You’ll be treated to a familiar story and a free-roam map where random encounters will chip away at you. At first I searched for the typical mobile conventions found in typical mobile games– an energy meter, a gacha style loot box, even a way of sharing the game on social media–but you’ll find none of that at all. We could just sit back and enjoy the standalone game that it is. While other Final Fantasy IPs have appeared on mobile, it’s because they’re ports of the game and did not need any microtransactions at all.įantasian is a breath of fresh air, because while it is behind a subscription service that is Apple Arcade, we need not worry about any microtransactions at all. The mobile Final Fantasy we’ve hoped forįinal Fantasy Ever Crisis and The First Solder will be coming out for mobile soon, and sadly they will come along with the microtransactions we’ve always expected from free-to-play mobile games. When I said returned to their roots, they really went far back into the past. In a way, it feels like a massive step back from Lost Odyssey, which has in leaps and bounds be equal to Final Fantasy XII or even XIII at the time when it was made. Good news for the rest of us that the second half of the game will be dropping on Apple Arcade later in the Fall.Īnother thing you will notice is that the game has been brought back to the days of Final Fantasy IX, where there are no voice acting, but the cinematics and gameplay are streamlined into uniform aesthetic. While we’re hoping that the game would launch on the Nintendo Switch, I feel that after trying out this game, don’t count on it coming to any of the consoles any time soon.Īlso given that this game is the first half of the full experience, we’re only really diving into a part of the game the same way that Final Fantasy VII Remake teased that the entirety of the remake will be situated at Midgar alone. With a sudden surprise preview the last few months and with the game dropping on Apple Arcade a day shy of April Fool’s, there’s a joke in there somewhere I could not put my finger on. Save for Wii’s The Last Story, Mistwalker has not been making games for consoles for nearly ten years and counting. Price: Estimated SRP Free with Apple Arcade subscription ($4.99 USD)īefore Fantasian, my last foray into Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Mistwalker Studio was in 2008 with Lost Odyssey.Similar Game/s: Lost Odyssey, Final Fantasy VI (mobile).While not exactly the Cloud-Aerith-Tifa triangle of Final Fantasy VII, it comes a little too close. The additional playable characters are similar to the genre's staples, and the story is reminiscent of Final Fantasy IV and Xenoblade Chronicles. The protagonist is an amnesiac who finds himself in the company of an orphaned young woman with mysterious ties to nature and a goddess and a haughty princess who has her own ties to the said goddess. Unfortunately, Fantasian's story feels like it was built from the scraps of Sakaguchi's previous work. However, I've been playing these games for more than three decades, so it's impossible not to compare the stories. It's gorgeous and immersive, plays smooth, and the story is comparable to that of the aforementioned games. If I had never played the first several Final Fantasy games, I would have virtually no complaints about Fantasian. Fantasian Review Screenshot Leo Cheryl Kina (Image credit: iMore)
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