Blue Dragon Box Art

I just started Disc 2 of Blue Dragon. So far I really like the game. Perhaps it is because I have not played a jRPG in quite a while. Nothing new or groundbreaking in this title despite the hype they put into it, in fact I don’t think you’ll find much here that hasn’t been done over and over. However, I still find myself more than eager to get to the next part of the story.

One thing I definitely do not like so far is the “Examine Everything” aspect to the game. I don’t mind do a little digging here and there to find some cool stuff, but in Blue Dragon you literally have to check every single rock, tree stump, pot, drawer, and piece of junk lying on the ground to make sure that you don’t miss that high level spell or awesome accessory that you would’ve otherwise missed.

I also thought the beginning of the game was a little too easy for my liking. Though, don’t worry, the game quickly picks up in difficulty as you go along. There was a couple boss fights in the beginning that left me feeling cheated. Then, as I got toward the end of the first disc there was some normal monster fights that I thought would take me out. But, for the most part, I haven’t had to do a lot of grinding to play along with the story line.

So that Brings me to the story line.  I think it is the game’s selling point.  Sakaguci has always been one of my favorite game writers and he delivered another good one with this title.  The story is enough to play the game for.  To add to that Uematsu’s scores are always exceptional.

All in all, I still think it is a good enough game for the $20 you’ll plunk down on it at GameStop.