Blue Dragon Review

FIRST OFF NOT A GOOD ANIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Blue Dragon is based on a design by Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi who also supervised development and wrote the plot.[2] The game follows the story of five friends, Shu, Jiro, Kluke, Zola, and Marumaro, as they travel across the world to confront the evil King of the Grand Kingdom, Nene. The setting inspired separate anime and manga adaptations, although these follow the story to different degrees and feature a different cast of characters. The game follows a traditional role playing game element based around turns. Each player attacks depending on their agility and speed.

Blue Dragon is the first Xbox 360 title to make use of three disks.[3] It was also the longest Xbox 360 game until Lost Odyssey was released with a story spanning four disks. Overall, the game has received a positive reception, with an average score of 77% on the review aggregator website Game Rankings.[4] Blue Dragon was apluaded for it's excellent use of the traditional element of role playing games, but was also critisced for the same reason. Blue Dragon was sold in a game fashion, and in a bundle with the Xbox 360 composed of the game, the Xbox 360 system it's self, and a Blue Dragon faceplate.The core mechanic in Blue Dragon is the use of magical blue shadows, with each player character having a distinct shadow modeled after either a dragon, a phoenix, a bat, a minotaur, or a tiger. Each shadow can be assigned to a single character class (from a number of such classes) at a time, taking on the attributes and abilities of that class. Class levels or "ranks" are earned only for the active class, but players are free to change classes at any time except in combat, allowing the group's shadows to be customized in order to achieve the desired combination.[2]

As shadows increase in rank in a given class, they learn new skills, which can then be assigned to a limited number of skills slots. Shadows can assign previously learned skills regardless of their current class. For example, if a shadow is currently set to be an "Assassin", but has previously learned the ability to cast "Barrier Magic" while acting as a member of that class, the "Barrier Magic" skill can be set as an active skill. This allows mixing or hybridization, with the player able to pick and choose from among the skills known to a given shadow.[2]The five main characters of Blue Dragon are Shu, a 16-year-old boy;[6] Kluke, a mature and serious girl;[7] Jiro, an intelligent young man;[8] Marumaro, a member of the Devee Tribe;[9] and Zola, a powerful warrior of the Jibral Blademasters.[10] Both Shu and Kluke's parents were killed by the "Land Shark". The antagonists include Nene, an old man who runs the Grand Kingdom;[11] Deathroy, who enjoys his master Nene's malevolence;[12] and Szabo, a robotic servant of Nene leading his robotic army