When the much-trumpeted New Xbox Experience finally arrived, it didn't just bring gamers those oh-so-adorable Avatars and the welcome option to install games to the hard drive. No, tucked way rather unceremoniously in the Games Marketplace was the long-promised Community Games section, bearing the fruits of Microsoft's lengthy flirtation with the world of amateur, indie and homebrew coding.
Eurogamer got a sneaky taste of what these games might entail back in February, when seven of them were given a brief preview on the boring old Xbox dashboard, but strangely none of these appear in the line-up of the full Community Games channel. Still, that doesn't mean the service has been slack. In the first week alone, over fifty new games have been added.
The recent release of Final Fantasy XV offers up a powerful reminder of the strength of the Japanese RPG. FF’s star might not be as high as it was in the late ‘90s, but the series is still an absolute powerhouse in terms of sales and brand recognition. At one point, it was considered a must-have for a console to have a Japanese RPG of its very own even in the West, and with Final Fantasy closely tied to its rival, Xbox had to look elsewhere. Enter Blue Dragon: an all-original game with an incredible pedigree.
How Blue Dragon came to be is arguably just as interesting as the game itself. The newly backwards compatible RPG is a cult Xbox 360 classic for good reason and is well worth a play even today, but the game also represents a fascinating period in Xbox history: the battle for Microsoft to conquer Japan.
Unfortunately, blue dragon skrewed the poop hard when it comes to storytelling and more importantly story pacing. Taking what should be a great game and making it simply 99% dungeon crawler.
Skewd the poop hard? LOL......Anyway I'd buy a console to play it (If I had not already done so). I'd also buy a console to play Blue dragon TWO! So mistwalker get to skewing up some more of that poop!
I liked the game more than LO. The Last Story however remains my fave Mistwalker game. Sadly the name was not Ironic for Mistwalker console games.
Weapon of Choice is Now Available on Steam.
Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, side-scroller in which each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths.
Pocket Gamer - No genre is as mindlessly bloody as the side-scrolling hack and slasher. Who knows how many trillions of goons have been butchered in the 2D confines of this most brutal of game types?
Gamevil's Colloseum is a side-on swords-and-sorcery epic full of death and gore, letting you indulge in plenty of senseless, pretext-less ultra-violence.
