Lost Odyssey

[Gwendo]

I'm tempted to try X360's Lost Odyssey, a turn based jRPG.

Anyone tried it? What are your opinions?

 

[Andhaira]

IMo it looks fantastic. I only saw /played the first battle.

The grafix and presentation are outstanding; its amazing what they can do with teknology these days.

It does suffer form the over played kEwLness!!!! of the heroZ but if you can look aside that it appears to offer deep and staisfying gameplay. I dunno about the story though since that would reaquire me to actually pklay it for a while (I don't have xbox360)

I say get it, spend the weekend on it and let us know what you think.

 

[psycojester]

From what i've heard it looks pretty but is absolute shit and has awful loading times.

 

[Texas Red]

Xbox360 has loading times?

 

[ghostdog]

I hear It's more of an old school JRpg with TB combat that requires a LOT of time to finish. It looks a bit too flashy and cutey but that's to be expected from big-budget jrpg titles. This seems to be the big move from microsoft to gain some of the jrpg audience of the PS. Of course when the new FF comes out, all the junkies are gonna buy a ps3... Try it If it's your cup of tea, I know I would if I had an XBOX360.

 

[Annonchinil]

Gametrailers stated that it does not have the depth of Mass Effect.

 

[POOPERSCOOPER]

It looks ridiculously bad, a generic Final Fantasy clone because thats the only thing the developers know how to make. Supposedly most of the game is cinematics and not gameplay, sounds like fun.

 

[Kortalh]

I was thinking about getting it myself. I enjoy a good JRPG from time to time... particularly SNES-era ones. GameFAQs reviewers say that this game hearkens back to those glory days.

... not that GameFAQs reviewers are renown for their excellent taste and high intelligence. But what they described sounds appealing anyway.

 

[RK47]

ummm go play it if you like to be rewarded with cinematics for winning battles. That's the impression I get from my friend who kept gushing of the awesome flashbacks scenes.

it's a story of amnesiac immortal. Hope for a port coz i'm bored.

 

[Andhaira]

lol amnesiac immortal....planescape fanboyz should be all over this like a hippo on a hippy in heat!!

lol

 

[WalterKinde]

The reason it looks like a Final Fantasy clone is because the creator of the Final Fantasy series worked on it.
As for gameplay, lets see if you have played any FF/Square Enix games, you won't be surprised.
The game is not exactly breaking any new ground with innovation , however it is a major jrpg for the xbox so i guess that should mean something .
Its an interesting story with your typical big animated cut scenes at the appropriate places and it takes full advantage of the xbox next gen power but don't come to the game expecting say something in the realm of a sandbox rpg, like all jrpgs its a bit linear in that new areas etc only open up after the specific quest/cut scene has been activated or done.

 

[slipgate_angel]

Someone said that it was shitty, but then again this is coming from the guy that refuses to play Fallout or Planescape.

It does look pretty sweet actually.

 

[Solaris]

I've been in two minds about getting this, mostly out of shear boredom right now. Played all the good stuff to death (Witcher, Motb, etc) and fancy a change of pace on the 360.

Not really a jrpg fan tho, but good ole fashioned turn-based I don't mind....hmm

 

[Draikin]

I finished it last week, it's an average game.

The "1000 year dreams" visual novels are great, a real novelist wrote them. But the actual story doesn't compare to the dreams, it's your average JRPG story .... in this case, immortal = forever adolescent. Combat system is pretty good but they fucked up with the first boss (most difficult part of the game). It's also quite strange how each disc is different:

disc1: introduction
disc2: dungeons crawling
disc3: FF-like events and narrating
disc4: side quests and final dungeon.

Once again, an Unreal Engine 3 game that is not a corridor shooter suffers from long loading times. With Mass Effect and Lost Odyssey loading screens, Epic stole 10 hours of my life. I fear Obsidian's Alien game will suffer the same fate.

 

[Lurkar]

Actually, I've heard it's incredibly good, especially for a jRPG, and has a noticable lack of BELTS AND ZIPPERS as well as stock and cliche character types (or at least the stock and cliche character types you're more likely to see in jRPGs).

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Better than any Final Faggotry, or any Square-Enix cringefest. It runs fairly flawlessly on Xenia.