Yeah I know. Just didn't know MS owned the Blue Dragon name.

Blue Dragon XBox 360 was pretty under rated imho.

its gonna be on the 360 and its not gonna sell alot...
if compared to blue dragon...
hope its not going to be so underrated...

eh it still had people camping for 360's in Japan and buying arcade bundles with Blue Dragon.

It's also reached a half million units in sales. Not mind blowing no, but decent enough.

Though I am suprised they didn't keep the Lost Odyssey engine and run with that for a second part because Lost Odyssey easily sold better overall and was a much better game imho.

Lost Odyssey is a unfinished product that lacked any original gameplay. I can admit that and I still think it's my 2nd favorite game this generation. How can reviewers reward an unpolished and completely uncreative design? The story was fantastic in my opinion and it was tons of fun, but judging fun is not part of a review.

I do as well. I can write a GameFAQS review by just watching a few videos and reading forums. It's quite easy to BS a review in that horrid system. Have you actually read any of these reviews? What you agree with is really irrelevant because it's likely you share the similar opinions of the same niche. What you like or what the reviewers like in a game should hold no baring on the score.

Mistwalker was originally going to release 3 Xbox 360 exclusive games since Microsoft funded the company heavily when it was started. Cry On was suppose to be the last title to to hit Xbox 360 but was cancelled so they still owe Microsoft another exclusive title as of now.

Actually Lost Odyssey did pretty well worldwide. It didn't sell to the extent of the Final Fantasy titles but when comparing to other jrpgs on either PS3 or 360, it did much better.

Its still smarter for developers to release it on multi-platforms in the end, however.

What's your basis in saying Reviewers don't automatically upgrade Final Fantasy reviews?  They have done it for other games, from Grand Theft Auto to Nintendo titles, while downscoring other games which have just as good (or better) merits to the same games but don't have the popularity or marketing as those series.

And reviewers aren't a good measure of what makes a good game in the first place.  Regardless, not all reviewers upscore every FF game anyway.  Back when FFXII came out, nearly every game review site was giving the game a near perfect or perfect score.  But it was pretty evident from comparing their reviews to actual experience of playing the game that the reviewers judged the game mostly based on preconceptions and very limited gameplay experience.  Yet GameTrailers, another review site, put up their own review of the game, which was significantly lower than the majority of the others (8.0), and backed their review up with solid examples of where the game lacked in both gameplay and design.

On the flip side, they posted a review for a less popular and more 'niche' RPG outside of Japan, Dragon Quest VIII, actually scoring it higher than FFXII (9.0).  Once again providing solid examples of the games strengths and reasons why it deserved its score.  While most other sites were downscoring it (between 8.0 and 8.5) for simply not having the name recognition or marketing potential of a series like Final Fantasy.

You guys can keep bringing up examples like Persona and Disgaea all you want, but in the end, those series still had a solid hype and marketing put behind them.  Review sites pick up on these things and fluctuate their scores up or down a few points accordingly to appease their readers.  This has been shown time and time again, or did we not learn anything from the GTAIV and Kane & Lynch fiascos?

I wonder what it is, maybe they will announce it soon. I'm still waiting for ASH for the DS from Mistwalker to come to NA, but I'm starting to think it's not coming to NA.

...Why the Hell not?