Xbox 360 is suddenly lighting up retail tills in Japan. Pre-orders began for the company's Blue Dragon bundle yesterday with many retailers reporting a sell-out
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.
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.
THere you go. Content is coming, with Blue Dragon and Lost Oddyssey in place, Japanese are feeling @ home on the machine I guess! DOAX2 add it with it soon and they're done.
PS3 only having 100k machines @ launch in Japan? Damn... Japanese will be buying first Wii massively and the 360 now kicking sales in higher gears. Are they in for a surprise this time?
That's true, lots and lots of japan orientated games are comming out for the system(X360), which can only help the 360.
Thats definitely the first bit of good news for M$ from Japan.....like I said and I'll keep saying it, the 360 does not need to "win" in Japan, because to be blunt....it can't, its still the outsider, but if it can have a respectable market share then it will be very good for M$ in the long run.....the only way for M$ to continue to grow in Japan is by continuing to get more famous Japanese dev's like they have now, or at the very least get those guys they have now started on some great titles for next year.
nuff said