Thursday, March 06, 2008

Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy in Itadaki Street - New

With Square and Enix now joined as one corporate entity, the company is free to parlay their highly recognizable characters into an enjoyable board game brimming with mini-games and interactions. Bringing together their two biggest franchises, heroes and legends from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest are assembled together in a Hall of Fame game of sorts. Appearances by notables such as Cloud, Sephiroth, Yuna, Paine, Rikku, Yuffie, Toruneco, Chocobo, Mog, Blue Slime, and many many more provide hilarity, familiarity, and pleasure all at once.

The aim of the board game behooves players to roll the die and ramble around a map in order to procure more land, capital, and shares of stock than the competition. As play boards are conquered, gamers graduate to new stages where more challenges and wrinkles await. The default single-player game is Tournament Mode where players select an available character from DQ or FF, a stage to play upon, and then spin a slot machine to determine who rolls the die and moves first, second, third, and fourth. Once the game starts, four heroes spin the dice and move around in hop-step fashion. In addition to dice action, there's also the ability to check the asset levels of everyone in the game, purchase property, enhance the value of a property, buy stock, etc. When competitors land on properties owned by the player, they'll have to pay a levy before moving along with a lighter pocket.

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