If you managed to persevere with Enchanted Arms it was a very rewarding game, I know not everyones cup of sake (*groan*) but it definately stands as one of my favourite 360 games to date.
Blue Dragon though feels a very different game with its obviously wider target audience appeal.
Only played for about an hour so far but impressed with what I have seen so far, though also a little surprised at some of the content. The graphics would indicate that the game attempts to be suitable for a younger audience but the 12+ rating it has would not necessarily agree, I wondered about that until I was soon coming across various references in one word to the lack of parentage of a character. Poo snakes and a Fat Rat that drops a poo which you can search (with a squelch, squelch) for items is certainly a little erm juvenile. Not sure I like that aspect as definately past the 'heh heh he said poo' stage.
There is a slight annoyance in that it is not exactly clear through the first few desert sequences where you are meant to be going to reach the next section.
However those annoyances are pretty minor and more than made up by the feel of the game engine and in particular its graphics. Graphically this game is excellent, the combination of HD graphics and the cartoon images really make the visuals stand out. It's very odd that coming from a game like Bioshock with its gritty and realistic world graphics to a game like this and be actually more impressed with the graphical nature of Blue Dragon... odd that.
Th encounter system works very well with the choice of fighting where you want to fight rather than a purely random encounter system. When fighting the combat system is very familiar and comfortable, although I do miss the ability to switch the sequencing in flight ala FF's. The story is very thin so far which is something I hope does become more solid, that was one of my biggest disapointments in FFXII and actually meant it became the first FF I had that I could not be bothered to see through to the end.
Looking forward to seeing where it goes now.
Amusing side note: Contrary to the what the blu-ray camp spout about the limits of DVD and so on there is something quite comforting about opening that box and seeing the three disks. It was kind of something that I always remember thinking for FF's on the old PS1... FFVII on three disks... FFVIII on four disks ("wow, it must be huge"). With so many games falling in sub-15 hour play time these days (and Heavenly Sword at 6-7 hours is dreadful) there is definately a reassuring feel to the three disks and the scope of the game that implies... it's purely a subjective rather than technical view but it's there.