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Disappointment. Poor execution of what could have been a great game. The battle system in Blue Dragon is not engaging and the graphics are choppy at times. Battling gets old very quickly. The story was slow and the character dialogue was stiff and didn’t do justice to the characters created by Akira Toriyama. Japanese voice [...]

We finally get a recap of our second party of heroes and how they were rescued by a Baroque Ship. The first dungeon is pretty annoying. It’s a pirate ship where every floor and room looks almost identical. What makes it worse is that the enemies never change either. You’ll need to find the key [...]

I haven’t had that much time to play during the work week but I got around to finishing up Chapter 2. So in the last chapter we got to see some dungeons for the first time. And we even got to battle a real human villain. The boss fight seemed a little two easy [...]

I just put in another 2 hours of playing. The story is developing well and we’re seeing more new characters, good and bad. We actually have a chance to choose our party members now and we got to see the real villains for the first time.
What surprises me most is that the battle system is [...]

I ended up siding with Eternal Sonata over Blue Dragon. Even though I’ve been waiting for Blue Dragon since last year, after playing the Blue Dragon demo I just didn’t see what the hype was about anymore. I’ve been playing Eternal Sonata for the past 2 hours and so far I have no regrets. I [...]

I was following Blue Dragon pretty closely until I played the demo and ultimately felt like the gameplay was too repetitive. I really thought it’d be a big hit because of it’s sensational release in Japan but I guess it’s solely due to the character designs by Akira himself. Also known as the guy that [...]