When it comes to Odyssey, Ubisoft fans think of Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, and fans at Nintendo think of Super Mario: Odyssey. Recently, Jez Corden, senior editor of Windows Central, said in an Xbox Two podcast that Blizzard has a mysterious five-year-old AAA project code-named "Project Odyssey." So what exactly does "Odyssey" mean? Today there is a small wave of popular science.
The history of the Odyssey
Open the Steam Mall and search for "Odyssey" and you'll be greeted with up to 226 matching results.
Players are familiar with the Ubisoft famous Assassin's Creed series, and I am afraid that only Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey (Ancestors: Human Odyssey) is more well-known. Players can play as an ape in the game and experience the evolution from ape to human.
So the question is, what is a odyssey?
Turning to the Oxford Advanced English-Chinese Dictionary (Seventh Edition), we can see that it means "a long journey full of experience." A hard trek; a long and risky journey. ”
If you think about it, almost all games that use Odyssey as part of or as a subtitle to the game's name seem like a thrilling journey. In Super Mario: Odyssey, we play as Mario and Kapi, riding the Odyssey, on an adventurous journey, and in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey, we play as a Spartan in pursuit of family and the Spear of Leonidas. But these excellent works are actually not the first known to use "Odyssey" as the name of the game, earlier, Microsoft began to enter the home game console industry, wanted to break through the Japanese market firmly occupied by Sony and Nintendo, so it spent a lot of money to invite the father of "Final Fantasy" Hironobu Sakaguchi, "Final Fantasy" royal music Nobuo Uematsu, and produced the JRPG trilogy "Blue Dragon", "Lost Odyssey", "Cry On". Although "Cry On" was miscarried for various reasons, the last time I heard the news of the restart was 8 years ago, and I think it must have been completely stillborn.
The people of "Blue Dragon" should be able to guess which manga everyone made, and Akira Toriyama's "Dragon Ball" style is too prominent. The character style of "The Lost Odyssey" is also strong enough, produced by Yuhiko Inoue, the author of "Slam Dunk Master".
The works created by the top luxury team have not been able to open the door of the Japanese market, and the sales and reputation of "Blue Dragon" and "Lost Odyssey" are relatively mediocre, and the advantages and disadvantages are relatively prominent. However, the decline of JRPGs makes them seem a bit untimely, which is also the root cause of the miscarriage of the trilogy "Cry On". By the way, the work that really helped Xbox survive in the Japanese market is "The Idol Master". Microsoft, you still don't have a data password.
According to an interview with Hironobu Sakaguchi, the Odyssey was originally one of the ancient Greek Homeric epics, telling the story of the return of the famous Odyssey after the use of Trojan horses to capture Troy. Angered by Poseidon, the god of the sea, in the ten years of his homecoming, the Odyssey encountered many unimaginable disasters, such as the one-eyed trolls, the cannibals, the witch island, the Great Whirlpool, the Otherworld...
However, countless disasters did not erase the belief of the Odyssey, and in the end, the Odyssey was helped by Athena, given a ship that could reach the world overnight, and returned to his hometown of Itakai in his sleep to be reunited with his wife. The name Hiroshi Sakaguchi to name the work in his hand is enough to see his ambition and self-confidence. Although the final result of "The Lost Odyssey" is on the street, only a small number of old players now have a slight impression of it, but at least in 2007, "The Lost Odyssey" once showed countless gorgeous CGs in the capacity of 4CD, which surprised that era.
Two or three things about naming
In fact, strictly speaking, the literal translation of Odyssey into Chinese is a very puzzling word. Super Mario: Odyssey features a spaceship called the Odyssey, which is a pun that refers to both an adventurous journey and a spaceship; Assassin's Creed: Odyssey takes place in Greece, where Greek history and gods correspond to Homer's Epic. These two translations are very subtle and interesting, but what exactly does "The Lost Odyssey" mean, can anyone really understand? I was young 15 years ago, and until I finished playing it, I didn't quite understand what the name of the game meant...
Sometimes, the name translation is a little bit earthy, there are unexpected benefits, just from the name, Warcraft, StarCraft compared to the Lost Odyssey, which one do you choose? Of course, there may also be people who like this unclear naming style. I'm probably a layman, and I love to call it Old Man Scrollbar compared to The Elder Scrolls; I love to call warcraft compared to The Art of War; I love to call it Metal Gear Solid compared to Dragon Quest.
After all, for the game, a good name can only be the icing on the cake, and it cannot be done in the snow. The better the name, the more sparse it is to play, and in the end it can only leave a bad impression of a vain name, while the name is ugly, but it is particularly refreshing to play, and eventually it will form a "contrast" praise.
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