Customers highly value the engaging combat system in Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, frequently praising its challenging yet rewarding nature. The game's story also receives positive feedback, with players appreciating its narrative and the character development. While some players find aspects of the presentation visually unappealing, the action and overall gameplay experience are generally well-received.
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Pros mentioned:
Combat, Difficulty
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Fun Spin Off Retelling of FF1 Lore (Opinion Below)
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Good Price! Great Graphics, I recommend playing the Demo or watching review, and get on sale as I did. None Mainstream FFI lore expansion/retelling, the 4 Crystals and Warriors of light. 3rd person, a mix of Souls combat, customizable action fighting, equipanle skillscombat, with FF Classic Job Classes system. Pick/Switch between 2 jobs in combat, Souls gameplay 3 Diffiulties + 1 unlockable, difficulty is just taking more damage enjoyable. Tutorials always available, Funny dialougue when been serious #ChaosMemes. Ease to put down, Online Multiplayer option. Over abundance of item/geardrop tlater used to breakdown for upgrade mats. Enjoyable speed progress for story progression telling and short NPC interaction through short cut scences, skiplable cinematics, not that long either very, which is good to me. Only main character can be used, CANNOT switch to other party memeber, but all learn the same jobs. It would be nice to switch and play other characters.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat, Difficulty
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Not a Masterpiece...Why Can't I Stop Playing It?
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Posted . Owned for 8 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Title says it all. The game is a retelling of the original Final Fantasy's story, with some creative adjustments thrown in. The combat is still RPG-based, but action-driven. Picture Soulsborne. You will get equipment to boost item level average. You will get various jobs you can level up. You will fight bosses with degrees of difficulty that increase through game.
And somehow it works. I have been addicted to this game for a while now, and I love finding ways to overcome bosses from an action perspective. The big difference is that Soulsborne games maintain a varying degree of difficulty. SoP is a step down and does make it easier for you in some places.
Overall, I recommend it for anyone who wants an action-based Final Fantasy game.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
gold standard for cross generation games
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Posted . Owned for less than 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This game is not only fun and gorgeous, but has a great delivery system: you can get free ps5 upgrade, play the game on ps5, and then port your save to the ps4 version and get all the trophies autopopped. You can ofc port your save from ps4 to ps5 as well. But almost all the other games only port from ps4 to ps5, if it is even possible. This should be the gold standard for all ps4/5 cross generation games. Team Ninja def gained me as a supporter.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat, Difficulty
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Great Gameplay, meh story
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
The gameplay in this game is really fun. It's an action game: some strategy, some reflex based. The great part is there are a bunch of jobs, and you can choose one depending on what playstyle you prefer. You also unlock jobs throughout the game and it's easy to switch between them. There's a great variety of enemies to fight (with cool bosses) and the levels look very distinct from one another. I feel like the game was just the right amount of challening.
The story was honestly meh. It has some cool moments, and the characters are endearing but not really memorable. The gameplay makes up for it.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
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Graphics
Rated 2 out of 5 stars
All promise, no delivery
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Posted . Owned for 3 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
For having the amazing development team and producer team that this game has, it's really lacking in everything that those devs and producers are know for bringing to the table. The only good thing about this game is the battle system and the job system.
Graphics are ugly
Sound track is terribly mixed, even tho the songs themselves are great.
Story is nonsense
Level design is garbage
Loot is annoyingly over abundant.
This game would have been much better if they would have left it as just a bunch of cheesey cutscenes and boss fights and that's it.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat, Story
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Great game.
