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Why Robin Makes Batman Better Some Lost Odyssey DLC was released in Japan last month. For 400 MS Points, they got a new dungeon with one new boss and one new item. Nothing to really set your goodness gracious great balls on fire, then, but it’s better than nothing. Good for them. So when do we get it? Yeah, the headline gave it away. It’ll be available this Friday, May 23. Same stuff, same price.
While English speakers are waiting for some of the better Lost Odyssey DLC to be localised, we will be getting a small offering to tide us over. The Triple Bonus Pack is available today for 200 points. It includes a new dream sequence called “The Shattered Beyond,” a “memory lamp” to view dreams (we’re assuming from anywhere on the map) and a Battle Ring for fighting magic weaponry.
While many in the United States are just finishing their first play-through of Lost Odyssey, the third piece of DLC is now available in Japan. The new dungeon, Seeker of the Abyss, is available to those on the fourth disc. Battling in this underwater tunnel will eventually reward you with the Eternal Magic Engine, an accessory that allows immortals to cast unlimited amounts of spells at the price of exactly 0 MP.
So…Thursday, then. Oh, and sadly only in Japan, at least for now. For 400 points, on offer is a single (very familiar-looking) dungeon, which promises a single rare item and a single boss encounter, though you’d expect a fair bit of random-bad-guy-pop-ups to hassle you during your exploration as well. One more thing: the Famitsu report’s a little unclear on where you need to be in the game to access this stuff, so keep that in mind if you’re going to try and get around the region locks on XBL and pick this up. 『ロストオデッセイ』ダウンロードコンテンツ第3弾が2008年4月10日から配信[Famitsu]
Okay, its $19.95, but I doubt you’ll be handing over exact change when you take GAME up on this deal.
As you can see from the image above, along with the cash you’ll need to hand over two Xbox 360 games. So pick a couple from your collection that you don’t play much, or steal a few from a mate, and head on over to GAME.
There’s a copy of Lost Odyssey quivering in anticipation of your arrival right now.
[Thanks Ryan!]
ON LOST ODYSSEY LOAD TIMES – I’ve been reading various stories and posts around the internets over the past few days concerning Lost Odyssey’s battle load times, and how some press outlets have reported regular load times of 30-60 seconds (which has obviously affected their reviews). Well, if this is putting you off, I can tell you the discs I received about a week and a half ago were final, retail discs, not “review code” for a debug unit, and the average load time for a battle is between 12-16 seconds. Which is totally bearable.
Competitions are fantastic. Except, of course, when they end. That’s exactly what happened to our Lost Odyssey comp, which finished on February 13.
It took a while to go through all the comments we received during the week, and I apologise for not posting the results sooner. Honestly, my job would be so much easier if the calibre of entries wasn’t so high. So in the future, can you guys please just post poorly punctuated fanboy rants*?
(*This is a joke. Please keep the wit, humour and intelligence coming.)
Thanks once again to Microsoft for supplying us with the prizes. One copy would have been great, but MS came to us with five. Which, as you can imagine, was awesome.
So, which five readers had the best comments? Hit the jump to find out!
While Microsoft snagging Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi may not have set the Japanese market on fire, we’re still interested to see the games that he’s creating for the platform. Lost Odyssey is his studio Mistwalker’s latest attempt to make the Xbox 360 an RPG system as classic as predecessors from Nintendo or Sony.
So how did the critics like Lost Odyssey? Hit the jump for our Frankenreview to find out—an edition so good you may never need to read another review again.
Here’s a turnup for the books. I got my copy of Lost Odyssey about a week ago, and with memories of how sick I got of Blue Dragon still lingering in my mind, popped it into my 360 and prepared for the worst. As one hour became two and that became four, it was looking like I’d prepared adequately.
Lost Odyssey comes on four, count ‘em, four discs. Which creates a packaging dilemma for the folks at Xbox HQ. In Asia, the problem was solved by releasing a slightly fatter case, which housed all four discs on two little trays. An elegant solution. But the American version? They cram three discs into a case then stick the fourth in a paper envelope. Not so elegant. Wark & vexvegaz @ NeoGAF
