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Welcome! I'm sure that most of you don't know who I am, which makes sense since I'm a major lurker. But who I am doesn't matter here, but instead that I'm doing a first-time playthrough of World of Final Fantasy! I going to do a playthrough topic here and see how it goes. It'll be mostly screenshot focused as I myself like to look at them over just reading about it, and my set up makes it easy to take them in a turn-based game like WoFF. Though any comments or questions about the game are also welcomed and I'll do my best to reply to them.

Before all that though, I just want to state to get a baseline understanding that I'm assuming that anybody that partakes in this topic will be okay with light spoilers for the game that naturally comes from playing it. Since I know not everyone here has the same tolerance for spoilers. I will, of course, spoiler tag all real spoilers that I happen to post here but I will have to show some gameplay in order to do this topic. Stuff like showing normal battles and what common monsters are in the game that you can get and showing some out of context events in cutscenes are among what I consider to be 'light spoilers'.

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So to start of with, I had to do a bit of fiddling to get the game to launch which is a problem for sure. Some update from either Steam or Windows apparently messed the game up and you can't launch it from the Steam launcher right now. Though thankfully, someone from Square did update the game so that a workaround could at least work. Now if you go to the game's local file and run the game's .exe as an admin, you can get the game going. I just made a shortcut to my desktop of the .exe, and running it as an admin got it to work for me.

Starting a new game itself, I get greeted by this sight.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/5/9/AAXh4NAAEbtL.jpg
Is this some kind of Kingdom Hearts game I never knew about? It has that look.

But seriously, this is a monster catching game akin to Pokemon but with Final Fantasy monsters and summons. And a battle system that also takes its cues from how Final Fantasy turn-based battle systems work.

Now to start the game, you have to get to the main character's job. Note I said 'Get to their job' and not 'get their job', like a FF fan may assume.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/0/AAXh4NAAEbtM.jpg
Yes, the ever constant grind of daily work. All JRPGs start having the hero having to go to their 9-5 job before they can get started with their heroics. Wait...I meant that as a joke but that really could work for a Persona game...

And using the word 'grind' pulls double the weight here since the workplace in question is a coffee shop in the middle of a mall. Eventually stuff happens and our protag is already having to deal with quite the trouble with a crazy customer.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/1/AAXh4NAAEbtN.jpg
Most relatable JRPG protagonist ever.

With the introduction out of the way, I make it to the starting tutorials. The game is a ATB like battle system so long-time fans will instantly know how it works. Yet I do hear some of you telling me "I like FF but I actually hate ATB. It's too stressful having to actually do stuff and be attacked when I move through my long menu of spells unless it's on wait mode. And even then, I want a much harder wait mode". I am glad to say to you that this game does have a wait mode, and it's perhaps the strongest one in the series.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/0/6/2/AAXh4NAAEbtO.jpg
It stops time completely, even if you aren't actually in a menu. In other words, once it's your turn then it's your turn and no other unit will move until you take it. It really does become purely turn-based with that. Oh, and don't worry about that bit about trying to move back to active mode later if you don't want to. Square doesn't care how you want to play on this game, as they have several cheat options you can enable via the config menu if you want to play with those such as infinite AP.

Anyway, this is getting kind of long so I'll end this post here. I still have more to post in my next one though, such as how to capture the monsters in this game and use them.