Final Fantasy Resonance Reviews Praise Turn-Based Combat

Reviews published ahead of Final Fantasy Resonance’s scheduled October 22 release have praised its turn-based combat and nostalgia-driven design, while offering more mixed assessments of its story, pacing and presentation. A roundup published October 20 reported a Switch 2 Metascore of 83 based on 25 critic reviews at that time. The early reviews describe the game as a console adaptation of the first story arc of Final Fantasy Brave Exvius, a mobile role-playing game. Final Fantasy Resonance brings that material into a traditional single-player role-playing format, with turn-based battles and a visual style described in the reviews as HD-2D. Combat was a major point of agreement among the reviewers. They highlighted a system built around exploiting enemies’ elemental weaknesses to fill a stagger gauge, creating opportunities for additional turns and stronger attacks. Reviews also emphasized the Visions system, which lets players equip characters with abilities and traits associated with heroes from across the Final Fantasy series. Critics said those mechanics offer room to tailor characters and plan battles. The positive assessments were not uniform. Some reviewers found the...