Lost Odyssey

[Sang Hee]

Haven't seen anyone mention this game here yet.
It's been made by a line up of people who worked on pre-Squre Enix FF games and I have to testify on this game's behalf as being really good and almost being a true spiritual successor to the FF series.
Has anyone played it? What do you think?

[Heartless Angel]

It was the best Final Fantasy I've played in a while.

[loaf]

I thought I made a thread on this.

This is the true FFXIII.

This game is awesome for a traditional Turn-Based RPG. Although I found some of the story cliche it was still solid.

[Sang Hee]

I didn't really like the character designs that much but yeah, everything else was so awesome. I wonder why they had released it only on Xbox 360. Even if they did release it now on PS3 it would sell well, I'm sure of it. I've actually sent an email to Mistwalker about this game, wonder if they ever reply.

[Tiffany]

I quite liked it! Although my hubby merged my old xbox (pre-gold) name and deleted my other one, which in turn lost my entire saves up to that point. I was PISSED. However, I watched him play it, it was very enjoyable.

[Sang Hee]

I quite liked it! Although my hubby merged my old xbox (pre-gold) name and deleted my other one, which in turn lost my entire saves up to that point. I was PISSED. However, I watched him play it, it was very enjoyable.

Sorry to hear you've lost your saves. But I gotta say I played it for about 3 times and never got bored of it so there is yet hope for you.
I really hope they will continue the saga or make a new franchise for the next gen consoles instead of making games for Wii or mobile devices. They need to stop wasting their talent.

[Sang Hee]

If anyone cares, Hironobu Sakaguchi told me to follow Mistwalker's endeavors on Facebook to find out more, whatever that means. Guess he doesn't know himself how it's gonna go when Lost Odyssey is concerned. Maybe they just see more viable profit in making other games.

[Sean]

It was the best Final Fantasy I've played in a while.

So much this.

I wonder why they had released it only on Xbox 360. Even if they did release it now on PS3 it would sell well, I'm sure of it.

Because Mistwalker was seeded with Microsoft money. They were paid for two 360 exclusive titles, and they delivered Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey.

I really hope they will continue the saga or make a new franchise for the next gen consoles instead of making games for Wii or mobile devices. They need to stop wasting their talent.

Pretty sure Mistwalker is now dead on consoles. They haven't released anything since Lost Odyssey, which amazing as it was, the company didn't make enough money to stay afloat. The genre for true turn based is now dead, the main income source for them would've been Japanese sales, and the XBOX has historically sold poorly in Asian markets.

Edit: I am mistaken. They released The Last Story in 2011 for the Wii, which was a new IP unrelated to Blue Dragon or Lost Odyssey.

[Sang Hee]

Gotcha. It's quite disturbing how everyone is running away from the main consoles and makes rpgs for other platforms like the DS (Bravely Default and so on).
Still waiting for that great JRPG to save us. The only one in sight is FF15 which will probably see us with gray hair.

[Sean]

Gotcha. It's quite disturbing how everyone is running away from the main consoles and makes rpgs for other platforms like the DS (Bravely Default and so on).
Still waiting for that great JRPG to save us. The only one in sight is FF15 which will probably see us with gray hair.

Ni No Kuni was fantastic, but Final Fantasy has failed to entertain me since X, and the series has gotten progressively worse (in my opinion) since X, with X > XII > XIII. XIII was so bad (imo) that I only got about halfway through it.

The reason most J-RPGs are on handhelds (3DS and PS Vita) has more to do with the low budgets these types of games get. It's far cheaper to develop for the 3DS than 360/PS3/XBone/PS4.