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Binding: Video Game
Brand: Microsoft
EAN: 0882224521017
ESRB Age Rating: Teen
Label: Microsoft
Manufacturer: Microsoft
Platform: Xbox 360
Publisher: Microsoft
Release Date: February 13, 2008
Sales Rank: 236
Studio: Microsoft

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Lost Odyssey is the story of Kaim, an immortal character who has lived more than 1,000 years. He doesn't remember his past, and he doesn't know where his future lies. Throughout Kaim's journey, a handful of characters will join him on an odyssey to discover their intricate past and destiny, leading players through a dramatic story of massive scale. Lost Odyssey features breathtaking visuals and an epic adventure made possible only by the power of Xbox 360.



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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Great Game, For a Time
Lost Odyssey is an exciting addition to any persons collection. It is, indeed, a great game. The graphics are fine. The story is intriguing and holds some depth. The gameplay itself is a welcome change to Blue Dragon, and other such similar games. But, after you hit the second disc, it starts to get too repetitive to be satisfying the whole time you play it. The story just isn't that gripping. Of course, keep in mind, that repetitiveness comes with the territory of a turn based rpg. If you really enjoy the genre, you will really enjoy the game. All in all, well worth a try, I enjoyed it very much.


Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - Gimmicky, Cliched, and Fantastic
This game has its share of cliche. The dialogue is sometimes very stiff, and your character, Kaim, is pretty disconnected during the first half of the game. The game tries to make his seem more caring...but when he opens up it seems strange and awkward. But perhaps being an immortal does that to people.

Anyways, what sets this game aside from other games, and I won't call this an RPG, since you have very little choice in anything...are the stories. The unlockable memories. They are deep and immersive, and they make you care. I won't lie, more than once they had me in tears. The man who wrote them can really paint with words. The stories are beautiful. I read someone else's review of that and scoffed. It's a video game...yeah. It is.

The story spans 4 discs, and it's long. I think I'm over 60 hours of gameplay now. It's my first time through, so it's probably not actually that long, but it had a long learning curve for me. I still haven't beat it. Some of the battles are so frustrating they make you want to pull your hair out.

Overall, a good game. Don't pass it up.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - This may be the best current-gen game I've yet played
I've been idly wondering if this is the best current-gen game I've played. It has incredibly awesome depth to the gameplay, but the place where it has a leg up on the Bioshocks and Devil May Cry's is in its story and characters. The only other game I've played in the past year and a half which has hooked me to its story and characters so much is Phoenix Wright 3. Everything else, with the possible exception of the Orange Box, has been simply "fun to play", but nothing that has me laughing one moment and sad the next, nothing that has me looking forward to the next cutscene just so I can see where the plot will go next, what the characters will do. I found out a few days ago that Lost Odyssey was written by a famous author, so....that explains it.

***EDIT****

The above paragraph is what happens when you excitedly write a review for a game when you've only played 2 discs out of 4. I had the gameplay down, so that part of the review is fine. But the story, which was so involving in the first two discs (as apparent from my frothing love for it) completely, utterly failed to live up its early promises. From the first two discs, you think you're in for a tale full of truly adult themes (like the death of your mother or child), which is why it is so horrendous that it completely devolves into "The Bad Guy went South! We must Stop Him!" and (paraphrasing): "Sarah, the path ahead is blocked with ice. Will you be our fire rod?" in the last two discs. Unfortunately I can't change the star rating for my review, but rest assured it would have went down at least one star. It's still fun to play, but in an RPG, you get your fill of the gameplay after 40-50 hours...and when the plot is this bad, there's not much incentive to go ahead and even finish the game.

Gameplaywise, it's a traditional turn-based RPG, with incredible depth. It has a fun timing-based attack system, but only if you equp a Ring to your character. Of course, you can assemble Rings on your own, determining what kind of effects it'll have on your character's attack. You can switch Rings around mid-battle, so you can change your sword from a water-based attack (complete with droplets gushing out of the sword), to a fiery blade, depending on what kind of enemy you're going to attack next.

The same goes for skills and spells. You can equip Accessories (which show up on your character in cutscenes and such) that teach your character skills. Immortals can learn these skills permanently, but anyone who has the Accessory equipped can use the skill it provides. This lends the system a kind of Final Fantasy X-2 feel, with everyone capable of obtaining access to high-level magic spells...so long as you're willing to give up whatever previous Accessory you had equipped on them.

To prevent the Immortals from becoming godly beings (at least early in the game), each Immortal has "skill slots", which you can equip a skill in. You can find things called Skill Seeds throughout the game, which creates a new skill slot for the Immortal you gave it to.

The incredibly fun strategic gameplay, along with the awe-inspiring music (Nobou Uematsu can do no wrong), means that if you're even slightly interested in traditional turn-based RPGs, if you have any fond memories of any of the Final Fantasy games, or Chrono Trigger, or Suikoden....you owe it to yourself to try this one out. Just go in there knowing the plot falls flat on its face about halfway through the game.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Great game that reviewers just didn't get
I won't go into the detailed review of the game as others have done a much better job. However, I would like to discuss the nature of game reviewers, difficulties in games, and Lost Odyssey.

I remember when Ninja Gaiden came out for the Xbox and half the reviewers hated it for its difficulty. Unfortunately, as the nature of reviewers are, they like to speed through a game as fast as possible so they can finish their review and move on to the next. Most games today require not much more than button mashing to beat. In the same vein, certain RPGs, such as Final Fantasy only require the simple attack, attack, heal, heal strategy to beat. These reviewers EXPECT this kind of game play. But when they don't see that, rather than use strategy, they reverted to grinding levels. Which is why they got angry at the game, giving it 7.5 - 8.5 ratings.

What people need to know is that this game DISCOURAGES grinding, hence the 1 exp per battle once you hit your optimal level. Boss fights require tactics and strategy, which is refreshing for an RPG. One of the biggest problem with Mass Effect was that the game was too easy once your character levels up. The biggest problem with Bioshock is that there is virtually no fear of dying. The payoff and satisfaction most gamers get is when they overcome an obstacle that appears difficult and impossible at first. This is the same satisfaction you get when you beat Ninja Gaiden.

Reviewers are a jaded bunch. They no longer play games for the fun of it but rather to meet a deadline to post a review. Do yourself a favor and play this game for yourself and see why it's one of the best RPG released for the Xbox 360 or any system.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - by now you should know
This is a standard Japanese RPG if you havent played one before chances are you wont like it. But for RPG addicts like myself its a must buy.
Its just that simple.

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