New Blue Dragon Content

Microsoft has announced new content for Mistwalker's RPG, Blue Dragon.

This new package of content is available for download through Xbox Live for 200 Points. It is called 6 Treasures and features six exciting new items. These items include:

1) “Whimsical Mind” – growth item that enhances a few randomly-picked categories by 0-4 levels
2) “Way of Thieves” – in-battle item that can steal rare items possessed by enemy creatures
3) “Devee Phonograph” – allows you to listen to the “Devee-tribe dance”
4) “Nothing Glasses” – visualizes all “nothing” points by means of a star-looking symbol (oftentimes you’ll find a lot of items that contain “nothing”, followed by an English-speaking narrator saying “nothing”).
5) “Shuffled Helmet” – item that adjusts magical and speed parameters (Magic +40 / Speed -40). Detrimental when used by itself because the speed parameter goes down by 50 points, but when equipped along with “Shuffled Breastplate” and “Shuffled Splint”, this item can quadruplicate the Magic parameters and reverse the Speed parameters. So it becomes the strongest equipment in the game. (Magic +160 / Speed +40)
6) Spring-wind Scarf”” – adjusts characters’ HP and Speed parameters by 20%

A previous package of content was released in late September, titled Hard Mod, features new game modes. As gamers are wrapping up the Blue Dragon storyline, they may be interested in expanding their adventure through these downloads!

New Lost Odyssey Details

Straight from TGS, Mistwalker has revealed some new Lost Odyssey details.

First off, the game will be an Xbox 360 record setting FOUR DVDs long. Mistwalker's previous title, Blue Dragon, was the original record holder at three DVDs.

The second juicy bit of information is that all voice acting in the game will be lip synced to English. There will still be multiple language options, including Japanese, but all voice acting will be synced to English. The reason for this is that Japanese fans are used to voices not matching lips due to imported American movies. Mistwalker also wanted to show thanks to English speaking fans around the world!

Despite the English lip syncing, the Japanese gamers still win because Lost Odyssey will be released in Japan in December. North American gamers will have to wait until February to get ahold of this highly anticipated Xbox 360 RPG.

Lost Odyssey North American Delay

Fans of the upcoming RPG Lost Odyssey will have to wait just a bit longer.

The game, which was initially supposed to be released worldwide by the end of 2007, is now slated for an early 2008 release in North America. Japanese gamers will fortunately still be able to pick up Lost Odyssey in December 2007. Lost Odyssey is a Xbox 360 exclusive RPG from Mistwalker, developer of the recent RPG Blue Dragon.

Blue Dragon received rave reviews in Japan but has been highly criticized since its North American release. One can't help but wonder if Mistwalker has decided to delay the North American release of their second game in hopes of avoiding those same problems...

Blue Dragon Released!

The highly anticipated Xbox 360 RPG from Mistwalker, Blue Dragon, is now shipping nationwide.

Blue Dragon comes from some of the most acclaimed developers in the industry, including Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, Akira Toriyama of Dragon Ball Z fame, and musical talents of the one and only Nobuo Uematsu.

Blue Dragon promises an epic tale with innovative gameplay features, including customizable shadows abilities and charge attacks. It will be the first North American title from Mistwalker and one of the few Japanese RPGs on the Xbox 360.

Blue Dragon & Lost Odyssey Releases

Two of the most highly anticipated RPGs headed for the Xbox 360 have received release dates, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey, both from Mistwalker.

Microsoft made the announcement at GDC 2007 that Blue Dragon will arrive on U.S. shores in August of 2007 and Lost Odyssey will be here sometime this fall.

While the Xbox 360 hasn't exactly been an RPG powerhouse, these two RPGs from Japan will surely help to improve the lineup. Blue Dragon has already been released in Japan with excellent sales.

Thanks to IGN for the info.