The game didn't flop in Japan.
The Xbox360 did....

20% of the userbase buying a game can hardly be called a flop....

It's at 90K on VGC right now, and it wasn't even in Media Create's top 30 a single week in January, which means it's selling under 2000 a week, so it may be undertracked a little, but so little that it doesn't matter. It's sales are awful.

As far as advertisement in America, yeah, it's getting a commercial. Here it is:

I think it's an awful commercial to be honest. The song is horribly inappropriate for the game.  They could have used one of Uematsu's epics, but they put this crap in instead.  Fire the ad agency please Microsoft.

The only thing that I have to say is that they must be losing a lot of money on that game... Actually, the studio is probably not losing money because Microsoft is probably paying them to develop games for the japanese audience hoping that they could help them move more Xbox 360 in Japan. It's really a shame though as that game would have more suited the audience of the ps3. Same thing applys to games such as Blue Dragon or Eternal Sonata.

I gotta agree with Naz....that song just seemed totally off to me. I kinda spent the whole time thinking "wtf is with this song" instead of watching the video almost. I don't know, it probably would have been better to have more exciting music if they are set on not using any of the music from the game.

Most hadn't played a Final Fantasy title nor any other RPG for that matter. Final Fantasy VII was all hype plain and simple. The story was awful as was the materia system. At least I can see why people would like the materia system, the story is another matter. It was completely nonsensical. An RPG with a poor story, awful gameplay, weak characters, and crappy graphic is not deserving of the 9s and 10s it got from every gaming publication. Even FFVIII had the cool card game, X-2 at least had an interesting take on the jobs system, and XII....well...umm....hmm Matsuno is human everyone makes mistakes.

>Japanese don't buy either Okami a Japanese game about a Japanese tale,

is Okami a JRPG? Then that answers your question.

the game didn't flop in Japan, it just didn't do well, like No More Heroes.

What killed LO in IGN isn't its likeness to FF, it's the bloody load screen, 30 seconds of load screen for a random battle? I'd give the game sub 8.

first off theres not even 600K Xbox 360's in Japan. that means in order for it to get 500K in sales over 80% of the 360 owners in Japan would have to buy one. A game even if it is a great game no matter which console it is one would have a hard time attaining that number and very few do. Also In Japan there are tons of great RPG's that Lost Oddyssey has to compete with.

Dolla Dolla, thanks.

But I can't get on the site to view it, which is why I asked for the ddl link.

Because it was made on the 360. If it were a ps3 game... it would of sold a shit load. What is up with Sakaguchi and Sony. I thought he had conflict with Square. I wished he make games for Sony :P You never know he may. Well if it flops in N/A or PAL, then I hope he gives on the 360.

Well this is the direct link to the game's page over at GT.

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/1694.html

You can see the review in HD, too. It looks really good in HD :)

@finalsquall: MS is paying Mistwalker (probably a lot of) mone, so it's unlikely for them to give up on the 360. Especially if LO can have good sales outside of JP. I know I'm looking forward to the next game Mistwalker puts out on the 360. :)

edit: fixed the link. For some reason it put a space in there at the end...

Here are direct download links for the review (WMP versions)

SD: http://www.gametrailers.com/download/30354/t_lostoddssey_vr_gt.wmv

HD: http://www.gametrailers.com/download/30356/t_lostoddssey_vr_gt_h264.wmv