Blue Dragon review for Xbox 360

Blue Dragon is a bit of a departure for Xbox 360 gamers in the UK; it's a Japanese RPG and they don't often make it this far. Unlike any RPG you might be used to playing on your 360, Blue Dragon is a whole new experience, with distinctive graphics and a convoluted plot - but at its root it's a solid RPG with some excellent and intriguing features. Blue Dragon's been huge in Japan - will its success continue here? Find out what we think in our full Blue Dragon review for Xbox 360 now!
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Blue Dragon review for Xbox 360
Playing through Blue Dragon is certainly an experience if you've never played an RPG with French dubbing before. And it isn't because Microsoft have done something stupid either, like not including an English track on the disk. Oh no, it's because of something far worse. The developers have gone and given the main character the single most annoying voice of any game – ever.

Making your lead character sound like the kind of American dweeb you'd like to slap if you ever met him is not the best of design decisions, and somewhat sadly, this is pretty indicative of Blue Dragon's overall character design. The majority of the main cast are absolutely awful. Each of the characters is meant to be around sixteen years old, yet they look like the bastard child of a Bratz doll and Noddy, while somehow managing to display even less emotion than that of their plastic pals. What's worse, this manages to make Blue Dragon's already limp storyline even weaker, because as all the terrible things happen (you know, villages getting destroyed, that kind of thing), everyone just stands around, looking exactly the same as they do when they're elated.

If you came looking for a dramatic experience of the calibre of something like Final Fantasy, the chances are you'll be disappointed, but thankfully, the rest of the game is a lot, lot better.

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