Underrated:- Lost Odyssey
As we drift ever so closer to the blisteringly hot and exciting time of the gaming calender that we call summer, let us ignore the beckoning calls of the E3 Expo and first turn our attention to the games that have already come out.
We’ve had some gigantic titles already released in 2010, Mass Effect 2, Battlefield: Bad Company 2, God of War 3 and Bioshock 2, just to name but a few. However, it’s probably safe to say, that the 1st quarter of this year as only truly belonged to one game, Square Enix’s latest offering of the Final Fantasy series, Final Fantasy 13.
Everywhere you went, from the sides of buses, to billboards, from full page adverts in magazines, to advertisements on that little, (or big), box we call a television, Final Fantasy 13 was there. In fact I heard that Square Enix had pumped so much money into the marketing campaign of Final Fantasy 13, that they actually tried to make it an international law that every person over the age of 16 in the world had to buy at least 10 copies of Final Fantasy 13, 1 copy to play, 9 copies just to sit on your shelf, or something like that, anyway.
Despite it’s ridiculously big advertising campaign, the wait for Final Fantasy 13 was a long one, and in between Final Fantasy 12 and 13, Microsoft Game Studios released, the great, and often forgotten about, Lost Odyssey, a game so much in the vain and style of the Final Fantasy series that it was even produced by the creator of the Final Fantasy franchise, Hironobu Sakaguchi, (pronounced He-Row-Know-Boo, Sack-A-Gooch-Ee, I do believe).
