Lost Odyssey is....

a good game. I spent alot of time with it last night, and I must say I like it alot. All the negative things I've read about this game never even crossed my mind once I started playing it. The load times were not bad at all for me. Battles took a couple seconds to load(4-6 secs), and if there were any framerate issues....I didnt even notice. The dreams are very well written and add alot of depth to the character. As for the random battles....in some places I could have used more. People like me (I'm 25) who grew up of the FF's of old will have no problem with this game. Try going through a cave on the moon in FF2 for snes and see how far you get before you want to kill the nearest living thing. And running away....not an option when you drop 30 G's WORTH OF GOLD!!! Anyway, in conclusion, fans of jrpg's will more than likely be able to take alot out of this game experience. I highly recommend it.

PS. Uematsu has delivered once again. That is all.

The true Turn based RPG's as of late are REALLY punishing you for running from battles now,

Enchanted Arms cost you HUGE VP for running and now LO is costing major green.

a good game. I spent alot of time with it last night, and I must say I like it alot. All the negative things I've read about this game never even crossed my mind once I started playing it. The load times were not bad at all for me. Battles took a couple seconds to load(4-6 secs), and if there were any framerate issues....I didnt even notice. The dreams are very well written and add alot of depth to the character. As for the random battles....in some places I could have used more. People like me (I'm 25) who grew up of the FF's of old will have no problem with this game. Try going through a cave on the moon in FF2 for snes and see how far you get before you want to kill the nearest living thing. And running away....not an option when you drop 30 G's WORTH OF GOLD!!! Anyway, in conclusion, fans of jrpg's will more than likely be able to take alot out of this game experience. I highly recommend it.

PS. Uematsu has delivered once again. That is all.

seeddrmmr

I thought it was funny how there is a character named "Sed" who I think is a pilot or captain or something.( I quickly flipped through the manual). Kinda similar to the Cid that is in every FF game.

As far as this being your first jrpg....its hard to say if you'll like it. I would rent it first and see.

This is a very cliched very derivative game. Like all JRPGs are, and most other games. You can only shoot an alien so many times for so many reasons (*cough Halo cough*).

The point is that it is a well made game with a great cast of characters, a good plot, music, quality graphics and a solid combat system. Everything isn't good, not is it superb, but just great. So it's not groundbreaking, but clearly a game worth playing, I'm glad I went to get my copy last night.

7.5 might be a little low, and Kevin Van Ord definetely blew the techncal issues out of the water (like he did with Mass Effect), but it's not a 9.0 game. Solid 8 to 8.5 for sure though.

Second best RPG this generation behind Mass Effect.

The graphics look amazing...

what did you think of the graphics ?

to geof

The only times i ever ran away in rpgs that I can recall were times when I forgot to heal after a battle and almost got killed or something like that...fighting bosses underleveled can be a pain, so I never really did. Oh and I was talking about the penalty for running away on old games like ff2, also.

Enchanted Arms got a 7.0

Eternal Sonata got a 8.5

Lost Oddyssey gets a 7.5?

Feels like a 9ish to me, but then again, I don't have a PHD in game reviewing. I guess I'll just leave it to the professionals.

Naw someone must have been drunk or angry to give it a score like that.

The graphics are.. eh.. some of the time, and other times they're pretty good. Alot of the character animations seem stiffer than they should, especially after playing DMC4. I mean, Seth's hair is just horrible.

The load times are not an issue, like every reviewer is saying. I'm thinking the review build is buggy. I've not waited longer than 5 seconds for a battle to give me menu commands. Only seen a few frame-rate hitches. Some of the music getsrepetitive, but the battle music is pretty good. The voices are well done, so far. The 1000 years of dreams stories are better than I thought they'd be, and touch well on the subject of immortality. Giving me Planescape jitters..

Jansen is awesome, Kaim is a dick, Seth is annoying.. in a good JRPG girl way. Kaim runs like a retard Got it yesterday, the packaging was almost insulting, but nonetheless, I've played 6 hours already. Heh. Little upset you cant grind, but I'm glad it's more difficult than JRPGs have tended to be lately. All in all, it's better than a 7.5, easily, (even if the technical problems were as bad as GS said, it still wouldn't deserve a 7.5). Easily the best JRPG I've played since Dragon Quest VIII/FFX.

The graphics are.. eh.. some of the time, and other times they're pretty good. Alot of the character animations seem stiffer than they should, especially after playing DMC4. I mean, Seth's hair is just horrible.

The load times are not an issue, like every reviewer is saying. I'm thinking the review build is buggy. I've not waited longer than 5 seconds for a battle to give me menu commands. Only seen a few frame-rate hitches.

Haeravon

Seth's hair is pretty bad, you're right. But I've not seen a lot of problems with animation smoothness.

Where did you see your frame rate problem? I saw it ONCE in the opening fight with all of the Khent soldiers.