"Justice for Lost Odyssey": Clair Obscur creative director calls for remaster of cult 2007 RPG

"One of the champion games of its kind", says Sandfall boss

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 originative manager Guillaume Broche of Sandfall Interactive would precise overmuch similar to play a remaster of Lost Odyssey, the mournful 2007-released Xbox 360 RPG from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi and improvement workplace Mistwalker. He feels the crippled was cruelly dinged by reviewers of the epoch for adhering to definite conventions. He besides reckons it’d person done amended if it had released for hardware different than the Xbox 360, which was trying to marque in-roads among Japanese consumers astatine the time.

"It became a cult classical due to the fact that fewer radical played it, arsenic it was disposable lone connected Xbox 360 portion its halfway assemblage was astir apt much utilized to PlayStation consoles," Broche told Eurogamer's Ed Nightingale successful a retrospective interview, published earlier today. "But that halfway assemblage who did play it loved it. The captious reception astatine the clip was precise unfair successful my opinion, arsenic the crippled was criticised for being 'old school' astatine a clip wherever it felt similar each crippled that was not an unfastened satellite was viewed arsenic 'old school' by the occidental press.

"I didn't stock that sentiment astatine each and its linear structure, coupled with a satellite map, an astonishing story, and fantastic music, made it 1 of the champion games of its kind,” helium added.

I’m not definite I’d spell that far, but sure, Lost Odyssey is precise bully and deserved much eyeballs than it got. There are a fewer aspects I dislike, specified arsenic achingly agelong treks betwixt prevention points, and yes, it has random battles, which utilized to rustle the jimjams of European and North American critics, but person been retired of manner for truthful agelong among large fund RPG developers that they've benignant of go an breathtaking novelty. Ah, retrieve erstwhile you couldn’t scope the extremity of a upland way without hallucinating 12 fishbowl punch-ups with 1 and the aforesaid elephantine beetle/harpy duo.

The combat is rather elegant, mixing questions of duration and positioning with a magic ringing QTE system. But I liked the crippled much for its absorbing ocular caller interludes – memories reclaimed by your immortal protagonist Kaim - and its faded concern phantasy setting, which feels similar a post-apocalyptic variation of Final Fantasy X’s Spira.

Broche says the crippled "never had immoderate existent successor", which is possibly overlooking Sandfall’s ain Clair Obscur, though I’ll permission it to you to statement the resemblance. "Justice for Lost Odyssey," helium told EG. "Remaster it present truthful much radical tin play it, please."