![]() ![]() ![]() The characters take themselves so seriously it’s quite funny, however. However, for the most part, it ends up being more akin to that of a campy B-movie which serves more to entertain than captivate. Tonally, the story is supposed to be dark, and at times it really is, given how this is an origin story of how the conflict in Final Fantasy I came to be. I think that’s both the best and worst part about the writing the writers seemed to have embraced the campiness of their script and just rolled with the punches. Even the rest of his party mocks him for his excessive talk about Chaos. ![]() The way characters, Jack especially, constantly mention Chaos in quite literally almost every other line in the dialogue is borderline laughable. If you’ve watched the trailers or have at least been around the internet for the past year or so, you might recall how this game was memed to death for its hilariously aggressive marketing of Chaos. Let’s talk about this Chaos for a bit (no spoilers, I promise). The true meat of this game is just you, your big weapon, and your buddies, hacking and slashing your way through corridors and hallways filled with familiar Final Fantasy monsters. You’ll be entreated to a dark, albeit comically underwhelming, story that thankfully doesn’t overstay its welcome. To spice things up a little, they seem to all have lost their memories, and part of their journey is to recover said memories to uncover more secrets in defeating the big bad. You play as the stoic and strong-willed Jack and his four companions – Ash, Jed, Neon, and Sophia – as they strive to save the Kingdom of Cornelia from the clutches of the mysterious entity known as Chaos. ĭeveloped by Koei Tecmo’s Team Ninja and published by Square Enix, Stranger of Paradise is a spinoff prequel to the first instalment of the mainline Final Fantasy series. In 2022, the story of the original game would be explored in a dark, alternate retelling in the form of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin. Over the years, stories would get more complex over time, and the cast of characters wider and more nuanced, but the general narrative of the mainline games was always that of the struggle to overcome great darkness. The original premise was as simple as it got: four Warriors of Light embark on a quest to defend the land from darkness with the help of four elemental crystals that they find across the world. It’s been 35 years since the release of the very first Final Fantasy, and many gamers would look back fondly on memories of playing the 1987 classic. ![]()
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