WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY PS4
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In this way, you can create stacks of almost any combination, featuring your favoured Final Fantasy monsters, which keep their previously unlocked abilities as they evolve and devolve to suit your needs.Īt times, it can seem as though the mechanic got away from its designers a little, as if they began digging at an enticing nugget of an idea, only to uncover a cathedral of potential beneath the surface. At the press of a button you can switch between forms and stacks according to the strengths and weakness of your foe.Įvery Mirage you collect, as well as having a huge grid of unlockable abilities, can eventually be 'transfigured' into a larger and more powerful form, allowing it to be placed in a different location in the stack. In their other 'natural' form, Lann and Reyenn must be placed at the bottom of the stack. While in this form, they can ride on a larger Mirage's back, with a smaller Mirage atop the head. In one, they're dwarfs, drawn in the hyper cute chibi style seen in Square's Theatrhythm series. Lann and Reyenn have two forms, which can be switched between at any time.

Each Mirage's hit points, defensive capabilities and even spells combine when stacked - until, that is, the tower is toppled, at which point its constituent elements scatter to the ground. In keeping with Donald Trump's guiding creed, as a tower grows in height so its maker grows in power. World of Final Fantasy's novelty is that a Mirage can be placed on Lann and Reynn's heads, and another, smaller Mirage on top of that. Mirages prove loyal to their captors once caught they willingly fight to enslave other fauna. Lann and Reynn, sibling baristas who work in an abandoned (yet curiously pristine) city, soon discover that they're able to trap the local monsters, known as Mirages, in Prismariums - a kind of snow globe able to miniaturise and hoover up a creature sufficiently weakened to be 'imprismed'. But for all the predictability, it's also a game that, at its core, answers an entirely unexpected question: would Pokémon be a better game if you could stack the monsters into a weaponised tower?

WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY PS4

Availability: Out October 28th on PS4 and VitaĪs you might expect, it's a game of cutesy nods and winks, a warm soup of fan-service, lumpy with chocobos, moogles, cactuars and all the rest.

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Billed as a return to Final Fantasy's formative style (just as the company readies itself for reactions to the 15th and least conventional game in the series to date), the game revives Koichi Ishii's line-dancing, turn-based battles, as well as the careers of numerous heroes, brought out of retirement for the Disney-esque parade. World of Final Fantasy, a game that heralds the beginning of a year of 30th Anniversary celebrations for Square Enix's flagship series, trembles with nostalgic resonance. Two amnesiacs, apparently orphaned, on a journey to dethrone tyrants, reconcile kingdoms and suffer the niggling indignity of random battles.

Billed as a grand, lavish piece of fan service, this is as much a tribute to Pokémon's charms as those of the series whose name it bears.

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