Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow Download – Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow Review
Blue Dragon seems destined to stay just short of great. The series has seen three releases now, and each one has been a solid game — but none has quite edged up into that critical must-buy territory.
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The original adventure was a highly anticipated turn-based RPG that shipped to the Xbox 360 three years ago. It was good, but a bit too traditional and by-the-book to really shine. The sequel, Blue Dragon Plus, hit the DS in 2008 and completely changed the genre and gameplay style — it was a strategy title. It was also good, but, again, hovered just shy of excellence in most people’s opinions.
And now Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow, the franchise’s third game, has arrived — and it’s continuing the trend. This game once again alters the core mechanics of play, shifting away from both turn-based and tactical battles and offering real-time action-oriented combat instead. But the third gameplay change in three games still hasn’t pushed the overall impact of the adventure into that must-have realm. It’s once again solid, but still just short of great.
Awakened Shadow picks up the storyline two years after the end of the first Blue Dragon and one year after the conclusion of Plus. We find our heroes from those earlier adventures happily living out their lives in the now-peaceful Neo Jibral kingdom, where everyone — even the common townsfolk — have
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