Lost Odyssey came up with its ring system giving an action layer to its turn-based combat. You equip a ring with effects, and if you manage to have a perfect timing while attacking, the effects will proc on the enemy. So timing skills are crucial to be good at... the game!show more

The team in charge of developing Lost Odyssey included ex-devs from the Shadow Hearts series so the influence is visible on the game. Masahiro Honma was Battle Programmer on Shadow Hearts: Covenant and Lost Odyssey

I wrote the first post believing I made sure to avoid implying Lost Odyssey was the first to make the ring system, but it might have been ESL moment where using *its*in "came up with *its* ring system" can still be construed as being the first to do it. I'll do better next time

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This was already on Legend of Dragoon way back in 1999

I did not write anything in my post that would imply action elements didn't exist before. I even followed up saying Lost Odyssey had ex-Shadow Hearts devs, a game series that had its own ring system

Legend of dragoon already did the timing base and the ring system also have been done by shadow hearts lol.

I did not ever said or implied Lost Odyssey was the first to do it. I said it came up with its ring system. I even have a follow-up tweet I posted at the same time explaining that ex-Shadow Hearts devs worked on Lost Odyssey

Legend of Dragoon had this before Lost Odyssey

When did I say no game did this before Lost Odyssey? I literally followed up on the original post saying ex-Shadow Hearts devs worked on the game and it had its own ring system

Lost Odyssey is a game that really needs to make it to other platforms as well. The short visual novel stories are a masterpiece that everyone should read/listen to