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Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Apple Arcade-only RPG Fantasian is coming to PCYou can put monsters in a bag!
You can put monsters in a bag!
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FANTASIAN Neo Dimension - Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension - Announcement Trailer
While perhaps lacking a bit of flair and visual identity in the character design department - aside from not-Vincent, he’s cool - there’s that lovely Sakaguchi sense of sprawling adventure emanating from the trailer, alongside Final Fantasy staples like ornate airships and very large whales. As for the combat, it’s turn-based random overworld encounters, but with a system called “Dimengoen”. You activate this, and any monsters you’d normally get interrupted to fight are saved in your monster bag, for you to have a crack at whenever you feel like it. Sakaguchi, my beloved.
The new version - which Sakaguchi hasenlisted the helpof FF14 and 16’s Naoki Yoshida to bring to life - brings 4K visuals and a new difficulty mode, which Square Enixdescribeas follows:
In a Twix post, Sakaguchi writes that “the strength of a digital title is that it can continue existing without deteriorating, and I wanted FANTASIAN to be an especially long-standing title. Having the opportunity to rebuild it at SQUARE ENIX this way and making it widely-known is a truly a blessing.” He goes on to shout out Uematsu, the developers, and the “diorama craftsman”. You can see one of these beautiful handmade locales in the header to this article, and boy, do they lend the game an incredibly special vibe. It’s coming to Steam this Winter, though there’s no listing at the time of writing.
