"Our goal is to make all the expansions into a single coherent storyline" Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin developers discuss 'Trials of the Dragon King'
On July 20, 2022, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin released its first expansion called Trials of the Dragon King. This first major DLC update to Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin introduces several new classes, a pair of exciting new bosses and much more.
In a recent interaction with Sportskeeda’s Jason Parker, Daisuke Inoue (Director) and Jin Fujiwara (Producer) spoke about the latest update, what led to the creation of this particular DLC, and the challenges they faced in putting it all together. By completing the game on the hardest difficulty, players can enter this ‘Trial of the Dragon King’, and do battle with Bahamut and the Warrior of Light.
Inoue: We decided to focus on these two because they give more of a FINAL FANTASY feeling. When the main story ended, Nomura wanted players to be able to fight the Warrior of Light, so that was the main inspiration, and from there, we decided to convey what the Warrior of Light is like from Jack’s point of view to show the villain’s unique position in fighting the Warrior Light, who would normally be the protagonist.
As for Bahamut, we decided to focus on three questions in deciding his involvement in the expansion: why does it exist in FINAL FANTASY 1? Why has it not been impacted by Chaos? Why does it let us change classes? These questions were actually a mystery to us and we wanted our fans to be involved.
Fujiwara: When we started working on this expansion, we had planned to focus only on Bahamut, but as a result of a discussion with Nomura and others, it was decided that the Warrior of Light should also appear in the story. So, we had to reconstruct the storyline anew, which was a bit challenging.
However, after hearing everyone’s excitement after the
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