Feels like a cheap chinese Final Fantasy MMORPG knock-off
Even though in this game you are surrounded by years of Final Fantasy lore - from the eidolons and job classess to the sound effects and musical themes, this title manages to lose the core of what Final Fantasy is.
Even though it's easy to take this game for a Monster Hunter clone, it's far from Monster Hunter's easy to understand systems, it's polish and it's design. Final Fantasy Explorers tries to do something of it's own, while taking a bit from Monster Hunter indeed, but ultimately fails. Many of the general faults lie in the chosen system - the 3DS is far from capable of sustaining the proper environment, variety and liveliness that should acompany the title "... Explorers". It only gets worse from there: running costs mana, starting quests require gold and difficulty spikes gallore. One of the most annoying factors in this game is that it has no clear progression system. Quest "ranks" unlock seemingly at random - as you are completing Rank 2 quests, random Rank 3 and 4 Quests are unlocked. There is no XP system, classess are unlocked by completing random tasks or quests and the only real variety is seeing new enemies. And there aren't that many to see, as the game's main type of quest is "go there and slay x number of this". The place of action is also not interesting, as all too soon you'll have explored most of the game world, which is smaller than it looks. Gone is the magical feeling of a Final Fantasy medievil world. And gone is also any story elements - there is literaly no story - none, nada. And what little dialogue there is is just a means to progress to the next monster slaying quest.
That being said, the gameplay itself can be enjoyable, if you have nothing else to do and are watching something not that interesting. If you can manage to overlook everything written above, one good thing is that the game can indeed be enjoyed in short sessions, which makes it a good portable title. It's just not that good of a title as a whole.
The graphics aren't anything special, the music is very far from earning the "Final Fantasy" signature, the story is void, the gameplay feels unfinished and the entire atmosphere is that of a plastic, cheap copy of a game. It still can be enjoyable and huge FF nerds will certainly find things to do here. It's also a good time-waster - as in it's good in wasting your time, but only if you have at least one more thing to do while playing, because if not, boredom won't be that far behind. Final Fantasy Explorers is not about exploring, it's about killing loads of monsters to grind loads of materials, which you have no clue what to do with, since nothing is that well explained.
Final Verdict: get this if you are a die-hard. If you are wondering about it, deffinetely skip. There are better games to buy. Most appropriate price would be 10-15 dollars price-range - mainly because the game has far less content than it seems. If you are interested in multiplayer - you will be bored with it in a couple of days. If you are a single-player type of person - you will be done with this game in about 10 hours, depending on if you are willing to do the same quest 40 times to make your character look like Sephiroth or not (and yes, that is literally how much it takes). Vollständige Rezension lesen
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