Lost Odyssey is of course just like Final Fantasy because it is made by the very developer of Final Fantasy! Sakaguci! The game is made by Mistwalker Studio which is made up of the original team of Final Fantasy, before they headed for the hills since SquareEnix (SquareSoft) became a complete bastardization. It has the original creator of Final Fantasy and the original Final Fantasy music composer Nobuo Uematsu all on board. It is Final Fantasy without the bullshit whoring that is known as SquareEnix!
Blue Dragon is the same too, it is made by the people who did Lost Odyssey and is really intended for old school RPG players. And I mean the whole NES days of having to draw out the map and write things down; unless of course you buy the strategy guide...
Not only in NA.
I've always loved the FF series, recently i tried playing "The Last Remnant" to hold me over... didn't work, I stopped playing after about 3 hours, its been sitting for months now![]()
Weekly Famitsu magazine just released their review of FFXIII - they gave it a score of 39/40, though I don't really pay attention to their biased review magazine, anyway.