So, I picked this game up for $20. It's 4 discs long, and is made by the guys that worked on Final Fantasy (music) and Dragonball Z 9 (art).

I know it's criticized for old school jrpg gameplay...but so far, I think it kicks ass.

Anyone else try it?

I've been meaning to pick this one up forever... I happen to enjoy the old-school JRPG formula and have been disappointed with all the FF since X, so I think it will probably be right up my alley.

surrealist gesture posted:

I've been meaning to pick this one up forever... I happen to enjoy the old-school JRPG formula and have been disappointed with all the FF since X, so I think it will probably be right up my alley.

I feel the same way about the new final fantasies. The commercials for this game looked bad ass, i might have to rent it at some point

Well, thanks to this thread I finally quit procrastinating and went out and bought this sucker yesterday. I've played up to the point where you fist arrive at Grand Staff... so far so good. I'm digging the 'dreams' and the battle system. The only gripe I have is with Jensen... why oh why does every RPG have to have the 'annoying' character? I mean, I can deal with the moody emo main character, the tough girl who wants him to love her and a gaggle of other cliches, but why must I always suffer the obnoxious one? Only now that voice acting is so prevalent in modern RPGs has it really become an annoyance to me...



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The reviews were completely unfair.

The main complaints in most reviews:

1. long loading times. --this turned out to be an issue with certain review copies, cause the loading times are certainly nowhere near the times listed in some reviews.

2. It's a japanese rpg that doesn't innovate, so we're just going to say it's a great game if you like jprg's, but otherwise, we're going to slap a 7.5 on it cause it doesn't innovate.

Personally, I say that game "innovation" is far, far overrated. Bioshock, was an great, great game, but was mainly innovative in it's execution and art/story/execution.

Instead of coming up with "clever innovative spins" on tried and true gaming conventions, I'd prefer that they just come up with a great game with great art and story.

Anyway, the game actually does innovate some - the "ring" battle system and the implementation of those "dreams" ...I've never thought that the reading in a videogame was so cool. Sure there are a few cliche's and problems, but overall, this is a great game. Really, deserving of a 8.5-9.5. somewhere in that range imo. I'd probably give it a 9 so far, mainly because the main villian so far is looking a bit predictable. Otherwise, I've enjoyed the game. I can't really give it an entire rating yet though...I'm only about 4 or 5 hours into it.

So, anyway, this game deserved a 9.0 or 9.5 in my opinion. It's not perfect by any means,

surrealist gesture posted:

I'm with you on the around 9 scale.

I have been surprised with how the difficulty suddenly ramps up when I fight a boss though. I've only fought two so far, but good god, each one kicked my ass numerous times before I was able to best them. It's kind of shocking to be breezing through the random encounters then get bent right the fuck over by a boss. And I've been grinding too, by the time I got to the second boss I was already at level 18...

Anyway, great game... I'm really enjoying it.

Same situation here. That freaking worm at "grand staff" keeps kicking my ass over and over and I'm a level 17. I'm gonna go grind till I'm level 19 or 20 and come back I guess.

I think Lost Odyssey is a great game. I didn't have problems with load times or anything like that. I spent a lot of time playing it and really enjoyed it. I wonder if they're going to make another one...