Hello readers, writers, gamers and ranters! I'm here to bring you a small update of mine on a game that I am currently working on beating and that game is Blue Dragon, exclusive to the Xbox 360.
For those of you who may know, Blue Dragon is a game that is about 3 years old and is a JRPG produced by Mistwalker, the company behind another JRPG titled 'Lost Odyssey'. Now, if you look up Blue Dragon on Gamespot, you will see that it recieved a score of 6.0. Now, I hope you guys don't only check just Gamespot for reviews, because Blue Dragon has an average score of 78%. (That information can be checked and read here.) It's actually not a bad game at all in my opinion. It's a typical RPG, yes, but that doesn't mean it's bad. The graphics have a nice cartoony, cel shaded feel to them and let's not forget famed DBZ creator Akira Toriyama designed the characters himself. So in the graphics area, I give praise to Blue Dragon. The music is really great as well. It's not typical Final Fantasy music, which is great. I mean don't get me wrong. I love the music and composure in the Final Fantasy series, but to have a change of pace from that in Blue Dragon, is actually quite nice suprisingly. :) So for music, Blue Dragon is a winner. The story, well, i'm not totally sure. I just started playing, so i'm only a few hours in and still on the first disc. (There is 3 of them, for those of you who are unaware.) It seems good so far, but I have yet to be sucked in to the point where I can't put the controller down. So if I had to judge based on about 4 hours of play, i'd say it's not bad. Not good, but not bad either. The gameplay. The gameplay is good so far. There has been a couple problems for me, but it is definetly good! You see. You have the option to search nearly every nook and cranny of the game and that's good and bad. It's good, because you'll constantly find gold, exp, items and other goodies. But that's also very bad, because if you get tired of searching everything in a big room and you decide to stop because all you are getting is gold after gold after gold after gold, you could end up missing a really good equip item or even a new spell or something. So to dominate this game... well it takes perseverance. A whole lot of it. Even for hardcore JRPG veterans such as myself. But combat is very fun, even though it's basically traditional JRPG. The spells and attacks that your characters use look great and they've thrown in a small little timing game when you're casting spells to reward you if you've done it correctly. It isn't much, but it helps make it a little more interesting. I've never really been bored by JRPG combat though, so if you're one of those people who is or has, well this shouldn't be too bad for you. Haha. But uh... yeah. That searching thing and the not so strong story are my only complaints to be had so far.
So as of right now, Blue Dragon gets about an 8.5 from me. That is very much subject to change though, especially if the story really starts to pick up. Expect a Blue Dragon review from me sometime after I finish it up. I'll keep you guys updated. So yeah. I hope you all enjoyed my little Blue Dragon rant and I look forward to seeing you all on my next major update. Thank you all for reading and for those who comment, THANK YOU! You guys are great. Truly great. :D Happy gaming!
Links
A link to Gamespot's review for Blue Dragon can be read here.
A link to Gamespot's video review for Blue Dragon can be seen here.
A link to Gamespot's HD video review for Blue Dragon can be seen here.
A link to 'Add' Blue Dragon to your tracking or wish list can be found here.
A link to purchase Blue Dragon from Amazon.com, brand new can be found here.