The game world contains two major types of areas: towns, in which the player can rest and purchase items, and dungeon-like areas, with numerous foes to be defeated. The gameplay of Blue Dragon uses turn-based gameplay elements seen in older Japanese role-playing video games. Overall, the game received a generally positive reception, being both applauded and criticized for its adaptation of the traditional elements of role-playing games. Other regions received only the game itself, with a release in August 2007. The game was released in Japan in December 2006, where it was sold both as a standalone title and as part of a bundle with the Xbox 360. The game follows a traditional role-playing design, based around exploration and turn-based combat.īlue Dragon was the first Xbox 360 title to make use of multiple discs, spanning three discs in total. The setting inspired separate animation and comic adaptations, although these follow the story to different degrees and feature a different cast of characters. Taking place in a fictional open-world environment, the story of Blue Dragon focuses on five friends (Shu, Jiro, Kluke, Zola, and Marumaro) as they travel across the world to confront Nene, the evil ruler of the Grand Kingdom. It is both Mistwalker's debut title and the first title to be helmed by Sakaguchi outside of Square Enix. Blue Dragon is based on a design by Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who also supervised development and wrote the plot. Blue Dragon is a 2007 role-playing video game developed by Mistwalker and Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360.

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