Blue Dragon
Blue Dragon is a Xbox 360 role-playing game released in 2006 developed by Artoon. It centers on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and collection and development goals, with controls and information arranged around the Xbox 360 wired or wireless controller's twin sticks, analog triggers, directional pad, and face buttons.
- AI score · out of 10
- 7.1 / 10
About this game
Blue Dragon is a Xbox 360 role-playing game centered on combat encounters, area and route exploration, and collection and development goals. Story beats, exploration, and progression resources support a longer campaign, with progress divided into stages, tasks, matches, or growth milestones that make immediate goals understandable. Its value depends on whether these rules continue to create judgment and room for mastery rather than on length, sales, or series recognition. Short campaigns are judged by repeat-challenge value, while longer ones are judged by variety, pacing, and recovery after failure. Characters, world building, environments, and music carry most of the atmosphere, while HD video, DVD streaming, surround audio, HDD installs, and television-distance interfaces need to keep action, state, and text readable. The genre-specific limitation is that dense text, menu layers, repeated battles, loading, or language dependence can slow progress. Platform conditions also include disc and HDD installation, storage devices, controller batteries, video connections, resolution and frame rate, Kinect space and calibration, and retired online services affect the current release. This description covers only this platform release and does not import features or conveniences from remasters, emulators, or other console editions.
Collected in series
Blue Dragon is a fantasy RPG series where magical shadows fight alongside their human companions, with character designs by Akira Toriyama. Its games take that idea in different directions, from turn-based adventuring to squad commands and direct action.
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AI review
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Flexible shadow jobs, but a lengthy and uneven journey.
Blue Dragon on Xbox 360 builds a traditional turn-based adventure around shadows that can change jobs and carry learned abilities into new combinations. That flexibility gives familiar white-mage and fighter roles more room for planning. Colorful character art, lively shadows and music provide a warm identity across a long, multi-disc journey. The structure also shows its age in less welcome ways: grinding can take hours for modest gains, class archetypes are conventional, and the main story rarely surprises enough to propel the middle stretch. A firsthand Xbox 360 review reports occasional frame drops when rotating the camera, a bounded observation about the original console build rather than backward compatibility or an unofficial PC recompilation. Players wanting a substantial, approachable job-system RPG can enjoy experimenting with parties. Those who require brisk progression and consistently inventive storytelling should be prepared for repetition.
Strengths
- Job mixing and colorful character art.
Weaknesses
- Thin grinding rewards, familiar plot and occasional dips.
Who it is for: Fans of classic job-system JRPGs.
Play notes: Original Xbox 360 only, not newer runtime versions.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension 体量大却略拖沓。 | Reviewed | 6.5 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 战斗基础稳，职业创新有限。 | Reviewed | 7.3 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 美术比故事鲜明。 | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension 运行偶有迟滞。 | Reviewed | 6.5 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- MistwalkerArtoonBird Studio
- Publisher
- Xbox Game Studios
- Release date
- 2006
- Platforms
- Xbox 360
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Categories
- Role-Playing · Primary genre
- Tags
- Solo-friendlyExplorationLevel ProgressionCollection-richLong-term ProgressionFantasyReplayableStory-driven3D GraphicsThird Person
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- Single player
- Perspectives
- Third person
Release editions
- Xbox 360Worldwide2006
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