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.
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.
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.
This is come from a hughe JRPG fan though :D
EGM is not biased to sony or x-box.
They hate all games equally.
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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.
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??