Blue Dragon - Xbox 360
About this item
- Innovative RPG gameplay features
- Massive scope and engrossing environments
- Stunning graphics
- Dazzling character design and effects
- Famed developer: Mistwalker is a creative company founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the original developer of Final Fantasy
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ASIN | B000QW9D14 |
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Release date | August 28, 2007 |
Customer Reviews |
4.3 out of 5 stars |
Best Sellers Rank | #10,216 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games) #53 in Xbox 360 Games |
Product Dimensions | 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.53 inches; 5.6 ounces |
Type of item | Video Game |
Language | English |
Rated | Teen |
Item model number | A7J-00005 |
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | Yes |
Item Weight | 5.6 ounces |
Manufacturer | Microsoft |
Date First Available | May 17, 2007 |
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Famed game producer Hironobu Sakaguchi of Mistwalker and developer Artoon present the highly anticipated Xbox 360 exclusive Blue Dragon. Featuring the character design of Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball Z and music by Nobuo Uematsu of Final Fantasy, Blue Dragon is an epic role-playing game that centers on a young boy named Shu and several of his friends.
These unlikely heroes possess the power to control phantom shadows that mirror the actions of their masters, giving Shu and his comrades miraculous strength and magical powers.
The warriors can create and develop their combat styles by utilizing different types of Shadow Change, including Sword, Assassin, and Power Magic. Shu and his friends must use the shadows as weapons and wield their skills to save their world from impending doom.
Encountering various people on a planet where numerous ancient ruins remain, the characters and their shadows travel through a world full of mysteries and illusions, where the slightest touch can cause reactions of unparalleled magnitude.
Key Features:
- Innovative RPG gameplay features: As their quest progresses, warriors can create original attack methods by utilizing several types of Shadow Change, including Sword, Assassin, and Power Magic. You can choose to focus the hero on certain areas of expertise. Shadows level up and gain new abilities associated with the job they are currently doing. Once gained, abilities are not lost and remain available to use when needed.
- Massive scope and engrossing environments: Shu and his companions battle their way through an immense world filled with vividly illustrated remnants of ancient civilizations long forgotten.
- Stunning graphics: Taking full advantage of the power of Xbox 360, Blue Dragon engages you in a world and characters that are brought to life with vibrant colors and detail, from Shu's wild hair to his martial arts-style garb, conveying the beautiful simplicity and sense of adventure found in this truly next-generation RPG.
- Dazzling character design and effects: Toriyamas unique influence is evident in the design of the games anime style characters, as their actions are enhanced with next-gen blur effects. Additionally, the games algorithmic animation system adds heightened realism to character and creature movements.
- Famed developer: Mistwalker is a creative company founded by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the original developer of Final Fantasy. Operated by a handful of experts, the direction of new Mistwalker is influenced by Sakaguchis extensive industry experience. Artoon is a digital entertainment design, development, and production company with rich talent and experience. Centering on the design and development of original content, Artoon is mainly involved in the development of software through external cooperation, as well as the design and production of entertainment content in the mobile communication category.
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Customers like the quality, ease of use, value, and expansion of the board game. They mention that the story and gameplay are top notch, it's an interesting concept for an RPG, and that the battles are very easy and don't really require much strategy. They also appreciate the delivery. That said, some complain that the game is very childish and repetitive.
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Customers like the quality of the board game. They mention that the story and gameplay are top notch, with simple but fun storylines. The game has an interesting concept for an RPG, and is a fun game that kept them entertained for hours.
"...with RPGs, as long as they make sense, world exploration, simple but fun storylines, have some puzzles, don't pretend to be something they aren't,..." Read more
"...All in all, its a darn solid title and fully worth the price, so long as you're the sort of person that likes quirky, old school, Japanese RPG titles." Read more
"...The anime has a pretty good story, but I actually preferred the video game story, so I will change my mind from okay game story to great story!)..." Read more
"This was a fun game that kept me entertained for hours. There are not many side quests or anything, just the Gamerscore achievements...." Read more
Customers find the board game easy to use. They mention that the story line is easy to follow, the options make for an engaging yet easy to grasp RPG system, and the battles are very easy and do not really require much strategy. Overall, customers find the game to be very interactive and enjoyable.
