Ah, Stranger in Paradise. A game where it's not so much about the destination, but the journey and the Fiends we made along the way.

My favorite detail of this: all four main characters have names short enough to fit into the four-character limit of the original NES FF1.

plot is honestly totally nuts in a pretty good way

Bless you, Oni, for noting which stage belongs to what FF.

This game was definitely better than most thought it was. The combat was brilliant, and I personally loved how it interacted with Dissidia: Opera Omnia with the Moogle and Mannikins

I never realised how intrinsically tied to Dissidia SoP was. I may have to buy and play this now

Take a shot every time you hear - "Chaos" LOL

I played through Stranger of Paradise a few days ago and the story to me is quite tragic. I liked all the characters and the plot twist at the end was so intriguing

😂😂 * turns around and walks away aggressively while turning on Spotify to MAX volume. * I got the best song for my feelings rn. They better think of me when they hear it.

Favorite game of 2022, honestly, I don't know why but this game is just too freaking fun and funny. From Jack being so single mindedly simple to the fun gameplay loop imo. I will always remember this game fondly despite some of the issues I've had recently

Like many, I kind of rejected this game. Surprised how good the story is. I like how it’s a challenging game too. I may put it on my backlog! Love Oni’s videos. Perfection every time.

It's wild to me that the Bahamut from Final Fantasy XV's goddamn cancelled DLC novelization is canonically the same one from FF1.

i watched a minute of this video and was like "why did I not buy this back then?" and then placed an order.

Love these videos but absolutely love how this ties back to the original FF!

Don't sleep on this game. Not only is it co-op fun, but compared to FF16, it has much better combat, level design, customization, replayability, music (imo) and a better main character (and memes) in Jack Garland.

I want a Stranger of Paradise 2. This game and character were so fun. And the amount of builds is really good. Too bad it all end in like kill in 3 secs builds.

I love how they gave Summoners in XIV this ascended form of Bahamut as our level 100 ability and everyone was upset. Honestly an awesome story that puts the "villains" of FF1 into new light as dark antiheroes.

So close to the big 100K Oni! Anyhow, I'm happy to see you covering this one. It's one of the more interesting games I've played in the last few years. Originally skeptical of its premise, I found its design and story really interesting. I'm not sure if it works as a true "prequel", but it is interesting enough that I find myself wanting more. I would love to see FF1 remade based on this. Great video as always!

Well since the Emperor has already been done, Jack's story came to a close, Exdeath and Cloud of Darkness are literally forces of nature, Xande isn't all that interesting, Kefka's descent into madness was already shown and Sephiroth's origin has already been explored via Ever Crisis and Crisis Core, I think it would make sense for Golbez or Kuja to be the next in line, or Ultimecia. I think Golbez could be interesting if they detail his initial encounter with Zemus, or Kuja's story taking place before Zidane was hatched, Ultimecia I think would be the most interesting bc we would get to see her timeline, how she came to power, and how she's able to throw her consciousness through time. I imagine an Ultimecia game would be heavily magic focused. Then there's the likes of Seymour, Jecht, Gabranth, Vayne, Caius and Ardyn. We've already seen and played through Ardyn's origin, Caius' origin is explained through cutscenes, Vayne could be interesting but I would rather see Gabranth during his time as a soldier in his homeland fighting alongside Basch, Seymour and Jecht's journies feel too FFX-0-ish and I don't think either would add to the Spira games in any meaningful way. But that's just my opinion

Wow i would of never guessed this story was so good

I hope you’ll do a recap of World of Final Fantasy soon. Both that game and SoP really do open up things and have such interesting stories. They also sound like they have strong ties with Dissidia. This one being more direct in the reference than WoFF. But the main characters in WoFF so far play an interesting role in the mobile Dissidia App Game’s story

I like the idea of the Warrior of Light, this stoic, peaceful, beacon of all things Holy, started out as Jack, the ANGRIEST FF protagonist! That's some character development!

Keep it up I am going to watch all the videos and like them all!!! No one on my KZfaq feed is doing what you are doing I am a big fan and make a patron and I promise your patron will be the fir patron I subscribe to.

See i watched a story review of this game and now i get one from the best story explainer

Oh sweet, catching it live!

There’s something satisfying, when my dude says “ The story only gets larger from here, so let’s cut it down to size with recapitation”

I love the deep strange elements across the ff series in a great weave how they echo across the games.

Wow oni black mage is back

i love this game so much it was my GOTY for 2022! SoP cleverly combines an incredibly rich ARPG battle system with the defining traits of the FF job system.. the story is also great and builds on the established dissidia/multiverse continuity

I LOVE SoP so much, it was a fun game from start to finish and one I have 0 regrets in buying and grinding

Youre close to 100k, proud of ya

I actually liked the story of this game, the boss fights and combat are sooo fun... but the trash mobs not so much. I remember being so frustrated trying to fight like 5 mobs at once which all have overpowered abilities which were much harder than the boss encounters. the disparity between the bosses being very smooth and felt skill based to the trash encounters in the dungeons just feeling like a mess

Glad to see another video from you. Keep up the great work. Thank you! ❤

0:38 there it is, that's all you need to know 😂👌🏾

Ty for this one got platinum without knowing what’s going on I just really loved the game even more now

Like MGRR no one thought it was gonna be good but youve just gotta give it a chance and youll find something incredible.

I want a Final Fantasy Origins for X One that follows Braska's pilgrimage where you play as him, Jecht, and Auron

One of my favorite things about Jack is how he cut the bullshit to go straight to the facts and later on as he gained the power of Chaos, the asshole is all about babbling his opponents' ears off (see him in all dissidia games!) 😂

Thank you so much for creating this! Great video. Like most final fantasy's I need videos like this to fully understand.

