I read all these terrible reviews for the game, but I was able to get it at Gamestop for 15 dollars, so I thought "what the hey? I'll buy it." I thought it was really similar to Dragon Quest 8 in terms of the town and village designs and the way the game progressed. And I liked Dragon Quest 8. I know this game is a couple years old and no one talks about it anymore, but I thought I would say something cause I like this forum community.
Blue Dragon
Game » consists of 6 releases. Released Aug 28, 2007
An epic RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi that follows the journey of three friends - Shu, Kluke and Jiro - as they use newfound magical powers to challenge the evil, tyrannical wizard Nene.
Am I crazy for liking Blue Dragon?
It's a game done in the classic JRPG style, almost like a PS1 game, on steroids. For what it is, it's a mother beautiful game. Enjoy!
The reason the designs are similar is because of the awesome Akira Toriyama. I don't think I've seen a game that he did art design for that was bad.
It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it.
If you're playing with the sound off, no, it's a pretty reasonable game and noone can say no to Toriyama's artwork.
If you have the sound on however, you are in fact, insane.
" @Akeldama: Are you sure? I thought Sakaguchi left Square because he didn't want to deal with Sony anymore. And isn't Mistwalker funded by Microsoft? Also, the game is like, REALLY old. Why the hell bring such an old game over? "im not 100% sure, but it was talked about in PTOM a few issues back.
Sakaguchi-san's two Mistwalker productions are excellent and were grossly underrated. They were traditional. They were supposed to be. Of their kind, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are two of the best JRPGs I've ever played; and I've been a devout RPG fan since I received a copy of Dragon Warrior with my Nintendo Power subscription. The way I see it, they were just another two victims of the Overhyped Curse; just like Too Human.
" @luce said:they spoke about it in PTOM a few months ago. Its happening." i really liked itNo, that is not true. "
@Akeldama said:" @Bucketdeth said:is this true? "" It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it. "its coming to the PS3 "
" @JJOR64 said:Show me. Give me a link so I can believe it." @luce said:they spoke about it in PTOM a few months ago. Its happening. "" i really liked itNo, that is not true. "
@Akeldama said:" @Bucketdeth said:is this true? "" It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it. "its coming to the PS3 "
Wow I didn't think anyone would respond to this so I didn't respond haha.
@StarFoxA: Duh. It's called a conversation though.
@JJOR64: Awesome! I'm glad you liked it a lot too!
@xyzygy: I brought it up because I got it a couple weeks ago and I beat it like 2 weeks ago. I just wanted to see a bit of discussion
Oh and to all the people slagging the sound, you are aware you can turn off the "Spoken text", right?
I thought it was pretty cool but I stopped playing it for some reason, probably due to another game.
Blue Dragon was so-so for me. The visuals were clean and sharp, although the blur effect was so high in some cases it made environments a little jarring (in my my humble opinion, most reviewers agree). The story was fun, classic Anime/Jrpg, so it was fine. The combat was decent fun and didn't take any risks, but was way too slow, and for reasons that didn't really make sense. The opening shot of the battle environment was way too long, and many of the attacks cinematics dragged on far too long as well without giving a sufficient amount of visual reward. As a guy who has played many Jrpg's, I would give it 3 stars. It was a fine game that just dragged it's heels alot when it didn't really need to.
Both Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon are published by MS game studios so neither will be coming to the PS3." @JJOR64 said:
" @luce said:they spoke about it in PTOM a few months ago. Its happening. "" i really liked itNo, that is not true. "
@Akeldama said:" @Bucketdeth said:is this true? "" It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it. "its coming to the PS3 "
" Yes you are. Anyone who likes that god-awful final boss music is crazy. "Seems somebody read my Takeshi's Challenge blog :P.
Yep, that's awesome. Maybe he was thinking of this:" @KaosAngel said:
This is the final boss song:" Yes you are. Anyone who likes that god-awful final boss music is crazy. "
"
Huh? You mean this song? Weird." @Video_Game_King: I think he is thinking of this song:
"
" @Video_Game_King: That's the song I posted. >_> "I know. Look at the title. "Best VGM." And that guy's the authority on great video game music. DO NOT DOUBT SUPRADARKY AND HIS SUPRANESS!!!
" @Video_Game_King: I guess that guy likes the song. He is entitled to his own opinion. "Wait, I thought you liked the song. Why are you phrasing it as if you didn't like the song? Or have pronouns betrayed me?
" @The_A_Drain said:" If you're playing with the sound off, no, it's a pretty reasonable game and noone can say no to Toriyama's artwork. If you have the sound on however, you are in fact, insane. "Is there something wrong with the soundtrack in this game or do you just hate Marumaro? "
No it's the voice acting, including but not exclusive to Marumaro.
" @Video_Game_King: The song is cool in a weird way.. I think "The Seal Has Broken" is better song though. "Same here.
" @Akeldama said:your asking me to link you to a magazine?" @JJOR64 said:Show me. Give me a link so I can believe it. "" @luce said:they spoke about it in PTOM a few months ago. Its happening. "" i really liked itNo, that is not true. "
@Akeldama said:" @Bucketdeth said:is this true? "" It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it. "its coming to the PS3 "
" @Akeldama said:just watchBoth Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon are published by MS game studios so neither will be coming to the PS3. "" @JJOR64 said:
" @luce said:they spoke about it in PTOM a few months ago. Its happening. "" i really liked itNo, that is not true. "
@Akeldama said:" @Bucketdeth said:is this true? "" It actually looked like a good game to me, I wanted to try it, but I sold my 360 before I could try it. "its coming to the PS3 "
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