Anyone else playing Blue Dragon?

[elnino334]

My 2 cousins and I have it though I got it through gamefly while they bought it. I just got to the second disk last night and I am enjoying it quite a bit. I am sure some read my previous post about my cousin and I loving old school jrpg and this is no exception. The best part for me so far is the shadows and trying to build the characters the way I want. Was nice to compare with my cousin to see we had leveled our showdows completely different. The only shadow I picked up because of him was the one that grants you extra skills because is so useful eveyone should have it and level it up. The boss fights have been great with plenty of strategy including deaths etc thoguh I gotten the hang of it and haven't had much problems recently.

Though I got it through gamefly I may end up keeping it as I would like to run through it again on hard without searching everywhere and skipping as many battles as possible to see how I do once I know how all the shadows fit together etc.

In terms of the story it has been decent with again the usual jrpg drama though one thing to keep in mind is that the heroes are basically kids. I think the reviews knocked the story though if you play the game it is really nice especially because of the graphics. The game just looks amazing mainly silky smooth.

Again if you enjoy jrpg then give this puppy a try and for those that based their decisions on reviews it has gotten 90+ on a number of sites and publised magazines with most of the negative reviews focusing on the game not being "innovative". Also some reviews had me thinking the kid was going say " I never give up" every 2 sentences but after playing disk one for 17 hours he said 3 times early on but hasn't said since for about a good 10 or so hours. If your able to rent locally or gamefly please give it a try as I would hope it sells well because I want more games like this in the future.

A side note on the demo, it does a horrible job because it gives you EVERYTHING while you actually spend alot of time while playing leveling up and deciding what you want to level up etc. The demo basically removes the choices you would normally make while playing the game. The demo is basically only good to see what a shadow has to offer once it is maxed or lv 36 according to a faq I read.