Blue Dragon

I’ve loved the RPG genre for quite some time now, though these days, I prefer older RPGs. From Dragon Warrior to Chrono Trigger, the 8-bit and 16-bit RPGs have always maintained my interest, and it’s inevitable that developers prefer the RPGs of old too; pretty much to the point where they develop games to recapture those moments. When you actually play through it, there’s a decent amount of “been there, done that” moments, but if you don’t mind that and don’t mind a fairly simplistic story much akin to anime, Blue Dragon is actually pretty good.

The story is simple enough, but actually kind of interesting if you decide to just sit back and enjoy the ride. What’s happening is that the main protagonist, who happens to be some boy named Shu, is resting somewhere in his home village known as Talta Village. One day, though, a land shark attacks, and it manages to drag him and his two friends, Jiro and Kluke, into a huge hole...

THE GOOD:

-Great Graphics
-Anime Look
-Language Selection (English or Japanese)
-At least 50 Hours of Gameplay
-Unique Battle System
-Good Voice Acting
-Character Personalities
-Subtitles (Toggle On/Off)
-Huge World
-9 Shadow Classes to Master
-Tons of Abilities
-Thousands of Objects to Search
-Multiple Side-Quests
-Plenty of Freedom
-Lots of Achievements to Earn
-Tons of cool Items, Accessories, and Monsters
-Turn Based Battle System
-Lots of Dungeons
-New Game+ (Harder Difficulty - After Beating Game)
-Amazing Cutscenes

THE BAD:

-Easy for a while
-If you take all of the Characters in the same direction, in terms of Shadow Classes, there's nothing setting them apart, so they aren't really unique to each other.

SUMMARY:

Blue Dragon is an amazing Old School RPG, and one of the few RPG's for the 360. This game is exclusive to the...