The game is coming to Apple Arcade, the subscription service that launched in 2019, and will be playable on Apple TV, Mac computers, iPhone, and iPad.Fantasian, the fun, and well-received “Diorama Adventure RPG,” is getting a sequel on Apple Arcade later next week. Mistwalker plans to release Fantasian sometime in 2021. He’s joined on the project by famed Final Fantasy composer and longtime collaborator Nobuo Uematsu, who wrote the score for Fantasian. Leo embarks on a quest to reclaim his memory, unraveling “the mysteries of the bizarre mechanical infection slowly engulfing all that is known to mankind.” Along the way, Leo enlists others for his mission, including a pair of robots, a magic-wielding princess, and the captain of the luxury airship Uzra. After an accident, Leo awakens in this unfamiliar realm with but one remaining memory, that of a girl named Kina who brings him back to the Human Realm. Players take on the role of Leo, who, in the search for his missing father, finds himself in an alternate dimension called the Machine Realm. The story of Fantasian is both grandiose and familiar. Once the artisans get to work, that’s going to be your stage.” Image: Mistwalker “You really have to be very intentional and know what you’re looking for at the conception phase.
“Once you begin building it, you’ve committed to your level design,” Sakaguchi said. Once you design a physical object, he said, you can’t alter the environment to add a new road or exit, as one could with a computer-generated 3D space. But it also came with its own challenges. Sakaguchi said that the decision to build physical environments had its benefits, letting the designers see new opportunities in game design. Mistwalker itself is a team of less than 20, but it often works with external studios. The game’s dioramas were built by a team of 150 artists. Sakaguchi said the developers found it fun to explore Fantasian’s diorama environments by placing pins on the map and swiftly moving around, but that being interrupted by random encounters altered the game’s flow. Fantasian is being released via Apple Arcade, and is designed with touchscreen controls in mind. The Dimengeon system was born from that, he said, and as a result of the game’s platforms. “But in the spirit of Final Fantasy development at the time, we always wanted to challenge the status quo, push the boundaries and bring some innovation to the genre,” he said. Image: Mistwalkerįantasian has many familiar Final Fantasy elements, Sakaguchi said, including “collecting information in different towns, talking to NPCs, traversing dungeons, random encounters and turn-based combat.” “That really renewed my interest and love in this classic JRPG genre, and gave me an opportunity to return to my roots,” Sakaguchi said through a translator.
He and some of his colleagues who worked on that game replayed it on Nintendo’s Super NES Classic a few years ago. Sakaguchi said Fantasian was partially inspired by his own work on Final Fantasy 6. Players can then jump into a Dimengeon when they want and enjoy the satisfaction of wiping them all out at once. Mistwalker calls it the Dimengeon system - a mashup of dimension and dungeon - and it sends the monsters that players encounter to an alternate dimension. Unlike the classic Final Fantasy games that Sakaguchi created, where a fight with a group of enemies could arrive unexpectedly, Fantasian lets players deal with random encounters. The miniatures-based environments give the game a unique sense of charm and warmth, Sakaguchi said in an interview with Polygon, and helped inform Fantasian’s game mechanics.įantasian features a system that twists how players deal with random monster encounters. The game’s 3D characters are overlaid on top of them. Mistwalker’s RPG was built using more than 150 handcrafted physical dioramas. Fantasian has it all: turn-based battles, an amnesiac hero, a cast of pretty protagonists on interweaving adventures, and, of course, an airship.īut Fantasian stands out for one design decision that has garnered attention. Fantasian, the new adventure from Hironobu Sakaguchi’s studio Mistwalker, is a classic Japanese role-playing game at heart.
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