Give a Like because dear god how many data logs you had to read to make it understable. Good work.

Too much CHAOS. 10/10

27 minutes of Chaos

somehow i was wondered that dissidia and SoP is connected and welcome back Oni

I originally wrote off Stranger of Paradise, thinking it would be every aspect I didn't like about modern Final Fantasy rolled into one. I was hugely wrong and instead got what I feel was a love letter to the franchise akin to World of Final Fantasy. SoP became my favorite game of 2022. I do have a question, where did you get the sales number mentioned at the end of the video? All I ever find is launch sales number and you mentioning it was "a success selling over 1.9 million copies worldwide" sounds great to me.

It's so interesting watching you detail this game. At no point did I ever consider buying this, 15, or 16.

Hoping for SoP 2 with a character creation and more classes added. The game was suprisingly amazing and better than ff16.

3:09 ah yes, we were treated to the signature “awfully suspicious” early!

Okay, ngl. This prequel is pretty cool. It's got a very KH vibe too.

This game was an unexpected 10/10 for me, unironically. Even the use of My Way worked spectacularly.

Take a shot every time you hear "Chaos"

Thanks for the breakdown. I've played FF1 and this game. By the end of the Game, I felt totally lost. It didn't make sense, but this video has provided a lot of clarity for me. FF is my favorite game series - I didn't love this game.

The king is back

Such an underrated game honestly

Honestly this game was AMAZING

20:15 AH, AH, HE SAID IT. HE SAID THE THING. WOOOOOO

i never even heard this game got realeased or anything about it until this video wtf

What an absolute banger if a story.

This game looks amazing it reminds me of the story in FFXIV where the warriors of light became warriors of darkness to save the world it's really awesome told in a different way but its still awesome

I like that if you want a challenging souls like looter game you can choose normal but if you want a fun hack and slash you can choose easy.

This story seems...trippy

I absolutely love this game.

Team Ninja is never good in telling a story but the combat games made from them are really fun.

I was not expecting to like this game but man it was good I hope they make FF2 in this style because I know its coming as this was a sleeper hit.

Chaos? Did you just say Chaos? Chaos! Chaaaaoooooos! CHAAAAAAAOOOOOOS!!!

Chaos-

I'm gonna watch it later 😂

Weirdly the stuff after the release of the main game makes me think more and more of Mobius FF. I don't know if you plan to cover that ever, but it had some pretty high concept story ideas like what they did here. (If with a much different vibe.)

Stranger of Paradise has a very interesting story, which is hidden under all wacky and corny dialogue of Jack and his "GOTTAKILLCHAOS" talk.

Loved this game would love to see ff2-6 be given a dark fantasy reimagining and continue where this game left off 😁

I just finished the base game tonight, damn wat a journey this is, especially if you're familiar with the series and the ff1 story, i wouldnt mind if they explore more or even make this somehow ties into another series for the rest of final fantasy numbers, make it like an alternate story or world xD

Thanks. I was waiting for this. I just couldn't bring myself to play through the game (not really my thing) but I wanted to know the story

HE SAID IT HE SAID IT!!!!

This game was a trip to play and boy was it fuckin great

So just so i understand the context of the game.......This is supposed to be a semi-prequel/ recontextualization of the first Final Fantasy game? the 'Alter' route that changes how you look at the main title?

i got to about 4 hours in, figuring this was a crappy ff1 action game. Hell was i wrong. Thanks for the recap. im actually going to replay this fully this time!

I was literally just playing it lmao

10:41 there is an impostor among us

I SO would have loved it if you would have had a CHAOS counter. lolol

Am i the only one who perked up when I heard “based on Mount gagazet in dimension 10” @ @07:40 You just blew my mind 🤯 Could that mean all the worlds being linked is officially canon? 👀

I'm going to assume that this Bahamut is a Reincarnation of the Bahamut from 15 after the dawn of the future DLC that got canceled my only evidence that this Bahamut is that Bahamut is the fact that both have wings made of swords

The game's main story may be cringe but the DLCs with the connection to Dissidia "the GOAT"- Final Fantasy was pretty cool to see.

This needs to be the official canon of FF and needs to be sequels that gradually combine all the FF series together.

Please recap Nights Of Azure.

The True Recap of the story is as follows. Chaos.

I would really love to see the world of FFVI revisited in full glorious 3D.

CHAOS! god i remember the memes.

the 4 warriors of darkness

honestly this game makes me want an ff7 type remake of the first final fantasy.

This game does have the Wicked effect. Since the WoLs didn’t even have names much less characters, I suddenly care far more about Garland and the Fiends. It doesn’t help the situation they decided to make Tiamat so hot.

Now i understand now,why emperor are so desperate in final fantasy 2 for forgiveness because he wants to back his true powers to seek revenge from jack garland.

A recap of how many times chaos will be said in 27 mins lol.

This games a banger

Game is way too underrated for the memes, but Jack is quite funny with all his edginess 😂

Bro. If you think about it, even the first FF game was a convoluted mess in terms of story. I guess this is the kind of pseudo-remake/prequel that its actually loyal to the og game. Who would have thought.

This is my BIG question? what monsters did the strangers have to kill to gain access to the choas shrine

Okay, even after listening to this entire thing, I'm still on the "what were they smoking?" train. But it definitely goes so far off the deep end that it becomes fun.

Great!

Very nice video ! There is just few things i still dont get which are jack and ff 1/dissidia garland the same person ? What are the differences between ff 1 and ff sop regarding the wol garland chaos etc ?

Makes sense

I really like this game but hiding story behind DLC and most of all difficulty setting was a mistake. I hope they make a fully fledged mainline final fantasy game with these fighting mechanics someday. FF16 is kind of similar but the spectrum of the gameplay is very narrow in comparison to this.