New items for Blue Dragon

By Robert Purchese Published 29 October, 2007

More things to collect.

Microsoft has piped up this morning to tell us about some fresh downloadable content for role-playing game Blue Dragon.

It comes as a handful of new items to collect, and is available now for 200 Microsoft Points (GBP 1.70 / EUR 2.33).

The best of the goodies is a set of Shuffled accessories that boost your magical power but harm your Speed. However, when Helmet, Breastplate and Splint are all equipped, then the Magic effect is quadrupled and the Speed effect reversed, leaving you with +160 Magic and +40 Speed. Very good, in other words.

Elsewhere there is a Spring-wind Scarf that boosts your Health and Speed by 20 per cent - useful if you have enormous statistics already - and Whimsical Mind, a growth item that randomly bolsters Shadow Classes by 0-4 levels.

There is also the Way of Thieves loot that lets you steal rare bits and pieces from enemies while fighting.

Those of you who are gluttons for punishment will like the new Nothing Glasses, which mark out all of the areas you will get "Nothings" from looting. Yes it sounds ridiculous, but these can be collected up and traded in later for fancy bits and pieces - rare items that you will collect elsewhere anyway. All very pointless if you ask me.

Or you can listen to the new Devee Ponograph, which lets you listen to the Devee-tribe dance again and again until you realise you were already fed-up with the high-pitched wailing of character Marumaru to begin with.

A little extra to drag out an already laborious game then, and no I am not bitter just because I only got 100 Gamerpoints for 55 hours of gameplay.

You might also like the difficulty package that Microsoft released in September, which adds a trio of settings to give your high level characters a bit more of a challenge.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Fwing #1 4 years ago

    "and no I am not bitter just because I only got 100 Gamerpoints for 55 hours of gameplay"

    Word.
    Would it have been so hard to take 10 points off each of the silly "level all classes to 99" achievements and let us have 50 for finishing the game!?! WOULD IT!?!?!

  • Darren #2 4 years ago

    I've played Blue Dragon for nearly 55 hours now and still haven't got round to completing it yet. I've been travelling around the world map on the Mechat looking for secret areas and opening the remaining chests, including the shielded ones, as well as levelling up all of my party. Currently they're all on level 62 or higher and have 999 HP with level 70+ shadows. I've also been upgrading the Mechat. I want to go into the final battle knowing that I'm not going to get pounded on my first go!!!

    It's a great game, or rather was, it's now less so as I feel that Eternal Sonata betters it in everyway with a more interesting story, more likeable and better defined characters, richer dialogue, superior combat, even more gorgeous looks and superior cutscenes (all on ONE disc with NO tearing!!!), better music; it's just a more enjoyable game in every way really.

  • uiruki #3 4 years ago

    This pack was free for the Japanese release.

    Just sayin'.

  • locus2k1 #4 4 years ago

    took me 80 hours to get all 1000 Gamerpoints, there were some nasty ones in there, glad i made a lot of saves, otherwise i would missed a damn load of them.

    Must get Eternal Sonata, though i dont think ill aim for all 1000 on that one, I hear its a doozy :D
    Edited by 1 at 29/10/07 @ 11:19

  • BBIAJ #5 4 years ago

    Eternal Sonata requires multiple play throughs to milk the full 1000 Gamerpoints, or so I hear...