1UP Reviews Blue Dragon: 6.5

Microsoft's Final Fantasy? Sorry, not even close. Slow down, folks. Let's adjust those expectations right here, right now: Blue Dragon is a decent roleplayer. But it's no "system seller." And sorry, but it can't hold Final Fantasy's jock. Not by a long shot.

[WilliamRLBaker]

I for one hate final fantasy since the 7th one, so...Ill just have to play it for my self and see how it is. I'll certianly bet its better then final fantasy 7-10, and x2, and 11 and 12.

cloud: are you speaking english? First Off I hate final fantasy 7-10, final fnatasy 11, and final fantasy 12, as well as x-2 the games sucked.

by the way I own final fantasy 7-10, x-2, 11, 12, i've played and beaten them all.

I own an 360, ps3, an wii..and every major system for the past 20 years:) so thank you very much. but blue dragon will be better then all those games i've mentioned.

clouds 2nd reply: dude speak better english. I have no idea what your talking about.
oh and by the way...CUSTOMIZING weapons was around LONG Before FF10, Status affects like dark, silence...ect we're AROUND ALOT LONGER then final fantasy, you do know that most every thing that final fantasy has is stolen from D&D right? pretty much final fantasy 1 was D&D easy type with a japanese made storyline.

[cloud360]

its funny how u sed last time u hate it till the 6th all of em after 6 r crap to u right.

if it wer on 360 itd be different right......

Blue Dragon isnt even close to FF. Maybe close to FF1 but thats all.

[cloud360]

s*it i forgot if u hate FFX u wont like this game. coz Blue Dragon stole a lot from tht. Like customising your own weapons. and using items to add poison, dark, silence effect e.t.c

[Evoluti0n]

'customising your own weapons. and using items to add poison, dark, silence effect e.t.c'

As far as I know, ALL RPG's, for the most part, use items to add effects like you stated. So, if you really want to get technical about it, you could say that ALL RPG's stole from FF1, or whatever the 1st RPG was.

So, before you come on here bad mouthing a game, because it's not on YOUR system, go do some research so you don't look like a total fanboy.

Oh, and sorry you can't reply to this, seeing as you only have 2 bubbles, and their used up. Ooops!

And you also spelled customising wrong, it's 'customizing.'

[The Wood]

good to see that despite what a review says william will get it anyway which is strange since he loves to shove games scores down ps3 fans throats like we should just leave them on the shelves sometimes. I personally thought ff7 was the best like many others but each to their own

Evoluti0n, don't be son anal about the spelling of the word customise as its spelt that way in some parts of the world. Peeps in the uk spell color, colour and many english UK words like organisation have their 's's changed to 'z's in the US. (being anal also, i know)
english is not everybody's first language on this site which is pleasing.

I believe william thinks ign are one of the better gaming websites and trust their opinions but he trusts his own opinion more than ign's and thats how we should all be because we know what we like better than anybody else.

[WilliamRLBaker]

I think the wood, that the reason I do that is because to cows, every game released on the ps3 is perfect, and must be AAA no matter what.

They hype games constantly, yet when a game scores low they deny it and say its conspiracy, Cows being the largest body of fanboys *since the user base for ps1, and ps2 is so big* deserve this I think, but then again I never make excuses for games that score low, I will get blue dragon, and I will get lair, and I will get warhawk no matter what i've said about such games.

Because unlike most people around here i am a true gamer, I enjoy a game for what it is, regardless of scores...ect

I only get on people because they hype soemthing, then I laugh in there faces when it doesn't come out to be what they hyped.

Maybe if fanboys stop being stupid, and saying its conspiracy that all these games on the ps3 score low then people wouldn't consider me a fanboy..but then again I could care less if people think im a fanboy, I spend only about half an hour to an hour on this site, the rest of the time I'm either working, playing games...ect

[The Wood]

your just more anti sonyfanboy than anti sony which is understandable but it goes both ways on n4g. not sure what came first (chicken or the egg) but for every nasim theres a mart and so on.