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Posted . Owned for 1 year when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great game, with a lot in it. Story is great, the number of jobs to play as and customize is outstanding. Combat is difficuly but also fun. Takes a lot of attention and readiness.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Cons mentioned:
Graphics
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
From the same guys who did Nioh
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Posted . Owned for 10 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It's by the same guys who did Nioh, so the DNA is there, but despite that, the game does feel a little janky around the edges. It's still fun, but it doesn't really knock it out of the park.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Flawed story, great gameplay
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
If you want a fast paced action game with good variety for styles of play, this game is for you
It's biggest draw back is the dialogue
I would recommend this to a friend
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Action
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Graphics
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Nice spinoff
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Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great final fantasy game that has good action but gets repetitive and is off traditional gameplay mechanics
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Chad Jack Garland 4TW
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Posted . Owned for 10 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This Final Fantasy game totally surprised me I went in thinking it was going to be very cheesy and average at best to truly loving the addictive crunchy bloody combat the cool special attacks in those and adoring the characters in the story they're apart of. If Square Enix is smart they'll hire Koei Tecmo to do future titles in the FF series I'd love to see other classic FF titles get this treatment a stand alone Sephiroth story like this would be amazing.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Absolute Chaos!
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Posted . Owned for 1 week when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Maybe not absolute chaos, but the game is certainly all about Chaos! It's an enjoyable action game with multiple fighting styles that makes combat fun and open to a playstyle that fits the player best. I levels and enemies have been good and challenging as well. It's overall a very good action game.
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Less Final Fantasy, much more Nioh
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Those who are fans of the nioh formulas will absolutely love this game. It shares so much in common from the makers at koei tecmo that it makes me believe this title was the warm up to bringing out their upcoming March '23 title, Wo Long. Story is a bit vague, but the gameplay will keep you invested.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Stranger
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
This is a fun action rpg where you are able to change your character's job based on which weapon they have equipped.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Graphics
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
Final fantasy
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Posted . Owned for 1.5 years when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Good game, I wish the graphics scaled better on ps4 it seems laggy
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
New style of final fantasy
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Posted . Owned for 10 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Great touch on a different type of final fantasy game
I would recommend this to a friend
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Story
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Its Chaotic
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Posted . Owned for 2 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
I honestly haven't opened it yet. Its still sealed up but the epic game version runs ok. My issue is with the bloom in the game. Other then that its a short story with solid tale of the protagonist descent into who he becomes in FF I.
I would recommend this to a friend
Cons mentioned:
Graphics
Rated 1 out of 5 stars
They could not pay me enough to finish this game!
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Posted . Owned for 2 weeks when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
First the Graphics: The cinematics are fine and are done in unreal but in game graphics runs on a PS3/Xbox360 engine, like FF Lightning's revenge or FFXIV engine. It is bad and gives Squarenix a bad name.
Pacing: It is the worst game to come out in the past 5 years with the absolute worst pacing of a story. It skips entire sections of a story, for example; in the beginning you have to ask the King for permission to fight the Chaos, then he says no and that you have to prove yourself first by defeating monsters, so your team gladly takes up the offer. All of this is actually text on the screen, then it says it was a hard fought battle and that we should check up on the heroes. Then they talk about how the battle was nothing and that's it.
Final fantasy core gameplay is all about walking around and fighting things and all we get is a 20 second cutscene talking about a scratch. Then lets go back to the king and ask to fight chaos again, this time he says okay. We get to start our journey right, we will go walk around, travel, fight monsters and level up before we get to our destination, right? Wrong! We get another cinematic about us making it to the dungeon and entering it, like it was literally across the street from the castle we had left. I installed it after that.
Controls: are clunky as expected from a ps3 era combat system.
Audio, OST and steelbook are good.
No, I would not recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat, Story
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Final fantasy
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Posted . Owned for 4 months when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
Another fantastic final fantasy title!!! Love the gameplay and always a great story with the series!!
I would recommend this to a friend
Pros mentioned:
Combat
Cons mentioned:
Graphics
Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Stranger of Paradise
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This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
So far it plays really well and has easy combat. The graphics’s aren’t the greatest, but overall fun.
I would recommend this to a friend
Rated 4 out of 5 stars
As close as a beatemup FF we might get.
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Posted . Owned for 1 month when reviewed.
This reviewer received promo considerations or sweepstakes entry for writing a review.
It is a great action rpg, but just adjust your expectations as far as what a final fantasy game must be, cause this is not.