There was a time when Traditional turn-based Japanese role playing games were only developed for Nintendo consoles and Sony PlayStations.
Times have changed.
With Xbox 360 sales in Japan still struggling to eclipse the one-million mark, producer Hironobu Sakaguchi of Mistwalker game studio, and creator of the "Final Fantasy" series, has brought the genre back to Microsoft's console with "Lost Odyssey."
You play as Kaim, an immortal who has lived for over a thousand years. In the introduction to the game, you are fighting in an intense battle between Magic Republic of Uhra and Khent, when out of nowhere a huge meteor appears in the horizon and starts raining lava upon the battlefield - leaving no survivors besides you and another immortal named Seth.
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.
LO finally getting some loving I see. Great game. Love it.
Yep, loving this game so far.
Yes I must say its good but to say its the best RPG I wont agree Mass effect and Oblivion where also good. But I can say that LO is definitely great its one of the games which you can compare in quality of entertainment with Onimusha, Hitman Blood Money. I mean these games where great but all will not agree that they are AAA and but some would say that they are one of the best games ever made so is the case with LO.
I can definitely say if you have a 360 and Eternal Sonata and Blue Dragon didnt fulfilled your JRPG dreams this game will surely do it.
damn i really, really really want this game! it's probably the first game i get when i pick up my 360
I liked the idea of Odyssey from the start but i wasn't terrible keen that it was a turn based RPG.I bought this knowing there was every chance i just wouldn't be able to get on with it.
I can honestly say that i have now been converted to how satisfying turn base can be.Maybe it's this game though that has converted me.Give it a shot, like me you'll probably end up loving the hell out of LO