We all hype games but ill add that some games get hyped because they actually look good. an example is vampire reign on the 360 was so underhyped and thats because 360 guys just didn't believe it was gunna be that good which it seems it isn't where as bioshock got a ton of hype and rightfully so (stella). As gamers we learn to sense what games may turn out to be stella and this is why some games get hyped more than others. The game folklore is also a game that wasn't hyped much by sony fans AND its a 1st party game (not sure how well it will fair because it hasn't had an english review yet) so i think so it truly goes both ways.

[WilliamRLBaker]

for every nasim theres a mart? nah i view mart and nasim in the same league both are fanboys and fanboys but. As for the chicken before the egg...It was neither, It was the slime that came first...I.E acids and proteins combining for the first time to create the first microbes...ect evolution...ect

As for that I dont hype games, Oh I'll say im gonna love that game, But I never for the most part say every ones gonna love that game, Theres no way that game can't score under AAA, The last game i said was gonna be amazing beyond my self was halo 3, but thats just a fact, we've got all this past experience, halo 1, halo 2 both we're amazing to alot of people, both got great scores, and both sold multimillions.

and I'm not even talking about hyping games, because hyping games doesn't make you a fanboy, A fanboy is someone who hypes a game soley and exclusively for the fact its on an given system.

My current fav systems are the 360 and the Wii, the only reason I dont play the ps3 as much is because in reality and all fanbys can sit and say no, But there just aren't any games worthwhile for me on that system, The only thing remotely close to it is ninja gaiden sigma, and even then i've all ready played that game to death when it was on the xbox, and I downloaded the hurricane packs and took part in the master ninja tournaments (of which i never won any thing, lol some people on those games got 50X the scores i managed)

Too many people on this site feel I am a fanboy, regardless of the fact that if you look at my posting it only takes part when its a fanboy riot, When you have these articles putting down hd dvd, or 360, or saying this game will be great...ect based upon nothing, and you have all these fanboys making fanboyish statements, The only and simple reason it seems that my atks are aimed at sony fanboys is because SOny fanboys outnumber ninty, and microsoft fanboys, Based soley upon the fact that the sony user base is bigger, People like mart...ect have more then enough sony fanboys atking them, then for me to butt in and atk them for they're fanboy bias.

We could say I fight on the side of the lil guy, which right now happens to be the xbox fanboys, because they are geting the worse press as of late, and are sorely outnumbered.

But regardless of that i am long winded:) and who cares.

[The Wood]

at least try resistance, you call yourself a gamer. i personally hate fps's on consoles. i prefer pc for fps's but resistance is the shout and i was pleasantly surprised. motorstorm is also kool since you love physics. Gamers try gamers buy.... to let the silly element of fans stop you from enjoying something you say you own makes you become part of the silly element. From what i remember prior to the ps3's launch there was a ton of bad press and i can honestly say if you were defending the 'smaller guy'at that time, i didn't see it. Your chicken egg bit killed me. thanks for the morning chuckles though

[Evoluti0n]

I'll retract that spelling comment, but the rest remains so.

[Loudninja]

This is come from a hughe JRPG fan though :D

[AllroundGamer]

i am also a JRPG fan, and i would even give it a 6/10...

[DrPirate]

EGM is not biased to sony or x-box.

They hate all games equally.

Fanboy wars: Over!

[SuicidalTendencies]

I fail to see how this was competing with Final Fantasy. There isn't even a Final Fantasy game out to compete with. I always thought of this game as a Chrono Trigger type game.

[Bloodmask]

It looks more like Dragonquest. Almost just like Dragonquest actually. I would say that lost Odyssey is what is going after the FF crowd.

6.5 is a crappy score so this game is probably just average. My favorite genre is RPG though so I am still interested.

It is very strange though bc Famitsu gave this game a 9.7. Perhaps bc it is more Japanese oriented??

[WilliamRLBaker]

1up.com sux. *egm is a good magazine* but 1up.com has all ways sucked, which is why gamespot and ign kills 1up in user numbers.

Famitsu is a good magazine too, they've all ways been accurate with their scores.

[Ri0tSquad]

I like the demo alot and the last RPG game i played was Final Fantasy X

[TheFamilyGuy]

When was this game in competition with Final Fantasy?

Plus, 1up's review is on the lower side of Blue Dragon's reviews:
http://www.metacritic.com/g...

