The Official Lost Odyssey Thread

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Riachu said:

sBingoo said:
this is why i NEVER EVER look at reviews for JRPGS

When you attack a game just because its a genre you dont like.....


seriously the only jrpgs that get decent scores are FF this is rediculas 

 FF is not the only JRPG series that gets decent scores. i.e. every game from Level 5, Star Ocean, Shin Megami Tensei, Odin Sphere, Disgaea

Not quite, sir.

Odin Sphere got a 82%

Disgaea 2 got a 85%

Star Ocean: Till The End of Time got a 81%

Tales of Legendia got a 73%

Tales of Symphonia got a 85%

Every SMT game, sans Persona 3 got under a 83%, with Devil Summoner getting a 74%

Rogue Galaxy got a 83%

 

Here are the main 2 issues I, and probably others have with the western reviews of JRPGs:

#1. They are nowhere inline with Famitsu reviews. Ever. Rouge Galaxy (83%) got a 10/9/9/8 from Famitsu. Yet a similarly rated game, that is an ARPG, Dark Chronicle, got the SAME score from Famitsu, but 88% from the West. Why? Because it's an RPG.

#2. They base NOT on story, NOT on sound, NOT on graphics but ONLY on gameplay. Go look at the scores of Eternal Sonata and Blue Dragon in the east vs. West. Blue Dragon was hailed as a fantastic game, and got more than 37/40 in Famitsu, but a 76% in the West. Eternal Sonata wound up with a very respectible (but less) 35/40. Yet recieved 79.5% (and initially was around a 83%). And for the record, Eternal Sonata is crap compared to Blue Dragon in terms of 90% of the game.

I am a huge RPG fan. East and West. I enjoy both equally, and the West praises innovation, but punishes polishing of a style. The East praises both innovation and polishing.