IGN Review of Blue Dragon- Not that much higher than EGM...

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ClaudeLv250 said:
I'm finding a lot of bashing and/or disappointment coming from the people that don't realize that Blue Dragon was created from the ground up and for all intent and purposes to be a strictly by-the-books JRPG experience. It's not supposed to appeal to the Final Fantasy crowd, it's supposed to be drawing in those hardcore Japanese Dragon Quest fans. Anyone who's played DQ knows that that's a series that pretty much refuses to evolve.

So it's not really a surprise to me that Blue Dragon turned out to be such a standard RPG. After all, it's supposed to be the answer to Dragon Quest (not Final Fantasy, IGN), and 360 doesn't have any really old-school styled turn based grind fests. So if they were going to pick a formula, why not one that works? Better yet, why not one that has undoubtly proven Japan to be its bitch? Blue Dragon was made first and foremost for Japan, and judging by its success there, it worked. The game coming over to our shores is just a bonus. It wasn't really meant for us...

This is Mistwalker's answer to DQ but it doesn't match it, Lost Odyssey is their answer to FF and is unlikely to match it either.