Lost Odyssey was a Lost Cause. :(

Hey, punks, what's goin' on? 

This isn't big enough of a deal to talk about on the actual podcast, so I figured I'd talk about it a little here in a good old-fashioned "blog post!"

So as many of you remember, I have been talking about Lost Odyssey for a few weeks now.  I was extremely excited since the beginning of the year, leading up to its release.  Also, as some of you may remember, I ordered the game from GAMEFLY and it got stolen out of it's sleeve.  After that, I finally got the game and was able to experience it's beauty for the first time.

So, without making this a full-on review, I'll say this;  The game definitely looks current-gen (that's a good thing), the music is VERY memorable, and the combat has a few cool new tweaks to the traditional Turn-Based RPG.

One of the game's most innovative twists is that the enemies and bosses level up WITH YOU.  So for those of us who love to grind for a few hours and have a nice advantage for a few hours...those days are over!  This, of course, totally caught me off guard.  The bosses are more like a puzzle game, in that there's a VERY specific way to defeat them...a very specific way that you will die half a dozen times trying to figure out.

Now, I'm sure that many of you had no problem with these bosses, but I did, and after trying a good 10 times (10 tries on the boss battle = roughly 2 hours), I simply packaged the game up and sent it back to GAMEFLY.

I loved the game, but I just can't play it anymore!

I was listening to cheapassgamer.com's CAGcast, and the hosts, Cheapy D and Wombat were saying something along the lines of; "you know within the first 15 minutes of a game whether or not you will ever finish it."  And this, I guess, applies to this game.  Even though I was a good 3 hours in,...it's a 4-disc game, so that's about equivalent to 15 minutes, right?

Anyways, I DO recommend the game,...I just sucked at it!

-Simon D I
-Founder, Cyberpunks Gaming