Jan 23 2009
A few hours into Lost Odyssey
When I first opened up the game case, four game discs popped out and gave me a heart attack. Just how long is this game? Anything over sixty hours coughlegendofzeldacough can get tedious and drop my interest. I contacted a friend who had completed the game to find out roughly how long it took her. She told me not to worry; it should take me as long as it takes to finish a Final Fantasy game.
It didn’t take me very long to figure out why the game needs four discs. The graphics are as enriching and as detailed as they are in the graphic above, no matter if it’s during battle, while walking around, or during cut-scenes. And speaking of cut-scenes, this game likes them. A lot. Most revolve around the protagonist, who is an immortal with amnesia. Every now and then, something will trigger a memory, and then the player must sit back and read a short story. My game clock is only a couple of hours, but I’m quite certain that only forty-five minutes of it was actual gameplay.
For now, I’m really liking the game for its incredible graphics, interactive turn-based play, and story telling. If the game carries this same momentum all the way through, it will rank as one of my favorite games.
