Dissidia Final Fantasy NT Reviews

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT does its best to appeal to a more competitive audience, but in the process, has forgotten what drew fans to it in the first place. Despite this, with a strong roster and chaotic yet engaging combat, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT feels like a genuine love letter to Final Fantasy fans. It’s just a shame that poor online performance and a story mode that’s sure to be divisive ultimately bring it down.

Overall, the game has been out since 2015 where it started on PlayStation 4, and now it is on Steam. It feels like it could be a great game if it didn’t have so many issues and miscues for me. Story is essential in a Final Fantasy title, and they should have put this in the forefront and made the multiplayer mode secondary. I will definitely continue trying to play this on steam to see if the connections get better as this is a new port for PC.

The game requires you to grind. A lot. Grind to be able to unlock story, grind to unlock abilities, grind to unlock cosmetics. The amount of things to unlock certainly gives the game a vast amount of replay value, especially for players that like to collect things. However, the incredibly poor online component means that you’ll be unlocking those items through frustratingly slow online matches, or by only grinding offline battles.

Dissidia NT’s soundtrack is flawless, which makes sense since it’s made up of the best songs from the entire Final Fantasy series. Both remixes and original tracks are abundant, with plenty of tracks being unlockable through play. The voice acting, for the most part, is rather impressive. Each character sounds how one would expect from looking at them, though I found Mog’s unending enthusiasm to be a bit grating (pro-tip, you can turn off Mog’s battle tips and commentary in the options menu). I actually prefer the English voice actors for the most part, with Steve Burton, Ali Hillis, George Newbern, and Ray Chase standing out as some of the best performances.

Every time I got into a match in Dissidia Final Fantasy NT I was honestly enjoying myself. It's just a shame that every single element around the combat is a total mess.

When the issues of a game are rolled and stomped by its greatness, then it’s something to invest on if you have some spare.

Discarding its RPG systems along the way, NT proves to be a formidable fighting game though some of its crucial pillars make it crumble a bit.

For Final Fantasy fans and enthusiasts, Dissidia Final Fantasy NT provides a cast of high-profile characters ranging from the series’ inception to its modern-day road trips. Having Sephiroth, Kefka, and Golbez take on Cloud, Terra, and Cecil in an arena soiree is the stuff fans dream of.  However, a dramatic dissonance forms between these neat offerings and the core experience. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a disjointed mess of multiplayer meanderings, threadbare single-player options, and puzzling story content that demands you spend time doing non-story activities to progress.

For any Final Fantasy fan, Dissidia NT has plenty to offer, with an array of the series’ best loved characters, and plenty of chaotic combat to pit them in. Unfortunately the lack of definition to those encounters, messy UI, convoluted single player progression, and a barebones selection of modes saps a good chunk of the fun away.

The Final Fantasy series has had an illustrious 30+ years of gaming excellence since its debut all the way back in 1987. From humble beginnings it has since become a gaming juggernaut, releasing fifteen main titles, several spin-offs, and even a sequel or two. It’s significance in the gaming world can’t be questioned. For me, it’s always heartening to talk to other fans and learn which series is their favourite and, who their favourite character is. This is because there are hundreds of...

There's no doubt in my mind that most Final Fantasy fans will appreciate the attention to detail in regards to every character, map, costume, and weapon. I believe that Dissidia Final Fantasy NT has the potential to grow its audience if the developers evolve the game based on community feedback. Right now I think it’s a bit bare bones compared to other fighters on the market, but if you’re looking for a new, quirky competitive fighter to get into, you may enjoy Dissidia Final Fantasy NT a lot more than you expect.

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Our Dissidia Final Fantasy NT review explores the deep tactical nature of a frenetic brawler fighting game, and how it could better help players enjoy it.

I don’t think that’s a bad thing, however. The Dissidia series has always defined itself by being an outlier and luckily, it has found its audience. Whether it’s made up of die-hard Final Fantasy fans or not is besides the point. Dissidia NT successfully builds upon what came before to make its resurfacing as a competitive focused fighter a deeply satisfying one.

Dissidia NT is fun to play, but it could use a few tweaks that could easily come as low-effort updates along with its existing premium DLC. More modes, some UI tweaks, and combat flow upgrades would go a long way.

Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a competent arcade port but misses the mark as a full-fledged home console fighting experience thanks to a stark lack of ways to play.

Dissidia is a series that would only work with a series like Final Fantasy, a series with tons of prolific and beloved characters spanning generations. After years of waiting for the Dissidia arcade game to get a console release we now have Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, the very first game in the series on a home console. Dissidia NT feels less like a forwarding of the series’ gameplay, and more like a complete redefining of what Dissidia is.

It's been about seven years since North American gamers had the opportunity to play a new Final Fantasy fighter. Dissidia Final Fantasy NT is a huge departure from the PSP games so let's see if this arcade adaptation is suitable for the living room.

Dissidia: Final Fantasy is more than just fan service. It is, in simple words, an awesome game.

The outset is Chaos importing a dream team of Final Fantasy antagonists to put the cap in Cosmos' reign. Naturally, with the only choice being to rip-off Chaos' idea, Cosmos replicates Chaos' act by instating a host of protagonists from previous Final Fantasy titles. Cue fanboy wet dreams and score settling times.

Final Fantasy legends meet in battle, as two worlds collide, and Aaron gets stuck in the middle…

Although non-Final Fantasy fans might be uninterested in this title, I still recommend it to every PSP owner out there. Knowledge of the franchise is fairly unimportant (though it does enhance the in-jokes and series references) and the characters stand on their own as enjoyable members of a solid fighting game roster. Even if this game didn't occupy the Final Fantasy universe, the amount of content you're getting on one UMD is mind-numbing and well worth the investment.

With two weeks of previews behind us, we take our final look at Dissidia: Final Fantasy. The game's official release is just under a week away.