10 Forgotten Xbox 360 Games You Should Play In 2020
5. Lost Odyssey
There's an inherently weird feeling about seeing Eastern-style RPG's on a predominantly Western console like the Xbox. Considering the Japanese don't care much for it, it also seems like sheer defiance on Microsoft's part to make one. Blue Dragon, for example, just looks out of place to me.
However, credit for trying with Lost Odyssey, which at least attempts to bridge that divide by attempting to tweak our nostalgia nodes.
You couldn't get more on the nose for Final Fantasy fans than by having Hironobu Sakaguchi and Nobuo Uematsu on board: the creator and noted composer of Square's series, respectively.
Lost Odyssey took everything back to a more classic era of JRPG, with its turn based battles, experience-based leveling and randomised battle system.
It even came on four discs, for that true throwback feel... well, and capacity restrictions.
Gruff main character, amnesia and time-travel, parallel dimensions and world-ending villains, Lost Odyssey had it all. Hampered at the time (and still to this date) by only being on the Xbox 360, it didn't help chances of a franchise.
But now, if you're after a massive and compelling classic to sink into, get lost in this odyssey.