Infinite Undiscovery Review IGN 7.1/10

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Deviation59 said:

NeoRatt said:
Most JRPGs haven't scored great this generation.

The only valid comment I found was about the story being linear and sidequests not being tied in well.

Other then that, the reviewer was more talking about their own gaming prefences then they were rating this particular title as a JRPG.

I guess we will see when it comes out.

 

To be quite blunt, there haven't been any great JRPGs this generation. Lost Odyssey is the best of the bunch and while it's a decent title, it pales in comparisson to many RPGs of the PS2 generation.

 

It makes me sad, actually. I'm a big JRPG fan and it looks like FF XIII is still going to be the first big game in the genre this generation despite how many times it's been delayed. This could be the weakest generation for JRPGs in a long time.

I played both FFX and LO for the first time recently and played through them simultaneously and felt that LO was at least its equal and in many ways a superior game (better character development, dialogue etc). I suspect there is a certain element of nostalgia in any statement that says LO pales in comparison to many RPGs of the PS2 generation - afterall expectations have changed massively since then that one cannot reasonably use reviews as a comparison.