![]() ![]() Too bad the game itself isn’t interesting. If nothing else, Lost Odyssey provides an interesting glimpse of what the genre could have become if developers had more interest in turn-based RPGs a little over a decade ago. Its a Final Fantasy game, if it had Final Fantasy in the title itd be averaging 90. The combat has some neat ideas, but they ultimately boil down to constantly flipping equipment, and otherwise having very little strategy. Read what our users had to say about Lost Odyssey for Xbox 360 at. The dungeons are sometimes inoffensive, and often interminable and frustrating. If I had fun playing the rest of the game, this all might be okay, but I didn’t. No doubt, the “A Thousand Year of Dreams” sequences are brilliant, but ultimately, they only serve to show how shallow and juvenile the main narrative is. Like Final Fantasy XIII Lost Odyssey has its own unique battle system where there are two rows a back and front row and the back row is protected by a wall combined by the calculated HP of the. It seems like they wanted to make it “adult,” but instead presented a narrative that a pre-teen might find mature, but surely, no actual adult would find it interesting. There are moments here and there, sure, but the main narrative relies on silly cliché. Exploring the depths of immortals who have lived for 1000 years? Their regrets, their joys, their fears, and their failures? What about the consequences of their actions, seen many generations later? Yes, yes thank you very much.īut Lost Odyssey fails to come even close to plumbing the depths of that premise. To be clear, Lost Odyssey has a remarkable premise. I usually mean that in a good way this time, though, it doesn’t quite work. Crucial character threads are underdeveloped, the battle system doesn’t require players to fully engage with it outside of the most challenging end-game content, and the story told in the game’s scenes fails to naturally meld with the beautifully written “A Thousand Years of Dreams” short story collectibles. When talking with the panel, we kept coming back to the ways Lost Odyssey fell short of fully executing its promise of a mature and extravagantly produced traditional JRPG. While it fulfilled these expectations, it didn’t exceed them. 1 Okay maybe Lost Odyssey doesnt mean exactly the same thing but you can see how someone could have mutated one into the other (in a sorta Spice Girls/ Sugababes way). The way this premise translates into character building is one of the ways Lost Odyssey stands out from its kin with confident creativity. ![]() Diving into it felt like encountering a new Final Fantasy circa 1997-2000, complete with technical panache, fresh battle mechanics, a new score by Nobuo Uematsu, and a compelling narrative hook of playing as immortals journeying with some familially connected mortals. After all these years, I’m happy to report it fulfilled my somewhat dangerous expectations. I never owned a Microsoft console growing up, so Lost Odyssey is a game I’ve been eyeing since its release over 15 years ago. ![]()
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