Blue Dragon

If you like Japanese-style RPGs, with the stand-around combat with the menus happening every four minutes, the bizarre monsters showing up at the most unusual places, the stilted awkward dialogue, and the promise of hours of play that end up being less than advertised, but you also want to look at...

Blue Dragon is an unexceptional RPG that does just enough to escape mediocrity.

Blue Dragon is not a game that is going to elicit a strong reaction from you. It's not terrible, or particularly great or memorable, so the most remarkable thing about it is how unremarkable it is. It's big: three DVDs big, thanks to loads of cutscenes and voice clips.

It's fun to watch your dragons do battle; Occasional minigames mix things up; Class system lets you customize your characters in endless ways

Unfortunately; class system turns party members into a generic mishmash of spells and skills; You won't care about the long; boring story or cookie-cutter characters; Visuals are bland and rely too much on blurry depth-of-field tricks