Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

Final Fantasy Origin: All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

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Final Fantasy Origin seeks to provide a new take on the original Final Fantasy, but many of the same old characters are still around.

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Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

The release of Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin is quickly approaching. This new game from Square Enix and Team Ninja will be a dungeon-crawling action RPG that takes many cues from Team Ninja’s Nioh franchise. Players take control of Jack as he and a team of allies travel through a mystical realm to restore light to their crystals and banish the evil that is corrupting the world. Along the way, they will gain access to plenty of classic Final Fantasy classes, and be able to use many different spells in real-time combat. The game looks to offer a stiff challenge but gives players the tools to overcome any foe.

If Final Fantasy Origin’s story sounds familiar, that is because it is an adaptation of the story of Final Fantasy 1. The game serves as an alternate telling of FF1, though it may take some unexpected twists later on. Because of that, many characters and locations present in the original game will also be adapted here in a brand new 3D context. Players have already seen a recreation of the initial Chaos Shrine dungeon complete with a Garland fight at the end, and marketing materials have revealed that many more characters from the original will also be present. There’s a good chance that most of Final Fantasy 1’s limited cast will appear with a speaking role in Final Fantasy Origin.

The Warriors of Light

Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

Final Fantasy 1’s iconic Warriors of Light are taking center stage once again as Final Fantasy Origin’s protagonists. Seeing as the original game’s party was staffed by voiceless template characters, FFO has given the group their own names, designs, and personalities. Jack, Jed, Ash, and Neon have taken up their blades to bring light back to their crystals, just as their player-named equivalents did so many years ago.

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At least, that’s how the group is presented. A woman who the party finds in Tiamat’s chamber appears alongside these four Warriors in multiple promotional pieces. Strangely, in a picture showing the protagonists and this woman, she is standing alongside Jed, Ash, and Neon inside plumes of smoke colored like the four crystals. Lead protagonist Jack is in grey smoke, standing directly in front of an imposing render of Garland. It seems as though the old tale of the four Warriors of Light appearing in front of Cornelia together may not be so cut and dry anymore.

Garland and Chaos

Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

Neither will the story of Garland and Chaos. In the original Final Fantasy, Garland was a loyal knight of Cornelia until one day he went mad and kidnapped Princess Sarah. He was slain by the Warriors of Light and then was brought two thousand years into the past to become Chaos. Chaos kills the Warriors of Light, sends the Four Fiends to the present to corrupt the land and send Garland back, and then the time loop starts again. That’s how the backstory of FF1 went until the player’s iteration of the Warriors came along.

Final Fantasy Origin intends to play with this formula. The Garland fought in the Chaos Shrine is actually Neon pretending to be Chaos, as she doesn’t believe the God of Discord is actually real. Jack’s surname is later revealed to be Garland, suggesting that he is on his way to becoming the Chaos that he so despises. How that will happen is a mystery left for players to find out in the full game.

Princess Sarah and the Cornelian Royal Family

Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

Garland kickstarts the plot of Final Fantasy 1 and Final Fantasy Origin by kidnapping Princess Sarah, eldest princess of the Cornelian royal family. Sarah’s role in FFO is much the same as it was in the original game, being both a motive for the plot to progress and a staunch supporter of the heroes. Much like in the original, Sarah spends much of her free time playing her lute, which could come in handy at some point. Sarah is seen with her sister Mia in FFO, who was an unimportant NPC in the original game.

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The King of Cornelia and Minister Lagone return as Final Fantasy’s original quest-givers. Lagone did not originally have a name, but he and his king are both rendered in ways that are faithful to their overworld sprites over the years. The duo seeks the heroes of the sage Luhkan’s prophecy, and the King will commission a bridge to be built in the Warriors’ honor if they can rescue his daughter. The King is married to Queen Jayne, though she remains a minor character like her classic self.

The Four Fiends

Final Fantasy Origin All The FF1 Characters Returning for the Game

The Four Fiends are set to reprise their roles as the main threats to the Warriors of Light during their adventure. Only Tiamat has been shown so far with a new design, but it is doubtless that all four will re-emerge as climactic boss fights throughout Final Fantasy Origin. Only time will tell how they fit into the seemingly altered lore of the new game.

Pirate Captain Bikke

Rounding out the known returning cast at this point is the pirate captain Bikke, a minor early antagonist in the original game. Bikke rules the port town of Pravoka in place of a governor and commands a loyal crew of pirates to fight for him. Those crew members were actually the only people who fought in his classic encounter, as the captain himself simply sat back and watched. That won’t be how Bikke’s FFO fight plays out, but chances are they’ll still be around. The jury’s out on whether Bikke will actually survive fighting these new, grimmer Warriors of Light, but they will probably still get a boat out of the ordeal.

Bikke’s presence suggests that Final Fantasy Origin will be very close to the story progression of the original game. That means that minor antagonists like Astos and sidequest givers like Matoya and Bahamut will probably reappear in some capacity, even if it’s only for a single level or a couple of cutscenes. Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin may be making a lot of changes to the original Final Fantasy, but the core adventure across a dying fantasy land is still intact.

Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin releases for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on March 18th, 2022.

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