BT writes: Now of course Square Enix is no stranger to the iOS platform, having released any number of original titles (perhaps the most prominent of which being the Chaos Ring series) and classic titles (such as Final Fantasy Tactics and Chrono Trigger) in the past. With Final Fantasy Dimensions however the company has a game that is in some respects representative of both aspects of its mobile strategy. The game is wholly original, telling a new story set in an original world that has been split into darkness and light and featuring two separate groups of playable characters,the Warriors of Light and the Warriors of Darkness. The gameplay and graphics featured in the game however are clearly deliberate throwbacks to the classic 8-bit and 16-bit era Final Fantasy games. It’s an intriguing enough approach and while Square Enix has tried this kind of idea before (most notably with Final Fantasy IV: The After Years), my own experience with FFD at E3 this year made it clear just how much time and effort Square really has put forth this time around.
Hardcore Droid - An RPG could be an enormous decade-spanning epic or it could have almost no plot at all. It could have a well-written main character or it could have a character that you created. It could be an open-world first person shooter or it could be a top-down, pixelated dungeon crawler—it’s the most experimental genre of games and the most diverse.
The Role-Playing Game is one of the most hardcore genres in video games. Players build up their skills and customize their characters by putting their noses to the grindstone and killing bad guy after bad guy. RPGs immerse players in fantasy worlds they’re encouraged to explore with story-driven gameplay. Porting this experience to Google’s mobile platform has been a hit or miss experience with many games simply being old iPhone or console games, but if the last five months are any measure of what 2013 will be like for Android RPGs, then it’s shaping up to be a banner year.
DG: When Square Enix announced a brand new Final Fantasy adventure that would be exclusive to smartphones, I was both intrigued and worried. Fortunately, I was not disappointed with this new game, which has been called Final Fantasy Dimensions, and, in fact, have come to really enjoy it.
