Comments on: Blue Dragon Does What Dragon Quest IX Didn’t

By: Aoshi00

Aoshi00 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 02:04:41 +0000

This actually looks interesting, at least the voice cast is the same as first Blue Dragon game, not the different anime cast (Nene voiced by Cell sounds much cooler).

I’m not a fan of MMO at all so I’m probably skipping this one, still anxious what they would do w/ BD2 and Cry-On, Mistwalker has yet to disappoint me w/ BD, Lost Odyssey, ASH, etc. I hope Cry-On would keep the Drakengard style art.

Away Shuffle Dungeon is in my DS, but haven’t played it yet..

BTW, those beautiful CGs are a waste when they appear as low-res on the DS screen.

By: jarrod

jarrod — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:47:02 +0000

@Joanna

Brownie Brown is 100% owned by Nintendo. It’s made up of former Square staff who worked on Legend of Mana specifically.

As for this game, I’m mildly interested… a loot based Blue Dragon ARPG could be great actually, but I want to know who’s developing it first (Namco inhouse?).

By: Sora

Sora — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:54:12 +0000

that’s the second for ds right, the first one is coming out for north america next year

By: Joanna

Joanna — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:45:28 +0000

Ummm….isn’t Brownie Brown owned by Squareenix? Or did I miss something? They are the developers that do the mana series. I know they have done Magical Starsign, a nintendo game, but I always thought they were a part of squareenix, maybe they are independent? Not that it really matters…..

I didn’t play the original Blue Dragon, as I don’t own a Xbox360, but a game that is similar to DQIX would be nice. I love when games allow deep character customization =) The different battle system is also nice, but I’m a fan of all RPG styles (that includes turn-based RPGs too =3), so it really doesn’t matter much to me, except that it will have something else to make the experience different from DQIX. =D

By: R-1

R-1 — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:39:08 +0000

There’s actually footage of the action styled game on gametrailers.com.

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/15734.html

While I love Dragon Quest, I always thought an action version that kept the same difficulty and balance would be an amazing game.

I haven’t played any of Blue Dragon yet but this looks entertaining and will hopefully fill the void left by the absence of the action DQ9.

By: jarrod

jarrod — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 22:10:18 +0000

I doubt this precludes a potential Blue Dragon II on 360. The first game’s still the best selling 360 game to date in Japan, the bigger issue is probably if Microsoft’s willing to foot the bill again.

I’m just wondering what happened to Cry-On? The art we had for that was stunning.

By: lostinblue

lostinblue — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 21:14:56 +0000

wow one more Blue Dragon on the DS? their “trojan horse” strategy to get people to buy X360s and blue dragon in japan so they can do Blue Dragon 2 sure backfired.

backfired to the point everyone is making money from it but them, even Nintendo seeing they let mistwalker borrow their developer, Brownie Brown; and that well, they have to pay licencing fee’s.

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 20:16:26 +0000

Thats nice and all but I would much rather have the next game in the series on 360 rather then DS. I am not that big on portable games especially sequels to big console RPG’s (FF12 Revenant Wings). I just hope this doesn’t mean the series will not be returning to the 360.