With Final Fantasy Creator’s new JRPG you can procrastinate with its random encounters

Fantastic, the next game of Mistwalker, the studio founded by Final fantasy creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, is coming to Apple Aracde later this year. Now we have a new trailer that finally shows the gameplay of the Diorama-based JRPG, including the unique attack on random encounters, called the “Dimengeon system.”

In classic JRPGs, like the ones Sakaguchi made at Square Enix for years, you leave a city, go to a well, and grind your way through a bunch of random encounters until you get a boss fight that promotes the story. In Fantastic, the sequel to Mistwalker’s previous mobile game Terra battle, players will have the option to send enemies they encounter on their journey to another dimension to fight later. “Players can then jump into a Dimengeon if they want and enjoy the satisfaction of wiping everyone out at once,” Polygon reports in a new interview with Sakaguchi.

Here it is in action:

You can effectively explore Fantastics beautiful settings without annoying interruptions, and then return later to burn through the battles and level up as needed. I’m not sure what it says about JRPGs that some of the biggest innovations in recent years are in tilting one of their core mechanics, but it seems like a smart way to play on smartphones.

Here is more information about the game:

• The story revolves around Leo, a memory loss who loses his memory after being involved in a ‘massive explosion at a hybrid magic technology factory’.
• Leo works with China, a young woman from a dusty border town, to discover their destinies together, which include jogging in the world, jumping between dimensions and navigating the ‘balance between chaos and order’. Natural.

• The story is told in part by ‘bite-sized novels’ that players can explore as part of the game’s ‘Memory System’.
• Each environment is based on a real, handmade diorama that has been photographed and scanned in 3D.
• It has an airship.
• Final fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu does the music.

Mistwalker has made some very good JRPGs in the past, including Lost Odyssey for Xbox 360 and The last story for Wii. The recent games for the studio of the studio have impressed me much less. But maybe Fantastic can change it.