- Lost Odyssey Review

Lost Odyssey Review by Count Vyers

1st time reviewing. May not be the best

Story
Lost Odyssey takes place in a world where magic energy is used to drive technological advances, however, such progress has led to war between three rival nations: the monarchy of Numara, the kingdom of Gohtza, and the republic of Uhra, recently changed from a monarchial society.

The protagonist, Kaim Argonar, A immortal. A lieutenant for the Uhran army, Ventures to the world to reclaim fragments of his lost memory. Along the way, He will encounter ally/foe who bears the same curse. [i]A Thousand years of dream[/i]
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Ok, I got to say that this games story is very emotional.
Emotional to the cutscene CGI to the "Thousand years of Dream" Novel.
I can say that this games story is hand in hand with Final fantasy X. But if your not REALLY into technical crazy plot, You may have a hard time understanding the story.

But if you play games for the story. I suggest you take your time with this. Savor it while you still can, because this game has one of the best story in my list. I literally played and finish this game around 2 to 3x. Its that good.






Music
The Music. This games BGM is one of the best I have ever heard on a RPG game.
Composer _ Nobuo Uematsu. He composed most of the Final Fantasy games. :thumbup:
Heres a little sample. This is the BGM for battles.

I literally bought the game sound track, very RPG quality. Sound track = A-



Gameplay
The gameplay may not appeal everyone. Its basically a Turn based RPG, like most JRPGS. (like final fantasy)
I wouldn't suggest this game to someone who is very impatient and goes for real time games.
The commands are basically.
Attack
Spells
Item
Defend

But the gameplay part that I found exciting was the Ring system.
All rings you equip will have effects to certain types of monsters/ Ailments/ Element/ Critical/ Etc.
In order for the equipped ring to work per attack, You would have to Timely Hold LT and release the right time to either perform a "Perfect attack", "Good attack" or "Bad attack"
Perfect attacks are critical + Ring effect
Good attacks are ring effect
and bad attacks are just neutral

And also take note that the monsters in the game is not very "Any element" friendly.
You will encounter alot of monsters that are immune and weak to certain elements.

Challenging factor = A
Some boss may take 1-10 tries to defeat! :ohmy:


Length
Length of the game is pretty decent. You should be able to finish the game in 50 hours.
Considering that per disk should last around 15 hours. (4 disc)
Theres also alot of Side quests. (Maybe +10 hours)

But if you're planning to get all achievements.. All I have to say is good luck.
I can guarantee you its gonna take you more than 100 hours for the achievements
but I can guarantee you that it's worth the time, Your gonna experience the greatest satisfaction of getting all achievements.



Graphics
Graphics are decent to good.
Theres gonna be occasional lag, and a bit of loading time at the beginning of each battle.
The cutscene in my opinion suffers the mass Effect cuts. Identical Cutscene lags.
30-40 frames per second. That pretty much the downfall of the game. But its pretty much bearable. (As I mention before. This game is not for the impatient)


Conclusion.
Pro:
-Good Length
-JRPG style
-Story is priceless, A bit of Oriental, Technological style.
-Music is priceless (A true legend)

Con:
-Suffers lag occasionally
-Only weapon/Ring/Accessory equips (Not much of a variety)
-Game may be too hard for some audiences.

8.9/10


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Note: The makers of the game is Mistwalker. Running by one of the co-founder of Final Fantasy.
The Music composer is the same person who composed the music for FF7, FF8, FF9, and FF10.