Marron Marvel "The main reason I was ready and willing to shell out all of that money for the above-mentioned classic RPGs is because I know them well, and I love them dearly (well, except Final Fantasy III, which I had never played before until now, but I am nothing if not a completionist; how would it look if they ever port FFIV, V and VI over to the iPhone and I’m missing III?). I know for certain that these games are fun and entertaining, and full of at least 60-80+ hours of gameplay. That totally justifies the price. But Dimensions is a new game, and if games like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time are any indication, Square Enix doesn’t always have the ability to recapture the essence of their older games, no matter how hard they try."
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.
