Upwards and onwards on my merry adventures with Kaim and his crew of pirates. I mean soldiers. I mean traveling insurance salesmen. Oh never mind, I forgot who they were. What I do know is the gameplay is really starting to click with me now after some time with it. It’s hit that magical balance of deep enough to keep me interested yet not so tedious and cumbersome to drive me mad. They have also hit that median of leveling that someone could just play through without grinding and so far be just fine in boss battles. Which is good considering how story heavy this game is.

I have no timetables but my actual battles have taken up maybe a quarter of actual game time here. In some cases this would be a bad thing but the story is so well done that i’m not minding it at all. The last 3 hours of disc one I spent following a funeral. I won’t spoil the character but suffice to say the character was important to the story yet only had a small fraction of time on my screen before passing. Despite this it flowed so well I still shed a tear for the heart wrenching scene and other characters reactions with barely any time invested in this character.

The story kept on flowing and still had me interested blubbering like a baby. Playing through this entire funeral arc with a few minigames threw in and it still did not feel out of place or tacky. The scenes confronted the issues of death and passing of this character with dignity and well thought out dialog. Even if this game goes downhill from here I will still look back at Lost Odyssey and give it major kudos for this whole section that was beautifully done and a very moving take on something that is usually laughable in video games.