"...Most of the boss battle are very easy and they don't really require much strategy...." Read more
"...The story line is easy to follow and there are not tons of characters one wouldn't remember after 4 months of not playing the game...." Read more
"...Lots of class, spell, and equipment options make for an engaging yet easy to grasp RPG system that will hook anyone looking for something to scratch..." Read more
"...gameplay is as easy and traditional as a japanese rpg can be...." Read more
Customers appreciate the value of the board game. They say it is a solid title and fully worth the price. Some mention that the game is in excellent condition for being old.
"...All in all, its a darn solid title and fully worth the price, so long as you're the sort of person that likes quirky, old school, Japanese RPG titles." Read more
"We've enjoyed Blue Dragon (about 10 hours in so far). Got the game for cheap, and it's a nice JRPG...." Read more
"The product was good priced and arrived on time but wouldn't work passed the first disk." Read more
"this game was awesome and worth every cent to to mention the super fast shipping speed and any blue dragon fan or just gaming fan would have a huge..." Read more
Customers like the expansion of the board game. They say that it has plenty of stuff to explore, touch, open, and unlock in the caverns. They also appreciate the simple but fun storylines and the fact that there are not many side quests.
"...If you're in love with RPGs, as long as they make sense, world exploration, simple but fun storylines, have some puzzles, don't pretend to be..." Read more
"...There are not many side quests or anything, just the Gamerscore achievements...." Read more
"...There's plenty of stuff to explore, touch, open, and unlock in the caverns...." Read more
"This game is lots of fun and lots of things to do 3 disks wow lots of game play . A really good rpg ...." Read more
Customers are satisfied with the delivery of the board game. They mention it was delivered quickly, with great packaging, and without any problems.
"...This was everything I wanted in an order. Quick delivery, great packaging, no problems!!! Thanks so much." Read more
"this game was awesome and worth every cent to to mention the super fast shipping speed and any blue dragon fan or just gaming fan would have a huge..." Read more
"Awesome game, came fast, works like a charm!" Read more
Customers find the board game to be very childish, repetitive, and boring. The characters are also described as dull, banal, and insipid.
"At first I really didn't like this game. It was very childish and very repetitive. It was also really simple gameplay too...." Read more
"..."downside" I can really think of is like some RPG's the characters are a little bit silly but unless you are one of those players that needs your..." Read more
"...The story and characters are as dull, banal and insipid as I thought they'd be...." Read more
Customers are dissatisfied with the framerate of the board game. They mention that it causes cut scenes to drag out far too long, and the interactions take too long.
"...It makes the painfully long interactions take painfully longer. To make matters worse, you can't easily skip through them...." Read more
"...Graphics are good,( there are some slowdown issues at times, and skipping in some scenes)..." Read more
"Bad framerate, but a true JRPG for dedicated fans." Read more
Customers have negative opinions about the readability of the board game. For example, some reviewers mention that their Xbox box is unable to read the disc, and that the disc randomly becomes unreadable.
"...The first 2 discs worked perfectly but the 3rd randomly becomes unreadable and is scratched up a bit...." Read more
"...Very upsetting! My x box tells me that it's unable to read the disc and it had done it with disc one but after washing and restarting I was able to..." Read more
"My second disc won't read" Read more
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The biggest complaint that I've seen so far is that "this game doesn't deliver anything new or groundbreaking".
What kills me about this commentary is that nothing new or groundbreaking has existed in the RPG sphere since Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2nd Edition for Pencil and Paper / Final Fantasy 7 for Videogames. Of COURSE you're not going to get anything that's groundbreaking - BECAUSE EVERYTHING HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE! Honestly, people who put that complaint in any review for RPGs should have their reviews immediately rejected.
In regards to storyline and feel - This game feels like Final Fantasy 7. I liked that game, and I liked the feel of the menu system and materia optimization.
Each character can gain the classes/skills of any other character, this is true, HOWEVER, certain characters have baseline states that are more agreeable with certain classes. Having said that, I want to remind all of the detractors out there this fact: These characters are KIDS. Kids should be relatively the same. They haven't "grown up" to "specialize" in any particular field of combat or knowledge. I like the idea of customizing my characters in this fashion. This level of customization also prevents what has become a standard level of accepted sexism and racism in many RPGs out today.
