10/28/2023 0 Comments Lost odyssey![]() You can combine components to create rings, which offer hand-to-hand combat bonuses. There are dozens upon dozens of different components to be found. Defeating enemies and searching the thousands of ceramic pots in the world earn you components. As if that weren't enough to eat away the time of obsessive gamers, there's also a ring-building system. You may find yourself keeping your least favorite human character just to learn their valuable skills. But your immortals can only learn certain skills from humans - who must be fighting in combat alongside the immortal. You may be tempted to stack your combat squad with immortals, because when an immortal falls in battle they resurrect after a few turns. This also creates an interesting dynamic between mortals and immortals. There's strategy both in how you learn new skills and how best to utilize skills for each character. For those who love the minutiae in RPGs, this is heaven as you can spend hours trying to maximize the skills of your immortals. Earn the requisite SP and you learn the skill, which can then be slotted for your character to use in combat. Instead, SP progresses you towards learning a specific skill you have linked to a human in your party or from accessories you're currently wearing. You don't spend SP as you might in other RPGs. At the end of combat, you earn your standard XP, but also Skill Points. They learn skills from the humans in their party and from the accessories they use. Humans gains skills as they level up and require no fiddling. Your party consists of a mixture of humans and immortals. As you progress, an addictive system of micro-managing rings and skills turns what is a very traditional combat system into something interesting and (if you are obsessive) exciting. That changes as you plunge deeper into the adventure. On the surface, Lost Odyssey appears to do nothing new. Only the Unreal Engine can create light so bright. It's based on the elements (earth, fire, wind and water) and uses classic nomenclature to signify more powerful versions of spells. And the magic is the same thing you've experienced for the past 20 years. Weapons in Lost Odyssey are pretty boring as none hold any special properties whatsoever - they are merely an Attack rating and nothing else. You can attack, use an item, cast magic, or activate a skill. It is completely turn-based with a menu system that seems taken straight from 1998. Combat in Lost Odyssey is about as traditional as you will find in a modern-day game. Though the main story is a throwaway, it's the personal stories of Kaim and his band of not-so-merry men that will live on after the last bad guy's been slain. ![]() This melancholy touches each of the immortals, but none as poignantly as Kaim. A thousand years brings a lot of regret and a lot of pain. Though Kaim must reclaim his memories to save the world, he would prefer they never be recovered. But around six or seven hours in to Lost Odyssey, we get our first significant revelation about Kaim and suddenly the character opens up and we learn the pains of being immortal. In the first few hours of Lost Odyssey, he is portrayed as a quiet loner, with little persona. No, not "bare-assed blue aliens" adult, but mature nonetheless. But intertwined with the main plot are several smaller stories that are intriguing, engaging, and adult. Most people play RPGs for the story and Lost Odyssey's primary storyline is average in its best moments. The story's villain is revealed to be a power-mad tyrant straight from central casting. The main plot quickly becomes clichéd, convoluted, and (in the end) silly. It's a promising premise that's never fully realized. Unlocking these memories proves the key to thwarting a sinister plot that threatens two worlds. In fact, three other immortals have also forgotten the events of the last millennium. Kaim is not the only immortal wandering the Earth searching for his past. Kaim has lost his memories, the past 1000 years mysteriously stripped from him. The political intrigue of city-states caught in a staring contest is just a sideshow for Lost Odyssey's true conflict. From this spectacular intro, you're thrust into a world on the verge of all-out war. ![]() Your journey begins as Kaim Argonar, a 1000-year-old immortal, survives the impact of a meteor crashing onto a battlefield.
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