Microsoft’s Larry Hryb yesterday took to the MajorNelson blog in order to announce that Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon, both Xbox 360 exclusives from Mistwalker, had been added to the backwards compatibility program.
Mistwalker, championed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, created two Xbox 360 exclusive RPGs during their time developing for the last gen systems; the first was Lost Odyssey, a turn-based RPG with an emotional story and an interesting mortal/immortal system that was absolutely core to almost every element of the game. The second was Blue Dragon, another turn-based title, this time about a group of children setting off to save the world and using shadow-like creatures to fight of their behalf.
Both titles, as Major Nelson confirmed, are now available via the Xbox One backwards compatibility program.
Notably this news pushes the total amount of titles available on the service over 300, and to celebrate Microsoft have set Lost Odyssey’s price to nil for the remainder of the year. You just need to redeem it from the marketplace and it’s yours.
Lost Odyssey was one of my favourite titles on the Xbox 360, and it remains my favourite JRPG from the generation; as a matter of fact, I revere it as my Final Fantasy X, having lost my passion for the series following the major shift that X marked the start of.
If you’re up for a good ol’ fashioned JRPG complete with a curious battle system, amazing music, tight visuals, amnesia ridden characters, and very emotional moments (despite it’s emotionally numb seeming protagonist who spends the first part of the game acting like a budget Keanu Reeves) then it’s definitely something you should look into.
Blue Dragon was also quite good,
Some hero on Youtube had the E3 ’07 trailer for the game up on their page; you can find it below.
Source: Major Nelson
Video linked from Christoph Lucassen’s Youtube
