Blue Dragon Xbox 360 Game

Pros: 1. Customizable characters thanks to the Shadow's class system. You can make your party suit your play style. 2. Refined turn based combat system. Being able to charge attack for more power at the cost of speed is a nice addition to the formula. 3. Long adventure, you get will get your money's worth. You will not be able to run through this game in one or two days. 4. Artwork by Akira Toriyama 5. Selectable languages for the voice overs. 6. Developed under Mistwalker supervision.

Cons: 1. Artwork by Akira Toriyama. (People seem to either love or hate his style) 2. The game is very easy. 3. The FMV causes the game to be three disks but it is virtually indistinguishable form the real time graphics engine. 4. Will only appeal to you if you are a fan of traditional Japanese RPGs. 5. Occasional screen tearing.

Overall Review: Mistwalker over saw Artoon's development of this game. Mistwalker is composed of Final Fantasy's original creator and other former Square employees.

Pros: -Class system allows for making ridiculously powerful teams. -Some enjoyable little minigames during story parts that break up the battles. -Hard mode DLC makes the game a formidable challenge to conquer. -Nobuo Uematsu's music is pretty catchy (I personally love the boss theme, I know some may dislike it though).

Cons: -Easy to skill grind to an obscene degree and dish out tons of damage. -Screen tearing from time to time, although it doesn't bother me all that much personally.

Overall Review: Being an RPG fanatic, I ignored the reviews and went ahead with this one (especially at $12.99!). I'm really glad I did and with the 50+ hours I've put into the game so far (I'm on the last disc now), it's absolutely worth it. You really grow to HATE the villain and none of the characters are grating. Basically, if you like turn based Japanese RPGs, get this. It's worth it, trust me. MAKE SURE you also download the Ultra Hard Mod DLC and play the game on Hard mode as Normal mode is said to be WAY too easy (I never played on normal myself so I wouldn't know).

Pros: Good price for the game.

Cons: ~~

Overall Review: It's a pretty goofy game.

Pros: Very customizable character "classes" and skills allow you to make many different kinds of parties to suit your style. Very addictive leveling system, where not only does your character level but his class (which you can change at any time) levels separately. Lots of fun to play with this to get the best combination of stats at a given point in the game. Graphics are beautiful. Lots of things to search and lots of play time (game is 3 DVDs). This is probably one of the least repetitive turn-based RPGs I've played due to the ability to change up the character classes. Maybe less repetitive than Chrono Trigger (gasp)!

Cons: The boss-battle music, which thankfully is somewhat infrequent, is really bad. The first time I heard it I laughed out loud, after that, I rolled my eyes, and now I want to end my life a little bit more each time I hear it. It's really really cheesy faux-80s glam rock, and I think one of the game's programmers did the vocals. Also, the dialogue is a little Engrish, and can get tedious, but you can skip cutscenes with the start button. And as someone previously observed, Marumoru = Jar Jar Binks.

Overall Review: If you buy this game for under thirty or so bucks, it's worth it. I paid much less, and so I am very satisfied and pleasantly surprised. And I'm picky about RPGs.

Pros: interesting characters good music nice graphics very long game with replay value great value for the money

Cons: fight system is somewhat repetitive

Overall Review: Had a lot of fun with this game. This is the most fun I've had playing a JRPG in a while.

Pros: Pretty fun game. Inexpensive, making it a good value. Beautiful graphics. Feels a bit like an early Final Fantasy game. Some of the concepts are intriguing, like the way magic and technology work. I liked the way combat is initiated. Unlike older FF-style games, instead of combat being entirely random, you see enemy sprites on the screen instead. This gives you the opportunity - if you use it right - to enter combat on your terms, or avoid it entirely. Of course, if you're not careful, the enemies may take advantage of the situation and surprise attack you instead.

Cons: As noted in other reviews, this game seems to have a much younger target audience. The chibi style art can be a distraction - it makes these supposedly late-teen characters look way too young for their age - almost like babies. The art style does look good, though. The story is highly linear and somewhat simplistic. You don't get the deep character development you might get from games like FF6 and FF7. The villain is pretty much unidimensional - hardly any exploration of his motives is made at all. The voice acting is mostly decent. But seriously, the sound engineers need to learn how to use reverb, flangers, and vocoders if they plan to have robot characters in their games. Robots should sound synthetic, not natural, even with advanced technology. I have three words for the Marumaro character: Jar Jar Binks. Yeah: annoying. As with most FF-style RPG's, money becomes entirely moot about half way through. You get too much of it, and there really isn't much to spend i

Overall Review: I gave this game a 3/5. That's a neither great nor terrible. It had its good points, and its annoyances. All in all, I think I would have preferred to spend a few extra bucks and get a game published by Square/Enix.

Pros: If you are into RPG's this is a pretty solid one. A little childish, but fun.

Cons: I don't think anyone can complain about this for the price.

Pros: I want to clarify that I am in no means an RPG fan in anyway. I rented this game (free rental) at blockbuster a year ago or so and played for a bit. Stuck with me enough to actually buy it almost a year later so I can finish. + Graphics / Art style (very friendly and visually pleasing) + Story (from what I've seen so far, its pretty decent) + Long game play (don't know how i'll feel at hour 50, but at least it has 50 hrs to offer, vs the recent flood of games you can beat in 6 to 10 hrs)

Cons: Not far enough in game to tell.