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Fantasian (iOS)

  What would happen if you tried to get the creator of some of the most popular JRPGs to make one for a device which has a bit of a reputation for casual gaming. A device that you might say is pretty good at doing lots of different things but not specifically designed for anything, certainly not gaming. Whether the iPhone, iPad or i-whatever is really an appropriate platform for a AAA game is a question we’ll leave for another time, but we can be certain MistWalker thought so.   Fantasian is the latest game, but not the first, created by the MistWalker studio famously headed by the Hironobu Sakaguchi; Director and Producer of many Final Fantasy games up to about 9. The game will come in two parts each promising around 20 hours of play and at least the first part seems to have taken at least 3 years to develop. The music alone taking over Nobuo Uematus’ life for over a year for 13 hours a day, and it shows.   The effort and depth in the game is present and will hopefully s...