Blue Dragon
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Box art of Blue Dragon.
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Mistwalker Artoon |
| Publisher(s) | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Director(s) | Takuya Matsumoto |
| Programmer(s) | Shinji Iseki |
| Artist(s) | Akira Toriyama |
| Writer(s) | Hironobu Sakaguchi |
| Composer(s) | Nobuo Uematsu |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360 |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Some featured characters in the Blue Dragon anime. From left to right: Bouquet, Kluke, and Zola.
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ブルードラゴン (Burū Doragon) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Yukihiro Matsushita |
| Music by | Megumi Oohashi Nobuo Uematsu |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 7, 2007 – March 29, 2008 |
| Episodes | 51 |
| Anime television series | |
| Blue Dragon: Trials of the Seven Shadows | |
| Directed by | Yukihiro Matsushita |
| Music by | Megumi Oohashi Nobuo Uematsu |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | TV Tokyo |
| Original run | April 5, 2008 – March 28, 2009 |
| Episodes | 51 |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 77% |
| Metacritic | 79/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | C+ |
| Eurogamer | 5 out of 10 |
| Famitsu | 37 out of 40 |
| Game Informer | 9 out of 10 |
| GamePro | 4.5 out of 5 |
| GameSpot | 6 out of 10 |
| GameSpy | 4 out of 5 |
| IGN | 7.9 out of 10 |
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Blue Dragon (Japanese: ブルードラゴン Hepburn: Burū Doragon?) is a role-playing video game developed by Mistwalker and Artoon and published by Microsoft Game Studios exclusively for the Xbox 360. Blue Dragon is based on a design by Final Fantasy series creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who also supervised development and wrote the plot. It is both Mistwalker's debut title and the first title to be helmed by Sakaguchi outside of Square Enix. The game was released in Japan on December 7, 2006, where it was sold both as a standalone title and as part of a bundle with the Xbox 360 (including the game, the Xbox 360 system itself, and a Blue Dragon console skin). Other regions received only the game itself, with a release in Europe on August 24, 2007, and in North America on August 28, 2007.
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. The setting inspired separate anime and manga adaptations, although these follow the story to different degrees and feature a different cast of characters. The game follows a traditional role-playing design, based around exploration and turn-based combat.
Blue Dragon is the first Xbox 360 title to make use of multiple discs, spanning three discs in total. Overall, the game has received a positive reception, with an average score of 77.48% on the review aggregator website GameRankings.Blue Dragon was both applauded and criticized for its adaptation of the traditional elements of role-playing games.
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