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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
Released On: Mar 15, 2022
72
7.5
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 94 Critic Reviews
72
47% Positive
44 Reviews
44 Reviews
49% Mixed
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 94 Critic Reviews
72
47% Positive
44 Reviews
44 Reviews
49% Mixed
46 Reviews
46 Reviews
1% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Delivering a cohesive game with addictive gameplay and mechanics, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin brings back classic characters in an honorable way. It is a good choice for fans of the franchise and lovers of the genre.
An absurd game in the spectrum of Final Fantasy, but in a positive sense. The many boss fights, the cool combat, good AI and more make it more than worth it. You have to love it, as it is anything but a traditional Final Fantasy game, but in what it tries to do, it succeeds in its mission. The gameplay is engaging and manages to entertain, which is ultimately the most important thing.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 618 User Ratings
7.5
67% Positive
417 Ratings
417 Ratings
14% Mixed
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
19% Negative
115 Ratings
115 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 618 User Ratings
7.5
67% Positive
417 Ratings
417 Ratings
14% Mixed
86 Ratings
86 Ratings
19% Negative
115 Ratings
115 Ratings
The gameplay of this game is awesome. Switching classes and weapons is recommended and the game feel fresh every time we do that. The story itself is quite cool. Wish square had done a better job marketing this game. Definitely recommend it.
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PlayStation 5
Haters gonna hate.
This is meant to fill that Dark Souls in a Final Fantasy game.
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PlayStation 5
Stranger of Paradise, despite its poor story presentation, manages to be a great spinoff for the Final Fantasy series, with gameplay beyond my expectations. It's time to destroy the Chaos! Wherever it is!
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin attempts to fuse the original’s sensibility into a fast-paced action RPG. For the most part, it is successful with intense action gameplay and beautiful music. Adjustable difficulty options and online co-op make the game accessible to a myriad of gamers without diminishing challenge or sacrificing replayability. It’s somewhat fitting that in this topsy-turvy action spin-off, the only thing that’s truly upside-down is the presentation of the original game’s story. Even as the narrative stumbles, the core gameplay is strong enough to motivate to see this story through to completion, no matter how chaotic.
Stranger of Paradise Final Fantasy Origin is an action-oriented RPG whose gameplay mechanics are almost entirely based on those of Nioh, one of the most prominent Dark Souls clones. The game is a bit outdated in its layout and it seems to come from another age.
Stranger of Paradise tries to marry Final Fantasy with a soulslike, while also often reaching outside this genre. The whole idea was great, which makes the poor execution (uninspired level design, run-of-the-mill story, mediocre graphics, boring boss fights) even more disappointing. However, if you’re able to turn a blind eye to the game’s many flaws, you might find it moderately enjoyable.
Stranger of Paradise is mostly just a mess. When the gameplay works, it works surprisingly well, but that wasn’t often enough to make it fun for its entire runtime. It’s hard to make a judgement on the story, mostly because there isn’t much of a narrative, but it’s even more disappointing because I wanted to spend more time with the characters, because they’re far from unlikeable. A grand ode to Final Fantasy it is not, and it fails to appeal to the JRPG lover in me on most counts.
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PlayStation 5
The game is very good and very much a Final Fantasy Game. It has a huge amount of progression through the three DLC's (250 hours if you do it legitimately) and has all of the Final Fantasy spells and items you might know, like Phoenix Downs, Elixirs, Raise, Meteor, Haste, Curaga, and has a light use of summons like Shiva (just as a blessing stat), and it's all put into a soulslike with bosses like Bahamut, Behemoth, and Iron Giant. If you like Final Fantasy and action games, especially soulslikes but even if you don't like soulslikes and just like Final Fantasy, it's a must play.
The main character Jack, while being a meme, is actually voice acted well and gives a good performance. The story isn't bad, it's kind of a DmC reboot situation where everyone hates a good game because of groupthink, like with the band Nickelback. The story is better than you might expect, especially if you think how a person might realistically behave, like Jack does, instead of how an actor in a story might behave.
There is a major problem with this game, however, and it is, as usual with soulslikes and RPGs in general, a problem with multiplayer. If you play with the public, players are NOT scaled down when they join your game. This means, and it absolutely will ruin the multiplayer experience for the entirety of a 250 hour campaign with this game, that you could hit a boss for 500 with your strongest attacks while someone spawns in next to you, if you opened your level up to it (you can play by yourself for sure, or with friends) and hits the boss for 999,999 and instantly kills it. My strongest hits are 100k at the end of progression too, and people still hit for 9 times what I do. There's also hackers, even on Playstation, but it hardly makes a difference when it's an instant kill almost no matter who joins. So ultimately, this is a single player, or private with friends, experience. Pretty much forever, if you want even a sliver of challenge from the game.
So it's really a fantastic game that might as well not have multiplayer for how broken the feature is. If you want a social type of game, as with most if not all soulslikes, this ain't it. Multiplayer is terrible.
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PlayStation 5
psplusでプレイできたから楽しかったが、これを発売日にフルプライスで買いたいとは思える作品ではなかった。特にカメラワークとグラフィックが2022年3月に発売された作品にしては物足りなさを感じた。しかし、ストーリーは面白く、クリア後のやりこみ要素も満足できるものだったので、FFのファンにはpsplusで遊んで損がない作品。
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PlayStation 5
This game is an embarrassment to the franchise. I started it up with 2 other friends thinking it might be somewhat decent or average but it is nonsense. The story and character interactions are pitiful. We had hoped this would be fun coming from the devs of Nioh but it felt like it was made by interns who didn't know what they were doing.
It feels so very poorly designed and unfinished in parts. It makes me wonder if anyone back at Square Enix even looked at this game to approve it.
I really wouldn't recommend this game even to hardcore fans of the series.
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PlayStation 5
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PlayStation 5
Summary Players of the STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN TRIAL VERSION can explore this dark fantasy world as they battle an array of iconic monsters from the FINAL FANTASY series, using powerful spells and abilities from a sample of jobs including warrior, dragoon and black mage.
Rated M
for Mature
Platforms:
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 5
- Xbox Series X
- PC
Initial Release Date: Mar 15, 2022
Developer:
- Team Ninja
Publisher: Square Enix
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