Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin: PS5 Review
Developed by Koei Tecmo
Published by Square Enix
Platform: PS5
Released in celebration of the series' 35th anniversary, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin packs a bit of a punch.
Imagine if Final Fantasy crossed over with Nioh and they had a child that offered fun and frivolity in equal measures.
That in essence is Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, a bastardised take on the beloved RPG series and a celebration of 35 years of the games.
In this, you play Jack, a character whose sole raisin d’être is get a beast called Chaos who’s wreaking havoc across the land. Armed with a couple of pals and a penchant for OTT power moves, it’s up to Jack to try and save the kingdom as, erm, chaos reigns.
It’s not exactly rocket science here and in all honesty the game is more trashy than treasure, but it’s certainly playable and it’s definitely welcoming to non fans of the ever pompous Final Fantasy series.
With power moves, beat downs and combo moves, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin doesn’t come close to reinventing the wheel and nor does it seem to remotely aspire to it anyway.
Combat is quick easy and concise, with a penchant for a need to overdo things. As a protagonist, Jack is spiky, punkish and occasionally sullen. He’s not the most rounded of individuals nor do the developers aspire to making him so.
However, the game knows what it wants to do and pretty much achieves it, settling for something that weirdly feels only fleetingly like Final Fantasy but doesn’t have enough of an identity of its own to stand out from an increasingly crowded hack and slash genre.
That in essence is Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, a bastardised take on the beloved RPG series and a celebration of 35 years of the games.
In this, you play Jack, a character whose sole raisin d’être is get a beast called Chaos who’s wreaking havoc across the land. Armed with a couple of pals and a penchant for OTT power moves, it’s up to Jack to try and save the kingdom as, erm, chaos reigns.
It’s not exactly rocket science here and in all honesty the game is more trashy than treasure, but it’s certainly playable and it’s definitely welcoming to non fans of the ever pompous Final Fantasy series.
With power moves, beat downs and combo moves, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin doesn’t come close to reinventing the wheel and nor does it seem to remotely aspire to it anyway.
Combat is quick easy and concise, with a penchant for a need to overdo things. As a protagonist, Jack is spiky, punkish and occasionally sullen. He’s not the most rounded of individuals nor do the developers aspire to making him so.
However, the game knows what it wants to do and pretty much achieves it, settling for something that weirdly feels only fleetingly like Final Fantasy but doesn’t have enough of an identity of its own to stand out from an increasingly crowded hack and slash genre.
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