Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin – a challenging and fun RPG with good action

Since Final Fantasy XV, the Square Enix team has been trying to bring new fans to the franchise while remaining faithful to the old fans of the series. Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, at first glance, tries to attract new fans while pleasing the loyal and old fans of the series.

Despite being heavily criticized for its graphics compared to PlayStation 3 games, it becomes challenging and exciting by adopting gameplay similar to games like Nioh and Dark Souls.

The story takes place in a prequel to Final Fantasy 1, although it is not considered canonical, it has a great script with great levels of suspense and drama.

Stranger of Paradise can be a great game for a live stream

Stranger of Paradise has the potential to create epic or disastrous (with a touch of humor) scenes for your live streams. It can even create memes for your channel with the videos.

There are several ways to play, each class changes the way you attack and use abilities, which helps make your live stream unique by focusing on fighting style A, B, or C.

This game can be the key to your audience engagement because it has a party system. You can progress through the entire game offline or online. In offline mode (as I did), you can choose 2 allies to accompany you (while leaving 2 allies out).

With this, you can make them rescuable at certain points in the channel, allowing your audience to choose which ally to rescue. Furthermore, Jack (the protagonist) can switch combat styles, and your audience can choose which class you will face that boss or stage.

After you finish, you may not need to go back to it

This may be a factor that discourages you because after you finish the game and complete all the main and side missions, the game will only have DLC for new content. It does not have a new game + feature, although it unlocks a new difficulty level.

Speedrun channels can benefit more from the game. The alternative for those who do not create speedrun content is to impose limitations (play only with class X, not use potions, advance only with the weapon, etc).

The game has great performance, demanding a bit from the PC. It is a great option to play directly from the console with a capture card if your PC cannot handle the settings.

Diego Alves