The primary means of travel across the overworld is by foot a ship, a canoe, and an airship become available as the player progresses. The overworld map is a scaled-down version of the game's fictional world, which the player uses to direct characters to various locations. By March 2003, all versions of Final Fantasy had sold a combined two million copies worldwide.įinal Fantasy has four basic game modes: an overworld map, town and dungeon maps, a battle screen, and a menu screen. Critical praise focused on the game's graphics, while criticism targeted the time spent wandering in search of random battle encounters to raise the player's experience level. The original is now regarded as one of the most influential and successful role-playing games on the Nintendo Entertainment System, playing a major role in popularizing the genre. The game was a great commercial success, received generally positive reviews, and spawned many successful sequels and supplementary titles in the form of the Final Fantasy series. Together, they quest to defeat these evil forces, restore light to the crystals, and save their world.įinal Fantasy was originally conceived under the working title Fighting Fantasy, but trademark issues and dire circumstances surrounding Square as well as Sakaguchi himself prompted the name to be changed. The first Final Fantasy story follows four youths called the Warriors of Light, who each carry one of their world's four elemental crystals which have been darkened by the four Elemental Fiends. Originally released for the NES, Final Fantasy was remade for several video game consoles and is frequently packaged with Final Fantasy II in video game collections. It is the first game in Square's Final Fantasy series, created by Hironobu Sakaguchi. Final Fantasy is a fantasy role-playing video game developed and published by Square in 1987.

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