However, the plot had more complexities than the usual 8-bit fare: The party learns of 'Four Fiends' who are sucking the Crystals dry, receive wisdom from the Circle of Sages, uncover a Lost World populated by people who were driven from their home in the skies, and travel through time.įinal Fantasy saved Square from bankruptcy. It was almost entirely Dungeon Crawling, lifted whole-cloth from the 1st edition of Dungeons & Dragons: Your party go from town-to-town in order to save them from local threats and such.
Four mysterious Warriors of Light take it upon themselves to save the world by bringing the power back to four magical crystals (or 'Orbs' in the NES translation). The plot goes as follows: A series of elemental catastrophes have been threatening to plunge everything into darkness. In the 1980s, the Director of Planning and Development at Square was feeling dispirited about the game industry after working on several games that failed to take off, he decided to produce one last game and retire.
The first entry into the now lip-smackingly popular Final Fantasy series, released in 1987 in Japan and 1990 in North America.
