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Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow

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 Nintendo Wi-Fi…

70 8 October 2009 ESRB E10+

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Bird Studio, released 8 October 2009 on Nintendo DS.

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What Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Bird Studio and released in 2009. It was published by D3Publisher of America, Inc.. It is available on Nintendo DS only. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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 Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in multiplayer mode. Players will be able to attack enemies faster than ever before with upgraded weapons and powerful Shadows, which can be switched for tactical advantages. Players will roam a 3D open world environment across several unique “cube” worlds as they take on formidable Otherworld bosses, complete multiple challenges, and recruit over a dozen characters in their own custom adventure.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

How it was received

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 31% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow launched on 8 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta, S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat.

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When did Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow come out?
Blue Dragon: Awakened Shadow was released on 8 October 2009 for Nintendo DS.

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