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Developed in cooperation between Square Enix and Team NINJA (Koei Tecmo Games), STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN is a hard-core action RPG that takes the FINAL FANTASY series in a new direction. Experience the boldest and most merciless battles in FINAL FANTASY history.
STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN is a action, rpg and adventure game
developed by Square Enix, KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD.
and published by Square Enix.
Released on April 06th 2023 is available only on Windows
in 9 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 3,639 reviews of which 3,066 were positive and 573 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam with a 60% discount, but you can find it for 14.22€ on K4G.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 64-bit
- Processor: AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i7-6700
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: AMD Radeon™ RX 470 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 90 GB available space
- Additional Notes: 30FPS (1280x720)
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I just finished the base game as of typing this review, so here are my thoughts. 1. I think this is an underrated FF game in the series. 2. The story is surprisingly good. (story has some cheesiness to it.) 3. Level design is definitely bad (probably the reason why many people dropped it.) 4. It's a Nioh clone but with the FF Job System, which I absolutely love. (due to it being a Nioh clone, it may also factor in why people dropped it.) 5. Edgelord main character, but the story gives you the answer as to why he's like that. 6. Punishing gameplay if you don't utilize everything the game teaches you. (plus the added in job mechanics each job has.) 7. Enemy variety is decent but starts to become stale 3/4 into the game. 8. Bosses have interesting mechanics but can be easily defeated with the most basic of jobs. (enemies are harder than the bosses unfortunately.) 9. Strong endgame.(You do need the DLCs.) The ability to level breakthrough all the playable jobs is a game changer. (will play more to 100%, also because I love the endgame.) 10. My final thought for this game is a negative. I despise the mission system from Nioh, and yes, this game unfortunately has it. Even with the whole mission system, I loved this game from start to finish, and it is easily on my top 5 FF games because I just wanna keep playing it and try out all the other jobs it has to offer. Overall rating: 9/10 (with DLCs) 8/10 (base game)
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Every Stranger of Paradise session starts the same way: Jack stares at something vaguely philosophical, mutters "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥," and punches it directly in the face. No speeches. No destiny monologues. Just pure violence toward anything remotely associated with Chaos. And honestly? That energy carries the entire game. This is Final Fantasy if someone stripped out the melodrama, injected it with nu-metal, and told the protagonist he's not allowed to care about anything except killing Chaos. It sounds dumb. It is dumb. But it's also weirdly effective. At its core, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is basically Final Fantasy wearing Nioh's clothes and pretending no one will notice. Mission-based structure, loot everywhere, job systems stacked on top of job systems, and enemies that will absolutely delete you if you stop paying attention for half a second. When the combat clicks, it really clicks - swapping jobs mid-fight, breaking gauges, chaining abilities and erasing bosses feels incredible. When it doesn't, some random mob will stunlock you into the dirt and remind you who's actually running the show. Gameplay is solid but uneven. The systems are deep - maybe too deep - and the game explains them like it actively hates new players. Balance can feel all over the place, especially on higher difficulties and throughout the DLC. Some builds turn you into a walking apocalypse; others feel like you're trying to slap Chaos with a pool noodle. Still, once jobs, affinities, and gear synergies finally click, the combat loop becomes dangerously addictive. Now, the story - because this is where things actually get smarter than they look. WARNING: MAJOR SPOILERS BELOW At first, it plays like an edgy fever dream. Dialogue is blunt, characters have the emotional range of drywall, and Jack operates on exactly one brain cell labeled KILL CHAOS. But here's the twist: the game is fully aware of that. As the plot unfolds, it becomes clear that Jack isn't just hunting Chaos - he's being shaped into it. By the end of the base game, Jack doesn't just defeat Chaos... he becomes Chaos itself, willingly taking on the role to keep the cycle going and protect the world from something even worse. That reframes the entire experience. All the anger, the tunnel vision, the obsession - it wasn't bad writing, it was the point. Jack isn't a hero on a journey; he's a necessary monster choosing to carry the burden so others don't have to. It's a surprisingly clever origin story that recontextualizes the original Final Fantasy in a way that's way smarter than the game initially lets on. And the DLCs absolutely matter here. Trials of the Dragon King, Wanderer of the Rift, and Different Future don't just add content - they