New Mistwalker RPG Game "Fantasian"

[Gizmo_Duck]

It's been a while since we've heard from Mistwalker

• One key feature of Fantasian is called Dimengeon: you can "delay" battles with random encounters by sending monsters into an alternate dimension and then decide when to fight all of them at once Sakaguchi also cites FF6 as partial inspiration

Fantasian, the new adventure from Hironobu Sakaguchi’s studio Mistwalker, is a classic Japanese role-playing game at heart. Fantasian has it all: turn-based battles, an amnesiac hero, a cast of pretty protagonists on interweaving adventures, and, of course, an airship.

• But Fantasian stands out for one design decision that has garnered attention. Mistwalker’s RPG was built using more than 150 handcrafted physical dioramas. The game’s 3D characters are overlaid on top of them. 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.
• Fantasian features a system that twists how players deal with random monster encounters. 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 ... later. Mistwalker calls it the Dimengeon system — a mashup of dimension and dungeon — and it sends the monsters that players encounter to an alternate dimension. Players can then jump into a Dimengeon when they want and enjoy the satisfaction of wiping them all out at once.

• All these Fantasian environments are literally handcrafted by the way 150 artists came together to build dioramas in real life that were then put into the game

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looks better than BD2

 

[hex]

Looks dope.

Fred.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Mobile game?

 

[Deuterion]

Wow that’s creative AF...this a must cop.

 

[The Mad Titan]

Man Apple arcade only?

 

[Bubba T]

Looks nice, may give it a shot when it comes out.

still waiting on Lost Odyssey 2

 

[Kingshango]

Somebody throw a bag at Mistwalker, tired of seeing Sakaguchi and Uematsu being wasted on mobile games.

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Somebody throw a bag at Mistwalker, tired of seeing Sakaguchi and Uematsu being wasted on mobile games.

I dont see how its that much different from a switch, if anything the graphics look better to me

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Why waste time making handcrafted environments?

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

Why waste time making handcrafted environments?

It’s an aesthetic. Like Isle of Dogs

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

It’s an aesthetic. Like Isle of Dogs

You can do the same with 3d now

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

You can do the same with 3d now

Ir doesn’t look the same

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

Ir doesn’t look the same

It's a waste of time for a game

 

[Gizmo_Duck]

It's a waste of time for a game

According to whom? It’s an aesthetic choice they’re going for, why would it be a waste? You can’t get that tactile feel from computer generated bg’s

 

[Formerly Black Trash]

According to whom? It’s an aesthetic choice they’re going for, why would it be a waste? You can’t get that tactile feel from computer generated bg’s

It's a waste

You can do the same shyt in 3d

They can do shyt that looks damn bear looks real, to cartoon cel shaded in 3d

They can do shyt that looks exactly like this