Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360, 2008)

It is truely amazing that this game comes from the same developer that made Blue Dragon. I'm not saying Blue Dragon was a bad game or anything, it's just if you look at the games, they look so different. Blue Dragon has more anime-like graphics while Lost Odyssey is much more realistic.

In fact, that's the first thing you see in this game. It starts with a cutscene on a battlefield where we see our hero dominating the other army. This is where you truely get to see just how great the graphics are. Obviously, we also get introduced to the story, which is original, highly detailed and quite epic.

A neat addition is the "Thousand Year Dreams" which gives more background to some of the characters. It allows you to get to know your characters from before this story begins. You can choose to skip them, but I find them quite interesting to read. The one thing is that there are a few typos in them, but not many. Just things like "You can hear people getting dying," instead of "people getting killed" or "people dying."

My only complaint is that on the first disc, there are a two EXTREMELY difficult boss battles. It really is not balanced with the rest of the game. I'm only on the third disc, but have not come across another boss as difficult as the ones on the first disc. It was very frustrating and made me almost put the game away. Once you get past them, though, the game is tons of fun.

It took me 25 hours to do the first two disc and I'm up to 30 hours, so expect a long and epic single player adventure that will consume your life for about a week. This is an amazing RPG that all fans of RPGs should check out.