[b]PROS[/b] - Fantasian embraces the FF6 World of Ruin style endgame. After a very linear first half, the game opens up, making the whole world your playground. Unlock characters, moves, items, etc at your leisure, while revisiting areas and exploring. Tons and tons of optional content that you can do before moving on to the final dungeon when you're ready. This is easily my favorite thing about this game. - The difficulty of bosses in the second half of the game are fine tuned. At the appropriate level, they are very challenging and require planning, preparation, and strategy. - Very good variety of bosses. Seriously, a ton of them. All with different varying strategies. - Nobuo Uematsu music - The way they handled new game plus is unique and awesome. Probably my second favorite thing about this game. [b]CONS[/b] - Those difficult boss fights make the freedom of the second half feel significantly less free. - The encounter rate is astronomical. There is a system to stock the en...

The story is fine. The environments looks great. The characters are decent. Sadly the combat is not. It's a slog. On top of that: The final boss has three phases. After the first 2 phases your party gets put in a little rest area where you can speak with them, level up, heal, etc before the final third phase. You'd expect to be able to save your game here as well, but guess what? They removed the autosave checkpoint from this area in one of the patches. Meaning that if you die in the third phase (and you will if you go in blind due to at least one attack the boss has that'll oneshot your entire party), you'll have to take an additional 20-30 mins to get through the first 2 phases again. This game was a 7/10 for me before the final boss. Now it is a 6 at best. Another great job, Square Enix!

I had high hopes, but sadly it just reminded me again that Sakaguchi is kinda overrated. The diorama-style areas sound cool on paper, but in practice they’re pretty iffy. The combat system also had a ton of potential, but the execution was poor. Honestly, that’s the game in a nutshell — tons of potential, but none of it realized.

This is a throwback to both snes-era and ps1-era jrpgs, with the open-ended second half of Final Fantasy 6 meeting the carefully framed 3D angles of Final Fantasy 9. It also throws Final Fantasy 10's turn order system and its own area of effect attack skills in for added depth and variety. As a throwback, it succeeds brilliantly and shows why many of those games it references are still considered timeless classics. However, it also carries along with it a few tedious and overwhelming design choices which may turn off less avid jrpg players. Those elements are less "buyer beware" and more "buyer be prepared." For the tedious elements, the encounter rate, while not overbearing early on, can become time consuming toward the middle and latter half. The game's unique encounter control mechanic called the Dimengeon helps alleviate this issue by allowing the player to stockpile encounters, then fight them them in greater numbers to eliminate them more quickly with area of effect skills, but...

I can't recommend enough Fantasian. For those Final Fantasy Veteran out there, namely the one who grew up with Hironobu Sakaguchi's Final Fantasy and Nobou Uematsu OST (Final Fantasy 1-10), This is the game for you. It is for lack or better term the Spiritual Successor of those game. You feel a feeling of nostalgia even though you never played the game before. The Great Story Telling, The Turn Based RPG and many other feature are like its predecessor (to be expected since its the same person designing it). and Just like its predecessor, the game is vast where you travel form one place to another (diorama like environment). What's new (and i argue an improvement is that the game is HARD. You gotta strategize if you want to win. A great game for its price too Currently fighting against the Final Boss. try it guys. you won't regret it

Wat a ride, good game, introduces some new style of battles in RPG standard turn-based attacks. Story and character developments are good too. Thanks for this great journey ;)