In 1987, the predecessor of the famous Japanese game manufacturer Square released a game called "Final Fantasy", the developer who was on the verge of bankruptcy unexpectedly came back to life by the fire of this game, although the function of the FC platform failed to bring better performance to this game, but still let "Final Fantasy" bring a legend, opening up a new and extremely popular RPG game series. A few years later, a higher-quality remastered port version was introduced on platforms such as GBA, PSP, or 3DS. To this day, the popularity continues unabated.
Recently, the new series "Final Fantasy: Origins", jointly developed by Square and Glorious Tkumo, was released on March 18, which is a new spin-off work that commemorates the original classic and is made at the current level of technology. Subtitled Strangers in Paradise, the game is another work that inherits elements from a generation and presents itself in a whole new way with part of its plot and complete worldview. Tell the player about the past between the original Light Warrior and Chaos, starting from the perspective of a Light Warrior Jack on the road to destroy chaos, and ending with the opening of the chaos cycle. From the plot point of view, it seems to be very similar to the first generation, but because the first generation adopts a reincarnation plot, and this game explains the origin of the Light Warrior and Chaos, it is better to say that the work is a prequel to the first generation.
The game uses an action mechanic to play, each character has a health bar, a stamina bar, and a stamina bar, while adding skill elements. When the player is fighting, hitting the enemy with a normal attack will accumulate stamina bars, and when a stamina is met, special attacks can be launched according to the different weapons, which are not easily interrupted by the enemy and the damage is high. At the same time, it can greatly reduce the enemy's strength, and when the enemy's strength is exhausted, it will enter a weak state, at which time it can launch execution skills such as flexible explosion, instantly killing the enemy in a second, causing a shockwave attack. Similarly, when our strength is exhausted, we will enter a weak state, and the enemy can also take this opportunity to launch a powerful attack. However, players can also defend, divided into normal defense and soul shield defense, normal defense effect is average, but does not consume energy and no counterattack effect. Shield defense consumes energy, but can protect against most attacks, and when enemies use certain ranged attacks, if successful defenses can also launch a rebound to divert enemy attacks.
The game can be equipped with two weapons at the same time, and you can switch between them at will during combat. There are several kinds of weapons, players can change at will, but also have a class setting, different classes use different weapons, when the player changes weapons, it will also be mandatory to change the class to which the weapon belongs. There is also a bonus point system in the game, when the class is upgraded, you will get class points, spend points to unlock related attributes and abilities, and unlock advanced classes, etc., advanced classes have more class and weapon adaptability. The game is divided into ordinary moves and magic moves, ordinary moves are realized through the combination of keys of ordinary attacks and special attacks, while magic moves need to be equipped in advance, launched by consuming physical strength, and have special effects to improve defense and other abilities.
Costumes also have a variety of outfits, and equipment accessories enhance attributes. Costumes and weapons can be obtained by opening treasure chests and defeating enemies, both have level elements and class adaptability, the higher the level, the stronger the attributes, and class adaptability is when equipping certain weapons or costumes, the class attributes carried by the player such as the same class as the player's equipment will add their class adaptability and enhance their class ability.
The game has a total of 18 levels except for the prologue, except for the first and last levels that are exactly the same, and the rest of the levels are based on different scenes. The game scenes are all set in a maze, with all kinds of roads intertwined, and enemies will be distributed everywhere. Players must open various traps in the maze and engage in encounter battles with enemies. Shortcuts can also be opened to create new roads that connect to the reached area, while during combat the player can only replenish blood by taking drugs, and some enemies will drop blood potions. If depleted, only the amount of health and blood potion can be restored at the Crystal Cube, but the maximum amount of blood potion restored is 5.
Players can unlock at least four teammates in a gradual progression, all of which are different classes, but can only play a maximum of two. Teammate cooperation is crucial to the level, and players must make good use of their teammates to fight cooperative battles and attract firepower to attack. Fortunately, there are teammate resonance skills, when launched, the teammate's desire to attack will be greatly improved, crazy attack enemies and release a lot of damage, there is a certain taunt effect, help the protagonist to reduce stress. When used up, the resonance effect slowly recovers.
The difficulty of the game includes more serious level suppression, when the player's equipment level is lower than the recommended player level, not only does the damage to the enemy is too low, but most of the enemies will cause high damage to themselves, dealing almost no way against hordes of enemies. Only equipped with level-appropriate costumes and weapons will maintain a balance of combat. But even so, this method is only applicable at the simplest difficulty, the enemy above the medium difficulty still has a lot of damage, high strength and defense, the player must be cautious about each attack, to avoid being killed by the enemy. However, if they find it too difficult, players can also go to the online option and invite other players to fight together.
The game map is basically similar to the original generation, and the player travels back and forth between the various parts of the map to join the various levels of battle. At the same time, in addition to the main line tasks, each level also has side quests, players can join the side quests, brush stronger equipment to improve their strength.
Final Fantasy: Origins is a classic commemorative of the series, bringing players the origin story of the original plot, players will play as a stranger from heaven and embark on a difficult chaotic confrontation journey.