Saturday, December 16, 2006

Blue Dragon Xbox360 preview


Already out in Japan with a release date still to be confirmed for the West, the game (spread across 3 discs ) has achieved a remarkable 37/40 (92%) from Famitsu weekly. Stock (10,000 units) of the special edition xbox360 bundle was sold out on release. The bundle included the 360 core system, 5 mini-figures, a faceplate and the game for the same price as a normal bundle.

Blue Dragaon is the first of two epic RPG projects for Microsoft by Mistwalker, the studio founded by Square-Enix's Hironobu Sakaguchi. Blue Dragon features characters by designer Akira Toriyama, and tells the story of a young boy named Shu, who battles enemies using his "Dragon Shadow."

Blue Dragon Official Website (slow loading)
Blue Dragon Screenshots from IGN (26)
Gameplay the first five hours from IGN
Blue Dragon characters from Playasia
Blue Dragon Soundtrack from Playasia
Blue Dragon
" Watashi no Mizu to Sora" from Playasia

Clickable inkies

16 comments:

Gamer C. said...

Three discs long? That's a huge game for the 360!

I'm hoping this game does hit stateside. It looks intriguing plus the 360 needs some more rpgs.

gnome said...

That;s.. uhm... 3*DVD? Impressive... Like the game's style too...

Unknown said...

brings me back to pc gaming days, the intro trailer looks ace... though a tad too cutesy for me...

Random J said...

The game can't be THAT big that it needs 3 DVD's. That's ridiculous. Surely it must be because of the Hi-def graphics or something...

Unknown said...

quite correct, hi def movies, rather than use the in game 3d engine (like dead rising) they us high def movies which eats up disc space... gameplay is 40 to 50 hrs, which is impressive.....

gnome said...

Impressive yet cutesy then. Right. That's that.

Unknown said...

as the actress said to the cardinal.......

gnome said...

and the jester to the thief....

Unknown said...

no i've checked my sources the original dialogue took place between and actress and a cardinal.... perhaps the jester and the thief used the same reference material.... thief's are prone to that sort of thing......

NSonic79 said...

Could this be the big break that the Japanese Xbox 360 needs?

Stay tuned.....

gnome said...

Yes, but who mentioned Japan first?

Unknown said...

(holds up hand....) that's be me, first sentence.... though I would like to know who the very first person to say the word "Japan" was.. not that would be a 20 point question at a table quiz....

gnome said...

Uhm... my great grandmother discovered Japan... so maybe she... a) uttered this word for the first time in history b) created the highly skilled Japanese people c) was the head of the Japanese wing of the red army faction...

Unknown said...

....(stares quizzically at Gnome)... your grandmother? discovered Japan? what was her name....? part from Grandmother Gnome that is?

Anonymous said...

whassup? ummm im stuck on blue dragon i gotta find some plant for the devee's can some1 plz tell how??? if any1 can get me a fukkl game walkthrough (or whatever you can get) it would be gr8ly appreciated just send it to werty949@hotmail.com thanx

Unknown said...

Unfortunately I haven't played it Anon, but hopefully this will be of some use....

http://www.gamefaqs.com/console/
xbox360/game/927950.html

due to limitation on blogger comments, you'll have to copy the lines in your address bar in two parts...

hope it helps