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Holy crap.

It just finished.

I can't believe how bad that was.

Wow, I just finished the Lost Odyssey demo. It took about 35 mins or so in total, and I explored every corner and every bit of the demo available. Overall it's a pretty disappointing experience that shows some SERIOUS flaws in the development of Lost Odyssey.

Everyone has seen the first 10 minutes of the demo, so I won't go over that again. It's the same thing and easily the most impressive part of the entire demo. The seamless switch from FMV to realtime is impressive and the models are nice and detailed. The actual combat animation leaves much to be desired and the fire effects are really pretty bad, but those are not problems that cannot be fixed.

After the battle is when the problems start. Firstly there is quite a bit of loading. Basically every new area requires loading and the areas are pretty small. What's worse is that there's loading before and after each random encounter, and it really breaks up the pacing. Another problem is that whenever you get to a new area, the ground is a blurry mess for 2-3 seconds before the detailed textures pop-in. That's pretty disgusting even if this is a free demo of a presumably early build.

Another problem that will be encountered is that the fields themselves are pretty badly designed. They reek of PS1 era RPGs with pre-rendered backgrounds where you have no idea which areas are really accessible or just plain art. With no way to rotate the camera and some questionable art decisions, the first two areas has you running around in 30fps with no v-sync and framerate dips at times (which is really distracting) while poking at every corner to visible object trying out if you can move in that direction or interact with said object. It's really quite annoying and not much fun at all.

While most of the environment look somewhat good, the good parts are all in the art designs and the tech seems to fail at every turn possible. Poor effects, underwhelming natural environments and objects, etc. When you eventually get to the camp to hitch a ride, the cutscenes that use multiple camera angles on the same screen are laughable at best. To make things worse, not only were the scenes laughable but they caused more framerate drops. Pathetic.

The entire ride to the capital city shows off some of the poorest vehicle motion scenes I've seen in next-generation. The wheels of the vehicles spin, but the entire model seems to be floating over the ground as opposed to actually moving on it. Compare this with any launch Xbox360 game and you'll find something better there.

Eventually you get to the city and explore several small indoor areas before getting onto the monorail to end the demo with a rather impressive FMV of the entire city panning out. You can interact with several objects while in the "city" (it's not really the city proper, but the monorail station leading into the city itself which isn't in the demo) to find gold and other items like most other RPGs. If you try to leave the station area you get a message that you cannot access the World Map in the demo, so I guess the game uses a World Map... maybe.

Overall it's a real disappointment even if you're expecting a mediocre demo. MS should never have asked Mistwalker to put out a product this unfinished and if they're willing to put it out, it's fair to judge it based on what is presented. I'll give the graphics a B, the music an A- and the gameplay a C at this point. For what MS is trying to hype up as one of their major titles of 2007, having B-level graphics is so hilarious. Sorry MS, maybe you should have put out a Blue Dragon demo instead.

I just got done playing this shitpile of a demo.

What the f*ck is this trash? Yeah, way to sell your game by making the worst demo possible and packaging it with every copy of Famitsu. Jesus H Christ.

Ta gra po tym co zobaczyłem na demie nie może być grą na "7"

Słyszałem że demo jest na japońskim Live!, ale osobiście nie sprawdzałem...

No niestety trochę zawiódł mnie trailer z konferencji M$. Niby początek klimatyczny, głos głównego bohatera bardzo fajny, ale przedstawione fragmenty scenek jakieś takie totalnie bez ikry, zero jakichś charakterystycznych postaci, mocno przeciętny design i jakieś kosmosy w postaci rycerza na koniu na statku powietrznym. Do tego animacja sobie radośnie pochrupuje ;f

Ja mam tylko nadzieje ze poziom trudnosci bedzie wysoki,niechodzi mi tu nawet o to ze trzeba pakowac bohatera zeby bossa rozwalic,ale zeby czasami bylo trzeba pokombinowac i uzyc jakies strategii,a nie tylko isc przed siebie klikajac atak...

Coraz wiecej nowych rpgow ma ta wade

Dokladnie!Zreszta juz nawet Final X byl banalny mimo ze ogolnie byl swietna gra..a Lost Odyssey bardzo mi przypomina wlasnie tego Finala(co mnie bardzo cieszy)..

No sorry Cirex ale jak Ty możesz napisać ,że grafa troche lepsza niż w FFX

Lost Odyssey nie dość ,że wychodzi na konsole chyba z 20 razy mocniejszą od PS2 to chodzi na Unreal Engine 3 na którym śmiga chociażby Gears of War i naprawdę to widać-postacie ,otoczenie,animacja to przepaść w porównaniu z FFX.

Nie waidomo jak z innymi elementami ale pod względem grafy jest bardzo bardzo dobrze