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First of I just need to say SHAME ON YOU ALL!! No, don't only think I was talking about the crappy reviews, they are not the only ones to blame, but YOU Destructoider's, need a good flogging. For not respecting the amount of time, brilliance, and the most epic music that went into this title. Just like Bioshock, which was clearly over hyped, and therefore made alot of people (including our very own BlindsideDork & Tazar) pissed because the game was not living up to it's hype. Now hear me out :I'm not trying to brag by any means, but I have my friends list FULL of Destructoiders, old and new, and 50 out of 99 people were on last night. No one was playing Blue Dragon but me. That's right, while you were playing your precious BioShocks, Betas, Gears, and new downloaded XBLArcade games, (speaking of, go download Streets of Rage 2. It's awesome.) I was busting my balls because I couldn't get Shu to power up his Assasin job class. What? Oh.. that's right.. the review. Sorry I got carried away. As many of you know, I tend to do too much lately. I didn't mean to fail you guys, just don't fail me!
While this game is by no means the next Chrono Trigger, or even Final Fantasy for that matter, it was still INCREDIBLY fun. Even the first hour of gameplay, which universaly tends to be the most boring, especially in Japenese Role Playing Games (JRPG) as these was very intense. It starts you off as the young protagonist "Shu" (SH-EW) and his friends Jiro & Kluke, and of course : A village in distress. Classic JRPG moment, and as soon as you've explored enough, the cutscenes roll in. It the first 5 minutes you're pitted against the first boss known as Land Shark, and it acts as a genious tutorial for newcomers, but that's not us, is it? After you defeat the Land Shark, you are flown up to a sick looking air fortress, which you meet the games main boss! I won't give out any spoilers, so I'll cut to the first dungeon you, and of course your first offical town.
After the basic tutorials, it tells you about these convenient things called Warps, which are amazing for getting around. Every RPG needs these, as well as the famed Job System, but in reality it's very traditional. Everything these legends have done before is here again : Plain level design, standard battle system, and everything else we've come to love about our JRPG's. Re-hashed? Maybe, but I think that it had to be to truly make it right. What's very unique about this one though, is the field. Random battle are now a thing of the past since you can actually see the monsters, and you have field items, which help you on the field before you get into battles, like invisibility.
The most fun of manipulating the field has to be the different kind of monsters you can get to fight each other. You can walk around, and at any point and time you can click the right trigger to bring up a large circle around your character, and you can choose to fight one monster or the other in your radius, but the best thing to do is fight them all, and see what happens. It seems not all the monsters in Blue Dragon are out to get you, as they tend to eat each other. Yum.
That was the first hour, and I was stunned by the brilliance of this game. It definitely helped having Akira Toriyama, known for his work with Dragon Ball, doing alot of the art style, but enough of that, you've heard that. I'm not writing this to (hopefully) tell you what you've heard, but rather tell you from my prespective. In my eyes : I haven't played a single dammed RPG on this first person shooting console, (Enchanted Arms and Two Worlds don't cut it!) and I finally get to see a three disc, anime styled oddity that is Blue Dragon. It may come off as cliche to some, but to others they've been waiting along, long time. Even the save menu that was brought up reminded me of some of my favorite RPGs, and the whole game itself, has a close resemblance of Dragon Quest VIII, Kingdom Hearts, and of course, the Final Fantasy's of yester-year on the SNES.
So I ask you, Destructoid, when you're playing your first person shooters, your arcade games, your beta's, your haloes, please remember Blue Dragon. If we pass this up, even as a rental, not only will we be saying our American stereotypical console doesn't need RPG's, or JRPG's for that matter, but you will also miss out on an epic adventure. There's alot more to say, but I'll just leave with this.
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You working on commission Snaileb? If so you just earned it.
Is this game out now? I've been really interested in it for a long time since enchanted arms sucked, and now your semi-review has gots me excited again.
JOB SYSTEM!
go DREAM TEAM!
some of my favorite RPGs, and the whole game itself, has
a close resemblance of Dragon Quest VIII, Kingdom Hearts,
and of course, the Final Fantasy's of yester-year on the SNES."
That pretty much sold me right there. I'll be picking this up when I'm done with Bioshock which will hopefully be this weekend.
Job systems do rock.
Job systems do rock.
I'm actually really enjoying Blue Dragon. Much more then I thought I would. Definitely going to play more tonight (need to get level 8 Black Magic so you recover magic when you walk).
I'll definitely get it when it drops <$60 but for now like popa I am holding out for eternal sonata
But yeah, i've been wanting this game for a while now.
Once i get some moar monies i'll be buying this.
I'm not gonna lie, but that's basiclly true too.
Cronos, when were you on last night? I got on around 10:30 CST.