Jed and Ash meeting Jack for the first time in the game. Paired with its scattered story and absurd character moments, its velocity was more than enough to make me hoot and howl throughout my rollicking playthrough. But despite Team Ninja’s dense action-gameplay loop, I still found the combat approachable. As a Final Fantasy fan, I wasn’t sure if I was ready for this. Stranger of Paradise’s gory, dark, and difficult aesthetic had me battling my way through labyrinthian levels seething with monsters. This is a full-on souls-like, with tough-as-nails bosses that you have to take down with old-fashioned melee strikes.
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Stranger of Paradise doesn’t use the turn-based combat for which the Final Fantasy series is known, nor is it even semi-turn-based like Final Fantasy 7 Remake.
Team Ninja, the Koei Tecmo subsidiary responsible for the Nioh series, teams up unexpectedly with Square Enix as one of the creative forces behind this Final Fantasy spinoff. From the very start, Stranger of Paradise had me reeling. It’s a fever dream of a beginning, and the fact that this all is packaged within an intense and, at times, fiercely difficult action RPG makes it feel all the more delirious. After that, the scene cuts to Jack (Jack, not the Chairman of the Board) meeting two other dude-bros in a medieval town, and the three decide to go adventuring together - because they all have the same kind of rock in their possession. The protagonist, Jack, then walks through a dreamy field of golden wheat as Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” plays. The first 15 minutes of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin swerve from a cutscene in which a monstrous armored figure murders knights and kidnaps a princess to a six-headed dragon on a spaceship.
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