The second part of Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's Apple Arcade RPG, Fantasian, is almost upon us, with developer Mistwalker announcing today it would release this Friday, August 13.
Part 2 of Fantasian is, per the studio's announcement, more "quest-driven" than its very story-heavy first half. Mistwalker expects it to take players between 40 to 60 hours to fully experience, with Part 2 being approximately double the size of the first half. New features include the ability to swap party members in and out of battle and an expanded character Growth Map.
In its totality, Fantasian is made up of nearly 160 handmade dioramas, approximately 50 of which are original to Part 2. Part 2 will also include 34 new tracks from Nobuo Uematsu.
Fantasian follows the story of a young man named Leo who is looking for his father and ends up traveling across dimensions as he searches, suffering memory loss and encountering a number of companions and friends who join him on his way. Its "Dimengeon Battle" allows you to bank encounters with monsters as you run into them in the world, then fight them all at once in an alternate dimension for greater rewards.
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