Lost Odyssey is the Japanese RPG game that is expected to be exceptional - Blue Dragon has been out for awhile in japan, so we all knew it was great but not outstanding.

[akaFullMetal]

this sucks for blue dragon, i think they also got a 5 from another magazine, maybe egm or gameinformer or somethng, so far it looks to be just an ok game

[Darkiewonder]

lol.

Lost Odyssey Yes.
Eternal Sonata would be along the lines of the Tales series.

[Goshyujin_Sama]

I love RPG's and well to be quite honest, 360 has none worth my time. So this game will at least give me a reason to dust off my 360 and play it seeing as to how I cant get Blue Dragon on PC or PS3. Truly an exclusive 360 title that id rather play on 360 than any other system because the devs had 360 in mind when they built the game. So one up $hitted on this game, I dont care, they dont decide what I will and wont play. I for one am happy to see some freaking diversity on 360, im sick of the loooooooooooooooooooooong line of FPS after FPS. Thank god I can play something else now. A welcomed change of pace, and if this game plays anything like the demo then im happy. Also it delivers over 50hrs of gameplay so that warrants my $60. I never thought this game was going to be able to compete with any FF game, but then again nothing really can. Comparing a new ambitious game to a classic is just unfair. Its like when people compare HS to GOW and say HS just sucks compared to it. Ok wow HS is a new game an it should not be marked down because of other great synonymous titles. And the same goes for Blue Dragon. If you pick the game up looking for the same experience you got with FF then you are looking for the wrong thing. You should pick the game up ready to experience a new adventure and excited to have a note worthy RPG on 360. This game deserves more than what it got from this reviewer, srry to say but 1up can piss off on this one.

[ngg12345]

Those are my favorite rpg's of the year. Awesome gameplay and story.

[WilliamRLBaker]

you love JRPGS not rpgs, if you loved rpgs then you'd play the rpgs that have been on 360, of which there has been so far like 3 i believe, all of which we're worthwhile in their own right, If you loved rpgs, you'd play mediocre,great,bad rpgs.

[ngg12345]

I wasn't paying attention to blue dragon that much, because I really never enjoyed dragon quest series (similar artstyle and didn't care for demo). But it really had lowered my expectations of Lost Odyssey. It isn't that there will be much of a difference gameplay wise due to they were in development at the same time.

[gogators]

despite the reviews I will still buy it. It's been too long since I last got a chance to play a JRPG that wasn't on a handheld system.

[TeaDouble_E]

this game should of been called Blue Abortion. The idea of this game was a mistake same goes for the existence .

[ParaDise_LosT]

"Microsoft's Final Fantasy" about BD...I get sick to my stomach...
BD could get 9.0-10 and it still won't be MSs FF....
the game isn't aimed @ the masses...just japan....
Lost Odyssey has the best chance of being MSs FF....
why?.....cuz.....
Lost....
Odyssey..
is...AWESOME!

[RINGOFDEATH]

Folklore is amazing.

[DJ]

Lost Odyssey is going to turn out.

[JokesOnYou]

probably as bad as Lair, or Warhawk, or HS, but chances are it might turn out to actually be a great game since MOST of the big games micro touts actually do deliver unlike what sony overpromises and usually underdelivers.

[rhood022]

it's going to be a nightmare. Trust me. I mean, MS and rpgs? Come on. Blue Dragon sucks (1up told me so, and so did Edge) and by the use of transitive property, I know that Lost Odyssey will suck as well. I mean, look at the formula I worked out: Blue Dragon (MS rpg)= sucks. Therefore, if LO = MS rpg, it will also suck.

I actually have no basis in my assumption since I haven't played it myself and formed my own opinion. I've only had other people telling me what to think about it and that's good enough for me. but hey, I'm not a real gamer and that's how I make all my game buying and game playing decisions.
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This bit of sarcasm is directed at the twit above me. Thank you for your time.

[ngg12345]

Every game microsoft hyped on that system flopped, except halo, halo 2, and crimson skies.

Jade Empire
Brute Force
Fable
kung fu chaos
azurik
blinx
blood wake
night caster
oddworld
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus

were all flops

[DJ]

I'll be nice to the child though.