In regards to some complaints people have regarding leveling up, all I can say is they must be smoking something. It's exceedingly easy to level up characters. All you need to do is put on the "attract monsters" skill, run in circles, grab about 3-4 monster groups together and "fight all". It's that easy. The leveling certainly is not anywhere near as atrocious as Secret of Mana (Seiken Densetsu 3), nor Final Fantasy 7 (dear god, it took me 6 solid hours of game time of running around in circles with Knights of the Round just to be high enough level to face the final boss). I'm having NO WHERE NEAR that kind of issue in this game.
Yeah, this game is a bit easy if you start exp farming early on, I don't mind. If given a choice between a game full of Tonberrys and a game that's a bit easy, I'll take the "bit easy" game any day.
Again, that's only easy if you actually farm for exp before heading out. If you don't, there are several places where you'll get pimp slapped hard.
In regards to some people talking about slowdown - I didn't notice. I've got XBOX 360 Arcade Version, and I've noticed that a number of games where people complain about clipping issues or slowdown don't happen on my machine. I think it has to do with the fact my machine is not backward compatible with original XBOX games (unlike certain other models), and so I almost never experience that kind of problem.
Battle Music - yeah, ok, this needs some help, but I usually play with my sound down low so I don't notice it. The other music is just fine, however, so it's just a minor nit pick.
Map system - yeah, it could be tweaked a little more. Just a nit pick.
Inventory system - would've been nice for more sort options. Just a nit pick.
Now, I can see how some people who LOVE the recent RPGs on PS3 would dislike this game. Quite Frankly, a lot of the newer RPGs which give false claims about being groundbreaking have fallen flat on their butts from my perspective. So, there could be an RPG style preference there.
If you do enjoy any classic RPGs, if you enjoyed the play style of FF7, if you like DragonBall artwork, then grab this game, you won't be disappointed.
If you absolutely love Crisis Core and hate anything that came out before it, then you won't like this game.
If you're in love with RPGs, as long as they make sense, world exploration, simple but fun storylines, have some puzzles, don't pretend to be something they aren't, then grab this game.
If you only want the next big thing and don't care about just relaxing to a fun game... then stay away.
That's pretty much my review.
I love RPGs in general, although the newer ones have been putting me off lately (due to artwork and fail mechanics). This one didn't put me off at all.
I can't give half stars so I just gave 5 out of 5. My only detractions are the nit picks mentioned above.
The battle system is darn good as well, it may only be a take on the Job Class system that's been used many times throughout the years, but its probably one of the best implementations of the system out there, providing a good balance between allowing your characters lots of abilities while making it almost impossible to make your characters masters of everything without absurd amounts of power leveling.
All in all, its a darn solid title and fully worth the price, so long as you're the sort of person that likes quirky, old school, Japanese RPG titles.
(I just finished watching the anime of Blue Dragon the whole series. The anime has a pretty good story, but I actually preferred the video game story, so I will change my mind from okay game story to great story!)
I thought the fight battles was very bad in terms of the game difficulty. It was just too simple and too many. After I beat the game, I played hard mode, which I felt was much closer to what normal mode should had been like. Many people talked about how easy the game was and I believe what the game makers should had done was made "hard mode", the "REAL normal mode". Also, I thought "Impossible Mode" was really tough, and super rewarding once I beat it.
Most of the boss battle are very easy and they don't really require much strategy. On the other hand, if you fight the optional bosses, those required strategies and preparation to beat. And NO, going in the battles to fight with level 99 characters without any strategies wouldn't win the fights. You actually have to plan and think about what you need to do.
Furthermore, I love fighting the 5 dragons, King Boo, and Gold Mecha. It took awhile to figured out a way to beat them without dying over and over again...especially on impossible mode! No, it's not just level up till the max, I beat them at the lowest levels for a true challenge. And, leveling up takes forever too! And you still need some sort of strategy to beat them, you can't just go all gong-ho with these bosses! lol
I think all RPG fans should give this game a chance. It's not so bad after disc 2 at least. Worth a buy for $10 and below. And, would give you 40+ hours of fun if you make it past the first 2 discs that is. lol