360 RPG Opinions and Feedback

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Xbox live has two subscription plans Silver and Gold. Silver is the free plan you get regardless you have access to Xbox live regardless. Yes you can download demos, and download movies. Gold basically covers the online play. Anyway it shouldn't be a major concern for you since you get a free month of gold anyway no charge needed. So you are completely safe. You can download the demos for Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata out of the box.

I can speak only to Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey. I haven't tried Eternal Sonata. These two games are actually like half brothers. They share half the same elements. In my opinion Lost Odyssey had the better stand alone elements. The game is far more mature, and far more cerebral. Blue Dragon is more juvenile, and less complicated. Lost Odyssey is longer in the linear, but Blue Dragon is longer in its expanse.

You can beat Lost Odyssey in around sixty hours. You can best it in somewhere near a hundred. Blue Dragon can be beat in around fifty hours and can take somewhere around two hundred hours to best as long as you do not cheat. With all 360 games come achievements which function as bragging rights and end game. Lost Odyssey is a decent fellow in that regard getting eighty percent completion is easy enough. Blue Dragon is like a half witted bastard based entirely on leveling your characters eight times. Further more of the too Lost Odyssey is very linear while Blue Dragon is more open.

They are both great games, and they share quite a lot in common. There experiences are at different ends of the spectrum. They were almost designed as polar opposites. I recommend you try Lost Odyssey first if the presentation is to your liking then consider Blue Dragon the softer, gentler, eccentric cousin. The demo unfortunately wasn't the best demo from what I understand, but both games are easily over an eight in a ten point scale.

You might want to let your wallet make the decision for you. While Lost Odyssey is new and thus full price. Blue Dragon and Eternal Sonata have been out for quite some time. So you might be able to pick them both up for the price of a full game. Both appear to be retailing for around forty dollars so if you buy used you can probably get both for the price of a full game.