Trials of the Dragon King is one of three planned DLC expansions for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, which is an action RPG developed by Team Ninja and published by Square Enix. The bulk of the content in Trials of the Dragon King is a lazy rehash of the content from Stranger of Paradise, which is locked behind a punishing new difficulty mode that ignores the accessibility options from the base game.
Stranger of Paradise is a retelling of the original FF1, where the player takes on the role of Jack Garland, who was the first ever Final Fantasy villain. The ending of Stranger of Paradise ties into the beginning of FF1, with Jack sitting on his throne, waiting for the Warriors of Light. In this version of the story, Jack wants the Warriors of Light to help break the world free from a cycle that had been created by the advanced Lufenian race, so he has embraced the power of Chaos, in order to spur the creation of Warriors of Light. The story kicks off with Jack defeating an iteration of the Warrior of Light, which awakens Bahamut from his slumber, who offers to help Jack and his friends for a price.
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Trials of the Dragon King adds the Bahamut difficulty setting, which contains all of the new content in the game. The player must earn Dragon Treasures in order to progress through the story and these are earned through Bahamut's Trials. The Bahamut Trials are penalties that the player can add to a mission, such as reducing maximum hit points or maximum potion amount, which increases the chances of Dragon Treasures and rare items dropping. Unfortunately, this means just playing harder version of the stages from Stranger of Paradise that the
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