The new Final Fantasy Creator JRPG allows you to procrastinate with your random encounters

Fantasian, the next game of Mistwalker, the studio founded by Final fantasy the creator, Hironobu Sakaguchi, will come to Apple Aracde later this year. We now have a new trailer finally showing the gameplay of the diorama-based JRPG, including its unique approach to random encounters, called the “Dimengeon system”.

In classic JRPGs, like the ones Sakaguchi did for years at Square Enix, you leave a city, go to a dungeon and go through a lot of random encounters until you get to a boss fight that deepens the story. At the Fantasian, a continuation of the previous Mistwalker mobile game Terra Battle, players will have the option to send enemies they encounter on their journey to another dimension to be fought later. “Players can then jump on a Dimengeon whenever they want and have the satisfaction of eliminating them all at once,” Polygon reports in a new interview with Sakaguchi.

Here he is in action:

Effectively, you start to explore Fantasianstunning-looking settings without annoying interruptions, and then come back later to burn battles and level up as needed. I’m not sure what it says about JRPGs that some of the biggest innovations in them in recent years revolve around one of its basic mechanics, but this seems like a smart way to play on smartphones.

Here is some more information about the game:

• The story revolves around Leo, an amnesiac who loses his memory after being involved in a “massive explosion in a hybrid factory of magic technology”.
• Leo joins Kina, a young woman from a dusty border town, to try to discover their destinations together, which includes trotting around the globe, jumping between dimensions and navigating the “balance of Chaos and Order”. Naturally.

• The story is told in part through “short novels” that players can explore as part of the game’s “Memory System”.
• Each environment is based on a real, handmade diorama, which was photographed and digitized in 3D.
• It has an airship.
• Final fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu is making the song.

Mistwalker has made a number of really good JRPGs in the past, including Missing Odyssey for Xbox 360 and The Last Story for Wii. The latest games from the mobile studio left me much less impressed. But maybe Fantasian you can change that.