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DMeisterJ on 25 December 2008
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mrstickball said:
DMeisterJ said:
There was no need for MS to have Mistwalker anymore. Aside from Lost Odyssey, they didn't have a hit, and MS has SE and Namco under their thumb (read: checkbook), so it's no reason for Microsoft to pay for crappy JRPGs, when they can pay for good ones.

Mistwalker was this over-hyped company that delivered two 360 JRPGs that were okay, and 'good', but nothing astoundingly good like the upcoming SO4 or FFXIII, and then they tried to do the DS route, but found little success. And given how much MS has been trimming the fat off of their studios, it was bound to happen.

Goodbye Cry On, whatever you were.

So how much did you play of Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey?

Last I checked, the majority of VGCers put Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey near the top of the JRPG list for the X360. Blue Dragon has done something no other IP has done in Japan, and Lost Odyssey has done something no other JRPG has done in the West. Both are great titles.

At any rate, this is very dissapointing, but I guess AQ is to blame for this....Maybe if the game showed merit another studio (feel plus?) could pick it up. I hope MW still makes a 360 title or two, as both of their entries are great JRPGs. Lets hope that the new title Sakaguchi talked about a few months ago will be announced in short order.

Well, being at the "top of the list" for 360 JRPGs, is pretty easy, with TLR and IU not being as good as them, and them only being bested by ToV.  It's not like it's a hundred JRPGs on the 360.  Being at the top of ten isn't that awesome.  >_>  Compared to any JRPG in general, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey are pretty low on the list critically, and commercially. 

Any game can look good based on the standards you use.  Not saying the games aren't good, but compared to JRPGs in general, they're pretty crap, but based on 360 JRPGs, they're okay.

Of Lost Odyssey, I played the first disc, and got pretty far (apparently) into the second disc.  I played through the first disc of BD.  But let's not mince words here.  The games aren't that awesome, compared to other JRPGs.  I'm sure you'll admit that too.