Lost Odyssey reaches 800k

[Impulsivity]

Bitmap Frogs said:

Impulsivity said:

 I couldn't even make it through disc one with the stilted dialogue, the badly animated characters and the bland and sometimes awful combat. It wasn't the WORST game I've ever played but it was pretty damn bad.

 

More like you don't like classic turn based jrpgs. Guess you won't enjoy dragon quest battle systems neither...

 

   I loved Final Fantasy VII, X, X-2, Shadow Hearts Covenant, Shadow Hearts from the New World, Persona 3, Xenogears....dozens more on top of that.  I played the first dragon warrior on the NES at 4 and loved it.  I've been playing plenty of turn based JRPGs ever since.  Its not that I don't like the genre, its that Lost Odyssey is a bad game.  The render isn't bad, but the animation is horrid even in the cutscenes (perhaps especially in the cut scenes), the combat doesn't add anything interesting, the characters are poorly designed and uninteresting.  The only good thing (and its really good) is the text stories you get periodically.  They are really interesting and well written.  Not well written enough to make it worth continuing to play through the game to get to them though. 

   Loving JRPGs makes me hate Lost Odyssey all the more.  It's painful to see Final Fantasy made so badly when you love Final Fantasy type games.  LO makes FFIX look like an absolute gem.

    And the "active" battle system in LO was done better ten years ago in a game called the Legend of Dragoon if you're going to point to that as a type of innovation.  It was also done much better in the Shadow Hearts games.

 

   I don't hate ALL games on MS systems, I liked KOTOR, Mass Effect, Jade Empire, Oblivion and Bioshock a ton, of course they were all better on PC (like every xbox game thats any good).  As for JRPGs no, I have not seen a single exceptional 360 JRPG.  The closest was Eternal Sonata which would probably barely crack the top 20 JRPGs if it was on the PS2 maybe beating out wild arms 4/5 by a nose.  The so called JRPG advantage would be more meaningful if there was more quality then quantity.  I doubt any of you can honestly say that Lost Odyssey would have been even remotely competitive if it wasn't in a generation starved for JRPGs, its not quite Epemeral Fantasia bad (the first JRPG for PS2 which was HORRID beyond all belief) but it was not worthy of any praise or hype at all.