Mobius Final Fantasy: Combat on the Go - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

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Mobius Final Fantasy: Combat on the Go - Robert Lashley at MMORPG.com

Square Enix has released their second mobile only Final Fantasy spin off in the last two months. Read on for Rob’s hot takes on this newest entry.

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Aberius

1. You can change voices to Japanese (with English subtitle) in the options.

2. The in-battle resources are elemental orbs. Skillseeds are actually a form of xp earned after battle that can be spent to level up your Job's passive abilities.

3. Music is great too. Some nice original pieces and several nods to older FF tracks.

Kefo

Loving this game so far. Only just hit chapter 2 but the music and visuals are awesome. The in game currency is material that can be bought on their store but you get about 100 of it or so every 20 hours I think.


New cards can be summoned using materia or by using summoning tickets which can be bought for real cash via materia or found as random treasure. I do like that they put 1 summoning ticket = 500 materia so you don't have to pay as long as you're patient.

madazz

Terrible shallow game. Only people who will talk positive about it right now are the ones who didn't get far. And if they did and still like it... I guess that's what floats their boat. For me I didn't care for the half assed combat. The card system would be okay if the game had any form of depth.

Xiaoki

Very good graphics and sound but the gameplay is so bog standard it's offensive.

The nonsensical menus for the nonsensical systems really don't help you get into the game either.

An extremely lazy "me-too" effort with a nice coat of paint.

RandomCC

Where are their editors? This is the second article I've seen in as many days with typos galore.

Tolroc

Is onion knight really the name of one of the classes?

TwoThreeFour

madazz said:

Terrible shallow game. Only people who will talk positive about it right now are the ones who didn't get far. And if they did and still like it... I guess that's what floats their boat. For me I didn't care for the half assed combat. The card system would be okay if the game had any form of depth.

It does have "any form of depth". The resistance buff's length and strength (as in how much of the incoming damage it reduces vs the specific element) depends on how many orbs of that element you used in the "elemental drive". Furthermore the probabilities to acquire orbs depends on how you use the elemental drives.

To continue: just equipping highest possible level of team and using strongest possible skill, will not give optimal rewards when grinding. For instance, a lv85 team gets a 2.0 x multiplier when farming the wind boss in map 2 in hard mode, but anything higher (i.e. lv86+) only gets 1.5 x multiplier.

Inside battle, you get a score depending on your actions.
At 50k points, you get a 1.5 multiplier. 100k: 2.0. 200k: 3.0.

As you see there is plenty of depth, although it may not be depth you appriciate.

TwoThreeFour

Xiaoki said:

Very good graphics and sound but the gameplay is so bog standard it's offensive.

The nonsensical menus for the nonsensical systems really don't help you get into the game either.

An extremely lazy "me-too" effort with a nice coat of paint.

It is definitely not a standard game battle mechanics wise. See my above post for more details.

Dakeru

Tolroc said:

Is onion knight really the name of one of the classes?

Onion Knight is the starting class of the typical FF Job System.
So yes you start out as Onion Knight and after a few fights they give you 2 more deck slots where you can change to Mage or Ranger and keep swapping on the go to adjust for upcoming battles.

Wizardry

I have a gut feeling the game is actually pretty good,but WHY?
It sounds a lot like they are once again rehashing FF3...FFXI type game design instead of creating new ideas but still,it is a mobile game.
I guess i shouldn't complain of rehashing the FF3/FFXi type design,since imo it is the best design so far after 20 years of rpg gaming,which might also be considered SAD that nobody has improved on it.

Unless you have an unlimited mobile package,which would cost you a retarded amount of money,WHY would you bother with mobile gaming?Costs you tons of money to play on a puny screen with cumbersome controls and is an eye sore to stare at those puny graphics.