Ultimately, then, the strengths and weaknesses contained here balance out to make Awakened Shadow land right where the first Blue Dragon and Blue Dragon Plus ended up. A good game, solid and fun.

Although the DS spin-off was called a "sequel," it's not considered canon. The real sequel takes the form of Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow, also for the DS.

All of Awakened Shadow is told through a series of quests ... These doors each lead to the Otherworld (which may look familiar to past Blue Dragon players) and a boss that is very difficult ...

We spoke with D3 Publisher Associate Producer Joe Fletcher about his work on Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow. Mistwalker and Namco Bandai took the series and made another Nintendo DS game out of it.

Still, it was a quality product, and in no way deserves a title like Awakened Shadow soiling its good name. The third game to bear the Blue Dragon name takes the spotlight off Shu and his cohorts ...

Awakened Shadow is the third RPG game in Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Blue Dragon series. Developed at Mistwalker Studios, this iteration also marks the third completely new gameplay style after the ...

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 ...

Hell, some people really like tradition, after all. And in its latest iteration for DS, Awakened Shadow, the Blue Dragon series cleaves to the traditions of its forebears pretty strictly - which ...

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 ...

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.

He’s still trying to figure out what gamers want from him. Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is his third pass on a universe he co-created with Dragonball Z artist Akira Toriyama—it’s a world ...