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Ugly-Cute Façade Hides Great Gameplay
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 10/27/2021
In 2016, Square-Enix released quite possibly the worst ‘Final Fantasy’ title to date: “Final Fantasy 15.” Apparently, though, some of Square-Enix’s long-time ‘Final Fantasy’ crew wanted to make a different ‘Final Fantasy’ title, one that was lighter and appealed to a broader audience than the overly-convoluted disaster that was “Final Fantasy 15.” These Squaresoft Old Guard were thus allowed by the powers that be to work with the venerable third-party development team at Kyoto-based Tose Software on exactly such a game.
The result was a ‘Pokemon’-esque mashup/spinoff title called “World of Final Fantasy” (“WoFF”), which blends elements spanning the long-running series with a healthy quantity of new concepts. The initial release of the game on the …