Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin
Jack and his allies, Ash and Jed, burn with resolve to defeat Chaos as they throw open the gates to the Chaos Shrine. Yet doubts remain—are they truly the Warriors of Light the prophecy foretold? Step into a…
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is an adventure developed by Team NINJA, released 18 March 2022 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. The main story takes about 25 hrs to finish.
What Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is an adventure game developed by Team NINJA and released in 2022. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
In a dark reimagining of the original Final Fantasy, Jack is a grim, driven warrior consumed by a single obsession: to destroy Chaos, the darkness spreading across the world. He arrives in the kingdom of Cornelia alongside fellow warriors Ash and Jed, and the trio petition the king for passage into the Shrine of Chaos to end the threat at its source. Though they carry ominous black crystals and doubt whether they are truly the prophesied Warriors of Light, they set out to restore the elemental crystals and confront the Fiends of Chaos, uncovering fragments of their lost memories and the truth behind their mission as they go.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 83 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Final Fantasy series
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is the 308th of 349 entries we hold in the Final Fantasy series. The next entry was Final Fantasy XV: War for Eos in 2022. Its critic score of 72 is 5 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Final Fantasy III at 100.
How it was received
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 2 points below the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 73, across 52 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 25 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 57.5 hrs, roughly 2.3 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for AMD Ryzen™ 5 1400 / Intel® Core™ i7-6700, 8 GB RAM and AMD Radeon™ RX 470 / NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 6GB VRAM. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 90GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin launched on 18 March 2022, within three weeks of Elden Ring, Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo and LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Elden Ring, Tunic, Ghostwire: Tokyo, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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