RHood, I've already seen the gameplay footage for Lost Odyssey, and it looked very unimpressive. Just based off of the SNES-style battle system I think it's safe to say that the title has a very weak foundation, and will most likely flop review-wise as well.

BTW, everyone that's played the Beta of Warhawk can attest that it's one of the best multiplayer games every created. Lair most likely deserved its ratings, and I am waiting on a demo in order to make my own decision regarding purchasing the title. I love the Heavenly Sword demo though, and I'm definitely picking that one up as soon as possible.

[rhood022]

@DJ

i was just being sarcastic towards JOY. It usually trolls the boards talking bad about every PS3 game and its argument is based on other people's opinions of games. I was just pointing out how uninformed it is to make an assumption without actually playing the aforementioned game and forming your own opinion. I do admit the name calling was out of line though.

As for Lost Odyssey, I'm going to reserve judgement on it until I can play a demo or the full version. I love this cabal of game designers that were behind Blue Dragon and are behing Lost Odyssey and I have high hopes for at least one of their games succeeding.

[chasegamez]

this is for japan

[UltramanJ]

All of the neon lights surrounding the Mistwalker name, and "from the creator of Final Fantasy" moniker couldn't hide the fact that this game was developed by Artoon, one of the worst developers around (just look at their resume of crappy games). Anyway, claiming this to be Mistwalker's "Dragon Quest" is an insult to Dragon Quest.

[kooplar]

I´ll just wait for lost odyssey then
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while playing blue dragon :D

[ParaDise_LosT]

the vid is beta.....and sakaguchi said that everything is subject to change...

[PS3Rebel]

that g@y a$$ game???

what part dont u understand? a stupid blue dragon giving u the thumbs up when u win or the fact its on like a zillion disc hahahahaha

jokes 4 u...ur such a follower - lair/HS/warhawk suck hahahaha

warhawk = beat the halo3 beta - every1 said it was 20 times better

lair - i want 2 see ur breakdown60 do what lair does..

HS - got a low score due to its last appeal - big sh@t - what do u expect from these type of games - u play it - its amazing - u wait for part 2

lol honestly kid lies to himself everyday and gets a$$fukd by MS for free

this game looks and is trash...360 just cant do RPG - its that simple

[testerg35]

And there's the difference between Sony and MS fans. When a site/publication gives a PS3 game a bad score, its "MS paid them off". MS fans pretty much says oh well... Sony fans always have an excuse.

[7ero H3LL]

It must be hard to talk...with Sony's c*ck in your mouth!

[7ero H3LL]

"When man comes to claim another's crown, and is found to be wanting (be it by merely trying to measure up to anothers shadow), he will fall to the wayside and become nothing more than the passing wind, as the King proceeds to make his way through the mindless masses"

It's an otaku's way of shutting himself off from the notion that out there are greater things than what he knows. I'm giving this game a 10/10 for the mere fact that Hironobu had the guts to try and take on his "Brutus". Square stands now as a company capitalizing off of their pass success, and although 7 was dear and 8 near to me they have since left their old fans for a new generation. I hapilly salute them on their endevors, but they now stray away from ME. And I simply will not support them any further.

Blue Dragon looks and plays a lot better than a good portion of games out there; it's remarkably smooth in its presentation (I don't think I've ever seen such clean lines in any game before it) and its quality is superb. I also like its many twists, including enemies that appear on screen and being able to dodge them or even attack them (or be pre-empted BY them) before battle. I think the cast is your typical anime ensemble, and MaruMaru kinda look like a moogle, but it's Akira Toriyama we're talking about here: a well respected artist and one of the industry's better ones at that. Tetsuya Nomura is single handedly responsible for the attrocious Advent Children (sweet animation though) and that's what you get when art isn't backed by story. Blue Dragon's a finely crafted tale, delivering on what may be to some as a "beaten horse": the struggle between good and evil, but jRPGs are like that.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

This one is not really new... EGM have made it review like this (in the same infamous Lair review edition)... And, most times I see, 1up and EGM don't disagree on reviews...

Anyway, you have the demo, play it and decide all for yourself. If you can't decide, just rent the game and then buy it or not.