A possible Lost Odyssey 2?
Category: Xbox 360, Posted: 02/28/2008 at 12:34PM CST by Demetri Kouvalis, Features Editor
I am a huge RPG fan and I have not yet had a chance to play Lost Odyssey because of my poor decision of letting my cousin in Florida borrow it for a few weeks.
But once I get that baby back, I'm going to be all over that game! So fans of Lost Odyssey might feel a bit happier when the first rumblings of a sequel, which orginates from a Japanese report on site Nikkei Trendy.net, came up a few hours ago.
According to the site, Microsoft has been quoted as saying that it's happy with the Blue Dragon follow-up's 100k sales in the Far East and that "the series will grow as time goes on."
Lost Odyssey is the second Xbox 360 exclusive RPG from Final Fantasy's creator-man, Hironobu Sakaguchi. Since Microsoft was happy with the sales of Blue Dragon in Japan, they are banking on a similar, if not more popular reception for Lost Odyssey.
With such masterminds as Sakaguchi and Uematsu working on future Xbox 360 RPGs, Microsoft might be looking for their own Final Fantasy-like blockbuster franchise. The whole push of the 360 towards the Japanese market has been a long, often uneventful struggle, but if they can get the talent for the next one, perhaps Japan will give Microsoft another shot.
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That's cool, It was apparent that Mistwalker intended Lost Odyssey to be a series more than a stand-alone product.
I am looking forward to trying out Lost Odyssey. I expect that it might be alright.
Hopefully it does well in the Western territories as well.
I wonder if they'll do a continuation with the same characters, or if this will pull a Final Fantasy and be completely unrelated. I wonder, only because I think this game would be suited well to a continued storyline (from what's known so far, my opinion on that possibility might change when I actually get around to beating it)
I hope it is totally unrelated, or based on generations from the Kaim family or the Seth family or the Ming family.
Final Fantasy X was the game that got me into the whole rpg genre in the first place, it was fun, had an excellent story (now who didnt love beating the crap out of Seymour, or wondering what the hell “Sin” was!), and it had the most amazing graphics!
Playing through Lost Odyssey now, i cant help but think to myself over and over, that this is the best bloody game i’ve played since ffx. The graphics are awesome, theres enough flash back stories to immerse you up to your neck in this amazing world, and the story is continually taking new bends. Not making a sequal to this game would be downright criminal, and it would be the perfect franchise to rub in the nose of Final Fantasy as well as anyone dumb enough to buy a PS3.