Squaresoft remix of the mobile era? – FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS II Review

The storyline is a semi-decent amalgamation of the original Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger. It's moderately entertaining with a decent play time (I obtained and maxed out every ability in the game and hit level 99, clocking in about 65 hours). However, most of that time is really letting the game play itself with autobattle. It's really only a handful of fights where you need to intervene directly. The game was originally designed as a freemium mobile game and it's painfully obvious how the focus used to be on the business (enticing people to spend money on the microtransactions) rather than making a game that's genuinely well-crafted. It's been redesigned to eliminate the microtransactions. but with the deterministic drops of the signets, it feels a bit broken, since some abilities are clearly junk that are not worth upgrading, and yet, it just becomes the norm to do so because everything is handed to you as the result of story progression. It's OK as a pay-once game that it currently is but definitely isn't the best that SE has to offer. 4 stars just because I somehow managed to max everything out without uninstalling.
Review by Metachronism on FINAL FANTASY DIMENSIONS II.