Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, the free to play role playing game developed by DeNa now available on the App Store in all regions, has recently received some new content which further expands the experience. What's different about Record Keeper and, say, Final Fantasy VII is that there is also a time delay between when a command is entered and when it is executed. Unsurprisingly, Final Fantasy Record Keeper utilizes a stamina system, which puts a ding in the experience.
I highly recommend checking out Final Fantasy Record Keeper if you're a fan of Final Fantasy, old or new, or just enjoy JRPGs. In Record Keeper, players will discover a kingdom that revels in magic and art, keeping paintings of unforgettable moments and stories from every Final Fantasy game, from the original Final Fantasy I to newer ones like Final Fantasy XIII. Pre-register for FINAL FANTASY Record Keeper to receive updates about the game and unlock special in-game charactersincluding Tidus from FINAL FANTASY X. Some lucky fans will also be converted into an 8-bit character based on their photo!
Record Keeper has already been doing gangbusters for Square Enix and developer DeNA in Japan with the game just recently hitting 5 million downloads. According to a press release from DeNA and Square Enix , Record Keeper lets fans relive their favorite moments across all past Final Fantasy installments,” building a team of legendary heroes and taking part in traditional turn-based battles while collecting items, earning new abilities and calling upon fierce allies in battles. This has led to games like Final Fantasy: Agito, Final Fantasy: All the Bravest, and Final Fantasy: Dimensions.
That's not the kind of nostalgia Record Keeper is trying to cultivate. Thanks to the recently-released mobile game Final Fantasy: Record Keeper from Square-Enix, I can do that again. Combat in Final Fantasy games wasn't always flashy teleporting gimmicks and next-gen prettiness There was a time when it was strategic turn-based commands with 2-d sprites - and Final Fantasy Record Keeper has those aplenty.
Boiled down to its core, Final Fantasy Record Keeper is if you took all the numbered Final Fantasy games, smushed them together, took out all of the story events, and left only the combat. Heroes in Record Keeper are unlocked in a specific order based on how far you advance in the game. Even the retro sprites in Record Keeper actually come from another mobile game, All the Bravest.
With that said, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper is a solid concept, one that I would love to see fleshed out in a full fledged game. At the very least, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper represents two positives for me. The first is an upward trend for Square Enix's mobile titles. Record Keeper is focused on combat of the Active Time Battle variety.
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DeNA is listed as the publisher on Record Keeper, and that company likely took its experience working with brands like Transformers and G.I. Joe when developing Record Keeper. Although the only thing that really matters at the moment is that Record Keeper is a pretty great little mobile game. There's just a lot that can be considered which goes a long way towards enjoying Record Keeper in the long run.
Before we get started, let's get something out of the way, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper is squarely a freemium title in terms of the underlying mechanics. The biggest problem with Record Keeper is that most of the combat is a complete snooze. In Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, a special kingdom exists in which stories are celebrated as artwork.
Players interested in pre-registering for the Android and iOS game can do so at Record Keeper's official website Doing so will unlock Final Fantasy 10's Tidus as a playable character when the game is released. Final Fantasy Record Keeper's core gameplay centers around battles. By which I mean a few key scenes from Final Fantasy 7, in a sprite-based mobile game called Final Fantasy: Record Keeper!
The new Final Fantasy: Record Keeper update also brought increased drop rates for some of the characters' Soul Break weapons. Are you ready to get those nostalgic Final Fantasy memories rattled back to life? I'm not sure how a game such as Record Keeper impacts folks that haven't played these games before, but for me it's an great experience.
Thus, players can play through Record Keeper and conceivably have the same chances to succeed as those that pay. Record Keeper introduces Tyro, an apprentice Record Keeper, (hence the title,) who is tasked with guarding the most legendary stories spanning multiple realities. A little story background, even though Record Keeper is a story-lite title: the game takes place on a world where record keepers use magic to capture some of Final Fantasy's most amazing moments in paintings, all kept in the Royal Archives.
However, there are probably some gamers that haven't delved into the Final Fantasy Record Keeper (dubbed FFRK) world yet, mostly because of the free-to-play red flag. On iOS, Record Keeper also makes simple use of Game Center, if that's your thing. Part nostalgia and part fan service, the free-to-play iOS/Android game Final Fantasy: Record Keeper is (almost) all good.
Record Keeper is, after all, a pseudo-collection of seemingly every core Final Fantasy game to date from the original NES game through to XIII. I just saw your post in the other record keeper thread about the FFV graphics. After soft launching in Japan several months ago, Final Fantasy Record Keeper has finally landed globally, and I love it to pieces.
It's not the first Final Fantasy game that combines characters from different games into one party, but it's still fun to see Final Fantasy VII's Cloud battling next to Final Fantasy X's Wakka. Combining a respectful homage to its source material with a decent battle system and loads of unlockables, Final Fantasy: Record Keeper is the real deal in my book. And it's those very encounters that serve as the driving force of Final Fantasy: Record Keeper, a new free-to-play game that's finally made its way out west.
Within every world - the North American version of the game only features Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy VII, and Final Fantasy X at this point - you'll fight through specific points in each game's story. This app supports the ability to record gameplay and share it. This feature requires permission to record audio. But Square Enix has more spin-offs in store: Final Fantasy VII: G-Bike, a mobile app based on Cloud's escape from Midgar; Final Fantasy Explorers, a Monster Hunter clone for Nintendo 3DS; and Final Fantasy Agito, a mobile spin-off of Type-0.
Summary: Fight with your favorite FINAL FANTASY heroes, battle through classic FINAL FANTASY moments, restore the lost memories and save the world once again. Final Fantasy Record Keeper has been out for a bit in Japan, and now it's opening up to a larger market, overwhelming even more players with heavy doses of unapologetic 90s nostalgia (and some from the early 2000s). Record Keeper, we're happy to say, is better than that.
Apart from this being a game based on a famous console franchise Final Fantasy: Record Keeper is especially relevant because it's a co-production with mobile company DeNA - the same company Nintendo has teamed up with to make and publish its mobile titles. Even though Record Keeper is a freemium game and uses an energy (stamina) system, I didn't find it all that bad, especially not compared to Terra Battle. The battle system in Record Keeper follows the Active Time Battle (ATB) that was introduced in FFIV.
With Final Fantasy Record Keeper, it feels like they've actually put in an effort this time, like it's an apology to anyone unfortunate enough to play ATB. Then you'll be fighting off Kefka's hordes in his attack on Figaro castle in Final Fantasy VI, before heading on over to a scene in Final Fantasy X. For people like me, who have played all of the Final Fantasy games and remembers all of these scenes, it's an incredibly nostalgic experience. To aid you in your efforts, producers from both companies behind the game have put together a list of Top 5 Final Fantasy: Record Keeper Tips and Tricks that we're passing along to you, as well as some additional advice of our own.
