Once you’ve made your little work of anime art and passed a brief tutorial ... dodge and use special attacks by charging up their current shadow. In Blue Dragon characters don’t have stats ...

But in Japan, Blue Dragon is massive. Out there the Hironobu Sakaguchi-designed universe has its own anime series and manga ... specific support abilities and Shadow powers.

The savvy move was only compounded by the announcement that "Blue Dragon," the first game by Sakaguchi's Mistwalker studio, would feature art from Akira Toriyama, creator of the anime phenomenon ...

This area looked like a field you'd encounter in a light-hearted, anime-inspired RPG ... Not so in Blue Dragon. The demo scene featured a real time shadow so precise that you could see bits ...

A floating cube lands to unleash a giant three-headed shadow dragon as King Jibral and Zola look on with suspicion. The old crew returns to Blue Dragon Plus, and if you haven't played the first ...

Traditional gameplay, familiar character tropes, "save-the-world-from-evil" plotting, and a lot of almost anime-style ... Awakened Shadow, the Blue Dragon series cleaves to the traditions of ...

Now Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow takes the series in a different direction with more of a real-time action focus. This latest change of pace brings a few minor changes to the series and makes room ...

Awakened Shadow is designed to take full advantage of the Nintendo DS capabilities allowing players to engage in impressive boss battles with up to two friends and earn and trade items via the ...

Three games in, and Blue Dragon is starting to feel like a franchise ... why you're the only one still with a shadow, and why no-one ever stops to think the two events just might be connected.

Blue Dragon™: Awakened Shadow is an epic action role-playing game and the sequel to the critically acclaimed and successful Xbox 360 title. The player, aided by a young boy named Shu and his ...