expand that idea. Higher difficulties, brutal bosses, expanded job systems, and story beats that push the concept of fate, cycles, and sacrifice even further. They're grindy, sometimes borderline sadistic, but also where the combat and narrative fully come together. This is the real endgame, and skipping it means missing the point. Visually, though... yeah. This is not where Stranger of Paradise wins. Environments are bland, textures are inconsistent, and the color palette often looks like fifty shades of grey fighting for dominance. Enemy designs and effects are decent, but overall it feels dated and uninspired. Functional, not impressive. Sound design fares much better. Combat hits hard, spells feel powerful, and the soundtrack fully embraces aggressive rock and chaos energy. It perfectly matches the game's attitude - whether you're vibing with it or laughing at how unapologetically edgy it is. I finished all achievements, including every DLC, in 90.5 hours, and by the end, I respected the game more than I liked it. It's rough, uneven, sometimes stupid - but also confident, mechanically deep, and completely unapologetic. Stranger of Paradise doesn't want to be a traditional Final Fantasy. It wants to scream "CHAOS" in your face and dare you to understand why. Not a masterpiece. Not even close. But it is a bold, aggressive, systems-heavy action RPG that commits fully to its identity. Push past the visuals and early cringe, and you'll find a surprisingly smart Final Fantasy origin story hiding under all that chaos. Visuals: 7.5/10 Sound: 8/10 Gameplay: 7.5/10 Average: 7.7/10
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I'm convinced this game protags are a bunch of kids who just finished FF1 and are now playing pretend in the front yard as their mom makes dinner
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Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is one of the strangest, boldest, and most baffling entries in the Final Fantasy franchise—and that’s saying something. Developed by Team Ninja (Nioh, Ninja Gaiden), it reimagines the world of the original Final Fantasy through the lens of brutal action gameplay, edgy characters, and a tone that swings wildly between gritty and absurd. It’s not always graceful, but it’s never boring. At the center of it all is Jack Garland, a gruff, monosyllabic protagonist on a mission to destroy CHAOS—and yes, he says it constantly. Jack and his companions are walking memes at times, spouting modern-day bro dialogue in a fantasy world filled with crystals, monsters, and dark gods. The story veers into unintentional comedy, but beneath the awkward cutscenes lies a surprisingly earnest attempt to explore fate, identity, and legacy. By the end, what starts as cringy turns into something oddly compelling. But let's be honest: you don’t play this game for the writing—you play it for the combat. And that’s where Stranger of Paradise shines. The real-time, job-based battle system is deep, fast-paced, and addictively challenging. It borrows the best of Nioh’s action-RPG intensity and layers it with Final Fantasy-style class switching, magic, and flashy finishers. The ability to instantly change jobs mid-combat adds real-time strategy and keeps fights fresh. Crushing enemies with a Soul Burst is endlessly satisfying—turning combat into a brutal ballet of violence and elemental effects. Customization is vast. With dozens of weapons, gear pieces, and job combinations, the game rewards tinkering and experimentation. It leans hard into loot—sometimes to a fault—with a deluge of items constantly thrown at you, which can become overwhelming without thoughtful inventory management. Visually, the game is inconsistent. Some environments are genuinely impressive, drawing on past Final Fantasy locations reimagined with a darker aesthetic. Others feel generic or flat. Character animations are solid in combat but stiff in cutscenes. The soundtrack, on the other hand, is a highlight—mixing classic Final Fantasy themes with heavier, rock-inspired tracks that fit the chaotic tone. Stranger of Paradise is messy, ambitious, and unapologetically weird. It’s an action-first reimagining that ditches polish for personality and delivers one of the most fun combat systems in recent Final Fantasy history. The story and characters won’t be for everyone, but if you’re in it for fast-paced battles, deep job systems, and some unintentional laughs along the way, this is Chaos worth embracing. Rating: 7/10
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Final Fantasy Origin is... interesting. So very interesting, in a lot of ways that are difficult to articulate or assign a positive or negative quality to. Would I call FFO one of my favourite games ever made? In a heartbeat. Would I recommend it? Absolutely, if you're the gameplay-first type. Would I call it a *great* game? Ehhhh.... First, and the most divisive part; the story. If you really don't like it, you can skip the cutscenes. It's filled with that early-to-mid 2000s charm, the type that comes from a too-cool edgy protagonist and inbaked irreverence. It lines up and starts telling its story with more sincerity towards the end, but it's not worth buying the game to hold out for the last couple hours of the runtime. In all, I wouldn't say it detracts from the game, but it's not a highlight. Second, and what I think makes this game almost-a-masterpiece; the gameplay, and with it, the job system. It's