Sakaguchi said the developers found it fun to explore FantasianвЂ™s diorama environments by placing pins on the map and swiftly moving around, but that being interrupted by random encounters altered the gameвЂ™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 gameвЂ™s platforms. вЂњBut 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,вЂќ he said. Image: MistwalkerДЇantasian has many familiar Final Fantasy elements, Sakaguchi said, including вЂњcollecting information in different towns, talking to NPCs, traversing dungeons, random encounters and turn-based combat.вЂќ вЂњThat really renewed my interest and love in this classic JRPG genre, and gave me an opportunity to return to my roots,вЂќ Sakaguchi said through a translator. He and some of his colleagues who worked on that game replayed it on NintendoвЂ™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 FantasianвЂ™s game mechanics.ДЇantasian features a system that twists how players deal with random monster encounters. The gameвЂ™s 3D characters are overlaid on top of them. MistwalkerвЂ™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.Д«ut Fantasian stands out for one design decision that has garnered attention. Fantasian, the new adventure from Hironobu SakaguchiвЂ™s studio Mistwalker, is a classic Japanese role-playing game at heart.

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