Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin Review

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin review by your favorite Final Fantasy YouTuber! Review by ProJared, a fan of Final Fantasy RPGs, but not necessarily action games. Can the franchise make a successful transition?

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin review footage captured on PlayStation 5. Also available on PlayStation 4, Xbox, and PC.

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[projared]

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[budreviewsgames]

“Jack’s personality can be described as the kind of guy who rips his shirt off when he takes a shit”

Nice

[shinaikouka]

This is one of the few games where I switched back to English voices. It's not like I had an issue with the Japanese audio track -- albeit, the subtitles don't match with the audio since the subs are geared to the English audio -- but the English track just had that meme quality that I wanted from the story/dialog in the game.

[VSprites_]

AI partners are extremely useful, especially on hard. There have been multiple times due to my MP and health situation where it was much more beneficial to just hang back and let them take care of enemies, and they do a pretty solid job of it most time. Especially Ash, who becomes nigh unstoppable in terms of break damage later in the game.
You can set it so that you don't auto pick up loot, and also so that you don't pick up loot that's not above a certain rarity level.

You did yourself a disservice not playing on Hard mode in singleplayer.

[nahtatrolI]

Completed the game and currently going through Chaos mode rn. Gotta say I agree with Jared's take. I will say though that as far as story goes, at least for the last bit, regardless of how cheesy it is it still hit pretty hard.

[ashenphoenix]

Basically, really fun combat everything else is so wack. I personally do love how campy the story and delivery is. The hallways get really repetitive after the first time. but really the boss fights are really engaging and the combat is really fun

[peepeetime]

This is a pretty fair review imo. A gear "glamour" system would have been greatly appreciated. FF jobs have such iconic looks and while those looks are there (from what I've seen so far), most of the way through you're likely going to be wearing some random assortment of gear cobbled together.

[HKISfreak]

For those having issues with enemy AI, do not let Sophia leave your party and set her as a black mage and then sage when she has access to it, she will automatically cast the most recent spells you did and heals you, plus she will sometimes cast ultima which deletes bosses. She damn near soloed the zombie dragon for me lol

[snazzydrew]

Jack is unironically the most Chad FF protagonist we've ever had.

[radeonrose]

You don’t have to micromanage the inventory. There’s a setting for auto-dismantling equipment below a certain level, which I would just update periodically. That, along with the button that just automatically equips all of your guys with the best equipment you own, takes away the need for micromanaging your equipment

[DoktorWieg]

The touch where each level is taken from another FF was nice; the first dungeon, I went "Huh... this looks a lot like Sastasha from FFXIV" ... then another had music I swore was from FFX with the weather mechanic. I started to recognize the tunes first then the levels dawned on me.

As for the loot game, I wish the gear was more "FF styled" ... I can't help but feel that most of the gear, especially armor, is just stuff repurposed from Nioh. Never once did I feel like playing a Paladin or a Dragoon would have a working, matching set of armor along with it.

Combat-wise though, I feel the game is a tad too fast in the wrong way. Where you're supposed to react to enemy attacks, named attacks aren't much of a problem but regular attacks are very hard to read and you can often end up getting hit by one enemy then stun-locked by another that goes through a regular attack. Bosses aside, I think most of my deaths / KOs were from regular attacks.

And like you, I played co-op through most of it since the NPCs are braindead stupid and in singleplayer, if you go down, you have to redo a whole section of the level since the last "cubes" instead of having access to either revival by ally or Phoenix Downs ... which is a mechanic that works in Souls game and Nioh but feels oddly out of place here.

[The_Somewhere_Monarch]

Love the oldstyle ProJared reviews returning!

[xXAkirhaXx]

This game turned out much better than I had imagined.

[shugimi]

Depending on the weapon a perfect guard is better than the soul perry mainly because the negation of all damage while at the same time following up with an immediate attack that does damage and break gauge damage

[cursedex]

Haven't played this game yet, so I really wonder what twist is there for our friend Jack Garland. Anyway, whatever it is, I'm sure he'll knock it down.

EDIT: People, I think we all know what the plot twist is from just the premise alone. You don't need to actually discuss it.

[yarh]

As a long time fan of FF and probably one of the very few who actually really like Garland. I was so surprised when they announced a spin-off focused on him.
All I'm going to say, I really REALLY like how they portrayed him here as well as his design. It's the best.
As a FFI fan, story was as expected lackluster but gameplay is honestly a lot of fun. Not the best spin-off let alone best FF game by any means, but some things I really enjoyed.

[ftrwrwbg]

I gotta disagree with the ai not being helpful. I’ve had many situations where they took the heat off me when I was close to death and where they’ve helped deal some serious damage to bosses when I really needed it.

[pixielst]

AI companions do a lot of carrying in solo hard/chaos mode. You just gotta gear them right/activate them at an optimal timing.

[GilgameshofBabylon]

Happy Chaos: Whoa, hold on... am I in the wrong game?

Jack: There's Chaos! Get him!

[music]

The way you descrived the plot and writing is exactly what i was hoping for.
Schlock. Glorious glorious schlock