greatness than a new Blue Dragon would.
Imma call bs on this. Sorry a blue dragon sequel would be dope and much needed. While this one I'm sitting here trying to figure out if I'm interested. I'm kinda stuck on vehicular action. That's where it's losing me.
Why can’t we just get both? In this gamer world of ours, it seems like it’s always one or the other. Games like these seem like they would print money for these development studios if they released multiplatform.
dang... flood of bad reviews... then gamepro and GI give it good scores.. Heavenly Sword all over again lol
at $39.99
If the game is going to be anything like the demo then getting a 9/10 would seem about right.
RPG's not my style of game. Oblivion was cool though. The demo was not very good in my opinion. The last RPG that I have liked and finished was Zelda on NES. Dam that is sad. I have tried to branch out but I can't do it.
Hmmm, I was going to get this at launch but I am still playing bioshock. Also, there are some other games coming that I want to play a bit more so not sure I have the time to put in the 60 or so hours this game will require right now.
On the other hand we do have a 3 day weekend coming up and I hate to put this in the same get later pile with Two Worlds. Although that game is in the get later when cheap pile which is slightly different...Blue Dragon would be in the pile with FEAR and Call of Juarez which is games I really want to play but still havent gotten to yet due to other great games that came out at nearly the same time.