smooth, rewarding, so damn satisfying, and it's unbeatable once you really get a grasp of it. There's so many fighting styles you can adopt thanks to the versatility of the battle and job systems that I'd wager you're guaranteed to find something you'd like as long as you're willing to experiment. Let's run through some of my favourites. - Switching classes after an ability to change your weapon mid-combo? Check, and you can keep it going for as long as the enemy's alive and you've got MP. - Want to give yourself innumerable numbers of buffs to plow through everything? Check. Your AI companions are usually competent enough to keep enemies at bay and keep themselves alive while you take care of your own business. - Not a fan of melee combat, and all the danger of getting smacked that comes with it? Good thing there's classes and weapons whose shtick is striking from either just outside an enemy's range (or, with DLC, straight up guns). Later on, you can get a skill that turns your regular old roll into a lightning-fast teleport (like Bloodborne), enabling you to be as much of a scaredy-cat as you want. - Want to mix-and-match and see what tickles your fancy? That's the whole damn point of the game. The job tree creates so much versatility, so much inherent choice to how you play that your run will be truly unique, and there's a 99% chance you'll find something you never knew you wanted/needed from a game (for me, it was a Sage/Tyrant combo). The game does have some design pitfalls, the largest of which deserves its own paragraph. Running through them; - Losing max MP on death makes bosses *harder* the more you lose to them, and it can really make you lose steam when your seemingly unstoppable run gets halted in its tracks. - The game is poorly optimized, but the bright side is that the things that cause frame drops (Soul Bursts, mainly) actually only occur when you're inactionable or in an animation, so while it's choppy to look at, it doesn't actually end up affecting the gameplay that much. - While I personally love the job tree, interfacing with it typically involves menuing for at least a minute at a time to decide which skills/jobs to unlock, how to spread your XP items, what items you should equip, what things you should do, etc. Thankfully, the equipment optimization button is competent enough (and really what you should be using the whole way through), but even it poses its problems once you start finding weapons with abilities you really like. The largest design flaw with the game? The postgame (which is ENTIRELY locked behind DLC, by the way) makes damn near no sense once it's unlocked, and while that's forgivable due to the abundance of Reddit guides out there, the content doesn't make up for it. The postgame is essentially just a bunch of jumbled dialogue and area encounters, and what's the actual content? Well... a couple bossfights, an barebones "endless" mode that's more of a gear check, one class, and... that's actually about it. You unlock a new difficulty, but there's no new stages added to clear. You're just running through what you already ran through on your run of the main game, where things are just spongier and grindier. That might appeal to some people, but me personally? I dropped the game once I unlocked the final class and messed around with it a bit because I'd felt that I'd seen all there was to see, both visually and gameplay wise. Is there joy in running back through levels, testing different builds and messing with equipment? Sure. But the base game already requires you to show some mastery of the game's systems. DMC, Metal Gear Rising, and the Souls series offer replayability by encouraging the player to get better at the game, and push their skills to the limit. In Stranger of Paradise? It feels like you reach that limit (or very close to it) by the end of a Hard run. And after that? Well, it gets old. In all, this is a fantastic one-and-done game. The job tree and combat offer unparalleled levels of joy, at the cost of burning through pretty much any replayability. And that's fine; I've learned to love the game for (or maybe in spite of) that. It's the sort of game that's a blast to play through maybe once every other year. As long as you're aware of that, then I recommend it with all my heart.
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STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN is currently priced at 15.99€ on Steam.
STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN is currently available at a 60% discount. You can purchase it for 15.99€ on Steam.
STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN received 3,066 positive votes out of a total of 3,639 achieving a rating of 8.14.
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STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN was developed by Square Enix, KOEI TECMO GAMES CO. and LTD. and published by Square Enix.
STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN is playable and fully supported on Windows.
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STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.
There are 2 DLCs available for STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN. Explore additional content available for STRANGER OF PARADISE FINAL FANTASY ORIGIN on Steam.
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Developer
Square Enix,
KOEI TECMO GAMES CO., LTD.
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